Smoking Moon - Camden Art Centre

Smoking Moon is a thirteen minute black and white film.

Like a creature from the ocean depths, an ancient crescent moon hangs in a black void smoking a cigarette. Smoking Moon is at once an illusion, a trick with light, a self portrait and a recording of a performance. This charming and witty film is desperately sad yet funny; lonely yet affecting. Using 16mm film for the first time, at Camden Arts Centre Austen presented Smoking Moon – the first in a series of films he intended to make.

The Artist

The Artist

David Austen is an artist whose work moves between abstraction and figuration. He makes watercolours of tiny figures; careful paintings of trees, texts and stars, and more recently constructions of wire, card and plaster. Often unashamedly nostalgic, his work speaks of fragility and longing.