James Edmonds
Berlin, Germany / UK
James Edmonds
A Return
16mm, 6min, colour, sound; 2018
filmstill: A Return, 2018, 16mm, 6min, colour, sound
These masks, or Mattes, used during my first attempt at filming on 16mm,
attempt to convey a hidden layer, both the impossibilities of expression and
the contradiction of this construct.
Whether I am hiding or trying to reveal,
I am unsure.
These days seem ripe for the revealing of ones own masks,
of studying what layers have been left or employed willfully or not.
As narratives reveal more masks than truths,
I still try to search for what is simple.
Untitled (in progress), 2019
The following stills offer a rough glimpse of a work in progress. Surfaces and reflections filmed in Portugal last year, mirrored cultivations, morphic oppositions and mirages in black and white.
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James Edmonds is an artist and filmmaker from the U.K working primarily with super8 and 16mm film. His work is driven by a personal poetics which explores the intersection of the recorded image as a material, formalistic reality and subjective experience as a complex gesture of everyday existence and memory. He has presented work at film festivals such as TIFF Wavelengths Toronto, NYFF Projections New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Curtas Vila do Conde. He occasionally also writes and from 2015 to 2018 ran a series of experimental film screenings in Berlin called Light Movement.
These masks, or Mattes, used during my first attempt at filming on 16mm,
attempt to convey a hidden layer, both the impossibilities of expression and
the contradiction of this construct.
Whether I am hiding or trying to reveal,
I am unsure.
These days seem ripe for the revealing of ones own masks,
of studying what layers have been left or employed willfully or not.
As narratives reveal more masks than truths,
I still try to search for what is simple.
Untitled (in progress), 2019
The following stills offer a rough glimpse of a work in progress. Surfaces and reflections filmed in Portugal last year, mirrored cultivations, morphic oppositions and mirages in black and white.
*
James Edmonds is an artist and filmmaker from the U.K working primarily with super8 and 16mm film. His work is driven by a personal poetics which explores the intersection of the recorded image as a material, formalistic reality and subjective experience as a complex gesture of everyday existence and memory. He has presented work at film festivals such as TIFF Wavelengths Toronto, NYFF Projections New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Curtas Vila do Conde. He occasionally also writes and from 2015 to 2018 ran a series of experimental film screenings in Berlin called Light Movement.
Untitled (in progress), 2019, super8, 3min, b&w, silent