SNAKES & LADDERS

2019, 32 mins, HD/Mini-DV, colour
A Motion Picture Exploration By Daniel & Clara
With Laura Mulvey, Amy Cutler, Peter Treherne, Kai Fiáin, Sara Budd

SNAKES & LADDERS is an experimental video essay by artist Daniel & Clara responding to the films and writing of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen.

Featuring an extensive conversation with Mulvey, this film focuses on the relationship between theory and practice and how theory informs the strategies and structures of Mulvey/Wollen’s films. A particular focus on the relationship between camera, subject, spoken word, text and dialogue is explored. Favouring formal experimentation over conventional essay and documentary approaches, Daniel & Clara employ many of the ideas and filmmaking techniques of Mulvey/Wollen but reconfigured through the lens of their own practice.

Screenings & Exhibitions

2020   Besides The Screen Conference, ISMAI, Porto, Portugal (Online)
2019   Microcinema Artist’s Moving Image, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
2019   Kino Klub Split, Croatia
2019   Last Thursday Film Club, The Printworks, Hastings, UK
2019   Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Research Group, Brighton, UK
2019   Birkbeck Cinema, London, UK