Elen of the Roads, 2009-2026. Experimental film.Super8 8mm cine film.

Описание: The 'Elen of the Roads' title is Elen Luyddog from the Welsh 'Mabinogion' legends [Y Mabinogi], inspiration for the project. Film was Kodak 64T
Super8 cine film, and the initial sequence had been home-processed, including solarisation. Camera was Nizo 801. Soundtrack by Zoneroom / Omnavibe.
Final section was Super8mm Kodak Vision light-sensitive film.

Started work on this project c.2009, it was filmed in Wales & southern England. Night roads were filmed on the Nizo 'Auto B' setting.

The project was shelved, almost lost, for years, due to technical difficulties & 100s of metres of VHS video footage, which were never eventually
used, because unsatisfactory; the cine footage was always far superior. Over a decade later, I was finally able to pull all the cine footage together.

Helen or Elen's Road, in Wales, is mythologically 'Sarn Helen', "the route is named after Saint Elen of Caernarfon, a Celtic saint, whose story is told in The Dream
of Macsen Wledig, part of the Mabinogion", & I have used her association with British roads, generally, as the inspiration for this short film. The name Elain, in Middle
Welsh, means a female deer, hind or doe.

A stretch of Sarn Helen, ancient track-way, was filmed for the project.

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