First outing for new/old Super 8 cam on Fleetwood seafront tomorrow. Taking 35mm camera also – add to collection of archive photographs, possibly for display in a gallery context.
Both sets of work will be empty, sparse in their content, featureless seascapes, spaces where structures once stood, a sense of loss and lost understanding.
In the archive these photographs could be used as an ending point (as opposed to the urban or domestic environment shots). A finality in their emptiness, functioning in the archive book as a suggestive, yet ultimately unsatisfactory conclusion. The journey ends here and we, as readers, can at best piece together and guess at what has taken place – myth and uncertainty reflected in the seascape.
The film will function as an extension of my photographic practice – fixed shots lingering on nothingness. The viewer questions why this space is important to the artist/filmmaker, its reason for becoming the subject of work – what has, or will, happen in this place? Narrative possibilities in elevated status.
(in the context of archive… lighting/cinematography test shots that flicker and jump. How would stills look enlarged as prints?)
