A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
1993-2021
Super-8 film; experimental; sound composition
An experimental Super-8mm film made in collaboration with family members, bringing two separate films together in an edit along the film’s length.
Super-8mm black and white film, edited and transferred to single channel HD video with composed stereo soundscape
Cinematic screening: 50 sec
Gallery | Site specific exhibition: continuous loop with sound-headphones or conventional speakers recommended for more detailed listening.
Music: Stabat Mater © Patric Standford
Archive sound samples: BBC Radio 3
Stabat Mater is an experimental Super-8mm film made in collaboration with family members, bringing two separate films together in an edit along the film’s length. The scene is a domestic kitchen: a woman, a mother on the left engaged in domesticity; a man, a father, on the right talking at the table. Mending a fractured, irreconcilable relationship; isolated in their own worlds, yet forced into the same frame. The film’s uneven bulk inevitably got caught in the projector, most of which melted and caught fire.
Location: West Yorkshire
Absence Presence is an ongoing project of visual laments, exploring inter-generational aspects of loss and grief and abandonment.
2025 screened as part of Dialogues by Sophie Standford (UK)
DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
© Sophie Standford