Daniel & Clara

A film of a dying world populated by mythic creatures and spirits, our personal meditation on nature and the environment captured on Super 8 film.

A series of eight moments captured over a single day in the Sussex village of Mayfield. From first light until night Daniel & Clara engage in a process of psychological orientation, their state of mind inexplicably linked to the countryside and shifting weather conditions.

Film by Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais.

A film about darkness created from the discarded fragments of VHS tape, the overlooked fuzz and glitches that exist between the recorded footage. This is cinema as a first person experience through the dark reaches of the soul, a mythic journey in which we take flight and become the crow.

A series of inner landscapes evoked through sound, voice and fleeting fragments of Super 8 film.

Document and dream exist as one in a visionary travelogue of a journey to Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. The artists return to the site of an earlier experience in order to look again at a place of personal significance. Revisiting presents an experience mediated by technology and expresses the complex layers that inform how we navigate reality and create meaning from our experiences.

Telekinetic Pleasures depicts the aftermath of a bizarre scientific experiment that involves chickens, reptilian and human subjects, two of whom have survived and are portrayed by the directors themselves – artefacts of their psychic transmissions are captured here on videotape.

Images and sound captured whilst on a journey through the British landscape become the material for formalistic experimentation and an exploration of looking/seeing listening/hearing.

Two figures walk through a forest that morphs and transforms before our eyes. In this expressionistic film, VHS footage has been projected and refilmed several times with different cameras until it breaks down and takes on a fluid quality, reminiscent of watercolour or ink, to create a unique and hypnotic image.

Whilst using the same base footage as in Witches Walk (2012), through an alteration in technique, and a vastly different soundscape, the work is transformed from a bright, meditative piece into a darker, almost sinister abstraction.