ROSES. JOANNA PAUL

Title ‘Roses’. Various panning shots of roses and various flowers in garden. Camera begins wide, then moves closer, to extreme close up of flowers, then shots are inter-dispersed with film that is painted on in technique of direct film. End title ‘Joanna Margaret Paul’. (03.35)

“Joanna Margaret Paul’s experimental films are cine-poems: silent meditative studies of environments and/or the people within them. Martin Rumsby has described Paul’s film work as ‘domestic portraiture’. Her camera - often still albeit with a hand-held shiver, sometimes in motion - records moving images that others would deem unimportant: cracks in a concrete wall, a dilapidated building, a woman’s hands ironing. The films are a document of everyday life through the eye of an artist.” - Kathy Dudding.