About
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
On paper
In sound
@hortus_silvam
Super-8 black and white film
edited to single channel HD video
stereo sound
1994-2021
Duration: 4’12”
Performer: Tom Noone
Location: Oxford
A young man fights an unseen challenge;
he flounders angrily, frantically trying to rid himself of an invisible assailant,
yet his fight seems disturbingly real,
his exhaustion palpable.
The film frame encloses his action oppressively,
the soundtrack is loud and distorted
composed from insistent electromagnetic signals.