On Location

Single channel moving image artwork with stereo sound. A hybrid form of landscape cinema capturing the year of an unnamed hollow way that forms the stream bed for several springs in a remote area of rural mid-Devon, Britain.

Made in collaboration with the cinematographer and sound recordist Stuart Moore, the film takes time to notice the human and non-human traces of change along the sunken lane, observing a twelve month cycle of seasonal changes and meteorological phenomena in the sunken lane using experimental filming techniques, such as pinhole cinematography and lenses created with water from a spring that feeds into the track, along with field recordings made at the site that capture the sonic architecture of the space.

'On Location' is the initial phase of a practice research project that responds to the British avant-garde artist Annabel Nicolson’s artist’s book, Escaping Notice (1977); the hollow way leads to the isolated farmhouse featured in her book.