Stills from Dark Flowing.
 

Kodak Black and White Negative 7222, 16mm film, digitally scanned 

Inspired by artists Julia Parks and Melanie King. the 16mm film was developed by hand using bladderwrack seaweed, vitamin c, soda crystals and mine water.

The Devon Great Consols are deserted consolidated arsenic and copper mines which continue pollute the surrounding environment over a century after their closing. The film has a soundtrack of two layered voices, one contemplating contemporary concerns for the landscape from a personal perspective and the other a factual description of the locations of all of the mines read from: The Metalliferous Mining Region of the South West of England, written by British Geologist Henry George Dines in the late 1950's. 
 

Screened:
Millennium Film Workshop: The Poetic Lens, Brooklyn NY (2025)
Elevation Film Festival, Cornwall UK (2024)

Murmurs, Goldsmiths University Interim Showcase, London UK (2024)

*Information about mining contamination from research conducted by Dr Charlotte Braungardt, Dr Andrew Turner and their PHD students at Plymouth University School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, which has conducted several projects over a number of years examining the presence of toxic substances in the public realm. For more information please read this article written for science direct about their study.

Arsenic concentrations, distributions and bioaccessibilities at a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Devon Great Consols, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape)

It has been shared with the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Environment Agency.

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