4'21

digital video / B&W / sound 

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Fog Day is a spontaneous moment of embodied perception, an innocent and non-conceptualised exchange with nature, place, and each other. The recording and filming deepens the enquiry into the sensory interaction with the animate presences we are embedded in. Our practice often intuitively links with Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and Bergson’s considerations of perception vs. sensation. This film, shot and edited within one day after encountering a location in Rodney Stoke, Somerset, covered in silken fog, evokes the “mutual permeability and mutual creation of self and other” (Marks, 2000) in experiments with somatic camera and organic exploration. What do our sensory interactions reveal about our relationships with place, nature, and each other?

 

Fog Day was created as part of Seaing/Hereing project, an ongoing collaboration between Patrycja Loranc and Sam Johnson, exploring sensory and emotional connections to their new home among the South West landscapes and seascapes, from a neurodivergent perspective of heightened and altered audio-visual experience.