Review in Little White Lies Dancing and different ways of seeing at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival by Xuanlin Tham mentions Daphne, 31st May 2024

“In the Scottish borders, this bold independent film festival champions new ways of seeing, with a 2024 focus on the work of Palestinian artist Noor Abed…”

“…Though I truly left every screening feeling electrified, perhaps my favourite programme was ‘Lands of Make Believe’. These films interrogated the abstraction, violence, and erasure enacted by mythology: from the Floridian, humid televangelism of Sarah Ballard’s Heat Spells or the re-narration of BP’s colonial exploitation of Iran in Nariman Massoumi’s Pouring Water on Troubled Oil, to the Greek nymph Daphne’s sublimation into a laurel tree in Catriona Gallagher’s Daphne was a torso ending in leaves. Shot on 16mm and processed in a solution made from bay leaves, Daphne’s metamorphosis imbibed into this film’s very chemistry.”