SALTHOUSE (FILM) 2023
Robertson, Fiona (2024) SALTHOUSE (FILM) 2023. [Video]
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MVI_SALTHOUSE _final version.mp4
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. (581MB)
Creators/Authors: | Robertson, Fiona | ||||
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Abstract: | SALTHOUSE takes place in two distinct but connected settings. The first is an abandoned Salthouse at Prestwick beach on the west coast of Scotland: semi-rural, post-industrial, intertwined with the natural world yet apart from it. The second is in the corridors of the McLellan Galleries in the nearby city of Glasgow – a place once culturally alive and physically salubrious, now abandoned, dilapidated, fungus growing from its walls. The two places are haunted by the film’s sole protagonist, a woman costumed in natural shells and drift wood, black lace, antique lampshades, and drawings printed on her skirt. This woman – or, perhaps, creature – haunts the spaces of the film, collecting sea water in a pot one segment, carrying that pot through the gallery corridors in the next .The defunct and decrepit interiors, the decayed confusion of nature and artifice, human and inhuman, reflect the failures of modernism but also the continuing nostalgic appeal that ‘lost future’ holds. Salt house was shown as part of an exhibition in the Reid Corridor Gallery Space that took it's name from the title of the film. The exhibition showcased latest SALTHOUSE (2023). Alongside the new film photographs from a selection of my films made over the past 14 years were exhibited. | ||||
Output Type: | Video | ||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dada, Feminism, Landscape, memory, place, moving image | ||||
Schools and Departments: | School of Fine Art > Painting & Printmaking | ||||
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Status: | Published | ||||
Output ID: | 9567 | ||||
Deposited By: | Fiona Robertson | ||||
Deposited On: | 09 Apr 2024 15:47 | ||||
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2024 15:47 |