Sunless Haven
Clark, G. 2024. Sunless Haven.
| Title | Sunless Haven |
|---|---|
| Creators | Clark, G. |
| Description | 2024, UK, 16mm, sound, colour, 30 min Animating a host of dispersed fragments from historical documents to architectural remnants, Sunless Haven looks at London's river Thames as a resonant chamber connecting disparate worlds. Woven into the 16mm film are attempts to understand the docklands as a meeting place between different ecologies, enclosures and epochs, as a point of entanglement of the city and world. Moving from the legacy of police persecution of seamen to experiences of London by Ayahs and Amahs, South Asian nannies abandoned in the city to Lao She's pioneering novel ‘二馬/Mr Ma and Son’ first published in 1929. Drawing on the concept of 'Flowing Water Parallelism' in Chinese poetry, the film seeks to describe and embody these enmeshed and under-documented histories. |
| Year | 24 Apr 2024 |
| 2024 | |
| Files | Image credit Sunless Haven, 16mm frame enlargement, George Clark, 2024 Rights George Clark Media type Image License All rights reserved |
| Project | Sunless Haven |
| Funder | AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) |
| CREAM at the University of Westminster |
