Year of release: 2008
Original format: Super16mm
Running time: 1 minute 50 seconds
Screening format: DVD
Credits: A film by Kayla Parker
Director/producer/animator: Kayla Parker
Sound design: Stuart Moore
Production: Sundog Media
Distribution and sales: Sundog Media info@sundog.co.uk
Description
Artist’s own hair, collected after brushing and printed onto discarded 16mm colour negative film, using household bleach to reveal the yellow and green emulsion layers beneath the unexposed darkness. An heirloom is something that has special meaning and has been passed down through the generations of a family; in the title, ‘heir’ is a homophone of ‘hair’, ‘loom’ is a device for weaving together disparate strands that meet at 90 degrees, but also carries the resonance of appearing threatening, magnified, or hugely distorted.
Production notes
Publication and comments
Exhibition
2010
The Measure of It 16mm film-drawing performance and screening with artist’s talk, Studio One at Plymouth Arts Centre, UK (6pm - 8.30pm 28 April 2010)
2008
Media Arts: an exhibition of recent work by Media Arts staff, Scott Building, University of Plymouth, UK. Screened from looped DVD on monitor mounted on plinth (November - 23 December 2008)