Filmed during a strange trip with Annette Kemp to Windsor Safari Park and its sea-life attraction. There were seals, dolphins and at least one orca in pretty small pools. Annette was strongly embedded in a dolphin-consciousness community in Penzance and had arranged a visit to the park which was closed, either for the winter or for good. She almost stripped-off and jumped into the orca’s pool – not sure whether I dissuaded her or she independently changed her mind. The one member of staff who took us to the dolphins explained how they balanced the cost of heating the water against the amount of food the unfortunate incarcerated mammals needed to survive – colder water, more food.
Annette Kemp was a force of nature, chosen to lead the third iteration of the film and video workshop in 1987. I was appointed senior technician using the skills I’d learned in the first year-long project. I was excluded from the second year after the leader did a dirty on all the workers and abandoned our plans to continue as a cooperative. He restarted with a new intake as it was a government job creation scheme – the Community Programme.