Year of release: 2001Original format: digital film
Running time: continuous loop
Screening format: QuickTime, Blu-ray or DVD (silent)
Credits: A film by Stuart Moore
Production: Sundog Media
Commissioned by Aune Head Arts for Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes; the project was realised through a Key Fund grant
Created through multi-layers of frame-by-frame image manipulation from an extract of DV documentation shot by Jeremy van Riemsdyke, one of the original volunteer participants of Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes, before the project was suspended
Distribution of Physic by Sundog Media sundogmedia@gmail.com
The Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes DVD, a collection of short films about Dartmoor by people who live and/or work in the National Park, which includes Blue Kayak, is available from Aune Head Arts (AHA-007 £10)
Description
Eloquent visual poetry of a kayaker, caught on a standing wave on the flooded River Dart in south Devon.
Production notes
In September 2001 Stuart Moore and I were appointed video artists by Aune Head Arts for Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes, a project that had been abandoned at the start of the year when movement restrictions imposed because of Foot and Mouth Disease made it impossible to film beyond the main roads across the moor. Our role was to review the documentary digital video filmed by the project participants in 2000 and provide a conceptual overview, to shape a coherent and professionally produced programme of short films suitable for distribution, and to work with the remaining participants on the creative and technical post-production of their short films; in addition, we were to make our own ‘signature’ films as artists, using the video material gathered on the project, which would form part of the Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes collection.