Stones Off Holland

Dutch radio pirates cut up Venice’s Grand Canal. The national radio closes down and the anthem drones out over endless concrete cubes, forming a pier to a distant lighthouse. Multiple interactions between generations of 16mm film and video are printed onto 16mm with moving matte semaphore ciphers to colour perceptions of time, place and national identity. – R.P.
‘In contrast to the romantic view of landscape Richard Philpott’s Stones Off Holland employs strategies which firmly deny a romantic appropriation of landscape.’ – Nicky Hamlyn, Art Monthly