Jayne Parker

TRIFORIUM (2021)

The film takes its name from the place where it was filmed, the triforium of London's Westminster Abbey, a gallery hidden from view for 700 years, that runs sixteen metres high above the floor of the nave. Accompanied by Laurence's Crane's music, the film ...

Amaryllis - A Study (2020)

A short study of the interior of amaryllis flowers, shot on 16mm film. The central pistol, the stamens and the anthers, which produce the yellow pollen, are set against the colour field of the petals. ...

A Floral Tribute for Essex Road (2019)

A short study of the interior of amaryllis flowers, shot on 16mm film. The central pistol, the stamens and the anthers, which produce the yellow pollen, are set against the colour field of the petals. ...

The Oblique (2018)

"The music, 'Blues in B-flat' by Volker Heyn, performed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, provides the framework for The Oblique. The title comes from an instruction in the score: 'oblique down stroke' — a call to the cellist to use an oblique bow. In the f ...

Blues in B Flat (2000)

In this film, the cellist is both a musician and a protagonist. In the final section he must introduce a second bow to play on the underside of the strings, a strangely intrusive act. The film opens in a music repair shop and we see the interior of a cello ...

59 1/2 seconds for a string player (versions 1-3) (part of Foxfire Eins) (2000)

Composed by John Cage in 1953, and played by Anton Lukoszevieze, there are several versions of this film, each lasting a minute. Despite being played from the same score, the films can appear to sound different - depending on what you see. Exhilarating and ...

Strong Women (2000)

Two contrasting portraits of magnificently strong women: champion body builder Andrulla Blanchette and trapeze artist Vicki Amedume. Strength displayed and strength employed. ...

Reunion (1998)

The Reunion brings together dancers Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary, partnering each other again, for the first time in over thirty years.The Reunion explores the shifting power relationship between a man and a woman who meet again after a long separation ...

The Whirlpool (1997)

A short film by Jayne Parker ...

Thinking Twice (1997)

Thinking Twice features the pianist Katharina Wolpe playing music composed by her father Stefan Wolpe. Stefan Wolpe's work is renowned for its originality and rigour, its sense of space and surprise. The unique and vital contribution of this important avan ...

Crystal Aquarium (1995)

There are four performers in the film - a drummer, a swimmer, an ice skater and a fourth woman. Although the protagonists never appear together they are inextricably bound up by their actions. Meaning is conveyed through movement and its associated sound a ...

The Pool (1991)

A woman stands in the deep end of an empty and disused swimming pool. She wipes her face and stomach with her hands to clean away blood. She places her hands on the outstretched arm of a man who lifts her into the air and catches her where she falls. An ee ...

K. (1989)

Almost Out (1986)

A confrontation/statement with fragments of dialogue between a mother, a daughter and a cameraman. ...

I Dish (1983)

In 'I Dish' a naked woman dredges in filthy water. What is she looking for? Gold? Something she's lost? She brings up a series of barbaric-looking bits of metal, nasty looking hooks. In a film which has considered notions of nourishment, sex, love, cleanli ...

Free Show (1979)

A film in three acts, each act prefaced by a short circus act. Act 1 – Cutting liver, Act II – Ironing, Act III – Plucking Eyebrows. Three potentially violent domestic activities performed by a woman. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she ...

The Pool (1991)

A woman stands in the deep end of an empty and disused swimming pool. She wipes her face and stomach with her hands to clean away blood. She places her hands on the outstretched arm of a man who lifts her into the air and catches her where she falls. An ee ...