ANYTHING MOVING

ANYTHING MOVING

Three films made by Esther & Kitchen Table Photo Club.

  • ‘Anything Moving is so good, so un-bossy in its artistry, so moving as portraits of children (and therefore portraits of all of us). Really I can’t think of any other account of childhood that doesn’t feel patronising by comparison. What it offers is profound, abundant and not quite graspable. I love it’.

    Alice Oswald - poet / gardener

  • ‘Woah. Unreal. Beautiful. And insanely psychedelic’.

    Eric Chenaux - songwriter / musician

  • ‘Mesmerising and unforgettable; this is magic in film editing. The sense of places and bodies over-layering, almost making contact, is explicit and palpable’.

    Emma Bush - artist / educator

  • ‘ I was excited to see young people sharing the same mottled space as wild animals – or seeming to, thinking that those people might become welded to their experience and be able to fight for what we are losing so fast. I felt the grief that the humans and the animals were somehow missing each other… while I was intoxicated by the way sound and image had been so beautifully and poetically manipulated. ‘.

    Mark - activist / gardener

  • ‘Anything Moving flickers and floats between realms, ever dissolving all that separates them. From the nooks of the deep forest, one’s imagination is invited to playfully wander between day and night, to times that have passed and moments that forever might be.‘

    Nick Bannerman - SuperNormal Festival

  • ‘I absolutely adore Anything Moving. All my senses are involved!’

    Kath Bloom - singer / songwriter

  • ‘Anything Moving tapped into a quiet, calm and content part of my brain (soul) and for those moments all the interference in my thoughts stopped and I drifted. It had a big impact on the daily struggle I have with my mental health. I’m always looking for things in the arts to help me find those moments of peace and this provided it perfectly’.

    Parent

Deep in the woods, Esther told stories of human, spirit and animal-kin to children. They played make-believe and tied camera traps to trees and rocks and waited like foxes, watched with Eagle Eyes and listened with deer ears. They recorded sounds of wind and trees and laughter. Creatures came and went, crossing paths unseen and then, after a year, Esther collaged forages footage into 3 x audio visual pieces that shatter boundaries between worlds.

With music from Bass Clef and Laura Cannell, sound recordings from Dave Howell, musical Tom Foolery with Tom Bugs, the films exhibit as single or multi-screen work. Showings include projections at Bridge Farm, single cinema screening at Supernormal and gallery screenings at Ballroom Arts.