Severed

My films that focus on recurring motives that feature in my work, bring to life a series of landscapes that are digitally manipulated and made to move. These scenes are then modified to show some minor action in repetitive motion. These subtle movements humorously draw attention to the miniscule, the enhanced sound of each action dramatizing life’s kinetic force. For the Animate/RSA Stop Watch commission I have heightened ideas in my work much further. The three short animations, ‘Severed’ a landscape in peril, coughing up its own blood ‘The Deracinater’ a tree trying to communicate and uproot itself and ‘The Isle’ a whole landscape under threat, heighten the human impact and presence on our landscape, both social and ecological. The film can be viewed at: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_artist/w/s_woolham