On Location

Kayla Parker
Source: Kayla Parker

Kayla Parker

On Location , ongoing
Co-workers & Funding
Made in collaboration with film-maker and sound artist, Stuart Moore. Awarded research funding (2 awards) from the School of Media, Art and Design, Plymouth University
Documents
  • On Location: New Materialism and Film in the Anthropocene
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Description
A hybrid form of landscape cinema capturing the year of an unnamed hollow way that forms the stream bed for several springs in a remote area of rural mid-Devon, Britain.

Made in collaboration with the cinematographer and sound recordist Stuart Moore, the film takes time to notice the human and non-human traces of change along the sunken lane, observing a year’s cycle of seasonal changes and meteorological phenomena using experimental filming techniques, such as pinhole cinematography and lenses created with water from a spring that feeds into the track, along with field recordings made at the site that capture the sonic architecture of the space.

The film was first exhibited at Plymouth Arts Centre from 10 to 19 January 2017.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • affective
    • experimental
    • projected
    • site-specific
    • uncanny
  • genres
    • installations
  • subjects
    • Body and Psychology
      • affect
      • embodiment
    • History and Memory
      • historical sites
    • Media and Communication
      • motion pictures (visual works)
    • Nature and Environment
      • environment
      • landscapes (environments)
      • Nature
      • water
      • weather
    • Power and Politics
      • geopolitics
    • Society and Culture
      • feminism
      • otherness
    • Technology and Innovation
      • optics
Technology & Material
Method
HD video (4K) using Holga, pinhole, and bespoke lenses constructed for the project, to capture moving image sequences on location