Angela Davies

Moon Rising, 2025

Single Channel Film 14:22

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Site-specific performance - Pen Llyn, Wales

 

Moon Rising explores themes of return, renewal, and regeneration through a material and symbolic engagement with salt. Drawing on histories of labour and place, the work brings aquatic life into dialogue with feminine experience, reflecting on interconnected cycles of care, resilience, ecology, and transformation. Through choreography and sound, it considers our relationship to time, landscape, and the continual process of becoming.

 

A collection of paleo-tidal source data from Bangor University drives the sound composition, with vocals and harp by Emma Daman Thomas, who performs the 18th century Welsh Folk song Tra Bo Dŵr Y Môr Yn Hallt (While There's Salt Within The Sea).

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Performer: Melissa Pasut

Vocals and harp by Emma Daman Thomas

Cinematographer Jamie Quantrill

Underwater footage filmed by Angela Davies

Edited by Mark Eaglen + Angela Davies

Sound Design: Angela Davies

Directed + Produced by Angela Davies

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Commissioned by IVAE with support from Arts Council Wales, Plas Glyn y Weddw

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Screenings: 
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Glynn Vivian, Swansea

Fotografiska, Shanghai
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Busan Museum of Art, Busan

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