Some moments are really hard to captureā¦.and thenā¦share?
Iāll try describe it.
A young boy is filming a film of himself on his mumās Iphone. He is standing in the room where he stood the day before pulling a string attached to the side lever of a 1959 bolex camera. His particular part of the film is made up of roughly 180 single frame exposures he took. As he films himself people are still playing with puppets around his shadow but he is totally engrossed and unaware of the T-rex trying to eat his phone.
This little snippet of video is from an installation I did in January as part of my Artist residency with Terrestrial in Frome.
The film is hand drawn on 16mm clear film and projected in a dark room hung with rolls of textured paper on all sides. It was drawn in response to the music written by Verity Standen for the project āVoices of Fromeā.
You can listen to more of this incredible music here .uk/voices-of-frome
Special thanks to James Holcombe of @erehwon_film for all the support and permission to experiment in these wildly fun analogue mediums.
2025 the year of reels?! iām not so sureā¦.i made this one just before i smashed my phone in proper catastrophe January style. phone is back. and so is the reel some how! Much more playing in the studio to come. and bringing the inside out and the outside in šš«
So touched to have our film 'The River' be screened at so many incredible independent film festivals all over the world. From Berlin & New York to Costa Rica, Finland, Madeira, Slovakia, Serbia....all over the UK...Including Edinburgh & Mull....and lots more international screenings. it really means a lot and kept me going this yearš„ It takes a lot of time and energy to put on an event like a film festival, so just want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all the organisers who made them possible. Your work keeps our worlds turning. And thanks as ever to the home team, especially @badj & Jonah @ilrecordsuk More films coming soon ā¤ļø @earthconnectionfilmfestival@proxy_act #mayflyfilmfestival @schoharie_river_ctr@ekotopfilm@screenargyll@science_film_festival@edfilmfest@climatefilmfestival@vaasa.wildlife.festival@ficavesoul@mafia_weekend #independentfilm
as the season starts to change iām remembering how much i love being locked in a dark room filming stop frame āØ something to keep me company šø
made for @thegaiafoundation
with Badj Wipple @lefoodwire āØ
Honoured to have my film selected to be part of this years International Climate Film Festival in Frome. And to be speaking at this event tomorrow evening with Charly Le Marchant from @woodforthetreesuk .We will both be showing some of our films and talking about our different approaches to making films about things we care about šš« looking forward to it! @climatefilmfestival
Happy #worldwaterday š Really pleased The River has so far been selected for the following film festivals - Mayfly Film in NY, @vaasa.wildlife.festival , Finland & @ediconsfilmfest šš§You can watch and share the film here - https://youtu.be/hyTNrw2njF0?si=nZscBYiguPZ9_Ak4 šāØ
Here is a weird little animation I made as a mini installation this weekend as part of InsideOut festival - it was projected on to tracing paper in a beautiful old wonky window at night (thank you Henry). Loved watching people interact with it, especially the kiddos. ā¤ļø/home/inside-out.
