Vicky Smith creates works which she describes as ‘Full Body Film’.

Smith uses bodily fluids such as spit and tears as the material basis for the film’s imagery, interspersed with animated scratches on the surface of the celluloid. Smith invites an almost clinical engagement with these internal fluids. Enlarged on the screen, they resemble scientific microscopic images that bring us into an uncanny physical proximity with the artist’s body. The choice of material support - clear leader rather than negative stock - bestows on the film an ethereal quality that elicits both fascination and discomfort.

Kim Knowles

The soundtrack is a hissing, ‘licking’, of the optical soundtrack as the fluids crossover and are read by the sound head.