Here is Part 9 of our year-long interview which is being conducted by Bradley Tuck as a part of our artist residency at Exploding Appendix.

In this month’s instalment we discuss our feature film The Kingdom Of Shadows (2016), our personal reworking of the Adam & Eve story inspired by dreams, family history & silent movies.

“As this film deals with origins it is on one level a personal exploration of our own origins, our own childhoods and particularly our family history, dealing with the stories of our ancestors and the communities we grew up in, and unpicking how our psychological condition is shaped and influenced by these things. We asked ourselves what do we carry from the past that restricts us in the present and how can we release ourselves from these things, how can we break the curses that cast shadows over our lives.”

“In our film it is almost like every character is simultaneously a ghost and is haunted by something or someone, the house itself is haunted by the family as the family are haunted by the house. Everyone and everything here is possessed by something.”

Read the full text:
An Interview in 12 Parts. Part 9: The Kingdom Of Shadows

Many thanks to Exploding Appendix’s Bradley Tuck for his ongoing support and collaboration!

Daniel & Clara
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Here is Part 8 of our year-long interview which is being conducted by Bradley Tuck as a part of our artist residency at Exploding Appendix.

In this month’s instalment we discuss our film In Search Of The Exile (2016), while shooting off onto various topics, including sound design, the relationship between painting and cinema, the differences between experimental film, video art and arthouse film, plus lots more!

“If our films can be an opportunity for a kind of experience in which each viewer’s imagination can be activated somehow, become aware of themselves, of their perception, their expectations, their thought processes, their feelings, their senses – and in that moment to be alive, engaged and creating their own meaning – then we’re happy.”

“The effect of sound is very physical and, in cinema, sound can be even more effective than the image in grounding our experience, it has an immediate visceral impact that tells us where we are, what the space is, and how things are spatially related to us. We like to experiment with this and have been exploring the various possibilities of how image and sound can interact. With the films of this period we were interested in using sound to create a first person experience for the viewer but not always one where they are entirely sure what they are hearing, we like to create unexpected associations between image and sound, disruptions and discontinuities that make the audience feel something that goes beyond an experience of just eyes and ears, it is activated in their bodies then expanded upon by their imaginations.”

Read the full text:
An Interview in 12 Parts. Part 8: In Search Of The Exile

Many thanks to Exploding Appendix’s Bradley Tuck for his ongoing support and collaboration!

Daniel & Clara
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Earlier this year we were invited by Jason Moyes to be interviewed for Into The Mothlight podcast, which is dedicated to artists’ moving image, experimental film and installation art in the UK.

As we were unable to meet in person he sent us a list of questions which we recorded our answers to. Topics include our collaboration, mythology, dreams, cinema, performance and our personal thoughts about contemporary moving image making.

Listen here: https://tinyurl.com/yaeqey7j