Short Documentary made for the University of Colorado's Herbarium CUWeDigBio Conference 2022. Cinematography, directing, and editing by Bianca Mesagno.

cinematography & editing by Bianca Mesagno Music: Disciples by Tame Impala Models: April Levin & Monica Dubois

Cinematography by Bianca Mesagno cloud footage: internetarchieve.org Model: India Gillingham Music: Defenders of the Glam by Morabeza Tobacco

Für Helga, "For Helga" is a visual homage shot and edited in Berlin, Germany, the birth place of my late Oma . This edit is an exhibition of various lace curtains through ought the city that caught my eye, nostalgic Berlin lace curtains just like the ones I remember my Oma hanging from her windows.

edited by Bianca Mesagno footage: internetarchieve.com music: Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds

Artist’s statement: For this project I decided to use a Church (specifically a Greek Orthodox Church because of my connection to Greek Orthodoxy) as the public setting. I came to the conclusion of this project through my love for Hominin Evolution as an Anthropology major, and as an atheist; expressing my thoughts, memories, and feelings on Christianity through art. Churches are spaces that have historically influenced private and public spaces through interweaving with culture and politics. The separation of Church vs. State is continuously pushed and infringed upon specifically and historically by Christian religious values attempting to influence school, politics, reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and science in the United States of America. In this project I challenge evolution vs. creationism in an unprecedented environment in which they overlap. When you enter a Church one would expect to hear a service read from the bible, however this service is intended to be different, to essentially challenge the structure of “church”, and further ideologies (creationism) by broadcasting a reading of an Anthropology textbook: The Human Past: World of Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies. The voice reading the text is indistinguishable to be anonymous. Ironically, despite the anthropological focus of the installation, the voice does not sound human but rather robotic. On the ceiling of the church projections of anthropologically related images appear as well as religious iconography. In this church where religion and science converge I want people to feel surprised and uncomfortable. I want them to think, what does it mean, and how do you feel when people try to bring religion into school, politics, etc., but in this case science has been brought into church. It makes people feel uncomfortable when religion is imposed upon them in school, people should feel uncomfortable by science within a religious environment.