Stay the Same

  • And in contrast . . .

    My friend Sarah sent me this when I first started the project. We agreed that it is almost in complete antithesis.

  • Clock Change

    To keep in line with the light I  have switched to filming at 8.30 am. There is something weirdly exciting about this. It marks the progression of the project, and is the first change in my morning routine in for four months. I have a close friend who worked out a while ago that if…

  • poem doodle

    When I step in front of the camera I think of myself  knitting Loopholes in space time Connecting one day to the next With an identikit moment Bending the universe into a pattern Like a key connecting in a lock Click Here I am Back again Same place, same time, same moment, same Sam

  • Is this an endurance test?

    I am a third of the way through the project and the challenges of this project are now far more apparent even if the nature of the final film isn’t! My friend Jamie who is an avid mountaineer sent me a link to the film below which he saw at the last Mountain Film Festival.…

  • Laurel Nakadate

    I’ve just discovered the work of Laurel Nakadate who took a photo of herself crying every day for a year. When lonely men approach her on the street she goes to their homes and makes videos of herself dancing with them. Her work is scary and powerful and very much on the edge. I stumbled…

  • Tape number 13

    I don’t like to think of myself as a superstitious person. Today I started tape number 13. I thought about not having a tape 13 for the film, but that would be being superstitious. For the first time in the project I couldn’t film because the rain was coming so hard at the camera and…

  • Things to be thankful for

    There is an irony in moving to a really remote place for a quieter pace of life only to find you just have to do more travelling, which was what had happened by the time I started this project. I was exhausted by it. I also felt I had no real idea of whether this…