Nephin
Niamh O'Malley
Synopsis
'Nephin is a silent video loop in black and white. It was filmed from a car through a pane of glass which had a small black mark painted on it. It presents the circumnavigation of a mountain in the west of Ireland. I was interested in the sense that that image of the mountain is constantly eluded; the path of the road sometimes twists the eye/camera away from the landscape, bumps in the road unsettle the image, the hedges occlude & reveal and the mountain itself shape-shifts as you travel. There is no point in the video where the camera settles upon a framing. The black mark on the glass is fixed in relation to the lens and becomes, in my understanding, some sort of extension of the eye or even the pointed finger. A marker of attention, trying to settle on its object, it steadies the chaotic foreground; it is a constant reminder of the intention, - to see the mountain.'
(Sourced from http://www.niamhomalley.com/#/nephin/ on September 30th 2016)
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Title
Nephin
Year
2014
Form
Short
Key phrases
loop, landscape, vision, nature
Language
No dialogue
Duration
00:21:00
Original formats
Digital (Red 4K)
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Black & White
Sound
No