MURMURS
Short Film Screening
Fri 14 June 2024
Doors 6pm
Screening 6.30-8pm
Goldsmiths Small Cinema
Richard Hoggart Building
Lewisham Way, SE14
Fri 14 June 2024
Doors 6pm
Screening 6.30-8pm
Goldsmiths Small Cinema
Richard Hoggart Building
Lewisham Way, SE14
Matilda Butler
Dark Flowing, 2024
16mm hand processed film, Colour, Sound, 2m 30s
Dark Flowing (2024) is an ongoing exploration of the contamination of Tamar Valley, caused by the legacy pollution of the deserted Arsenic & Copper mines. Using 16mm film processed with seaweed and contaminated river water, the mediums materiality helps reveal the invisible toxicity present in the landscape.
Matilda Butler is a Cornish artist who works with analogue film and alternative film developing methods to explore the relationship between environmental and social issues in Cornwall. The process is improvisational and relies on a balance of basic chemistry, intuition, and chance. Butler’s work has been shown at New York Indie Short Awards, Offshoot Gallery, The Garrison Gallery and various community spaces in Cornwall and has been selected as a Mudhouse Residency Fellow 2024. @_matildabutler
16mm hand processed film, Colour, Sound, 2m 30s
Dark Flowing (2024) is an ongoing exploration of the contamination of Tamar Valley, caused by the legacy pollution of the deserted Arsenic & Copper mines. Using 16mm film processed with seaweed and contaminated river water, the mediums materiality helps reveal the invisible toxicity present in the landscape.
Matilda Butler is a Cornish artist who works with analogue film and alternative film developing methods to explore the relationship between environmental and social issues in Cornwall. The process is improvisational and relies on a balance of basic chemistry, intuition, and chance. Butler’s work has been shown at New York Indie Short Awards, Offshoot Gallery, The Garrison Gallery and various community spaces in Cornwall and has been selected as a Mudhouse Residency Fellow 2024. @_matildabutler
Fergus Carmichael
Rhadinace, 2024
Digital video, colour, sound, 8m 27s
Having depleted their wells, off-shore platforms await final decommissioning. Nearby, on land, a yearly burning of oil takes place.
‘Rhadinace’ builds on previous site-specific work that explores themes of socio-ecological relationships. The film investigates an oil rig ‘graveyard’ in northern Scotland and the community surrounding it through a partly fictionalised account of a local custom – the burning of the Clavie. The film adopts a score and pacing that deliberately invokes references to eco and folk horror cinematic genres.
Fergus Carmichael's work explores contemporary interaction with tradition, socio-environmental landscapes and folk-culture. His work has previously screened at Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kasseler Dokfest and in galleries internationally. @ferguscarmichael
Digital video, colour, sound, 8m 27s
Having depleted their wells, off-shore platforms await final decommissioning. Nearby, on land, a yearly burning of oil takes place.
‘Rhadinace’ builds on previous site-specific work that explores themes of socio-ecological relationships. The film investigates an oil rig ‘graveyard’ in northern Scotland and the community surrounding it through a partly fictionalised account of a local custom – the burning of the Clavie. The film adopts a score and pacing that deliberately invokes references to eco and folk horror cinematic genres.
Fergus Carmichael's work explores contemporary interaction with tradition, socio-environmental landscapes and folk-culture. His work has previously screened at Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kasseler Dokfest and in galleries internationally. @ferguscarmichael
Claire Davies
Game of Hope, 2023
Digital video, colour, sound,14m 37s
Working through a not knowing of NFTs and their digital materiality, a 3D scan of a Snickers wrapper becomes an obsession through which to explore value systems, hope and class structures. Through an internal monologue we follow the considerations around making an NFT, revealing a personal conflict between the structures of capitalism, whilst desiring the luxuries of modern life.
Through modes of stillness, observation and deconstruction, Claire Davies creates moving image works questioning desire, value systems and power structures through lived experience. Using 3D animation, photogrammetry, video and installation to explore narratives about lost keys, GIFs, weeds or NFTs, Davies uses processes of writing, recording, and improvisation to open up spaces of contemplation and uncertainty, where semi-autobiographical narratives are weaved together through a continuous rumination on objects, our consumption and possession of them, and our desire to contain the world, in an image, on a device, online. @clairedaviesinfo
Digital video, colour, sound,14m 37s
Working through a not knowing of NFTs and their digital materiality, a 3D scan of a Snickers wrapper becomes an obsession through which to explore value systems, hope and class structures. Through an internal monologue we follow the considerations around making an NFT, revealing a personal conflict between the structures of capitalism, whilst desiring the luxuries of modern life.
Through modes of stillness, observation and deconstruction, Claire Davies creates moving image works questioning desire, value systems and power structures through lived experience. Using 3D animation, photogrammetry, video and installation to explore narratives about lost keys, GIFs, weeds or NFTs, Davies uses processes of writing, recording, and improvisation to open up spaces of contemplation and uncertainty, where semi-autobiographical narratives are weaved together through a continuous rumination on objects, our consumption and possession of them, and our desire to contain the world, in an image, on a device, online. @clairedaviesinfo
Tülin Dag
Tülin Dağ
Unscripted moments 2024
16mm, SD digital video. Colour, B&W, Sound. 10m
Unscripted moments (2024) is an autobiographical documentary film using 16mm film, handycam camera and archival footage. It tells a political history through family memories and explores how gaps in memory and small details give rise to new stories.
Tülin Dağ is an artist filmmaker from Turkey who thinks and writes about the traces of historical narratives and political processes in present time. Drawing from her experience as a Kurdish political prisoner between 1994 and 2004 she explores the process of remembering and forgetting, focusing on moments of past and collective memory. @dagtulin
Unscripted moments 2024
16mm, SD digital video. Colour, B&W, Sound. 10m
Unscripted moments (2024) is an autobiographical documentary film using 16mm film, handycam camera and archival footage. It tells a political history through family memories and explores how gaps in memory and small details give rise to new stories.
