'Tidal Island', 16mm/Sound/12mins.
This single screen experimental film reflects a practice engaged with aspects of landscape, film materiality and temporality.
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 910
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Cinema Galeries, Brussels, Belgium as part of Cinema Parenthèse; Whitstable Biennale, UK; 20th Media City Film Festival, Windsor Ontario/Detroit, Michigan
- Month
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- Year
- 2014
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/301c5fe2fc46322ef4b9
- 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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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This single screen experimental film reflects a practice engaged with aspects of landscape, film materiality and temporality. The research process that underpins this submission is a sustained encounter with landscape and its representation through film. The film explores an abandoned artificial island off the Lincolnshire coast. The film attempts to claim the island as an earth work in the context of the films of Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt.
The ‘Outer Trial Bank ‘is accessible only at low tide across an expanse of mud flats. It documents a journey toward the island
and its wider context in the landscape as well as the many birds and other features that exists on the island. The camera was set up at low tide, leaving it in position to capture a view normally only seen by seabirds, who nest in their thousands on the island. Time-lapse photography is often used to reveal what cannot be seen. Due to the remote location of this island I have used this process to reveal a seldom seen event; the movement of water through this site. This pool of water from the surrounding estuary is a twice daily occurrence.
The published context for all the film work is either in the gallery or the film festival or independent screening venue. Tidal
Island was screened for the first time in 2014 at the Whitstable Biennale where it was partly funded. The film was installed for two weeks at a venue in the town. It has had two further international screenings in Windsor Canada and Brussels Belgium.
The research contributes to knowledge in the context of landscape and sustainability as art practice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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