One Minute: volume 4

Screening of volume 4 of the One Minute collection of artists' moving image. Curated by Kerry Baldry, it includes Parker's film, 'Twenty Foot Square', made collaboratively with Dr Stuart Moore.

The title refers to a small, walled, city garden, a space that is literally twenty foot square. The film captures intimate moments within the garden on an early summer’s day: microscopic stop-frame animation of insect life in flowers and time-lapse photographs of sunlight moving across leaves is counter-pointed by the sound of birdsong, tadpoles and fish feeding in the pond. Site, sight, sound and memory, on a perfect afternoon in summer.

A ‘foot’ is an English unit of measurement related to the scale of the human body (there are approximately 3 ‘feet’ in a metre). The film looks at how we understand our place on the earth, as part of the natural world. Twenty Foot Square also recalls a psychic place, measured out in frames of time; a mythic garden of eden.

The experimental works in this One Minute collection "thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenging traditional narratives and exploring how much can be conveyed within sixty seconds. The programmes showcase an eclectic mix of work from artists at various stages of their careers, ranging from award-winning filmmakers to recent graduates.

You are invited to experience how a single minute can transcend its temporal constraints to convey various themes and nuances in experimental film" (programme notes).