Delia Derbyshire, Madelon Hooykaas, and Elsa Stansfield
When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself
The film program brings together rarely screened early collaborations between Delia Derbyshire, Madelon Hooykaas, Anthony Roland, and Elsa Stansfield: Circle of Light (1972), Daydreams (1972), One of These Days (1973), About Bridges (1975), and Moving (1975). In these works, images and sounds drift between the everyday and the imaginary. Field recordings dissolve into electronic textures and voices echo against urban landscapes and domestic settings. Layered rhythms emerge through their interplay that can be heard as much as seen and felt. At the transition from film to video, these works from the 1970s convey a new sensibility for shared experimentation in the pursuit of new audiovisual languages.
Completing the program is a new video by Keta Gavasheli, developed in dialogue with the sonic intervention Alchemists of Sound in Düsseldorf’s Hofgarten earlier in the fall. Gavasheli’s lens-based practice engages the resonances and vibrations Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow and Lilli Lake teased from Henry Moore’s bronze. Camera and magnifying glass linger on the sculpture’s surfaces, tracing textures and contours, unsettling scale and perception.
The films and videos will remain on show throughout the festival until Saturday, November 29, 2025.
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