Anti cool created a film for Leaving Language called Echo Tides, it was screened throughout the exhibition at

The Metropole Gallery in Folkestone England.

 

With a series of performative employments anti cool confuses the position of an Artist. Smudging detail to reveal the iconographic, this artist reconsiders the day to day routines of our unmediated reality.

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In a recent documentary Plena Rondo Leaving Language explored the concept of Esperanto and has been screened across the UK.

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Let’s imagine we were not ourselves. We woke up transformed into an alien being with none of the familiar things we had yesterday. Our speech was lower and sounded as if it had been slowed down. We enunciated precisely but created a monstrous slur of vowels: the detuned strings of guitars or a fire howling through Marshall amplifiers, this is the sound of cinema.

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The phobic positioning of others and the absence of empathy has been an ongoing concern for Anti-cool, the new work Echo Tides was shot in Folkestone, hauled in its nets nostalgia, eroticism, sacrifice and regeneration, as well as fish and crustaceans caught in the muddy Dover Straights, in the pages of a screenplay we scroll through words: cold, sea, a fog that lifted slowly. In soft Spring light a boat on the coastline slowly revealed.

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Fishing is the type of industry which politicians use to create Island fictions. In the foggy haze of morning, trays of ice and fruits of the sea crunched together. Gills filled with tears that secreted memories. The fish dripped blood into the image. We were leaving language and could not survive out of water. Whelks, Crabs, Lobsters ...