" a Darkness Swallowed opens on a pair of faded photographs showing an old dented car, one with a child standing beside it and the other without. Speaking in voice-over, Bromberg references a past event, once that will forever haunt her although it occurred before her birth. The film then sinks downward, dipping below the surface of the rational world to mine the seemingly infinite layers of the past stored within the fleshy entrails, chalky bones, sinewy spider webs and gnarled ligaments of both the body and the Earth. Noises - of clanging metal, bells, heartbeats and jazz music, to name only a few - combine to create a dense sound environment, a seemingly immense, three dimensional space for contemplation. As with all of Bromberg's films, there are images that, once seen, will stay with you forever, and then there are the colors - rich, luscious hues to be savored slowly. Dedicated to the filmmaker's mother, the film is also a gift to us, a reminder of cinema's organic basis in chemistry and light, and of its ability to take us deep inside."
- Holly Willis, L.A. Weekly


Selective Exhibition: Sundance, Buenos Aires International, Athens (Greece), Seoul (South Korea), Bradford (England), Ann Arbor And Seattle Film Festivals; Walking Picture Palace (Anthology Film Archives), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago) and The Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (Spain)