Tailings
- ArtBomb
- Aug 6
- 1 min read
(2019) Rob Gawthrop | 6m | QT Movie
ArtBomb'25 | Saturday 16 August | 11am-1pm @ Unitarian Church
Tailings are the material left after separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an ore. Such material is pumped into a water reservoir. The interaction of the metal wastes with algae produces unusual colours.
Filmed from a single position at Wheal Maid tailings lagoon, Gwennap, Cornwall, April 2018, using 16mm colour negative film scanned and edited digitally. Audio, including a football rattle played around the lagoon and two bowed bell cymbals, recorded in stereo digitally.
Location sound, camera and text Rob Gawthrop. Audio recording and video editing Jo Millett.
