Today is the first day of my AHRC-funded PhD centred on my collection of Super 8 films.
PhD Start
Ben Rivers – The Two Eyes are not Brothers
Television Centre, Wood Lane, London
Heaven is a Place
Treasuredome Programme
The ICCI 360 degree video dome is next to the Weymouth Pavilion on the sea front. Find a map here.
The programmes run from 11.00 on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 August 2012 – see details below.
Entry is free to all programmes except the evening slot on Friday.
Friday evening features a premiere of a selection from Kerry Baldry’s One Minute artists’ film project. This is followed by a performance by internationally acclaimed sonic artist Scanner and the night is rounded off by two hours of 360 degree immersive VJing. All for £8! Tickets available here – search for Scanner on their page.
| FRIDAY 10 AUGUST 2012 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11.00 | Animate Programme | |
| Rough Machines Super Whip (Jordan Baseman) Galaxy (Jordan Baseman) Stop. Watch. Make it Snow! Make it Snow! Make it Snow! (Manu Luksch) Damage Limitation (Phil Coy) The Deracinator (Simon Woolham) Atlantis (Christine Ödlund) Coastcards Edgeland Mutter (Andrew Kötting) Teign Spirit (Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker) Love Brid (Susan Collins) Digitalis Someone behind the door knocks at irregular intervals (James Lowne) Allegory of Mrs. Triangle (Noriko Okaku) 1923 aka Heaven (Max Hattler) 1925 aka Hell (Max Hattler) ‘VERSE (Tony Comley) Workers’ Playtime (David Theobald) Of Unknown Origin (Edwin Rostron) Engine Angelic (Katerina Athanasopoulou) Five Year Plan (Matilda Tristram) Random Acts: Apocalypse Apocalypse Rhyme (Oliver Harrison) Shift (Max Hattler) Ylem (Jo Lawrence) The Banker (Phil Mulloy) Z (Alan Warburton) Total running time: 70 minutes | Free | |
| 12.20 | TD1 – Room with a View | |
| Low-lying Cloud silent (Derek Hart) Nectar (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Monument (Chris Meigh-Andrews) | Free | |
| 13.00 | TD2 – Room for Reflection | |
| Rêve Neige (Thomas Summers) Dreams of Victoria silent (James Jones Morris) Teign Spirit (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Worlds Apart (Olga Koroleva) I Remember (Minou Norouzi) Dive, Appropriation by Intruder (Larisa Blazic) Eternity (Rishi Pruthi) Colours (Sarah Bowman) | Free | |
| 13.45 | TD3 – Room to Move | |
| Porcelina (Kimberley Cupples) Blind Torrent (Ruth Way and Russell Frampton) Maelstrom (Jack Hague) Change (Udo Heudelmaier) Verge 360 (Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker) | Free | |
| 14.30 | TD1 – Room with a View | |
| Low-lying Cloud silent (Derek Hart) Nectar (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Monument (Chris Meigh-Andrews) | Free | |
| 15.15 | TD2 – Room for Reflection | |
| Rêve Neige (Thomas Summers) Dreams of Victoria silent (James Jones Morris) Teign Spirit (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Worlds Apart (Olga Koroleva) I Remember (Minou Norouzi) Dive, Appropriation by Intruder (Larisa Blazic) Eternity (Rishi Pruthi) Colours (Sarah Bowman) | Free | |
| 16.00 | TD3 – Room to Move | |
| Porcelina (Kimberley Cupples) Blind Torrent (Ruth Way and Russell Frampton) Maelstrom (Jack Hague) Change (Udo Heudelmaier) Verge 360 (Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker) | Free | |
| 17.00 – Closed | ||
| 19.00 – Doors open | ||
| 19.15 | One Minute Programme | £8 – book here |
| Curated by Kerry Baldry includes sixty second films from the following artists: Martin Pickles, Alex Pearl, Steven Ball, Gordon Dawson, Michael Szpakowski, Virginia Hilyard, Barry Lewis, Nick Jordan, Claire Morales, Nicki Rolls, Kerry Baldry, Riccardo Iacono, Eva Rudlinger, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic), Esther Johnson, Lumiere: Sam Renseiw & Son: Philip Sanderson, Katharine Meynell, Stuart Pound, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Ron Diorio, Daniela Butsch, Guy Sherwin, Louisa Minkin, Rose Butler, Dave Griffiths. | ||
| 20.00 | Scanner | |
| Borders, Unto the Edges | ||
| 21.00 | VJ Night | |
| 23.00 | Close |
| SATURDAY 11 AUGUST 2012 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11.00 | TD1 – Room with a View | |
| Low-lying Cloud silent (Derek Hart) Nectar (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Monument (Chris Meigh-Andrews) | Free | |
| 11.50 | TD2 – Room for Reflection | |
| Rêve Neige (Thomas Summers) Dreams of Victoria silent (James Jones Morris) Teign Spirit (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Worlds Apart (Olga Koroleva) I Remember (Minou Norouzi) Dive, Appropriation by Intruder (Larisa Blazic) Eternity (Rishi Pruthi) Colours (Sarah Bowman) | Free | |
| 12.30 | TD3 – Room to Move | |
| Porcelina (Kimberley Cupples) Blind Torrent (Ruth Way and Russell Frampton) Maelstrom (Jack Hague) Change (Udo Heudelmaier) Verge 360 (Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker) | Free | |
