Adult Day Return
Year of release: 1986
Original format: 16mm
Running time: 2 minutes seconds
Screening formats: U-Matic video and DVD
Credits: A film by Kayla Parker
Production: Chapter Film Workshop
Distribution and sales: Sundog Media
info@sundog.co.uk
Description
Production notes
I graduated from Gwent College of Higher
Education in June/July 1985: a group of us stayed around in
Newport after we’d left art college. It was too expensive
to buy a video camera in those days, I couldn’t get access
to the equipment at the college, so there was no way to
continue to develop my video art practice. I signed on,
paid my rent with housing benefit, read and wrote and drew,
went for walks, did research for a children’s book project,
and went swimming almost every day. I spent a week in
Scotland in Kinnloch Rannoch: I watched Koyaanisqatsi:
Life out of Balance lying in bed drinking a can of
ice-cold Special Brew, went mushroom hunting, and saw the
Highland Games in Pitlochry. In the autumn I joined the
South Wales Women’s Film Group, which was based in Chapter
Arts Centre in Cardiff; and then gradually things started
to shift for me again.
Publication and comments
Exhibition
1986
Chapter Arts Centre cinema, Cardiff, Wales, UK (Premiere:
1986)