The Pump, Piet Zwart Institute

The Pump (The Piet Zwart Institute)

Video screened at The Alchemy Film Festival + The Inverness Film Festival

Projection onto paper showing a purple tinted photograph of a building into a sinkhole. Jamie Kane

Projection onto paper showing a purple tinted close-up of a cats eye. Jamie Kane

Projection onto paper showing a purple tinted image of water pouring onto a mirror, rotated 90 degrees. Jamie Kane

Projection onto paper showing sparks of light. Jamie Kane

A room with paper ceiling and walls filled with wooden domestic chairs. There is a video monitor on to right coming down from the ceiling. Jamie Kane

A room with paper ceiling and walls a wooden domestic chair. There is a video monitor on to behind coming down from the ceiling. Jamie Kane

A room with paper ceiling. There is a video monitor on to behind coming down from the ceiling. On the monitor is reads the name Ian . Jamie Kane

A room with paper ceiling. There is a video monitor on to behind coming down from the ceiling. On the monitor is a blurry image of green foliage. Jamie Kane

The Pump 2019 HD Video 10m30s

The Pump, retells the story of my parents house subsiding into a disused mine outside Edinburgh in 1986; using my voice as a means to displace how the event is related to time. The video folds in a premonition that exists within the oral history of the region where my parents now live. A premonition that myself and my mother also share; that of the landscape, economy and way of life drastically altering due to flooding. The video ends with a set of voices talking about a shared dream about the effects of a massive flood, this is heard as my fathers hands hold a pair of dowsing rods as they cross in the centre of a Bronze Age burial site.

Music: Ivor Cutlor-Gravity Begins at Home Voices: Jamie Kane, June Bryson, Ian Kane, Antonia Brown, Lucía Bayón, Petter Dahlström Persson, Daphne Simons and Honey Jones-Hughes.