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.