Thursday
Continuing with the residency in Margate, here’s the third installment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouakz2_V5WU
Thursday was spent largely working inside, so for this piece I decided to detail some of the rich textures within the house we've been staying in. The property is a large 4 story townhouse, which is currently mid-renovation, with exposed wooden floorboards and cracked walls with exposed plaster.
Detailing the tapestry of patterns, colours and uneven surfaces I wanted to pull out the aged aesthetic of the house in the presentation of the film - so I played with aspect ratio to present images in a format closer to 4:3 rather than a modern widescreen format. I also enhanced the square images with 35mm film grain and rounded off the corners to mimic the look of old slides, adding in projector sounds to support this look.
Finally the music loop was recorded in the afternoon on an old electric keyboard found in the living room, which we were experimenting with on a separate audio work. I processed the recording by slowing it down and detuning it, to further enhance the 'aged' aesthetic of the film.
Shot on a Sony A7s.
View the other pieces in the series below: