Pardes (2020)
Film, 6mins, 23 seconds
A film by Jyll Bradley in collaboration with Composer Anna Clyne and Violist Jane Atkins. Commissioned by Scottish Ensemble.
Pardes is a meditation on making the invisible visible. The film opens with the making of a small-scale model of an artwork, registering between plant trellis, shelter and stringed instrument. Placed in the sun the model becomes a generative framework making visible both the sun’s agency and its own creative potential. Weaving through and informing the visual realm of Pardes is a richly composed sound world of new music, spoken text and everyday life.
Pardes will be realised as a major installation for The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in November 2021. Commissioned for the newly renovated warehouse where fruit was once stored and sold, Pardes draws its form from the minimal screen of wood, string and branches invented by a Scottish gardener to bring sunlight and protection to their wall-growing fruit. Whilst at The Fruitmarket Pardes will make a space for new creation; this film heralds this and plants a seed for future collaboration.