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Video piece inspired by the narrative poem by Canadian poet Anne Carson. A recurrent motif of the poem is the moor, both as psychic and physical space, referencing Wuthering Heights and the poetry of Emily Bronte. The empty landscape of the moor becomes a psychologically projective space for the narratives of the poem which move back and forth in time as the narrator confronts a painful past relationship. Within the stark setting, the poem pushes beyond the human to address deeper philosophical and religious themes.
A further theme of the poem is time, with complex overlapping frames as the poem switches between time phases.The flat featureless moor stretching for miles seems to become an index of time itself, the subject being time passing over emptiness. Continuous and time lapse video footage was taken over 4 days in early March 2006 on Rannoch Moor in the north of Scotland, reflecting the real time of the poem, from a fixed camera position. In the video piece I'm interested in exploring ways in which the expression of time and space through language can be translated to visual expression with time based media. Collaboration with writer /director Nicola Dahlinger and Emerging Properties Performance Company.
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