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Wormshine (2025)
Directed by Sam Williams
Sam Williams's video collage coils its way through the gallery across seven monitors rooted to the ground. The work is an assemblage of research material: footage from university labs and the archives of the Natural History Museum; records of Darwin's experiments with earthworms at Down House; images of worms in art and popular culture; and myriad other annelid imagery. Two choreographies move through all of this: one is a text that moves linguistically through soil horizons. The other is movement material showing tasks enacted by a lone performer working with rope. The body casts, crawls and turns, flattening and coiling, continuously without acknowledgement. This is an experiment in embodying the worm as an image - in exploring softness, resilience strength and hidden labour.
Crew
- Director
- Sam Williams
Details
- Release date
- 2025-01-23
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Somerset House