hayley barker
work 2003-2005

still from Running before the darkness falls,

a video  featured in Portland Modern, among other places

video 7:28 minutes
I run over the Hawthorne Bridge at twilight. The entire video is from one take, one continuous shot.
Blue skies turn black. Lights turn on. People, bikes, cars, and buses pass me. I see the bridge, then
the path, then everything all at once, in the darkness made beautiful with traffic
lights. As the running progresses the footage becomes more abstract, more gestural...