Over summer 2019, John Walter was Cement Fields’ North Kent Artist in Residence, researching ideas towards a new artwork, Jezreel’s Tower.
Jezreel’s Tower will be a new artist’s moving image work that tells the story of James Jershom Jezreel, his apocalyptic Victorian cult and the building of their headquarters in Gillingham.
The project, John’s first feature-length film, builds on the 2018 film A Virus Walks Into A Bar, compositing material from Virtual Reality designed and build sets and 360-degree camera live-action shots. Jezreel’s Tower will combine narrative film strategies with the artists ongoing interest in the “shonky” production values of video collage, in order to generate a new type of animated pictorial space.
The project has been kindly supported by Kent County Council.
Read The Flying Roll, John Walter’s introduction to the ideas and images behind Jezreel’s Tower