Another April (2017)
Running time is about 5.5 minutes.Click photo below to see video .
'Another April 'is currently showing in Falmouth Art Gallery's summer exhibition 'Ammeth - Farming in Cornwall, July 6th to Oct 6th 2024
Synopisis:The narrator of this short film is visiting the farm where she grew up. She’s on her way to a small field named The Demmon. We do not see the narrator, only her shadow. For the duration of the walk, birdsong alternates with the sound of a tractor, which can be heard working somewhere in the distance. For the narrator, the process of re-connecting with timeless features of the landscape, such as the lark’s song, and the textures of the land on a spring day also brings a recollection and re-connection with her father - the ploughman. It’s his tractor that can be heard during the walk. When the narrator reaches The Demmon, through video footage taken ten years earlier, she goes to join him on the tractor.
‘Another April’ was awarded third prize in the Harvest Film Festival (2017) short film competition. The results were announced at the festival by BAFTA award-winning writer and director Hope Dickson Leach. She said ‘Another April is beautifully built, a gorgeous example of a filmmaker harvesting her own specific story to present us with something universal, as all the best cinema does’.
The waving shadow, a recurrent motif in the video, appears in other areas of my work too - see Shadow Figures, key [749501] doesn't exist Shadow Series and key [749500] doesn't exist Rotations . As the narrator explains: 'My shadow - its where I see myself in the landscape and the landscape in me'.
Another April was screened in Oct 2018 at the O Bheal Film Poetry competiton in Cork, the Newlyn International Film Festival in 2019 and the film poetry section of Women in Word Festival at the Hypatia Trust in Penzance, 2023.
'Another April 'is currently showing in Falmouth Art Gallery's summer exhibition 'Ammeth - Farming in Cornwall, July 6th to Oct 6th 2024
Synopisis:The narrator of this short film is visiting the farm where she grew up. She’s on her way to a small field named The Demmon. We do not see the narrator, only her shadow. For the duration of the walk, birdsong alternates with the sound of a tractor, which can be heard working somewhere in the distance. For the narrator, the process of re-connecting with timeless features of the landscape, such as the lark’s song, and the textures of the land on a spring day also brings a recollection and re-connection with her father - the ploughman. It’s his tractor that can be heard during the walk. When the narrator reaches The Demmon, through video footage taken ten years earlier, she goes to join him on the tractor.
‘Another April’ was awarded third prize in the Harvest Film Festival (2017) short film competition. The results were announced at the festival by BAFTA award-winning writer and director Hope Dickson Leach. She said ‘Another April is beautifully built, a gorgeous example of a filmmaker harvesting her own specific story to present us with something universal, as all the best cinema does’.
The waving shadow, a recurrent motif in the video, appears in other areas of my work too - see Shadow Figures, key [749501] doesn't exist Shadow Series and key [749500] doesn't exist Rotations . As the narrator explains: 'My shadow - its where I see myself in the landscape and the landscape in me'.
Another April was screened in Oct 2018 at the O Bheal Film Poetry competiton in Cork, the Newlyn International Film Festival in 2019 and the film poetry section of Women in Word Festival at the Hypatia Trust in Penzance, 2023.
