The Internal Voice
Year of release: 1988
Original format: 16mm
Running time: minutes seconds
Screening format: 16mm (original) and U-Matic video
(silent)
Credits: A film by Kayla Parker
Distribution and sales: Sundog Media
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Description
Production notes
Running throughout this film is a series of
automatic drawings which were executed in Indian ink on A4
paper (landscape format). Before I moved down to Exeter
from Newport in June 1986, Joanna Quinn let me use the
Newport animation course acme animation punch to punch
registration holes in several hundred sheets of A4
photocopying paper. Joanna and her partner Les Mills taught
on the animation workshop at Chapter in Cardiff in the
winter of 1986 - this was where I learned 16mm film
animation. Both Joanna and Les were really helpful to me,
and my supply of paper lasted well into 1988 when I was
using a similar process of automatic drawing, using inks
and wax crayon to create the drawn animation sequences for
my film Unknown Woman.
I used my bedroom as my studio while I was making this
film. The drawings of moving daffodils from different
perspectives are from the basement flat in Clytha Square,
Newport. The wax resist Indian ink sequences were made in
the ground floor flat at Powderham Crescent in Exeter - I
drew in the evenings after work, usually sitting in bed as
it was so cold and the only heating was a small 2-bar
electric fire. I stuck the animation drawings on the walls
around the room, like a giant storyboard.
Publication and comments
Exeter Film and Video Workshop
(1988) Joyce McCarthy (ed.) 16mm frames from the film
featured in the EFVW brochure; design: Kayla Parker, black
and white on peppermint green paper
Exhibition
1987
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK. Presented as work in
progress accompanied by live mandolin played by Dave
Johnston (1987)
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK. Presented as work in
progress accompanied by live mandolin played by Dave
Johnston (1987)