Helen Petts is a film-maker, a photographer and a painter who often works in collaborations with improvising musicians, but who also makes very solitary work alone in the landscape. Her work explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events and often involves long, intense, close-up images. She is currently making "Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing" a film commission for the Cultural Olympiad and the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, following the route of Kurt Schwitters from Nazi Hanover to Ambleside. Opening in a solo exhibition on the 28th June 2012, then going to the Royal Festival Hall, London, on the 1st Septmeber and then Abbott Hall Gallery, Kendal.
This site is mainly the collaborations with musicians. See personal website and Vimeo for more - links below.
For more videos of free improvised music filmed by Helen Petts and others at Mopomoso concerts at the Vortex Jazz Club - see www.youtube.com/mopomoso.
Helen Petts is a film-maker, a photographer and a painter who often works in collaborations with improvising musicians, but who also makes very solitary work alone in the landscape. Her work explores rhythm, texture, sound and chance events and of...
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