Laurus Film Festival, Moldova, Kzakhstan, Belarus 2021 (Semi - Finalist)

Etnovideográfica Film Festival, Zamora, Spain, 2020 (Nominated Jury Prize)

Bartlett Screening Room, London, 2021 

Having presented this ruined landscape, artist/filmmaker James Davoll sets up his narrative with a careful focus on the material itself. This is presented through a series of lingering frames tracing the process of quarrying slate from mountain, to tile, to crate. It is not until halfway through ‘Splitting Stone’ that we even see a human being. These workers serve the material as actors in a Fordist production line, masters of their repetitive actions, splitting stone in a cacophony of machine noise.”  Henrietta Williams - Bartlett Screening Room.