Buddleia
introduction
Three proposals were initiated during my residency at Plymouth Arts Centre 2006-2007. They evolved into a 14minute film, shot in 16mm and shown on DVD – entitled Buddleia.
“Buddleia charts Best’s attempts to challenge habits of production and formulate new directions for her work in a beautiful film that traverses Plymouth’s urban and marine landscapes and explores narratives of the imperial nature of the city. The work is imbued with personal, silent moments that reflect Best’s experience that reflects the tensions in the city. During her year-long residency at Plymouth Arts Centre, Best has developed ideas and proposed projects that reflect the changing environment of Plymouth. She has used different methods to develop her work, driven by an interest in both local and collaborative practice. The process from which her art projects emerge, arrives from conversation and observation, characterised by ‘events’ set fleetingly within a social or physical landscape. Best’s work observes the surrealism of the everyday while engaging with the specific situation. “
text from press release for Buddleia by Anna Best and More Opportunities by Barbara Holub at Plymouth Arts Centre.
credits
With thanks to:
- Jaime Feliu-Torres
- Sundog Media – Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker
- Fencers – Jake and Corinna
- Lamenters – Lucy, Jackie, Anna, Cynthia
- Paula Orrell and all at PAC
- Andrea Crociani
- low profile
- Lau Thiam Lok
- Tabatha Andrews
- Sarah Harris and Nick Clapham at Crediton Fencing Club
- Picture This
- Andy Hill and the Shillingfords
description
The initial three proposals
Breakwater… to commission actors (young women?) to cry at the sea from the breakwater. Lamenting, crying, screaming, shouting – different forms of intense emotional expression. Developing idea with Paula to include people on the shore as well, around the sound, facing inwards from the breakwater and seawards from land. This becomes much more ambitious and large scale… Would be a live event and audio piece. My original thought was to film on the breakwater as original idea to make film piece rather than document of a live event. For larger scale version a recording sound with gun mics on a boat in the middle of the sound. (work with Paul Whitty hopefully). Summer ’07.
Archive
- The Art of Dispute
- 2009 publication Between the vanguard and the peripheral by Paula Orrell including conversation with Barbara Holub and essay by Lucy Reynolds
- DVD edition of single screen film
- Publicity material – Plymouth Arts Centre Catalogue
- AO colour poster for a buddleia plantation at Sutton Harbour
research process
- Cattewater Harbour Commission – Links
- south west england film archive
- Battle of Swally – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- DEFRA Science
- Return to Paradise (Do or Die)
- Horticultural: Garden
- South West Peace Conference – An End To Nuclear Fission? | libcom.org
- BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Guns destroyed in arms campaign
- Free Aerial Photographs of Plymouth and area, England plym493c.jpg 400×319 pixels
- crew_k6sub.jpg 1144×955 pixels
- Taking cuttings – The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- How to grow shrubs from softwood cuttings
- Buddleja salviifolia
- How to grow shrubs from softwood cuttings
- butterfly gardeners
- Buddleia davidii – Plants For A Future database report
- Wildlife Gardens for Schools
- When do you sow Seed, use my Sowing Calendar
- Leon Paul Fencing Equipment
- gardeners corner – subject ‘anyone have buddleia reseed?’
- plymouth fencing page