Future Energy

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Future Energy Commission

Year
2026
Medium
Film
Size
5m23s
Price
NFS

Description

This was a commission for the Blyth Festival of Energy. The commision was for a 360° immersive film based on this film I created of the Energy Central Learning Hub, it was screened in their dedicated projection room.

The film was built from just three photographs of the Hub, two taken at 5am in early morning light, one in the evening. Through intense layered animation, deconstruction and motion, the building's geometry is pushed, pulled, and transformed. Mirroring something deeper: Blyth itself. Not erasing its past, but using it to construct something extraordinary. The soundtrack, composed under my alter ego Skin Vehicles, drives the whole experience. Beginning with a found folk song celebrating Blyth's power stations in the 1960s, woven together with modern electronic rhythm, energetic textures, techno. Frenetic and alive.

A huge thank you to the partners who made this possible: Energy Central Campus, for the incredible facility and the vision to commission art that celebrates it Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, leading the offshore renewable energy revolution that's putting Blyth back on the global map Port of Blyth, for their support and whose remarkable history runs through the fabric of Blyth The North East Combined Authority, for backing culture and economic transformation hand in hand Northumberland County Council, for investing in Blyth's identity and its people This is Blyth. This is Future Energy.

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