Just One Minute More, 2016-2022, Video

Medium
HD video without sound and wallpaper.
Dimensions
Duration: 59 seconds Dimensions variable.
Just One Minute More, 2016 - 2022. Single-channel video and wallpaper. Photo: Ben Westoby
Just One Minute More, (film still), 2016 - 2022. 59 seconds.

Inspired by the short form nature of the GIF – a digital video for quick repetition, a less than one minute clip of Elisabeth Welch singing ‘Stormy Weather’ has been appropriated from Derek Jarman’s film adaptation of ‘The Tempest’ (1979) and re-animated.

Without sound, the ghostly figure of Welch, captured mid-song, sparkles on the screen, and then fades, only to reappear in a continuous motion of turning towards and away from view.

In an endless loop between remembrance and a momentary future tense, geometric abstraction and graphic pixelation suggests a melancholic and mechanical reclamation.

Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) was an American singer and actress who settled in the UK to widespread acclaim in the 1930s and is one of the numerous musicians in Boyce’s ongoing Devotional project.

Devotional series

Wallpaper series

Related theme: Sound / Singing

Related theme: Performance