Brunswick Park Film Festival
Brunswick Park Film Festival

Brunswick Park Film Festival
9–11 September 2022

Still from Diviner by Frances Scott

Frances Scott
Diviner (2017)

22 minutes, 55 seconds 
Single channel film, 16mm film and betacam video transferred to digital, colour, mono

Our first exhibition at The Bower, when we opened in 2018. We are delighted to revisit this work from our archive by Frances Scott with accompanying essay and limited edition. 

Diviner takes its title from a short documentary 'Diviner Water in Luppitt' (1976), held in the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) in Plymouth.‘Diviner’is a term originating from the 15th century to describe a person who might use special powers to predict future events, or for someone who seeks out water under the ground with the use of a divining or dowsing rod. The work is formed almost entirely from moving image material at SWFTA, and archival footage includes 'behind the scenes' on other film productions in the South West. The only new 16mm material was filmed for the opening sequence, and shows the telecine process - the transfer of analogue film to a digital format - of a section of footage used within Diviner itself. Diviner meditates on our understanding of the transmitted image, and suggests that history, rather than occurring within a linear narrative, is cyclical and bound to repeat. In this way, the past is a spectral scribe to the present, where the archive becomes a sentient, conversant being.

Read more about Diviner in text by Philomena Epps here.

To purchase a limited edition risograph by Frances Scott visit our online shop here. 

Bio

Frances Scott is an artist whose work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her work with moving image has been presented through exhibitions, installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, recently at: New York Film Festival (2019); Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre (2019; Het Bos, Antwerp (2018); The Bower (2018); Tate St Ives; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club (2018); Whitechapel Gallery (2017 / 2015); Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks (2017); Peninsula Arts & South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth (2017); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2016); and 'Selected III', videoclub & FLAMIN incl. Anthology Film Archives, New York, Seattle International Film Festival and LA Film Forum (2014). Between 2012-2018 her practice included CATALOG, a collaborative project with Joyce Cronin. Frances was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO! (Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office) for a solo exhibition in 2021. Her films are distributed by LUX, London.

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Still from Diviner by Frances Scott

Frances Scott
Diviner (2017)

22 minutes, 55 seconds 
Single channel film, 16mm film and betacam video transferred to digital, colour, mono

Our first exhibition at The Bower, when we opened in 2018. We are delighted to revisit this work from our archive by Frances Scott with accompanying essay and limited edition. 

Diviner takes its title from a short documentary 'Diviner Water in Luppitt' (1976), held in the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) in Plymouth.‘Diviner’is a term originating from the 15th century to describe a person who might use special powers to predict future events, or for someone who seeks out water under the ground with the use of a divining or dowsing rod. The work is formed almost entirely from moving image material at SWFTA, and archival footage includes 'behind the scenes' on other film productions in the South West. The only new 16mm material was filmed for the opening sequence, and shows the telecine process - the transfer of analogue film to a digital format - of a section of footage used within Diviner itself. Diviner meditates on our understanding of the transmitted image, and suggests that history, rather than occurring within a linear narrative, is cyclical and bound to repeat. In this way, the past is a spectral scribe to the present, where the archive becomes a sentient, conversant being.

Read more about Diviner in text by Philomena Epps here.

To purchase a limited edition risograph by Frances Scott visit our online shop here. 

Bio

Frances Scott is an artist whose work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her work with moving image has been presented through exhibitions, installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, recently at: New York Film Festival (2019); Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre (2019; Het Bos, Antwerp (2018); The Bower (2018); Tate St Ives; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club (2018); Whitechapel Gallery (2017 / 2015); Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks (2017); Peninsula Arts & South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth (2017); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2016); and 'Selected III', videoclub & FLAMIN incl. Anthology Film Archives, New York, Seattle International Film Festival and LA Film Forum (2014). Between 2012-2018 her practice included CATALOG, a collaborative project with Joyce Cronin. Frances was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO! (Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office) for a solo exhibition in 2021. Her films are distributed by LUX, London.