Exhibition at Grundy Art Gallery September -December 2018
Northern Lights
Co-commission for ICA Art and Screen Network and Grundy Art Gallery
An inquisitive voice from the far future, or ‘visitor from another place’, interrogates the traditions and artefacts of the Blackpool Illuminations, the annual light festival first established in 1879. The disembodied voice seeks to understand, but often confuses, Northern English vernacular and traditions against the current shifting political dialogue surrounding Britain’s future; misunderstanding Blackpool’s unique fantastical imagery as totemic remnants of a former era. Daniels presents his own contemporary 16mm and super-8 film observations as a found archive, and a script littered with word-play related to the local landscape and other seaside end-of-the-pier resorts.
Exhibitions of Northern Lights to date Grundy Art Gallery (28/9/18 - 15/12/18) Rome Media Art Festival - MAXXI, Rome (17-19/5/2018)
Screenings of Northern Lights to date London Short Film Festival (BAFTA Accredited - Jan 2019) Shortlisted for Best British Short Aesthetica Short Film Festival (BAFTA Accredited - Nov 2018) Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (Nov 2018) Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (June 2018) Braziers Park - Mini Indi Fest (Aug 2018) The Holden Gallery: Interruptions (Jan 2019) HOME: Spit That Out II (Jan 2019) Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, (May 2019) Fracto Film Encounter, Berlin (May 2019) Turku Video Art Festival, Finland (May 2019)
Reviews of Northern Lights:
Art Monthly by Tom Emery - December 2018
Corridor 8 by Natalie Bradbury - November 2018
№ 1/25
№ 1/1
Next project: → One Square Mile (with Sam Meech)
Previous project: ← I know what you did last summer
