An oblique record of the disused Middlesex Filter Beds in Hackney, East London; now overgrown – and crossed by overhead electricity cables and aircraft. It is also an essay in film form, or film poetry; a meditation in white and black on wires and branches, on wind, planes and birds.
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Sweep
Negative and positive, hand-treated images clash and flash on a trip through the city.
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Circular Objects in Several Movements
Warm and fragile abstraction. Filmic and musical variations on a round form.
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Variations
Form and content have reached their equilibrium in Variations. An influential work on transformative sleep, and a breakthrough.
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One
In One the maker celebrates the essence of film (dark and light) and enlarges only one film frame, to create an endless dynamic dance of abstract f
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 1999
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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