And now you are here again. No, this isn't the right ending. I'd like you to begin. It's the one who starts who wins.

An unseen narrator recalls standing on the rooftop of a building, witness to the coming of an event of epic proportions. An object moves on the horizon. In another scene, a conversation by a photo-exposure unit is remembered. In yet another, a game, or many games, are played. Three winners.

A + X + M is a film-installation in a print workshop, where all light is filtered through films of amber gel, the colour of ferric-chloride. It stems from a screenplay that promises a shared dream and its image. The narrative appears to be constructed in the process of becoming 'live', it creates, and in turn is created by the unfurling film. The voice is punctuated by a kaleidoscope of images and physicalities that suggest a hypnotic induction. Drawing in part on Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's film collaboration Last Year at Marienbad (1961), this work continues my research into the trance state. It proposes a tunnelling through material, language in sensing experience, and an entropy that might generate new possibilities. There is an uncertain but potent relationship between each narrative strand. Each, like a player in a complex game, moves across a grid in an attempt to resolve itself.

Excerpt from narration to A + X + M (2010) >>>

Introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet to Last Year at Marienbad: a cine novel (1961) >>>

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FOOTNOTES

A + X + M was filmed and originally shown as a looped projection as part of an installation in the print workshop at Wimbledon College of Art. It has since been screened as part of METAL 'Village Green' and TAPS, Southend on Sea, 2010.