| River
Yar (with William Raban) 1971-72, 35 min, colour, mag stripe sound, 16mm on two screens |
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Shot through an upstairs window in a water mill on the Isle of Wight, overlooking a tidal estuary. A camera recorded one frame every minute (day and night) for two separate three-week periods in autumn and spring. The film is shown on two adjacent screens, each having a soundtrack that was recorded on a sampling basis. "River Yar is one of the richest and most beautiful films
to have been made by a British film-maker." "River Yar (1972) is a classic of English avant-garde landscape
in its merging of process and Romanticist imagery." |