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The Turn of the Screw |
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Millennium Images is pleased to announce the arrival of the pictures from "The Turn of the Screw", a photographic project by Sally Waterman.
Sally Waterman was born on the Isle of Wight in 1974. She graduated from Goldsmiths College, London with a MA in Image and Communication: Photography. She creates black and white photographic narratives based on literature, which are then presented as cinematic ‘film stills’, displayed in a particular sequence in order to tell a story. She has exhibited in the UK, Germany and the USA and was recently included in ‘Shifting Horizons: Women’s Landscape Photography Now’, a UK touring exhibition and publication, curated by Iris, the Women’s Photography Project at Staffordshire University. Her work has also been published by Virago, Random House and Harper Collins for a variety of book covers.
'The Turn of the Screw’ (2002)
(80 images in sequence: running time approximately 10 minutes)
‘The Turn of the Screw’ is a continuous black-and-white slide projection (or still movie) based on Henry James eerie novel of the same name. It explores the issue of sexual and social unease of Victorian culture through an interplay between the existence of ghosts and the hallucinations of a neurotic governess. In this brief extract, the viewer is encouraged to follow in her footsteps in a circular narrative by a moving sequence of images that trace the moment from seeing a ghost peering in through the window to her futile attempt to catch and confront him by quickly running outside, only to be faced with a discomforting, empty landscape.
The narrative structure is driven by the central female character and her desire to understand what is real and what imagined. However, as she discovers her inner self, she becomes liberated; finding the courage to leave the confines of the room in order to seek the reality of the world outside.
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