Sea swallow'd & the moment I saw you I knew I could love you
Hill, Leslie and Paris, Helen and Kotting, Andrew (2010) Sea swallow'd & the moment I saw you I knew I could love you. [Film, Performance]
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Sea Swallow'd is an 18-minute film made as a companion piece to the theatre performance The moment I saw you I knew I could love you, by live art company Curious. The two works were developed in parallel: both are about 'gut feelings'; fight, flight and freeze reactions; impulse, love and undefended moments. The latter is designed for life-raft-sized groups of audience members and the former is a short film, which I designed to feel as if it might have been retrieved from the belly of a whale. My research in this project was conducted in collaboration with Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (who make up Curious), and further develops our mutual interests in interdisciplinary media.
Both works are investigations into 'the psyche and its geography', this time looking not at exterior landscapes, but towards internalising feelings and emotions and setting them adrift on an ocean of images and sounds. Sea Swallow'd is a highly experiential journey mixing 16mm B&W footage shot by filmmaker Ben Rivers with video and archival footage and a soundscore by Graeme Miller. It develops ideas explored in my cross-channel film project Offshore, and is shot as a series of lapping, flowing, irregular chapters which borrow their titles from Moby-Dick. The film is image and urge driven, and is intended to give the feeling of beach-combing for different fragments of treasure on the shoreline.
Sea Swallow'd has played at numerous international film festivals. In 2012 it was released as part of Curious's 'Gut Feelings Trilogy' on DVD through Arts Admin in London.
The project was developed in collaboration with scientists at the Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology and supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award and Arts Council England.
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