This sophisticated landscape video is one of a series of kinaesthetic video works which arose from the co-operation between artist Sercombe, specialized in digital video techniques and Jones, singer and composer of experimental music. The camera takes us on a melodic journey along the horizon of the Norfolk Broads. The line in the distance where heaven and earth seem to touch each other, is the guideline which transports us through the rich natural beauty of this area. The travel starts at the break of day, somewhere in the middle of the summer. Entrusted to the advancing eye of the camera, nature passes like a chameleon. Harmonious transitions, (digital) intervening colours and constant changes in the appearance of the unending, extensive area of Halvergate impinge upon our retinas. Jones' high voice and singing violin playing accompany the viewer on this apparently ‘horizontal journey’. She calls to the birds in their flight through the open air, blows the wind through the sails of the windmills and whispers nervously through the land of reeds. Gradually, the horizon transforms itself into a curve and nature metamorphoses into a more and more artistic abstraction. Travel becomes a round trip. And the viewer circulates along with it in a circuit of moving elements of the landscape, set in motion by a centrifuge mechanism. A contemplative journey, guided by a serenaded horizon.
– Marieke van Hal
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Scenario, Camera, Editing Martin Sercombe, Music, Sound Sianed Jones
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