Stuart Moore & Kayla Parker
wort/wall/water
2004 16mm triptych loops x 3 variable lengths (silent)
Exquisite moments held in the mind's eye, replay the feeling of being
in an 'other place', transported, dislocated. Caught forever in the
present, wort/wall/water looks back to a time past, and forward to the
future.
Looking at the work, the viewer is aware of the hypnotic progression
of images on the three screens: at times the three separate pieces can
be seen, sometimes the same piece is shown in sync across all screens.
The viewer becomes aware also of the gallery space itself, through the
window of the world beyond, and can contemplate their own sense of place.
The first of the three pieces 'wort' reveals a shifting, flickering
light across leaves of navelwort; the second piece 'wall' looks at the
top of a crumbling wall, radiating the heat of the day, and beyond to
the rhythmic movement of ripened grass and a glimpse of turquoise sky.
In the third piece 'water', a fountain reaches the top of its jet, and
tumbles back, caught in perpetual motion.
The three sequences were filmed using a Beaulieu R16 camera at the end
of a late summer afternoon at Mount Edgcumbe in south east Cornwall.
A loop was created from each of the three 16mm film sequences, and from
these the movement cycles for the three screens.
© Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker
http://www.sundog.co.uk/project.html
Night Sounding
16mm/1min 30sec/1993
Night Sounding evokes a sense of place and the resonance of association
- the lights and sirens which warn of danger, the wreckers and sirens
who entice ships to their doom
A One Minute Television film for the Arts Council and BBC2
Sunset Strip
35mm/Dolby stereo/3min30sec/1996
365 sunsets recorded directly onto 35mm film - with a knockout soundtrack
http://www.sundog.co.uk/sunset.html