our latest short film, with rising, sinking, tilting issues…
Month: August 2023
we’re all on a tilt
the latest project, featuring 21 ink and watercolour drawings on postcards…
the dancers
We are very pleased to have our little film “The Dancers”, selected for the Music Art Film Craft Fest, in Nashville TN. Thanks to all concerned and thanks for viewing.
the dancers
Notes:
The Dancers is inspired by an earlier project, including research, publications and film, Making the Killick (2018): https://youtu.be/gd0RsJgKHAM
The stones from my original Killick project are now in a stream on Bodmin Moor, at South Trekeive; I decided they just had to remain in Cornwall, when I left for Kent.
I also thought about ceremoniously burning the frames that held each Killick stone before we left, and I did not. Rather, they came to our new home in Walmer, Kent.
The frames sat on a shelf in my work space for several months, and then I found hag-stones in the garden (small stones/pebbles with a hole through them) and the idea of the Killick and stones re-emerged.
a selection of hag-stones found in our garden, Walmer, Kent, digital photograph, Philip R. Bennetta, 2023
This time, I thought to have the stones grouped on the outside, rather than inside the frame; embracing and holding the frame (ludras). I made fourteen of these bracelets, in all – two for each of the seven frames I had chosen; each bracelet has seven stones.
I considered narrating a poem I had been working on, and I did not. I have kept the film simple, with sound/music, that I recorded late one evening, on the dulcimer. An ethereal sound, something of the sea, the true home for a killick (ancient anchor for a small boat) is what I sought, and I stretched the sound, until I found it…
the dancers (film link: https://youtu.be/xK4VPQn-Vbk )
I hope you find something here for yourself. Also, please take a look at my research page, for more information on the Killick project.
the dancers
the latest project, featuring the making process, sculptural objects and music:
hope something here finds you
The French Literary Review, Issue 40
So pleased to have our recent collaborative project published in the French Literary Review, Issue 40, Edited by Barbara Dordi.