Artist’s statement
I am a film maker based in the Scottish Borders, with a particular interest in experimental film and artists’ moving image. In my work I am drawn to the idea of challenging traditional notions of sublime beauty in landscape by focussing on its unloved corners. My work is also informed by the notion of presenting traditional narratives through nonrepresentational forms of visual and sonic abstraction - psychologising the image, while challenging traditional viewer perceptions of what story is and might be. The juxtaposition of representing sounds traditionally associated with rural landscapes with vintage synthesizer emulators is of particular interest. At the heart of my work is an ongoing curiosity of what lies beyond the hills, trees and fields of the Borders countryside and I am inspired by the idea that exciting things can be discovered at the end of an overgrown path, beyond a locked gate, or in an abandoned place.
biography
Experimental film and installation artist Jason Moyes lives and works in rural Scotland and has been exploring the moving image since 2007. His work has been shown in the UK, North America, Europe and Asia. He is a founding member of the Moving Image Makers Collective and presents the experimental film podcast Into the Mothlight.
I am a film maker based in the Scottish Borders, with a particular interest in experimental film and artists’ moving image. In my work I am drawn to the idea of challenging traditional notions of sublime beauty in landscape by focussing on its unloved corners. My work is also informed by the notion of presenting traditional narratives through nonrepresentational forms of visual and sonic abstraction - psychologising the image, while challenging traditional viewer perceptions of what story is and might be. The juxtaposition of representing sounds traditionally associated with rural landscapes with vintage synthesizer emulators is of particular interest. At the heart of my work is an ongoing curiosity of what lies beyond the hills, trees and fields of the Borders countryside and I am inspired by the idea that exciting things can be discovered at the end of an overgrown path, beyond a locked gate, or in an abandoned place.
biography
Experimental film and installation artist Jason Moyes lives and works in rural Scotland and has been exploring the moving image since 2007. His work has been shown in the UK, North America, Europe and Asia. He is a founding member of the Moving Image Makers Collective and presents the experimental film podcast Into the Mothlight.
exhibitions & screenings
forms with space and distance and hills Ann Arbor Film Festival - April 2023 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival - April 2023 Experiments in Cinema v18.4 | March 2023 XXVIeRencontres Internationales Traverse | March 2023 Energy Sent Along Wires Art of Energy Exhibition University of St. Andrews March 2021 From Scotland with Love 'In Solidarity' programme with the Film-Makers' Cooperative / New American Cinema Group November 2020 From Scotland with Love 33ème édition du festival Les Instants Vidéo October 2020 From Scotland with Love Experiments in Cinema 15.1 June 2020 the beauty and sadness in the patterns of two chemical reactions 23rd International Encounters Traverse, Toulouse, France March 2020 the beauty and sadness in the patterns of two chemical reactions Society of Scottish Artists | Visual Arts Scotland Open | CutLog Moving Image December 2019 - January 2020 Red Lights and a Solstice Moon Cinemaforum (as part of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival programme) Energy Sent Along Wires / 4 channel installation Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival May 2019 frames, shapes and symbols Spectral Film Festival April 2019 Frames, shapes and symbols IN*Fusion Art Magazine / Online Gallery on Nature frames, shapes and symbols Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival May 2018 Red Lights and a Solstice Moon Les Inattendus Film Festival February 2018 Red Lights and a Solstice Moon Les Instants Video Numériques et Poétiques October 2017 Energy Flows Along Wires Two channel installation MIMC @ The YES Arts Festival September 2017 Energy Flows Along Wires Free Flow : MIMC at Borders Heritage Festival September 2017 Red Lights and a Solstice Moon "Flight of a Blind Eagle" exhibition National Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek August to September 2017 Red Lights and a Solstice Moon Experiments in Cinema April 2017 Red Lights and a Solstice Moon Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival March 2017 Red Cap London Experimental Film Festival October 2016 Red Cap 'Off the Peg' @ Creative Coathanger Arts Festival, Galashiels September 2016 Red Cap Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival April 2016 Celluloid Dreams Artists' Moving Image Festival @ Summerhall, Edinburgh December 2015 Wind Blows at Seven Frames Per Second Exploding Cinema Disposable Film Festival, London September 2015. Celluloid Dreams – Installation ‘Beyond the Shutters’ YES Festival, Selkirk September 2015 Two Angels Moving Image Makers Collective Screening, Hawick 24th June 2015 Sea Sisters Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick 16th – 19th April 2015 Bike Film Stirling Cycling Hub - Cycling Shorts Pop-Up Cinema Night, Stirling 31st January 2014 |
writing | interviews | reviews
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021 | Audio Interview plus programme notes from Marius Hrdy. Fleming Collections | Scottish Arts News | In Focus Programme Preview by Neil Cooper | March 2021 | Read here. Feature on The Film Programme | BBC Radio Four | March 2021 | Listen here. Essay on 'Frames, Shapes and Symbols' published by Moving Image Artists June 2020 | Read here. SUPERLUX Bursary to PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, Dublin (24–26 March 2017) Response from SUPERLUX member Jason Moyes April 2017 - Read here. |