A hybrid form of environmental landscape cinema capturing the year of an ancient hollow way that forms the stream bed for several springs in a remote area of rural mid-Devon, Britain.
Made in collaboration with the cinematographer and sound recordist Stuart Moore, the film takes time to notice the human and non-human traces of change along the sunken lane, observing a year’s cycle of seasonal changes and meteorological phenomena in the sunken lane using experimental filming techniques, such as pinhole cinematography and lenses created with water from a spring that feeds into the track, along with field recordings made at the site that capture the sonic architecture of the space.
It is the initial phase of a project that responds to Annabel Nicolson’s artist’s book, Escaping Notice (1977), and the hollow way leads to the isolated farmhouse featured in her book.
“Kayla Parker’s On Location poses questions of radicalism both in terms of audio visual aesthetics and of filmmaking methodology in addition to more overtly political issues of environmental degradation, human and non-human relations and marginalised femininities” (Screenworks, 2017)
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