Films


Video still from first of a trilogy of films I am currently working on as part of my MA at UWE.

Tina worked with a group of 4 other local women to produce the film We Have Nothing but Each Other about the Environment and the City of Wells in early 2023. The group were mentored by Somerset Film and Dr John Sealey of Fabians Films. The film is available to view on the Somerset Film You Tube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8DVnJe-1AU (copy and paste into your browser) The film was Commended at the Frome International Climate Film Festival

Made as part of Somerset Arts Festival 2022 the film considers the meaning of the Festival's theme of Sanctuary in text and visual image with a mediative soundtrack. This work was shown in Badgworth Church on the opening weekend of the festival, following a series of community workshops in which clay tea light holders were made to decorate the Church. Clay instruments were also made by the community who participated in a short improvisation of the soundtrack on the night of the screening. A short section of the improvisation is available on vimeo.https://vimeo.com/754619626

Time and Place was filmed in 2021 as part of a rural community project to document experiences of Covid and lockdown, alongside various community art workshops and walks led by the artist. The film also considers the role of the rural and it’s place in community memory (with a nod to Cecil Sharp who visited the village collecting folk tunes, and his refusal to record Black American spirituals when he later visited the USA which is refuted by the soundtrack of the film).

Last Days 2020 An interface that doesn’t “fit” between the natural world, and man’s scientific theories - the inexplicable and unaligned. Internet discussions of Carlo Rovelli without answers. Interpretations stumbled across. Nostalgia without melancholia interwoven, personal memories dementia. Watching cowboy films when she was a girl.

Commenting on the role of Folk music, the female voice and nostalgia to manipulate emotions are a recurring theme in Tina’s work

No Man Is An Island by John Donne (1685) was read by PJ Harvey at Glastonbury festival in 2016 as a response to the Brexit vote - this video is an intervention of past and present across history and time. A response to events.

The Parade of the Hobby Horse at May Day in Minehead - with thanks to the Crew for keeping it alive

The strangeness of the landscape and the military waters of Trident

Land - it’s ownership and relationship to the pastoral idyll

A certain disjunction and disconnection of sound and place ranging from Greenham Common to a festival in Somerset to a Greek Island.

Rural and folk traditions set in contemporary social contexts

Filmed in Scotland at various sites of War memorials and at Hacker Green (the site where Thatcher’s command to sink the Belgrano was sent from) the film visits sites of Dark Tourism alongside Adam Ant’s lyrics. Ideally viewed as a 3 screen installation.

An observation of the Burnham on Sea Carnival and its audience.