Phil Coy

A trilogy of coastal films by artist Phil Coy is showing Friday 6th September at The Market Hall, Suffolk.

Avoiding Green (2017) channels the medium of knitting and a hitherto little known history of a small, but global, army of knitters, both at sea and onshore.

Wordland (2008) bears witness to the eroding east coast of England and the devastating effects of floods on North Norfolk. Filmed in and around the villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, Coy’s film combines interviews, field recordings, archive footage of the flood of 1953, and a specially commissioned sound score from musician, Alexander Tucker.

Grit (2024) registers that indistinct border between land and sea. Emerging from the increasingly murky depths of the sea, the film draws on the little-known phenomena of ‘coastal darkening’ a steady decline in water clarity, and a literal darkening of waters around the world’s coastlines over the last century.

Friday 6th September
7pm
The Market Hall, Saxmundham, IP17 1AF