Rosie Pedlow and Joe King

Sea Change

absolutely fantastic

Mo

An amazing film. They are incredibly talented movie-makers.

PJM

By far the best of the three winners Here is a wobbly balance between the prosaic and the romantic crafted with precision . The subject of a caravan park has been treated with an apparent formal distance to render it the subject of reflection for 5 and half mins. Ideas of class, of time, of memory , of light and of cinema, as we see through the windows at night peering into others lives, as they pass as does the film .

janet Hodgson

wonderfully made and powerfully emotive. loved this.

lorna crawford

Without favour,the calibre of this presentation is of the standard one would surely expect given the favourable advantages Rosie and Joe enjoy? What happened to Equal Opps Jerwood?

Brian Ollerenshaw

wow, this is beautiful!

SKT

Very nice, just what i needed!

CF

This film mesmerized me - a visual sensibility that makes the ordinary very beautiful and the detail noticed. Wonderful, unpretentious, a film that a broad spectrum of people would appreciate.

Emma harding

Beautifully made, hauntingly poetic.

paul cardwell

i agree-easily the best.atmospheric, moving and strangely affecting.

tich umpleby

easily the best by far.

JA

Enjoyed the simplicity and the documentation of the everyday. Transitions between times of day sublime.

Ewan Watson

Beautifully conceived, shot and edited. A strangely affecting resonance with my childhood holidays in Norfolk and the barren beauty of that flat landscape. Dreamy and yet so very down to earth.

Jim Betteridge

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About the artists
Rosie Pedlow and Joe King are two artist/filmmakers living and working in Essex and London. They originally met whilst studying Film and Animation in Wales at the Newport International Film School. King went on to study at the Royal College of Art where he now teaches. The pair has worked independently on their own moving image practice, until coming together for the first time to collaborate on the submitted work, Sea Change. Their films and videos have received funding from the Arts Council of England, Film London's Artists' Film and Video Awards, animate! TV and Channel 4, S4C and Sgrin, Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and BBC Radio 4, and Wellcome Trust. Exhibiting widely at international film and media art festivals, they have been nominated for and won prizes including from SXSW Film Festival (USA 2006), Ann Arbour Film Festival (USA 2006), Hull International Film Festival (UK, 2006) Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal (Canada, 2006), 25 fps (Croatia, 2006).

About the work
Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, 'Sea Change' reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and time, and resonating with the transience of human presence. The frail, hand-painted caravans that fill the site are soon to be removed and crushed to make way for a new housing development, so the film also acts as a kind of document for an unusual place on the brink of disappearance. The film is the artists' response to place. The entire film consists of the same tracking shot, 300 metres long, filmed repeatedly at different times over a period of five days. It is closely akin to documentary in its use of camera as pure recording medium. However any semblance of narrative is rejected in favour of a framework that is at once formal and conceptual. This serves to focus the spectator's eye on the essential elements: the flatness of the landscape punctuated by caravans; the continual and dramatic changes in light; and the unrelenting passage of time.

* Ratings do not contribute to the panel's decision.