Sophie Standford

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Storm


2019
single channel colour HD video | 8’20” | sound
Storm statically observes the wealth of sensations a storm brings to this dainty, porcelain cup and saucer, selected with a touch of irony for its sweet strawberry decoration, placed on a garden table, a receptacle of weather over the course of a summer’s day.

what cup and saucer,
trivial, fragile vessel?
what dark history,
imperfect, decorative society?

a storm without forecast brings
rich petrichor of rain,
sparkling and dancing
bittersweet
Like a musical composition Storm unfolds a tension and release of sun and rain, shadow and reflection, lightening and thunder. A different domesticity belies this apparently fragile cup and saucer as it fills and flows; inherent is the human and environmental cost of tea and coffee growing landscapes. As the clouds pass sounds vie for attention climaxing in a lightning flash with distorting thunder. As the storm passes, elements of a summer day can be heard returning as people reemerge from home and school.
2025 screened at DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 with a theme on domesticity, London

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