Suki Chan, Interval II film stills, 2008.

Commissioned by Chinese Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network.

A flock of starlings sweep and swoop across the dusk sky; a ruined pier struts into the ocean; a circular earth-house dwelling with its roof open to the starry night – these images are elements of Suki Chan’s haunting film Interval II. “The aesthetics are intended to seduce. I want to transport the viewer to an elsewhere, one step removed from real life….I’m interested in a time after the humans have gone.” Chan’s practice combines light, moving image and sound, to create mixed-media installations that explore our physical and psychological experience of space. Threaded through her work is an elegiac tracking of the footprints of human narrative, the fables and relics embedded in time and place.