Harton Moor

Harton Moor: Introduction

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Harton Moor: Dave

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Harton Moor: Flowers

00:36

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Harton Moor: Snow

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Animation

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Harton Moor (2022) is an animated guided tour of a 1970’s council estate in South Shields, presented as an idealised architectural model set against the personal narrative of a child resident, Jessica. The 1:1 representation of the streets and houses of Harton Moor is rendered in uncanny detail within a colourless, translucent world without the marks of human interaction.

A pristine virtual flyover of the site is interrupted by the messy realities described by Jessica, revealing the complex relationships on her street. Offering elements of truth and fiction, Harton Moor exposes the friction between the perspectives of the imagined architect and actual resident, where reality sits somewhere in between.

Commissioned by:

FACT Liverpool

Supported by:

Hervisions

The Granada Foundation

The Nora Smith Charitable Settlement