Claire Harris

It’s the Only Way I’m Getting up This Fucking Hill (2012)

20 min 33 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"It’s the Only Way... is a direct application of art making to solve a real world problem, and an exploration of the immediate nature of cell phone video recording.

Having worked overtime for three weeks I found myself exhausted and unable to continue walking home. Rather than lie down by the side of the road and start crying I used my camera phone to film myself walking, and was thus able to continue for the sake of completing the film."

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