Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 871
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- May
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/25021/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter is a 12 minute continually looping film shot over a year in Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses. It has developed out of my broader research interests into the tension between stillness and the moving image and the complex relationship between film and time. I am interested in questioning the materiality and the illusion of the moving image and how these oppositions and tensions might relate and interact with one another, while at the same time querying the ways in which film can evoke, rather than represent, a sense of peacefulness and serenity in a specific place.
From working within my local community, my project focuses on cinematic time, as duration became the key reference point in my attempts to communicate and evoke my experience of the place. I became interested not only in the duration within the film (and its frames) but also of the film. In this sense, and in testing the temporal boundaries of cinematic form, I position my film as a cyclical narrative.
This offers not only a particular experience for the viewer to choose her own beginning and endpoint to the work, but more importantly an opportunity to relate our feelings and our sense of place to a non-linear (experience of) time.
As a continually looping film, I am interested to see how this works installed on a monitor in a gallery setting, projected on a large screen outside as part of a public film festival and in the more intimate setting of one own’s personal computer, laptop or phone.
The film won the Earth Photo 2018 Moving Image Award, was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2019 and has been exhibited widely.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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