Joanna Margaret Paul

Aberhart's House (1976)

2 min 54 secSingle channel / Silent / Colour / Silent

“In Aberharts House (1976), there’s a smart cut (all of Paul’s films were edited in-camera) between a female figure in the kitchen cutting a sandwich and a male figure in the garden applying a chainsaw to a log. The activities are presented as equal value, and her focus is firmly on the former.”

Sophie Meyer, 'Bodies and film: 2015 Experimenta at the London Film Festival', Sight and Sound magazine, 2015

"One nets a landscape in a grid of formal rhythms. In a landscape or garden one discerns messages from within."

J.M.P., Cantrills Film Notes nos. 47,48. August 1985

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