Strange and beautiful

Found this very cool art film of the Avebury henge and dolmen on boingboing, my favorite source for all things cool and unusual. As a casual fan of both art films and giant mysterious stones, this made my day. The makers of the film are all associated with ancient archaeology but have made a beautiful work of art.

Edited, experimental 8mm ciné project, filmed in various film stocks of Super 8; camera: Canon 814. Original film running time: 15 minutes.

The director/camerman is called Ric Kemp, who’s only other credit I unearthed via google was a series of paintings, again of the Avebury henge. So based on the two examples I gather that Mr. Kemp is an artistic Avebury fan with no other credits to his name. It doesn’t matter, I still think his film is gorgeous and qualifies him as a film artist. The others involved are Mark Pilkington of the Strange Attractor Journal (celebrating unpopular culture) and contributor to the Fortean Times, who is given producing credit. The soundtrack credit goes to Neil Mortimer, author of a book about ancient sites of Britain and editor of 3rd Stone journal which discusses folklore and unusual archaeology. Why Neil did the music for the film rather than Mark, a musician in a group called Oort (makes me think of Oort clouds, thread, and Pern, scary name) perplexes me, but he did an excellent job.