Art Station film is a diverse monthly film screening of artist films selected and curate by filmmaker Emily Richardson.
We’re pleased to return from a summer break with a trilogy of coastal films by artist Phil Coy. Phil Coy’s practice is a collage of hybrid materials, concepts and processes that oscillate between film, photographic series, sculpture, sound, public works, text works and performance.
Screening three films: Avoiding Green, Grit, and Wordland. See below for more info.
Friday 6th September, 7pm
The Market Hall, Saxmundham. IP17 1AF
Tickets: £10*
*donation to Art Station’s art & learning programme.
Phil Coy’s films have been shown at galleries, film festivals and for site-specific and public commissions in the UK and internationally including: Matt’s Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; South London Gallery; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and many more.
Avoiding Green (2017) channels the medium of knitting and a hitherto little known history of a small, but global, army of knitters, both at sea and onshore. The work teases out a strong kinship between these largely overlooked cogs in the global economy, and evokes the sea from their wildly different perspectives. Avoiding Green focuses particularly on the Gansey, as a specialized working garment worn by seafarers from around the coastal towns of England, Scotland and Holland.
The work redresses the symbolic role that knitting took in the definition of gender stereotypes from the mid 20th Century onward, re-positioning it as an ordering principal, key to our structural understanding of the physical environment.
Commissioned for Offshore by Invisible Dust @invisible_dust in partnership with Hull Culture and Leisure. Supported by The North East and Yorkshire Film Archives.
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Grit (2024) registers that indistinct border between land and sea. Emerging from the increasingly murky depths of the sea, the film draws on the little-known phenomena of ‘coastal darkening’ a steady decline in water clarity, and a literal darkening of waters around the world’s coastlines over the last century. Grit was commissioned by Cement Fields and has been kindly supported by Arts Council England @acegrams, the University of Hull, Moorfields Eye Hospital, and The Historic Dockyard Chatham.
Image: Still from Grit, 2024.
Book ticketsWordland (2008) bears witness to the eroding east coast of England and the devastating effects of floods on North Norfolk. Filmed in and around the villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, Coy’s film combines interviews, field recordings, archive footage of the flood of 1953, and a specially commissioned sound score from musician, Alexander Tucker.
Wordland collapses techniques of documentary filmmaking into montage film and structural film practices. Drawing on the history of British experimental film, Coy’s digitally produced film presents playful juxtapositions of processes and imagery to produce a romantic portrait of loss.
Wordland was the first film commissioned and produced by City Projects. It was funded by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust, with support from East Anglian Film Archive, @luxmovingimage LUX and MITES.
Image: Still from Wordland, 2008.
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