Emily Hawes ©

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  1. I am an artist working with 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm film to unearth entanglements between people, places, histories and ecologies. I undertake research that is situated, relational and material and am interested in learning-with, attuning, wandering, fieldworking, burrowing, weaving, fictioning, embodying & blurring disciplinary boundaries.

    My films braid speculative and poetic forms of storytelling, and I allow the works to permeate, become frayed, porous and unfold slowly. I am often drawn to stories or subjects which occupy the peripheries or edges, or who have been marginalised. 

    My practice is grounded in participatory, place-based filmmaking, and developed through forms of fieldwork, embodied research, co-authorship and collaboration. My films are hand-processed using DIY developers made from materials responsibly foraged, sourced and gathered from the environments in which they are made.