Golding deconstructs cinematic materials and apparatus, slipping between materialist investigation, sculptural forms, and bodily intervention. Cracked cinema for darkroom compositions, light bleed, contorted projection sports, dismembered narrative, whimsical instructional and wanton optics.
Performance
GHOST - LOUD + STRONG
Sound recordings taken from a flexi disc containing a dialogue about past life regression, and vinyl library sound effects library, were reformatted as optical sound waveforms by recordin…
PSYCHO-SUB-TROPO
An audience of seated children react in horror and delight as a finger wags across the screen and the performers own body moves across the projectors obscuring and blending the images. A …
FACE OF AN OTHER
Obsessions with horror manifest as phantasmagoric projections onto the filmmakers own body in a bizarre accumulation of unreality. Notions of ‘projected’ identity, grotesquerie, and the u…
SUPER GROTESQUERIE
A form of disjunctive archiving, images and sounds were contact printed from 16mm science educational films Voice of the Insect and Photons, and Golding’s home archive of classic Super8 h…
COMPOSTED MEMORIAL
Slivers of someone else’s silver small-screen memory, evocations and apparitions unknitted by the passage of time. A photo-sonic film where images literally generate the experimental nois…
4TH DIMENSIONAL NIGHTMARE
Conceived in the week of J. G. Ballard’s earthly demise, in tribute to German comic cosmonaut Perry Rhodan (b.1961), on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing; a dystopian space opera p…
NOT STILL LIFE
Live colour separation portraiture. Generating ‘Golding-colour’, three projectors are aligned and projected towards the audience and captured onto frame. The alignment and misalignment ge…