Format: Unyet released in physical format
Website: Abstractions of Holderness
Company: Blanche Pictures
Year: Feb 19, 2017 (Premiere)

a collaborative work by
Esther Johnson and
Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs

music performed by
BBC Concert Orchestra

cinematography and editing by
Esther Johnson

Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. The film is shot on the Holderness coast, familiar territory from Esther’s childhood. Kirchin, an English drummer and composer, is known as a pioneer of musique concrète and has been described by Brian Eno as, “a founding father of ambient”.