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frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-30T14:25:53+00:00

“Historical imagination gathers in the missing,” writes the poet Susan Howe; and “Documents resemble people talking in sleep. To exist is one thing, to be perceived another”; and “I wish I could tenderly lift from the dark side of history, voices that are anonymous, slighted—inarticulate.” Echoes of these sentiments—which probe the silences and ellipses of official knowledge—what we can see, or not, why and how—gather in the dark corners and temporal folds of Scott’s films. The artist’s multilay…

chapters:the_star_and_the_glow_worm

frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-23T17:52:15+00:00

The Star and the Glow Worm [2015] 37 minutes, live performance with five singers The Star and the Glow Worm is a live work commissioned by AIR, Central Saint Martins as part of the Unannounced Acts programme in Granary Square, Kings Cross. It was performed between 4.12am and 5.03am - the dawn ‘magic hour’ - on the 18th May 2015, and takes as its prompt a poem by William Wordsworth, 'The Pilgrim's Dream; or, The Star and the Glow Worm'[1818], in which a pilgrim, sleeping beneath the cover of …

chapters:wendy

frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-18T08:52:20+00:00

Wendy [2023] Frances Scott and Chu-Li Shewring Single channel film, 37 min 57 sec, 16mm transfer to digital, HD video and volumetric animation, colour and black and white, 5:1 surround sound / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > You will witness the day become near-night, like the deepest twilight. Sunset colors bathe the full horizon, while a gaping black hole gazes down at you from the inky sky, eye-like and surreal, surrounded by the solar corona, a halo of pearly ephemera…

epilogue

frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-02T17:16:20+00:00

CREDITS > Wendy [2023] camera and edit: Frances Scott; sound and edit: Chu-Li Shewring; voices and performances: Michael Curran, Valentina Formenti, Sabine Unamum, Roland; duet score arrangement: Sasha Scott; duet cinematography: Emma Dalesman; duet sound recording

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frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-06-06T20:23:37+00:00

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frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-29T15:09:01+00:00

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frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-25T21:24:10+00:00

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frances (frances@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-07T15:32:45+00:00