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At One Fell Swoop

Michael Higgins


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Michael Higgins

Description

At One Fell Swoop deals with a stone carver and his metamorphic wander through rural Ireland. In passing he slips through the film’s frames into a re-imagining of his surroundings in which he finds himself trapped in a flickering, shifting world of shadows on an intense cataclastic rock path towards a dead end. Photographed anamorphically on expired 16mm black and white film with a 50-year-old hand-cranked camera and entirely hand-processed, At One Fell Swoop resembles a phantom-like film lodged amid multiple strata of time and space.

This work is also located in the Experimental Film Society collection, and is featured in the MExIndex External Collections.

Details
Title

At One Fell Swoop

Year

2015

Tags
rural ireland, ghosts, folk tales, hand processing, diy
Language

English

Duration

01:12:00

Original formats

Physical: Film: 16mm

Aspect ratio

2.39 Scope

Colour

Colour

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, Visual Artists Ireland, and the Arts Council of Ireland.
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