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Swallow

Inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of Italy and referencing the genre of panoramic painting, Swallow shows fragments of footage, from birds to women

Soft Work

Waiting by the sea with his camera ready for action, the artist complains about the weather and attempts to describe his intentions and working methods.

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point And Another

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another (2012) might be understood as a study in gestures and as the second chapter, following from

Echo

Echo – sited in a derelict ballroom on Governors Island, New York – remembers, condenses, re-enacts and dreams the islands historical and future relationships with

Pulmo Marina

Against a uniform background of purest Yves Klein blue, a pale yellow jellyfish roils and bristles like a fragment of living lace, while a slightly

Waves

This film was hand wound though the camera backwards and forwards as the waves on a beach built up and broke on the shore.

Offshore

10 years ago I made a film called Gallivant that took as its inspiration the coastline of Great Britain. This September I will make a

Continental Drift

Filmed in the Dover Straits Continental Drift measures the detachment of England from mainstream Europe.

Petrolia

A specially commissioned film of the changing coastline of Scotland by the maker of the award winning Aspect, Petrolia portrays a fluid interaction between landscape

Adrift

Adrift is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photography with stop-motion animation of the landscape. Through camera-angles and

River Sky

Three people are taken for a short ride on the River Thames hanging upside down on the back of a speedboat. The journey is both

S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

A conceptual lap dissolve from ‘water currents’ to ‘film strip current’. Dedicated to my son, Christopher. – P.S. ‘Yes. S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive scratchings

Out of the Sea Comes the Dream

To look at the world reflected in water is to see a world without limits or boundaries of time and space. To see life as

Drink Deep

Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship, hidden secrets, and desires. Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered

Waterland

A quiet meditative work, Waterland paints a subdued portrait of the salt marsh, condenses its atmosphere and its timeless rhythm.

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