Daphne (Purple Red)

‘Daphne (Purple Red)’ uses colour both to estrange what the camera sees and to build a new language; an image in which colour and form are more important that description. Alternating between geometric and organic forms, with multiple exposures creating the type of colour-separation more often seen in print, the film is in counterpoint to an organ recital of an anonymous score, itself seemingly bridging a boundary; this time between Renaissance and Baroque music.

— Adam Pugh, film programmer

UK, 2014

16mm film with digital audio file, Stereo, 1:1.33

5’

Camera, edit by Sophie Michael

Music played by Richard Newsholme and recorded at St Swithun's Church on a Gray brothers’ pipe organ, c. 18th Century

'Daphne', Anonymous, Camphuysen Manuscript, c. 16th Century

Previous presentations

2015

FLUX film series: SMOKE & MIRRORS, Independent Cinema Office at The Barn, Dartington

ASPECT film series: SMOKE & MIRRORS, Independent Cinema Office at The Maltings, Berwick-Upon-Tweed

2014

Seventeen solo presentation at Sunday Art Fair, London (looped installation version)

Kinetics film series: SMOKE & MIRRORS, Independent Cinema Office at Kinokulture cinema, Oswestry