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Arabella Turner

schrijven , Geluid , film , Ecologie , Digitaal , Audiovisueel , Artistiek onderzoek

Arabella Turner (UK/NL) makes films, audio-visual installations and text works. Bringing together writing, sound, image and staging, and drawing on place-based research, she builds narrative works that move across multiple time periods and set animals, ecological systems and technologies alongside the human as characters or witnesses.

In Long Grass
In Long Grass - An unseen narrator hides in the long grass of Friesland from a tyrant king. In Long Grass was created during a micro-residency at Het Lage Noorden. The film’s text emerged from a collaborative writing process between Aitana Lopez and Arabella Turner.
Wall Writings (Vol. 2)
Wall Writings (Vol. 2) - Wall Writings (Vol. 2) is part of an ongoing series exploring writing as an expansive, spatial practice. This series was exhibited as part of GRAW at Noranje Studio (Rotterdam).
Garden
Garden - Garden is the most recent collectively edited video work by FilmDak. FilmDak is a rendezvous platform and club for film, video art, and moving image makers hosted by TOT. This community-building initiative offers lens-based artists a space to share work in progress, receive feedback, organize workshops, crits, and other ideas with each other; a place for makers that need space, collaboration, or connections during their creative process. For more information and/or to become a member, contact TOT. Collective editing filmmakers: Aitana López Rodrigo: @aitanalopezrodrigo, Arabella Turner: @arabella__turner, Ariela Bergman: @arielabergman, Dorothy Cheung:@dorothy_films, Enrico Piffer: @enrico_piffer, Jingfeng Shen: @jingfeng_shen, Lavinia Xausa: @lavina_xausa, Rodolfo Ferro: @rodolfovferro, Salvador Miranda: @smiranda.es, Te Petchara: @taaaaaaaaeto, Tess Martin: @tessmartinart, Tesse Baardman; @tessebaardman, and Yana Lineva: @y.ana.lineva
Bury/Imprint/Tunnel (trailer)
Imprint/Tunnel/Bury - Excerpt from Imprint/Tunnel/Bury, a work-in-progress audio work developed across multiple formats: audio walk, radio play, and installation.
As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper (trailer)
As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper (trailer) - In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals. Through geological, technological, animal and human gazes we traverse between these two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place.
FilmDakLeaks
FilmDakLeaks - Basements and attics are places where we hide precious things, old memories, or forgotten objects, but they are also spaces for experimentation and trial. In its first presentation outside the TOT building, FilmDak has descended from the attic to the basement to present FilmDakLeaks, a site-specific work that serves as a collective statement. Invited by the Studio's Lange Hilleweg 235 and inspired by the damp atmosphere of its basement, we have created a video loop. Somewhere between Cadavre Exquis and the Telephone Game, each of us worked individually for three days, editing from a shared video archive before passing it on to the next member. Through this process, we have explored the nature of collaboration—its uneasiness, unpredictability, and the ways in which individual gestures can shape and transform the collective. Contributors: Aitana López Rodrigo, Arabella Turner, Ariela Bergman, Flora Reznik, Jue Yang, Lavinia Xausa, Panida ʻTeʼ Petchara, Salvador Miranda, Sam Koopman and Tess Martin
Their Singing Shifts the Soil
Their Singing Shifts the Soil - Image taken from exhibition Their Singing Shifts the Soil, where I exhibited the film Bury/Imprint/Tunnel.
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY exhibition
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY exhibition - Image from CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY exhibition, where I exhibited the project As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper. Digital video, single channel, 15 min. Ink pen on paper, 101cm x 180cm.
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper - A still from short film As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper. In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals. As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper weaves geological, technological, animal and human gazes to traverse between two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place. Accompanying the film are two sets of drawings that expand on upon the narrative strucutre of the film.
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper BTS
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper BTS - BTS from As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper
I have Despair and Paper (a.k.a. Love and Paper)
I have Despair and Paper (a.k.a. Love and Paper) - Short film made during a portraiture workshop with the artist Res. A wandering note and a memory of a film shop meet at the bottom of an active volcano.

Winter Sessions

Datum:
Locatie: Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: V@_Lab for Unstable Media

WinterSessions is a one‑week production residency aimed at developing a clear concept into a presentable sketch. The residency offers a highly productive atmosphere with support, feedback, and expert supervision.
After a week residency at V2_, the artists will further develop their work in their own studios. During this period, the group will regularly meet with V2_ staff — both individually and as a full group — to exchange ideas and further shape their work.

https://v2.nl/events/wintersessions-2026

GRAW at Noranje Studio

Datum:
Locatie: Oranjeboomstraat 297 3071 SP Rotterdam South
In samenwerking met: Noranje Studio and FilmDak

Noranje is housed in a former school and karate academy, sharing the building with a working mosque. It's a temporary art space currently housing individual and group studios. During GRAW studios, it opens its doors to non-residential artists. Noranje also collaborates with Filmdak, a meeting platform for film, video art, and moving image, located in the Oranjeboom Atelier Building.

Reverse Affinities

Datum:
Locatie: Friseland

A short residency to conincide with the exhibition Reverse Infinities.

FilmDakLeaks

Datum:
Locatie: Studio's Lange Hilleweg 235
In samenwerking met: South Explorer and Art Rotterdam

Basements and attics are places where we hide precious things, old memories, or forgotten objects, but they are also spaces for experimentation and trial. In its first presentation outside the TOT building, FilmDak has descended from the attic to the basement to present FilmDakLeaks, a site-specific work that serves as a collective statement.

Attrition

Datum:
Locatie: Pauilhac, France
In samenwerking met: Au Brana Centre

A residency on the theme of Attrition supported by Culture Moves Europe.

CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY

Datum:
Locatie: V2 Lab for Unstable Media, UBIK/WORM
In samenwerking met: V2 Lab for Unstable Media, UBIK/WORM

Master students of the Lens-Based Media programme at the Piet Zwart Institute invite you to their graduation show at V2 and WORM, Rotterdam.

We are here and we need to tell you something. CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY brings attention to urgent questions through the practice of moving image. Along 14 distinct works, each their own current, we explore personal, political and ecological concerns in the world we live in.

Flying Ideas

Datum:
Locatie: WORM
In samenwerking met: WORM

Flying Ideas is a collective space for works-in-progress. We recognise that the processes of development in between finished works are where we spend most of our time. Yet, this time is often hidden, or if anything is whispered about; it is rarely brought to the forefront, instead attention is focused on the ‘final’ outcome.

As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper

Datum:
Locatie: Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: WORM

In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals.

As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper weaves geological, technological, animal and human gazes to traverse between two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place. Accompanying the film are two sets of drawings that expand on upon the na

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