Riverboat Cinema: Flow
It’s All About the River
River Tamar Project, Plymouth
12 September 2014
Curated by Lucy Reynolds, the Flow programme was presented on a Tamar riverboat cruise and included Filmwater 2008 by David Ward.
Material collected during David Ward’s five-week Orinoco trip in 1995 has continued to play an important part in his work ever since. As well as writings, sound recordings and photographs, he made around thirty minutes of Super 8 film. This work came out of some of that footage.
‘The image is simply the surface of the river. The surface undulates but remains unbroken until the last seconds of the film. Focusing on the relationship between the thin, sensitive materiality of photographic film (the reel of Super 8 film) and the skin like surface, the meniscus, of the film of water of the river itself, this short, silent film was made on a stretch of river close to a unique natural waterway, where a channel called the Casiquiare connects the Orinoco and Amazon rivers.’ Lucy Reynolds, 2014
Filmwater
1995-2008
Super 8 film
4 mins 57 secs