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Kitchen Beets
2019
16mm, B&W, Optical sound, 1 minute
Never-ending tidying up turned into rhythmic beat and magic trick.
A brief structural film cut to the rhythm of the gap between the optical sound head and the image.
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Bushy Double Cut
2017
16mm, Colour, silent, 2.4 mins
A yearly cycle: my lavender bush cut twice, film double exposed and a year encapsulated.
The continuous activity of tidying up impressed into colour film emulsions. Hand processed: bucket, hot and crossed.
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Drag
2017
16mm, B&W, Optical Sound, 5 mins
Performance and film come together to evidence a physical and poetic response to an old sofa abandoned on the street. Transforming the discarded into action, comedy and pleasure. Aspects of the everyday present themselves as potent catalysts, in the end becoming a road test of materials, bylaws and nerve.
‘Stunningly simple, it has the same comic rhythms and disregard for personal safety as the films of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.’ Jamie Dunn,The Skinny, 15.5.18
Degrees of Separation
2017
16mm, B&W , Optical Sound, 3 mins
I knew my father briefly before he died in 2009. Symbolic and fragmented my relationship with him was an assemblage and a mismatch of lost memories, hauntings and a stark, mundane reality that was impossible to synchronise. Forcing the positive and negative to coalesce they jostle for prominence, drifting together and apart, irresolvable.
Split Second
2016
An experimental film of splitting wood, where the chopping block has been placed in between two frames and the critical split seconds are elusive. A frenetic energy hovers around this central absence and the endeavour of the artist is apparent. Hand made, hand printed and processed in a bucket bath the hand is not only in the action of the film but evident in the materiality of the projected image.
Pending
2016
16mm film performance, B&W, 10 mins
This 100ft length of film is formed by the audience into a ‘living loop’, before being taken up and played out by the projector creating a sympathetic film which conjoins the audience and the artist in an act of duration and suspension.
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Defenestration
2015
16mm, B&W , optical Sound, 4 mins
Mixing up film and domestic structures, this film reaches beyond the frame, testing out access and escape, aperture and portal.
The letraset sound also bumps its way across the frame boundary into the visible.
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Abject Noise
2014
16mm, B&W, optical sound, 3.5 mins
A study of the optical sound strip on film, where light triggers sound. Objects as noise, passing across and out of the visible film frame, then through the unseen strip.
The artist, the action, and the consequent sound, all skirt around the edges of the visible. Interrupting the usual boundaries of framing and structure, this is an extended format film, asking the viewer to see what isn’t in view and to hear the shape of things.
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Passage
Sticking the frames of a double shoot in 16mm onto 35mm frames gave me the sense that I could locate the split, and the moments and place them into synchronization. However the resulting film has a life of it’s own and has evaded my determinations. The film frames are material and won’t sit still, they have taken up running along with the length of the film on its journey through the projector whilst a frenzy of wood splitting takes place.
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I Saw, I See, I Looked
2013
16mm B&W silent 8 mins
This is a tri-part film that began as an enquiry into the film structures created by the practical limitations of solo film-making with a 16mm, clockwork Bolex camera. Centrally a series of actions: deconstructing, surveying and measuring, but within the layers of repetition and poetics a construction of a subjective self emerges.
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Arm, Flexion, Extension
Bea Haut 