Comfort

Over deze film

Evangeline Dobbs, played here by two Amsterdammers and my mum, traverses night shifts, workplace reviews, environmental changes, national borders and physical discomfort in her quest to make an honest* living. Her son, training for a war that never arrives, takes advantage of the time afforded to him by her developed routines.

*For the past two years I have been working part-time as a cleaner in Amsterdam. As an artist my work is materially realised by the work I do outside of the studio. Comfort was my first film to be financially supported by a foundation in conjunction with the income I earn from waged labour. In the past money for artworks have been derived from working in a school, a care home, on an ice cream van, as a tour guide and a waitress. In Amsterdam this has taken the form of cleaning houses, and when back in the UK maintaining the coal and wood fires for an old museum. A great deal of the footage in Comfort was shot in these areas of work.