Daniel & Clara
2021Savage Witches
Clara Pais, Daniel & Clara
Christina Wood, Victoria Smith
Two teenage girls want nothing but to play games, dress up and have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict with the world around them they set out to transform it and break free. Playful, poetic, experimental
Savage Witches
In Search of the Exile
Clara Pais, Daniel & Clara
In this film a lone figure wanders through a mysterious wilderness while hounded by spectres and unseen forces. This is a solitary journey, a path of exile and hardship that leads beyond the abyss to where reality loses its mask of concreteness and shows its true fluid face.
In Search of the Exile
TELEKINETIC PLEASURES
Clara Pais, Daniel & Clara
Telekinetic Pleasures depicts the aftermath of a bizarre scientific experiment that involves chickens, reptilian and human subjects, two of whom have survived and are portrayed by the directors themselves – artefacts of their psychic transmissions are captured here on videotape.
TELEKINETIC PLEASURES
SCENE 13 – THE CROW
Daniel & Clara
A film about darkness created from the discarded fragments of VHS tape, the overlooked fuzz and glitches that exist between the recorded footage. This is cinema as a first person experience through the dark reaches of the soul, a mythic journey in which we take flight and become the crow.
SCENE 13 – THE CROW
Witches Walk
Daniel & Clara
Christina Wood, Victoria Smith
Two figures walk through a forest that morphs and transforms before our eyes. In this expressionistic film, VHS footage has been projected and refilmed several times with different cameras until it breaks down and takes on a fluid quality, reminiscent of watercolour or ink, to create a unique and hypnotic image.
Witches Walk
Revisiting
Daniel & Clara
Document and dream exist as one in a visionary travelogue of a journey to Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire. The artists return to the site of an earlier experience in order to look again at a place of personal significance. Revisiting presents an experience mediated by technology and expresses the complex layers that inform how we navigate reality and create meaning from our experiences.
Revisiting
Witches Walk Monochrome
Daniel & Clara
Christina Wood, Victoria Smith
Whilst using the same base footage as in Witches Walk (2012), through an alteration in technique, and a vastly different soundscape, the work is transformed from a bright, meditative piece into a darker, almost sinister abstraction.
Witches Walk Monochrome
En Plein Air
Daniel & Clara
A series of eight moments captured over a single day in the Sussex village of Mayfield. From first light until night Daniel & Clara engage in a process of psychological orientation, their state of mind inexplicably linked to the countryside and shifting weather conditions.
En Plein Air
