tides

An ongoing theme of collaborative work with photographer Crispin Hughes

The Moon and the City

4’32” new edit of a lunar day around London – a coastal city. Looking East, South, West and North as the moon tugs our ocean around the planet, and its gravitational pull manifests as tides.

Duck

8’30” composite stereo film considering aural and visual perspectives

https://thamestides.wordpress.com/duck/

Bobby and Stillman

A 4-way collaboration with Professors Sofia Olhede and Patrick Wolfe of UCL’s Big Data Institute, as part of the Creative Reactions ‘Pint of Science’ group show. A week in a bar off London’s Brick Lane, before summer in their Science Library.

For non-mathematicians, an explainerising PDF:   Bobby + Stillman

Thames Tides

Immersive 5-screen exhibition, first shown in 2016: installed at the Cinema Museum, Brunel Sinking Shaft, Bartlett School of Architecture and the engine hall of Crossness Pumping Station.

Alderman’s Stairs

– trailer from one of the four immersive stereo sound films:

Stone Hole

A collaboration in tidal sea-caves along Cornwall’s North Atlantic coast.
Crispin Hughes made large composite colour photographs with natural light and long exposure times; Susi stuck around when the tide started coming in for free-floating/hand-guided timelapse filming.
Full-resolution blu-ray or installation available, or watch online)

interior sea cave with rising tide, rock ceiling lit from cave mouth arches above the viewer

Estuary

Tides in the Camel Estuary are as extreme as in central London. Summer and winter tidal cycles, from the balcony of my mum and dad’s house… those were the days
Full-resolution blu-ray or installation available, or watch online)

wide shot from above of sandbanks in an estuary, opposite town in far distance

(Note: 12’30” timelapse begins with the setting moon)