Hayward Gallery Exhibition, London, p. 150. The Arts Council of Great Britain, London.

"In more recent work I am concerned with making my presence more explicit at a decision-making level during a predetermined shooting procedure: a situation where my personal interference with the relationship already established between the camera and its subject matter can be an integral part of the formal actualisation of the film. In Seven Days the camera motion is determined by the rotation of earth in relation to the sun. The length of the take is determined by local weather conditions. The motion of the sun as the earth rotates is easily predetermined. The length of each take, however, cannot be predetermined and depends on my presence for its determination."

"My films begin as a "musical feeling" about the spacial and temporal disposition of the component parts of a landscape. My aim is to mediate between the predicable and the unpredictable elements of the situation. My intention is to make films which are not about, but a part of this situation in its entirety."

Chris Welsby – 1979