4th April – Woolly Maggot

 

I am delighted to be able to post the link to my documentary film ‘Woolly Maggot’

Rhys Thwaites – Jones –  Fforest Films, Destina Bartley his assistant camerawoman and editor Fraser Byrne have, in my opinion, really captured the essence of my project and the landscape, harnessing the humour, drudgery, joy, commitment and point of the crawl within the seemingly barren, vast and wonderful Cambrian mountains, West Wales

It is remarkably, luckily, perfectly pitched and balanced with my abstract film and audio installation and publication, each platform telling the story of my crawl and the mountain through different means and media.

I am excited that the short docu will be accessible to a wider and different audience than I can reach through my exhibition, its directness coupled with its wit and just enough ambiguity is easier to watch and digest, easier for non – art audiences to ‘get’ than my rendering of the Gopro footage, it is very different, I think they will work well together.

The installation will take the viewer into the earth, into the underbelly of the landscape, under the skin of the mountain while the documentary opens up the landscape, gives an overview, a wider view, a friendlier view.

On first watching I was surprised by how endearing my crawl seems , as well as how ridiculous and profound it seems in equal measures

Thank you so very much Rhys Thwaites – Jones, Destina Bartley and Fraser Byrne, I am indebted to you all