“Change the language of the object based on the origins of the object.”   ‘Talking, counting, blinking, noting’* takes the form of a period of reflection {…}

3 mins 04 secs, silent, colour, shot at ROST, Glasgow, 2019

Short-end reversal film, 1/40, 35mm half-frame reversal film, and 100ft Double-X, made after Julia Parks’ Edinburgh workshop, 16-17 March 2019, with thanks to Julia, Oliver {…}

Glass candelabra, finding the shooting wall, screen tests and deliberate outtakes of Richard Taylor and Scott Baxter at the CCA, white candles, gold leaf, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

    these were the things that made the step familiar    Image: Maya Deren, Witch’s Cradle Outtakes, 1943. Courtesy of LUX, London     &nbsp {…}

Museumsinsel, title from Beatrice Gibson’s I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, found glass, crystals, Nefertiti, faces, dear ghost, dear ghost, ‘Pensées’, Blaise Pascal, void, shape of manoeuvre, doubt, doubt, doubt, CA Conrad

* to look at these images you write a spell for the camera, 35mm black and white, 16mm black and white, 2019

2019, 16fps, silent, Orwo, 90ft, Double-X, 100ft, print, and Tri-X reversal, 60ft (double exposed). Film with paresthesia.    Optical illusions, retina debris and hallucinations, migraine {…}

“the yellow film”, bleached frames, mirrors, yellow flowers, pink gloves, yellow lights, gold spinning, candles, performance artist Cath Whippey in excesses of colored clothes.

Image courtesy of Cooper Gallery/AMC,  A love, film still, 2019   Anne-Marie Copestake ‘Looking in either direction the whole street was filled with people, some singing {…}

The most important exchange is with the unknown*. Film B roll: 16mm 24fps, 1 min 26 secs, 50D, with thanks to Dan Shay. Black and {…}

Filming forgetting, delay, pause, hesitation, luck, unfinishedness, serendipity, failure. Stopped R100, underexposed 35mm reversal black and white, May 2019    

San Francisco Botanic Gardens, Robert Ashley, The feeling of the idea of silk scarves in the air, Petaluma, Marin Civic Center, image of Jonathan Jackson (Arthur Jafa), gardens (intrusions), California colors, Now Eleanor’s Idea, looking for something interesting, now turn left still on the inside still, looking for something interesting now turn left, waiting for the sunshine, 25, 26, 27, 28, Anne Colvin reunion, magnetic road, Joan of Arc, red, red, institutional disguises, flowers, brooches. Rainbow flag, red flowers, glitter, hairy man, sleeping man with dog, flowers, Anne Colvin, gay cruise club, a scene of desperation and cruelty, an incorrect method, Omar Blondin Diop, The Other Country

Kimberley O’Neill Enigma Bodytech Collective, Satellites Programme 18 May 2019 — 30 Jun 2019 Collective, City Observatory, 38 Calton Hill, Edinburgh EH7 5AA   I {…}

16 and 17 March 2019, organized by Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Critical Forum/Oliver Mezger

The most important exchange is with the unknown.  Film A roll, May 16 2019. 2 mins 43 secs. Thanks to Gauge Films.   charm*charm*charm* charm*charm*charm {…}

Your Willow Skin. A proposition on aging, the page and the lens, making a live proposal.   It starts with saying: ‘I miss Adrian Howells {…}

Winter flowers, Botanics, Edinburgh, female portraits, admirer of Walter Scott, Portobello, Christine Borland, I say nothing, stolen artifacts, butterflies, paper weights, glass, marble jewelry, snail shells, sparklers, papiergewichten, glas, marmeren juwelen, slakenschelpen, vlinders, winterbloemen. De pagina is een stem (voice).

Last song for a waterbaby, Satellites Programme, 23 March 2019 — 5 May 2019, Collective, Edinburgh Image: Katie Shannon, ‘Last song for a waterbaby’, film still, 2019 {…}

Developing proposal.