Sensing Obscurity - A FILM SHOOT 
Whats it all about?
3/01/2012




Each day this week I will be working as part of a film crew at Saltram House in Plypmton, South West Devon. We are working alongside Erica Tan who is a Fine Artist who uses Moving image her work.  She mainly produces work with the gallery audience in mind.
The results of this four day intensive film shoot will be seen at The Sinoptican exhibition at the Viewpoint Gallery in  Plymouth College of Art later in the year.


I wanted to be involved and follow the project right form the start to help give me a clearer understanding of how such a project is managed and what kind of work can be produced. I am also a fine Artist who is very interested in Moving image and this will be the first film shoot I have been involved in. 


We are a large crew with as many dancers and actors working in a huge National Trust property.


Sensing Obscurity 


What happens to symbols of cultural dominance when the world order shifts?

The project seeks a post-colonial reclamation to the possibility of telling stories through the use of a multiplicity of narrative devices. The premise is that it is in the way that histories/stories are told that produces and re-produces untold stories, narratives and events. Set in Saltram House, an English Manor House (now National Trust property), the film takes place ‘some point in the not so distant future’, at a moment in time when Chinas ascendance as a global power has given rise to an opportunity to re-visit history differently. Using a mixture of documentary and narrative film tropes, the cut and paste aesthetics of hip hop and chinoiserie; Saltram House, history as we know it under-goes a slippery transition in an attempt to remain relevant and shore-up its status as cultural capital.

This project is commissioned by Eliza Gluckman and is part of the Sinopticon http://www.sinopticon.org/

It is a collaboration with Plymouth Art College (Gallery and Film Art Department), The National Trust, Saltram House, Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery.

work site: https://sites.google.com/site/sensingobscurity/home/premise