Duncan Whitley (born UK, 1974) is an artist working predominantly with sound and the moving-image. His practice synthesizes the languages of cinema, documentary and spatial sound art.
He has presented site-specific projects, audiovisual works, installations and live multi-channel sound works in the UK, Europe and South America. Duncan was a commissioned artist for b-side’s 2014 Festival producing the popular Writing of Stones at St George’s Church Reforne.
He is currently Coventry Biennial artist in residence at Coventry University’s School of Media and Performing Arts.
For b-side 2022
Kimberlin is an experimental short film about the discovery of an underground cinema cavern on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. The uncanny discovery and subsequent breaking news begin to generate speculation amongst islanders as to who created the cavern and the cannisters of super-8mm film found within it.
Filmed exclusively on Portland in the months following the United Kingdom’s European Union membership referendum and scored with Abul Mogard’s dense, layered Farfisa organ tones, Kimberlin takes the viewer on a journey imbued with an ambiguous sense of (be)longing and loneliness.
