Channel swimmer
2015. Video, 100s of photographs
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Channel Swimmer is a short 'flicker' film that examines repetitive and ambivalent relationships in matriarchal cycles through the generations from mother to daughter to mother. The film is inspired by two novels - 'A Proper Marriage' by Doris Lessing and 'National Velvet' by Enid Bagnold, and their main characters. Martha Quest in 'A Proper Marriage' is having her own child and questions the relationship between herself and her mother. While Velvet Brown is quietly encouraged by her mother (who is the ‘Channel Swimmer’ of the title – as those who swim the English Channel to France are known) in 'National Velvet', the climax of which is when the protagonist wins the famous Grand National steeplechase. The words in the soundtrack are collaged from these two books. The film is made from hundreds of original photographs taken on location on a racecourse and in the studio.
Screened at:
View film on Vimeo
Channel Swimmer is a short 'flicker' film that examines repetitive and ambivalent relationships in matriarchal cycles through the generations from mother to daughter to mother. The film is inspired by two novels - 'A Proper Marriage' by Doris Lessing and 'National Velvet' by Enid Bagnold, and their main characters. Martha Quest in 'A Proper Marriage' is having her own child and questions the relationship between herself and her mother. While Velvet Brown is quietly encouraged by her mother (who is the ‘Channel Swimmer’ of the title – as those who swim the English Channel to France are known) in 'National Velvet', the climax of which is when the protagonist wins the famous Grand National steeplechase. The words in the soundtrack are collaged from these two books. The film is made from hundreds of original photographs taken on location on a racecourse and in the studio.
Screened at:
- 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo (2016) at Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France and online on Visual Container TV
- All-in-one projected group show in Chiari, Italy (2016), organised by Pensogiovane
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