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Still from 4:5:7 dyadic and triadic. 2020. Duration 6’26”

The short film that Matthew Hammond and I made in collaboration while self-isolating can now be seen as part of Strangelove Time-based Media Festival. Our film – and many other great pieces – can be watched in Screen 1 on Strangelove’s website, curated by Chris Meigh-Andrews.. “457 dyadic and triadic” is the combination of my visual experiments with paint and liquids and Matthew’s improvised music piece, which we hope you enjoy. You can also leave comments on the festival’s website and even show us your love for the film by tapping or clicking that heart below the video 💙

Direct link to the video here

457 dyadic and triadic is available to watch in Screen 1 on Strangelove Festival’s website
Still from 4:5:7 dyadic and triadic. 2020. Duration 6’26”

A collaborative film created from their shared home while self isolating, the film experiments with paint, liquids and different densities to generate haphazardly moving abstractions. The moving images were recorded by Cristina Pedreira after Matthew Hammond’s music piece. 457 dyadic and triadic is an improvised piece using a self-designed scale based on a just intonation tuning system. Just intonation tuning uses musical intervals that are wholly based on the natural harmonic series, and using scales based on them allows access to intervals and sound colours that don’t exist in the standard equally-tempered Western tuning system.

Stop motion animation has been part of my creative process for more than ten years. On this project I use my photographs as a starting point, I set it all up, start without a plan and pack it all up on the same day, which means each animation is started and finished within several hours. As a photographer and videographer with a background in painting and drawing I have always been interested in the boundaries of each medium and the different possibilities when combined.

You can watch four of my hand painted animations below and a short video tutorial showing the process behind the animations.

This project is a collaboration with the musician Matthew Hammond, whose music is featured in all the videos.

In 2019 I was commissioned several video projects and documentation by Decanter. A series of video interviews with Jancis Robinson and Hugh Johnson ahead the launch of their new World Atlas of Wine, video documentation for their social media channels at The Great Sparkling Exploration and the Fine Wine Encounter. At the Fine Wine Encounter I also produced separate video pieces focusing on the masterclasses and the discovery theatre. Videos available to watch below and also a selection of photographs from their Bordeaux Fine Wine Event.

Mar de Frades hosted a boat cruise in London, bringing the best of Galicia to the Thames. I documented the experience with video and photography, creating content for internal usage and social media.

Lifestyle and product photography at different Wines of Germany events in London and Manchester. Commissioned by Phipps PR. Video for The Big G at Somerset House is available to watch at the end of this post.

This summer I started filming from the air with my new DJI Mavic Air. Flying mainly over swimming pools and fields I decided to take the drone to Valbuena de la Encomienda, my great-grandmother’s village in the province of León, Spain. It is a very small village but is surrounded by a beautiful landscape and the perfect place to fly with freedom. This short video was recorded during two incredibly hot afternoons in August. 

 

Shot of Valbuena de la Encomienda taken with the DJI Mavic Air on a summer evening.