Black Pond
42 minutes, 2018
16mm film digital transfer, 35mm film stills, Archive
Black Pond is an odyssey across a common land in the south of England told through the hands of the members of the Natural History Society who currently occupy it.
“Humanity it’s in symbiosis with its surroundings, and the open wings of a moth rest in the open hand of its researcher, as if his body was an extension of the landscape; another cut down tree, or another boulder, maybe. This common effort is a testimony in itself, but combined with the oral narration of the film, it becomes a double strategy where language is also the protagonist of the movie itself, rendering its condition of documentary in 16mm to a different piece of moving image akin to a pulsing metaphor, a manifestation in the materic support of celluloid, a call to arms of sorts, the necessity of listening with our own eyes to achieve a further understanding.”
José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Desistfilm
BIM, Bienal de Imagen en Movimiento (Primer Premio)
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Punto de Vista
Essay Film Festival
Venice Architecture Biannual
Syros International Film Festival
University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery
Made with the Elmbridge Natural History Society