Ridgeway

Experimental 8mm Super and Single 8. Edited down from 20 minute original ciné film. The Ridgeway is a neolithic track, passing both Avebury (Wiltshire) and Wayland's Smithy long barrow (Oxfordshire). Soundtrack: Neil Mortimer http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/urthona.html Ric: flute & tv.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ridgeway
• Silbury
• Avebury
• Wayland's Smithy
• experimental
• ciné
• film
• short
• Uffington White Horse
• Uffington

[highwaycyclinggroup]

Superb! I found the piece very moving, not least because my father's ashes are scattered in the clump of trees to the left of the shot at 1:28. Beautiful work, thank you.

[megalith6]

thanks for the kind words - and the moving comment: 1:28 is the Ridgeway looking towards Wansdyke from the Knap Hill region, through which the Ridgeway passes; then the film moves on to the Uffington stretch (chalk track) - the film is a 'loop' ~ after the intro, it begins at Alton Priors (spring), proceeds to Uffington, and cycles back to Knap Hill.

bests

R

[highwaycyclinggroup]

Ah maybe I've got it wrong then, I thought that was Hackpen Hill - my father's ashes are scattered in the clump there. It's still very moving, I recognise so many of the places - that long stretch of chalk before Wayland, Dragon Hill and Uffington Horse too. For some reason the super8 and the developing method you have used perfectly suit the subject matter, somehow making the landscape more immediate and timeless.

[megalith6]

no worries - Hackpen Hill is 8:22-8:32, there's more on the longer version. i use celluloid film as a base because of the photographic emulsion, a very subtle medium; even though the films are digitalised, celluloid is my touch-base. Next film is based on Welsh mythology, and i am hard at work on the editing - there is also a megalithic motif to the film

thanks again

R

[megalith6]

thanks - check out Neil's latest sounds at the 'more info' window ;)

[JessWunman]

Sublime combination!  The images, with soundtrack nearly left me in a Neolithic trance! Bravo!