Requiem For The Redhead?
The colour red has many powerful associations - from danger and anger... to passion and joy. Requiem For The Redhead? playfully considers the facts and fictions of red hair and the recessive gene that causes it.
A Channel 4 /Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/
Wellcome Trust commission to mark the 150th
anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
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Sight Reading
Sight Reading is a collaging of three different kinds of movement. It imagines a dialogue between a re-enactment of early 20thC experiments into ‘eyeless sight’ (a scientific curiosity testing claims that ‘sight’ could move to different parts of the body), a choreographed exploration of an eclipse (the movement of planets), and a study of the rhythm of jokes.
Sight Reading was developed and supported as part of an Artsadmin bursary 2006 – 2007. Screenings have included: Openport Real-Time Performance, Sound & Language Festival, Chicago; ‘Multichannel’ at Artsway gallery, Hampshire; Falmouth Live Art Festval; Nottdance Festival, Nottingham; Movement on Screen Festival, Manchester; Toynbee Studios, London.
There Will Be Something Later
A film about love and pantomime horses.
A playfully absurd exploration of character, movement and graphic-novel style narrative.
There Will Be Something Later was developed and directed with Magali Charrier. It was the winning entry for ‘Dance Film Academy’ – A BBC4 / ACE funded project to explore new approaches to narrative and dance, mentored by Thierry de Mey. It has screened in numerous festivals in the UK and abroad as well as on BBC4.
Three Minute Wonder
Above and below water.
A held breath.
A moment when childhood disappears.
Can you hold your breath for three minutes? Three Minute Wonder explores a real-time moment in the lives of three almost-teenage girls in a deserted lido.
Three Minute Wonder was a 35mm short commissioned by BFI /filmfour as part of the ‘New Director’s Award’. It has screened in over 15 international festivals as well as in a special Bafta North screening and on Channel4 and Filmfour.
A Last, A Quartet
A forest.
An empty auditorium.
A moving camera.
A double take.
Taking material from Goat Island’s final work, The Lastmaker, this four-screen installation folds the material into a new work which explores the continuities and discontinuities of film and performance, unravelling the seams between the two mediums.
Shortlisted for the EMPAC award, 2007, A Last, A Quartet has been funded by small awards from the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster; Dance4, Nottingham and by the generosity of donations from numerous individuals in the UK and abroad.
Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka
With performance material drawn from Goat Island's eighth performance - When Will The September Roses Bloom? / Last Night Was Only A Comedy - this double film installation re-choreographs and re-locates the original material to a school classroom and adjacent hallway. When presented as an installation, Daynightly… balances stillness and movement as a single interwoven experience for a viewer positioned between the two projections. The work has also screened as a splitscreen film, allowing the viewer to consider the two images as a divided whole. The film's title comes from the work of German Jewish poet Paul Celan, who sought to 'repair' the German language after its manipulated use during the Second World War.
it’s aching like birds
The rain falls without beginning or end. As it falls time and space become mixed and entwined until no distinction remains between the two.
Using an episodic structure, it’s aching like birds entwines fragments of movement and text - remembered as if parts of a forgotten narrative. A collaboration with Goat Island performance company.
Funded by a South East Dance / Take Two Award, it’s aching like birds has screened in numerous international and UK festivals.
Dark
An unused fragment from an earlier film by Lucy Cash and Goat Island it's aching like birds, becomes a piece of found choreography re-interpreted through a mathematical structure of repetition – the Fibonacci sequence.
Screened at Tate Modern as part of the Live Culture international performance symposium in 2003.