Details are no longer part of a grouping in a picture of which I am the focal point, the focal point is everywhere. Nothing has reference to me, the looker. This is how the Earth must see itself.
Shepherd, N. The Living Mountain: a celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. Aberdeen University Press. 1977. p12
Gorge, 2024
2min 42sec
Digital video
This is my second time working with Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona in relation to mountains. The first was in 2016, in a short essay film that I made from a collage of still and moving scenes that jumped between silence and sound, to mirror a disjuncture that I had faced within my practice, when I was, rather bizarrely, trying to build a mountain out of hundreds of baking tins that, inevitably, kept collapsing and engorging me.
‘Gorge, 2024′, works with several seconds of Bergman’s film that I have stretched over minutes, which forms a series of jumps that draw attention to the individual frames on a celluloid film strip that Bergman use to make this film, back in 1966, way before digital film was invented. I then flipped Bergman’s footage upside down to form a landscape from each silhouette and play with the chasm between the two characters in the film.