Tülin Dağ is an artist filmmaker from Turkey who thinks and writes about the traces of historical narratives and political processes in present time. Drawing from her experience as a Kurdish political prisoner between 1994 and 2004 she explores the process of remembering and forgetting, focusing on moments of past and collective memory. @dagtulin
Clara Helbig
How to Own an Island, 2024
4K Digital Video, Colour, Sound, 20m
In 2018, a cow escaped en route to a slaughterhouse and swam to an island, disrupting a small town’s established dynamics in turn. This film retraces the events and questions how we position ourselves to the land we inhabit and the living beings we share it with.
Clara Helbig is an artist filmmaker and curator. Her artistic practice explores the interconnectivity between different actors and life forms on our planet. Her work has been shown internationally at exhibitions and film festivals with her 2021 short film disjointed (2020) winning the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis Documentary Short Film Award. @clarahelbig
4K Digital Video, Colour, Sound, 20m
In 2018, a cow escaped en route to a slaughterhouse and swam to an island, disrupting a small town’s established dynamics in turn. This film retraces the events and questions how we position ourselves to the land we inhabit and the living beings we share it with.
Clara Helbig is an artist filmmaker and curator. Her artistic practice explores the interconnectivity between different actors and life forms on our planet. Her work has been shown internationally at exhibitions and film festivals with her 2021 short film disjointed (2020) winning the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis Documentary Short Film Award. @clarahelbig
Hanna Moon
Not So, Yet So, 2024
16mm, 4K Digital Video, Colour, Sound,16m 48s
Filmed around South Korea, Not So, Yet So explores cultural hybridity, and the legacy of both Christianity and imperialism through their presence in Korea’s churches. Through intimate portrayals of Korean cultural and religious life, the film navigates the inherent tensions between tradition and progress, belief and pragmatism.
Hanna Moon, born in South Korea, is a London-based artist. The "in-between-ness" that exists within the spaces where cultures converge is a central theme in her work, which was explored in her 2019 Somerset House exhibition ‘English as a Second Language’. Moon offers her viewers a glimpse into the complex dynamics of cultural exchange and adaptation. @hannamoon69
16mm, 4K Digital Video, Colour, Sound,16m 48s
Filmed around South Korea, Not So, Yet So explores cultural hybridity, and the legacy of both Christianity and imperialism through their presence in Korea’s churches. Through intimate portrayals of Korean cultural and religious life, the film navigates the inherent tensions between tradition and progress, belief and pragmatism.
Hanna Moon, born in South Korea, is a London-based artist. The "in-between-ness" that exists within the spaces where cultures converge is a central theme in her work, which was explored in her 2019 Somerset House exhibition ‘English as a Second Language’. Moon offers her viewers a glimpse into the complex dynamics of cultural exchange and adaptation. @hannamoon69
Jon E Price
Beyond the Clearing, 2024
16mm, DV, Colour, Sound, 1m 50s
Beyond the Clearing exists in ambiguous landscapes, pairing imagery that evokes memory and adventure. It is part of an ongoing series of short films titled Panoramas, composed of encounters made with a Bolex H16 camera, the filmmaker and the world. Informed by intuition and lived experiences, the films play with the universal and the particular, through collage of sound and picture.
Jon E Price is an artist working in moving image, installation, sound and sculpture. Having grown up on the industrial coastline of Southampton, England, his work examines the role of place as a means to traverse the co-existence of technology and memory. These juxtaposing elements, when combined with original soundscapes, conjure new multilayered and spatial works. @joneprice_
16mm, DV, Colour, Sound, 1m 50s
Beyond the Clearing exists in ambiguous landscapes, pairing imagery that evokes memory and adventure. It is part of an ongoing series of short films titled Panoramas, composed of encounters made with a Bolex H16 camera, the filmmaker and the world. Informed by intuition and lived experiences, the films play with the universal and the particular, through collage of sound and picture.
Jon E Price is an artist working in moving image, installation, sound and sculpture. Having grown up on the industrial coastline of Southampton, England, his work examines the role of place as a means to traverse the co-existence of technology and memory. These juxtaposing elements, when combined with original soundscapes, conjure new multilayered and spatial works. @joneprice_
Inigo Roberts
Torrents, 2024
4K Digital video, Colour, Sound, 15m
Torrents is a film made up of micro-narratives about urban transience. These disjointed stories that meddle with fact and fiction serve to build a wider, potentially ungraspable network of understanding about the past, present and future of living in a densely populated space like London.
Inigo Roberts is an artist and filmmaker who also makes music under the alias ‘Swallow’ and co-founded the music label ‘Limbs’. He is from South East London and his practice concerns the relationships between people, systems, information, memory and cultural spaces. He has performed his sound and visuals at events such as Loose Trax at Venue MOT and had his first album Body Horror (2019) released on vinyl on the music label ANA. @swallow_your_slide
4K Digital video, Colour, Sound, 15m
Torrents is a film made up of micro-narratives about urban transience. These disjointed stories that meddle with fact and fiction serve to build a wider, potentially ungraspable network of understanding about the past, present and future of living in a densely populated space like London.
Inigo Roberts is an artist and filmmaker who also makes music under the alias ‘Swallow’ and co-founded the music label ‘Limbs’. He is from South East London and his practice concerns the relationships between people, systems, information, memory and cultural spaces. He has performed his sound and visuals at events such as Loose Trax at Venue MOT and had his first album Body Horror (2019) released on vinyl on the music label ANA. @swallow_your_slide