Directing
Artist Adam Chodzko seeks to reunite the actors and actresses who played the victims in the film, Salo.
Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual difference and artifice, both imagined and real.
The Pickers shows a group of Romanian migrant workers at a UK strawberry farm who alternate their intensive strawberry picking with the editing and mediation of a 20th century film archive of British migrant hop pickers. Sited in a parallel reality, distinctions are blurred as to where and when events are set, as they are between notions of labour and leisure, and the identity of an archive and its dissemination.
Thru hole I blind/O/Thru hole oui see explores the ways that forests are mapped, understood and perceived. The work draws on rich and diverse knowledge of the New Forest generously made available by a wide array of local specialists and organisations including Forestry England, National Parks Authority and The Verderers of the New Forest. The video is structured like a dream traversing this forest of information.
In the aftermath of the Millenium Bug, and against a backdrop of conspiracy, cult behaviour and contagion, Adam Chodzko’s Plan for a Spell caught the spirit of a turbulent moment. Twenty years on, Chodzko’s newly remastered and reconfigured work is as cryptic and mercurial as ever but also resonates powerfully with these even weirder times.
