Category Archives: Moving Image

Matte Box test (in progress). 16mm film, 3 minutes, silent. Made using a Bolex camera and matte box, 2022.Elaborated from the composition of one of Swiss healer, researcher, and artist Emma Kunz’s visionary drawings, the stills below reveal otherwise largely concealed images within the film as it plays in reel time.

16mm film, B&W, 3 mins, silent. Footage developed by James Holcombe using a mordençage process, 2021. Research towards the making of rough cut botanical (2022)

Map (2010) is a short film made using 3D computer visualisation. It is a meditation on architecture, film and cinematic spectacle. Map draws on the history of the Hollywood Picture Palace , the architects of which drew extensively on representations , both real and imagined, of palaces and landscapes. The film proposes a relationship betweenContinue reading “Map”

film from a score (2017) is the second in a trilogy of film portraits. Each filmed performance uses both the notational and indeterminate elements of the score as a vehicle through which to explore aspects of film structure and form. The filmic rhythms of film from a score are determined by the synchronicities and slippagesContinue reading “film from a score”

Touches Bloquées (2016) is the first in a trilogy of film portraits. Each filmed performance uses both the notational and indeterminate elements of the score as a vehicle through which to explore aspects of film structure and form. Silviya Mihaylova performs György Ligeti’s score Touches Bloquées, foregrounding the making of music as a loop betweenContinue reading “Touches Bloquées”

The Forest of Everything (2019) in collaboration with with Richy Carey. The Forest of Everything is about collaborating, a playing with and knowing with. Influenced by Margaret Tait’s Aerial (1974), Wendy, Richy and the children played, played, and played again with the materials around them; light, water, air, earth and trees. Knowing and knowing anew how we meet and compose theseContinue reading “The Forest of Everything”

Two Études (2019) is the third in a trilogy of film portraits. Each filmed performance uses both the notational and indeterminate elements of the score as a vehicle through which to explore aspects of film structure and form. Two Études is a film in two corresponding halves. In the first, Mieko Kanno performs Étude no.Continue reading “Two Études”

rough cut botanical (2022) interweaves multiple images of plant and animal life, while a voice speaks to the materiality of its subject matter and to film itself. Inspired by audio description, it playfully explores how they may speak their space together. Shot on 16mm, the film uses a matte box, an old cinematic technique toContinue reading “rough cut botanical”

Untitled (2020), collaborative film and written score, with Alex Hetherington, 16mm film, colour, 2 mins 53 seconds.