Time & Tide

Time and Tide

This short film refers to the idiom 'Time and tide wait for no man’.

The film’s subject is life, death and rebirth. Referencing previous films and techniques from module strand in animation and filming -About Time: Decay and Regrowth and Focus on Plaice.

Memento mori (Latin: "remember that you can die") is the mediaval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality.

In art, mementos mori are artistic or symbolic reminders of mortality. In the European Christian art context, "the expression... developed with the growth of Christianity, which emphasized Heaven, Hell, and salvation of the soul in the afterlife.

The short film will be shot on location at Wembury in the South Hams it has a beautiful beach with dramatic views of the Mew stone with many rock pools that should prove ideal locations for the underwater scenes and tidal timelapse in the film.

I hope to employ both the skull from my 'About Time' strand film as well as other props to represent Christian theology. The film will reference the still life ‘Memento Mori’ painting by Phillipe De Champaignes’ Vanitas.

Philippe de Champaigne's Vanitas (c. 1671) is reduced to three essentials: Life, Death, and Time

Vanitas is a specific genre of art in which the artist uses morbid symbolic objects (such as skulls, rotting food, fading flowers etc.) in order to produce in the viewer's mind an acute awareness of the brevity of life and the inevitability of death. The origins of the term can be traced back to the latin biblical aphorism: vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas (Ecclesiastes 1:2) [Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.]

link: http://www.artisanart.us/art1.html

Vanitas Still Life with a Bouquet and a Skull – by Adrian van Utrecht

The film will be a blend of techniques mainly time-lapse and underwater footage including some experimental camera rigs with reference to Tony Hills Up and Over.

I have requested and been kindly granted permission to film the churchyard in Wembury

by the Reverend of St.Wenburgh.