Distress Signal 2014 HDV colour, sound (still)
Distress Signal 2014 HDV colour, sound (still)
Distress Signal 2014 HDV colour, sound (23, 40 and 40 seconds)
An audiovisual intervention in three parts exploring the maritime distress signal SOS. The word 'Distress' comes from the Latin distringere, 'to stretch apart'. Pushing a morse code signal to its highest and lowest pitch, sound is compressed and stretched as high definition images are obliterated by light, preventing effective communication and opening up the perceptual gap between seeing and hearing.
Commissioned for the film screening 'Bodies of Water' by curator and film maker Kayla Parker, which ran alongside 'The Power of the Sea', an exhibition at the RWA Galleries Bristol from April to July 2014.