Sion Marshall-Waters
Artist Filmmaker
Director,
Stills Photographer.
About Me:
My Work and Credits:
Thieves Again (2019)
About:
Thieves Again is a Research and Development project supported by Arts Council of Wales.
The film explores lived experiences and perspectives of the Black Mountains in South Wales, piecing together a portrait of community and belonging in contemporary Welsh rural life.
Through a series of split-screen vignettes that focus on those working and living in the hills all year round, the film evokes the mundane and peculiar as much as the poetic and romantic aspects of life in this area. In turn, the film gives voice to a way of life challenged by globalisation and modern capitalism.
Framed by a story about a shed and the birth of a lamb, Thieves Again follows people, processes and perspectives to question the subtle tension between decline and transition in culture and identity.
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Composed with integrity and intimacy these snapshots of lives lived within the Black Mountains open up vistas of possibility that even Bruce Chatwin would have applauded
- Andrew Kötting, Filmmaker
A vivid act of witness to often overlooked lives, labour and landscapes by a young film-maker whose sensitivity, combined with a subtle eye and ear, derive from the authority of a shared and common ground.
- Gareth Evans, Adjunct Moving Image Curator, Whitechapel Gallery
The film explores lived experiences and perspectives of the Black Mountains in South Wales, piecing together a portrait of community and belonging in contemporary Welsh rural life.
Through a series of split-screen vignettes that focus on those working and living in the hills all year round, the film evokes the mundane and peculiar as much as the poetic and romantic aspects of life in this area. In turn, the film gives voice to a way of life challenged by globalisation and modern capitalism.
Framed by a story about a shed and the birth of a lamb, Thieves Again follows people, processes and perspectives to question the subtle tension between decline and transition in culture and identity.
--
Composed with integrity and intimacy these snapshots of lives lived within the Black Mountains open up vistas of possibility that even Bruce Chatwin would have applauded
- Andrew Kötting, Filmmaker
A vivid act of witness to often overlooked lives, labour and landscapes by a young film-maker whose sensitivity, combined with a subtle eye and ear, derive from the authority of a shared and common ground.
- Gareth Evans, Adjunct Moving Image Curator, Whitechapel Gallery