REVENANTS: COMPOUND HORIZONS (2023)

Digital video from 8mm/16mm, 4:3, sound, 9'09'' single channel

Monitor, Wood, antique TV magnifier

Strange worlds slowly emerge from chemical chance; landscapes excavated from emulsion. The edges of the frame make horizons, punched holes are suns or moons, static and grain bleeds into light on water into stars, chemicals form into clouds. These are spectres of light and time: one foot in the material world, one in the ether. The sound is made using field recordings blended with samples from 16mm educational films, warping and distorting with the optical strip; material and form merging in and out with each other and becoming indistinguishable. This work explores and shapes the terrain of the celluloid.

Part of the series REVENANTS - a project that involves using expired film, some of which dates as far back as the 1940s. Through shooting and developing new photos and footage, I revive these forgotten spools, creating new work that emerges from a combination of light, time, and chemicals. The term 'Revenants' refers to "coming back," either from another place or from the dead, symbolising my ‘re-animation’ of these obsolete technologies and materials. The work represents an oscillation between material, subject and form, distorting images through layers of light and time, utilising the imperfections of the obsolete formats.

Exhibitions/screenings:

Analogue Uncanny, UCA Brewery Tap, Folkestone, UK (2023)

Vertical Hold, Punch Projects, WA, USA (2024)

Videoex Festival, Zurich, Switzerland (2024)

CineSalon Cork, Ireland (2024)

Frame + Frequency, VisArts, Washington, USA (2024-5)

ESPFC Eraserhead with screening of works by Sapphire Goss, Lewes UK (2025)

Dream Sequence, Staffordshire Street Gallery, London, UK (2025)

Strangloscope Santa Catarina, Brazil (2025)