A series of films dealing with ideas of the home.
Home Spells : 2023, 16mm transferred to digital, 15 mins, 5.1 sound
Filmed over the first 3 years of a child’s life; Home Spells documents and reflects upon family in transition and the ability of cinema to capture time
Fire Spells : 2022, various formats, 9 mins
Made with artist, academic and writer, Judith Noble, the film follows Judith as she makes protection fire spells for the filmmaker.
It is both a portrait of Judith, her views on magical practice, and a ritual film itself.
Earth Among Stars – a poor man’s take on Olaf Stapledon’s novel Star Maker
(coming somewhere somehow sometime soon)
TOM CHICK 