(adapted mini DV Camera, spotlight, blind contacts, black dress, black paint, black nails, 9mins)
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Filmed at the Citizens Theatre Glasgow, CCA and exterior shots at Timespan Helmsdale, Scotland.
In response to the theme of Alex Hetherington’s Modern Edinburgh Film School: ‘The Hand That Holds the Desert Down,’-
an image by Trisha Donnelly of the Sphinx. BLACKCAT is a filmed performance to camera of a stark doom version of the song 'Cat People'. Drawn to this esoteric animal as a visual presentation of vocal and cosmic noise as form; the video was filmed solely by myself in theatrical fetish blind contacts - this 'singer’ no longer discerns the limits of the black out rehearsal room, spotlights or camera. With the aid of a vocal processor pedal and a drone soundtrack of radiowaves converted from a point offset the planet Saturn, to try to capture a queer cosmic pessimism lost in a nocturnal quantum space.
The expanded version includes various disused urban locations filmed at night in Glasgows city centre with footage shot during a residency at the CCA theatre from 2012-2014.
part of Modern Edinburgh Film School. 'Green Screen' at Embassy Gallery 15-21 March 2013
and ‘EXTA’ at the Art Licks Weekend at Res Gallery London 26th Sept - 4th Oct 2015, with live performance on 25th,
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