Fairy Clocks

2024, 7 min, 16mm to digital, silent

​Supported by XINEMA and UNIT PITT.

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Eco-processed daisy-chained and garden-based 16mm film developed during the Fairy Clocks Workshop on July 20 + 21, 2024. Lead by myself and Kasper Feyrer. The film features footage by Amelia Darragh, Sophia Jaworski, Madeleine Keen, Michelle Helene Mackenzie, Hannah Moller, Shahir Qrishnaswamy, Tess Rafael, Vivien Sagsen, Morgan Sears-Williams, Jaylene Scheible, Eric Tkaczyk, & Sara Wylie.

 

Fairy clocks are another name for dandelions: the fuzzy, many-petaled flowers with lion toothed leaves often considered to be merely garden weeds. As photonastic plants, dandelions respond to light by opening their petals in the day and closing them at night or in response to cloudy weather. Fairy clocks are versatile: they are light sensitive, nutritionally and medicinally beneficial, and their powers were used to eco-process the celluloid film in this workshop. Together workshop participants made a collective 16mm film poem that engaged vision through touch.

 

Coinciding with the workshop was Budding, an experimental film programme curated by Kasper Feyrer and myself on July 28, 2024. Budding included moving-image portholes by BC-based, Canadian and international experimental filmmakers that have influenced our individual and shared interest in queer ecological intimacies and parasitic film reveries, through tactile and playful approaches to relational cinematic processes, presented on both 16mm film and digital. 

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Dawn George, Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables, 2019

Mike MacDonald, Rat Art, 1990​

Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Swamp, 1970

Nazli Dinçel, Between Relating and Use, 2018​

Matt Davies, Grit, 2021​

Barbara Hammer, Women I Love, 1976

Fairy Clocks Film, 2024

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