Everything was singing
“Everything was singing” is a video installation that repurposes the footage of Red Desert (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) to demonstrate an ecological theme. The protagonist resists every attempt at erasure by making herself an integral part of the places she inhabits.
November 2023
Emergence
“Emergence” was created for the recording artist Mai, and was used as the lead promotion for the album Polis. Created in Processing, the overlapping patterns were inspired by the work of Larry Cuba.
February 2021
Karst
This video was created for the recording artist Mai, and was used as the lead promotion for the album Gaia. Filmed in The Burren, the video highlights the karst formations through digital transformations that reveal their inner fractal structure.
December 2020
Handwringer
Made in isolation for this moment in time. Bitcrush audio effects + hex edit video files. Released under the name 7PRS.
March 2020
Emergence System
Ed Devane builds his own audio devices, from string instruments, to pickups, to custom-made amps. With unlikely suitcase of circuits he creates banging techno beats that sometimes collapse into chaos. Robin Parmar provides visuals using a live camera feeding Wolfscope, custom software based on analogue processes such as video feedback.
November 2019
Division by Zero {phalange}
Division by Zero is an ambient music project which has an integral video element. The section “{phalange}” was included by Kim Cascone in The Drone Cinema Film Festival, screened in Seattle, USA, and Leiden, Netherlands.
January 2019
The Swerve
The invisible, the inaudible, the untouchable. That dance at the heart of nature we can never witness. This film premiered 10 November 2018 at Light Moves: Festival of Screendance in Limerick, Ireland.
November 2018
Boundary Conditions
“Boundary Conditions” is a screendance created with Angie Smalis. Designed as an experiment in framing and depth of field, it explores how a body might negotiate these optical constraints. A specially constructed rig allows two cameras to shoot at different focal planes simultaneously.
November 2014
Afterimage
This film explores disjunctions between our visual and aural apprehension of our environment. What does it mean to be in a place? How can we encounter nature through a lens?
July 2014
Methods of Hypnosis
A woman is wrapped in a blanket by four strangers. Couples with broken arms partner on a dance floor. An unconscious young man is disengaged from a steering wheel. “Methods of Hypnosis” reveals strange choreographies hidden in public domain footage.
July 2014
Abîme
This filmpoem is a response to the environs of Škocjan, Slovenia. It was read in a pitch black cemetery after midnight, by the light of my phone.
September 2013
Flame and Being
This filmpoem was created with footage spontaneously shot and assembled into a montage. It documents phantasmagoric impressions of my neighbourhood, the parish of St. Mary’s in Limerick.
July 2013
Certain Small Observations
We live in a sea of invisible traceries – some cultural, some biotic, some technological – that bind us one to the other, creating a social milieu. Like deep-sea fish we are blind to the electromagnetic fields in which we all swim. As we are similarly unaware of our bodies’ roles as conduits and amplifiers for these ubiquitous forces.
October 2011