2021, 16mm, 8min, colour/b&w, sound

The little personal myths and structures we set up to aid the survival of the psyche in times of low harvest. Finding subtle points of reference in subject and camera movement, in the landscape, its details and the traditions of the season, I attempt to connect the outside with the embodied camera and the inward gesture of the brushmark.


"Distant places, stations, loved ones, natural interiors and exteriors, lights, shadows, paintings, colors, and compositions. A rich bouquet of motifs that Edmonds arranges into intuitive configurations of differences and similarities, and where emotions and memories fuse with a singular formal conception of cinema."
(Elena Duque, S8 Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico)

SCREENINGS

2024 Terra: Reconfigurations of Perspective, Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, Belgium
2023 Distant Messaging, aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2023 Underneath the Floorboards, London, UK
2022 Frontera Sur, festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción, Chile
2022 Engage Experimental Film Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle WA, USA
2022 Lightfield in LA, Mezzanine, LA Filmforum, LA
2022 Crossroads 2022 Online Echo⁠, curated by Steve Polta,www.sfcinematheque.org⁠
2022 DOBRA - Int'l Experimental Film Festival, Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)
2022 Open City Documentary Festival, London
2022 Lateral, Cinema San Nicola, Cosenza, Italy
2022 CROSSROADS, Grey Area, San Francisco
2022 Babfilmfest, Matchstick Piehouse in Deptford, London
2022 Non-Syntax, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Fracto, Experimental Film Encounter, 27- 29 May, 2022, Berlin, Kunsthaus ACUD
2022 Prismatic ground, Maysles Documentary Center, New York
2022 MACHINALIVE, Nomadica at LABA 2022, Brescia, Italy
2022 Chapters And Remnants: The Films Of James Edmonds (solo program), Spectacle, NYC
2022 First Look, Museum of the Moving Image, NYC
2022 FICUNAM Umbrales, Mexico City
2022 FLorida EXperimental Film and Video Festival (FLEX), Tampa, FL
2021 Channeling Structures, S-L-I-C-E, Uferstudios, Berlin
2021 Eine Filmauswahl von James Edmonds (solo program), EXFF, Frankfurt, Germany
2021 James Edmonds - An Imprint onto the Medium (solo program), (S8), A Coruña, Spain

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