A Darkening

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This short film slowly examines and explores a landscape. This is a landscape at a point of transition - the transition between day and night, and between one year and the next. It was filmed around Dorlin in Moidart, NW Scotland, during brief periods of calm and stillness at dusk around otherwise stormy, wet weather. The images of the landscape are dark, damp, and held deep in the grip of winter. It is almost silent, other than the brief interjections of a sea eagle and a heron passing overhead.

Shot on super 16mm digital format. Dur. 4'33".

It was first shown in the solo exhibition, Below, the rocks fell into darkness at the Studio Pavilion, Glasgow, May - July 2018, and has also been shown in various venues in China in a touring exhibition in 2020 and 2021