Video Art
Four Divinations (2021). The future of the UK has never been more uncertain. Held in the grip of international crisis, our usual methods of predicting what comes next no longer hold water. Economic growth forecasts buckle; political projections collapse. Four Divinations turns instead to the supernatural, and playfully explores alternative ways to predict the future. The collaborators, Adam Jacob Burgess (visuals) and Daniel Edward Crean (music), have responded separately to four modes of divination: augury (birds), cheiromancy (palm reading), oneiromancy (dream reading) and oculomancy (eyes), combining their individual responses together to make this experimental film.
Four Divinations (2021).
Flood (2020). Flood is an experimental film. It pairs visuals of flooding in York in February 2020 with verbatim soundbites from British politicians speaking over the past five years. These soundbites are often performed for publicity reasons, to show that the government is working on a solution, but these solutions tend to be short-term in nature. The quotes used in the film have been stretched and distorted, lengthening the politicians' promises until they blend in with and become part of an atmospheric soundscape.
Four Divinations (2021).
Four Divinations (2021).
Flood (2020).
Flood (2020).
Flood (2020).