Adam Turner
THE LOOK
ADAM TURNER
FILM
2. Dawe’s Twineworks, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
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Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
Caught in the act?
A short film in which we become implicated in the act of looking at an isolated individual.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adam Turner’s practice focuses on using conventions of cinema to explore the gap between reality and fantasy, creating an uncomfortable uncertainty in his work.
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Verity Coward
INDUSTRIOUS DEMONS
VERITY COWARD
FILM
3. Village Hall, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
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Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
What can we do in the country?
Industrious Demons is a moving image work that aims to simulate the tempo of a storm, drawing the audience into the storm’s charged lull where a dog anxiously chews at the grass, before accelerating into a vehicular storm chase.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Verity Coward is a multidisciplinary artist working across video and sculpture. In her video work, Verity asks questions about agency and the phenomena that emerge when bodies, landscapes and the heavens meet. She often uses vehicles and backyard stunts to mediate this interaction, mapping this upward striving onto a lateral axis.
Co-selected with Withkin
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Duncan Poulton
CONTENT ANXIETY
DUNCAN POULTON
FILM
1. OSR Project Space, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
Online
Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
Digital collage workshop:
Wed 2 June, 7-8:30pm
Booking required
Can we escape our digital lives?
Content Anxiety is a video collage which uses audio appropriated from anonymous teenagers’ ‘Why I Quit YouTube’ videos. It expresses the paradoxes of making, in an era of perpetual storage, content overload and self-branding.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Duncan Poulton uses digital video and image assemblage to address ideas of simulation, copying and circulation, in an increasingly virtual world.
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Marcy Saude
CATHERINE
MARCY SAUDE
FILM
2. Dawe’s Twineworks, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
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Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
What could go wrong?
A few scenes from a lesser-known Grimm’s fairytale, Frederick and Catherine, are transposed to the West Cumbrian landscape. This film follows a woman’s work and (mis)adventures, exploring low-key folk magic and squatting tactics.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Marcy Saude works with time-based media, with a focus on radical histories, the landscape, counterculture and speculative fiction. She works closely with artist-run film collectives in Bristol and Rotterdam.
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Eden Mitsenmacher
THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN'
EDEN MITSENMACHER
FILM
3. Village Hall, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
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Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
How do we fall apart?
A surreal animation pulsating with wit and udder-like toes. To the tune of These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, chosen for its sexual politics and use as a protest song (These Boots are Made for Marching), a woman’s body gradually disintegrates.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eden Mitsenmacher combines performance, video, and installation to take a critical view
of social, political and cultural issues.
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Ruth Waters
REDSKY66
RUTH WATERS
FILM
2. Village Hall, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
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Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
Will it be like this forever?
The artist spent six months conducting Skype interviews with people suffering from severe phobias. Redsky66 tells the story of a man who has Apeirophobia (fear of eternity) and what happens when he sends a viral tweet. It draws on Waters’ own experience of having an extreme phobia, and examines how such anxiety disorders are amplified in the digital age.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ruth Waters works with film, sound, animation, text and installation. Her work offers critique of the murky uncertainties of our digital era using dark humour and satire.
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Natasha Cantwell
TE AROHA, COVE AND LEAVE YOUR BODY
NATASHA CANTWELL
FILM
3. Village Hall, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
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Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
Ever get stuck in a loop?
Cantwell’s trilogy of films, Te Aroha, Cove and Leave your body, reference classic movie techniques to build tension and suspense. But rather than building to a traditional climax, we get stuck in a feedback loop of paranoia. This nightmare of repetition mirrors the mental barriers that can stop us from reaching out for help.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Natasha Cantwell’s work spans music video, fashion photography and art projects. She embraces awkwardness and draws from the absurdity of human behaviour
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Rossella Nisio
THE SILENT RAY
ROSSELLA NISIO
FILM
5. The Royal George, West Coker
Fri 28 – Sun 30 May, 10am – 6pm
Online
Fri 28 May – Sun 6 June
What do we know about the past?
The Silent Ray is an experimental video work exploring the desire of individuals to follow destructive paths. It emerges from an album of photographs made by the artist’s grandfather when he was fighting in the colonial war waged by Italy’s Fascist Party against Ethiopia in 1935-36.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rossella Nisio is a visual artist based in Rotterdam, who focuses on notions of memory, imagination and space.
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