Cally Trench: Films

Cally Trench makes short time-lapse films, made from hundreds of digital still images.

Some of Cally Trench's timelapse films can be seen on Vimeo: Cally Trench's films on vimeo

Cally Trench still from Chess Wars (2010) Watch Chess Wars on vimeo

Cally Trench still from Face (2010) Watch Face on vimeo

Cally Trench still from Cemetery Walk (2010) Watch Cemetery Walk on vimeo

Cally Trench still from The Horse's Mouth (2010) Watch The Horse's Mouth on vimeo

In Chess Wars, the board becomes a playground for chess gymnastics and a battle ground between chess and draughts pieces. Chess Wars was shown in At Play 3 at South Hill Park in 2011.

Face focuses on one man’s face. He starts by blinking and smiling, like a simple computer animation, but his choreographed expressions become more and more extravagant and extraordinary, before reverting back to blinking and smiling. Face, Chess Wars, The Black Hat and a 101-second version of The Camouflage Flipbook Silent Movie were all shown as part of Project 101 Video Installation, The LAB Gallery, New York (an AM Bruno project curated by Sophie Loss) in November 2011.

Cemetery Walk, shows a lanky Chaplinesque young man, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and black bow tie and carrying a black furled umbrella, walks along a tree-lined path in a cemetery - suggestive of the final scene in Carol Reed’s 1949 film The Third Man.

The Horse's Mouth is a dreamlike animation film made by drawing and collage.

Cally Trench still from Head (2010)

Cally Trench still from Unwrapping (2010) Watch Unwrapping on vimeo

Cally Trench and Philip Lee still from Danger Money (2010) Watch Danger Money on vimeo

Cally Trench still from Vegetable Thieves (2010) Watch Vegetable Thieves on vimeo

Head shows a woman’s head moving from side to side making progressively wider sweeps, until – like the head of the haunted girl in William Friedkin’s 1973 film The Exorcist – it makes complete rotations.

Unwrapping is a timelapse film of a parcel being unwrapped. It was exhibited in 'Parcel Fever' at the Keep, Reading (curated by Ingrid Jensen), 14th-15th October 2011 as part of Reading's Nuit Blanche. The object in the wrapping was made by Cally Trench, and it was wrapped by me in collaboration with Philip Lee.

Cally Trench has also made, in collaboration with Philip Lee, timelapse films of her board games, including Vegetable Thieves and Danger Money.

Cally Trench still from The Black Hat (2010) Watch The Black Hat on vimeo

Cally Trench still from Hungarian Dance (2010)

Cally Trench, Judy Goldhill and Philip Lee still from The Camouflage Flipbook Movie (2010) Watch The Camouflage Flipbook Movie on vimeo

Cally Trench, Judy Goldhill and Philip Lee still from Somersaults (2010) Watch Somersaults on vimeo

The Black Hat shows a man trying out facial expressions, checking his appearance, and trying on a black hat or two.

In Hungarian Dance, a young violinist performs Rachmaninov’s Hungarian Dance. Her authentic gestures and expressions convey the spirit of the music, which - in this silent movie - we have to imagine.

The Camouflage Flipbook Movie contains nudity of an entirely non-sexual and stripy nature. The performance artist Philip Lee rotates as stripes of paint descend his body. A film by Cally Trench, Judy Goldhill and Philip Lee. This film can also be seen on Philip Lee's website: The Camouflage Flipbook Movie

Somersaults also contains nudity of an entirely non-sexual and stripy kind. It features performance artist Philip Lee, painted in stripes by Cally Trench, and photographed by Judy Goldhill. The film was edited by Cally Trench.

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