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To return again. To re-align is the object of these visits, perhaps. Geography of origin becoming catalyst for an inner re-alignment with the secret, private, unspoken work of one's being. Peering into layers, sliding planes of windows and time, the fragmentary gesture of the dance. A series of rapid contrasts, a synthesis of elemental and everyday experience. Structures shift and intermingle, two worlds become one.

James Edmonds is a filmmaker and painter from England living in Berlin. His work is driven by a personal poetics which explores the intersection of the recorded image as a material, formal reality and subjective experience as a synthesis of everyday existence and memory. His films, paintings and sound works are sometimes combined in space along with found materials, suggesting complex overlapping subjectivities and landscapes. He has presented work at film festivals such as TIFF Toronto, NYFF New York, L'âge d'Or Brussels, Flex Fest Florida, Process Festival Riga and Fronteira Festival Brasil. Solo presentations have occurred at 3 137 Athens, Cinema Parenthèse Brussels, Nocturnal Reflections Milan, Auslands-Filme Berlin and Another Vacant Space Berlin. He occasionally also writes and since 2015 organises a film series in Berlin called Light Movement.