Crossed Paths – phase one
Grid Gwartheg (cattle grid)
Pwll dwfn (deep pool)
Llwybrau’r Defaid (sheep track)
Coed- lan (place of trees)
sanau ar drac (socks on a trac)
Above are a series of 5 pilot projects made between June and December 2015.
Phase one of the project proposed the ‘crossing’ of recorded conversations with artists about their unrelated art walks with topographical features in and around Pumlumon, each project included a film/performance, poem and musical composition.
The films were developed through a process of filming and performing simultaneously, so the filming would be a result of the performance and the performance would be a result of filming.
I was exploring filmmaking as a performative experience, emergent and enactive rather than fixed
For example I set up my camera on the side of my dinghy, focused the lens at a mid point and then allowed the wind to blow the dinghy across the water and in and out of the banks, so the film was made through the movement of the dinghy on the water in the wind, my intention was to set up many cameras on the sides of the dinghy so offering multiple perspectives including views of me, the cameras and the dinghy. In the small walled copse of trees I set up Go – Pro camera’s that filmed me attaching them to each tree and setting them up to record, the film is a result of this process, my intention was to put a camera on each of the 19 trees to create multiple viewpoints, i.e. the trees looking at each other, themselves and me simultaneously.