| 13.10 | Animate Programme | |
| Rough Machines Super Whip (Jordan Baseman) Galaxy (Jordan Baseman) Stop. Watch. Make it Snow! Make it Snow! Make it Snow! (Manu Luksch) Damage Limitation (Phil Coy) The Deracinator (Simon Woolham) Atlantis (Christine Ödlund) Coastcards Edgeland Mutter (Andrew Kötting) Teign Spirit (Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker) Love Brid (Susan Collins) Digitalis Someone behind the door knocks at irregular intervals (James Lowne) Allegory of Mrs. Triangle (Noriko Okaku) 1923 aka Heaven (Max Hattler) 1925 aka Hell (Max Hattler) ‘VERSE (Tony Comley) Workers’ Playtime (David Theobald) Of Unknown Origin (Edwin Rostron) Engine Angelic (Katerina Athanasopoulou) Five Year Plan (Matilda Tristram) Random Acts: Apocalypse Apocalypse Rhyme (Oliver Harrison) Shift (Max Hattler) Ylem (Jo Lawrence) The Banker (Phil Mulloy) Z (Alan Warburton) Total running time: 70 minutes | Free | |
| 14.30 | TD1 – Room with a View | |
| Low-lying Cloud silent (Derek Hart) Nectar (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Monument (Chris Meigh-Andrews) | Free | |
| 15.10 | TD2 – Room for Reflection | |
| Rêve Neige (Thomas Summers) Dreams of Victoria silent (James Jones Morris) Teign Spirit (Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore) Worlds Apart (Olga Koroleva) I Remember (Minou Norouzi) Dive, Appropriation by Intruder (Larisa Blazic) Eternity (Rishi Pruthi) Colours (Sarah Bowman) | Free | |
| 15.50 | TD3 – Room to Move | |
| Porcelina (Kimberley Cupples) Blind Torrent (Ruth Way and Russell Frampton) Maelstrom (Jack Hague) Change (Udo Heudelmaier) Verge 360 (Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker) | Free | |
| 16.30 | One Minute Programme | |
| Curated by Kerry Baldry includes sixty second films from the following artists: Martin Pickles, Alex Pearl, Steven Ball, Gordon Dawson, Michael Szpakowski, Virginia Hilyard, Barry Lewis, Nick Jordan, Claire Morales, Nicki Rolls, Kerry Baldry, Riccardo Iacono, Eva Rudlinger, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic), Esther Johnson, Lumiere: Sam Renseiw & Son: Philip Sanderson, Katharine Meynell, Stuart Pound, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Ron Diorio, Daniela Butsch, Guy Sherwin, Louisa Minkin, Rose Butler, Dave Griffiths. | Free | |
| 17.00 | Close |
Patrick Keiller
We took a trip to Bristol to hear Patrick Keiller’s talk “The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image” at Watershed in Bristol.
Keiller’s approach to documentary is highly influential – the locked-off framing of London and his thoughts on the filmmaker as contemporary flâneur resonate with my films Cinematic City and the earlier Sea Front. Keiller addresses Martin Heidegger’s concept of ‘dwelling’ and people’s almost instinctive (or is it habitual?) preference for the homely, the cozy. Plymouth’s city centre was flattened and redeveloped after World War Two and generates a strong reaction – the urban planning and architecture is on a scale beyond the domestic and maybe feels inhospitable to some people, or perhaps the clearance caused a rupture in the human history of the place.
Meanwhile to the east of Plymouth farmland is being bulldozed to create a new Poundbury-style neo-Georgian toy-town. Prince Charles wants to “build again the types of places we all know strike a chord in our, by now, rather bewildered hearts, however ‘modern’ we are – places that convey an everlasting human story of meaning and belonging”.
Watershed’s notes:
Trained architect-turned filmmaker Patrick Keiller is one of the most distinctive voices in cinema and in this talk he talks to Nick Bradshaw (web editor Sight & Sound) about his film Robinson in Ruins which forms… Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave the film is one of the outcomes of a three-year research project entitled The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image In this talk Patrick Keiller discusses the… origins of the film his research notions of landscape economy and ownership and his wider body of work as a filmmaker and researcher Patrick Keiller studied architecture at University College London and fine art in the…
Trained architect-turned filmmaker Patrick Keiller is one of the most distinctive voices in cinema, and in this talk he talks to Nick Bradshaw (web editor, Sight & Sound) about his film Robinson in Ruins, which forms part of a collection of feature-length cine-essays setting out to examine a particular ‘problem’.
Following the journey of Robinson, an enigmatic, and esoteric intellectual who travels through Tory Britain, Robinson in Ruins examines the problem dwelling itself, focusing on the discrepancy between mobility and displacement in developed economies, and a widespread tendency to privilege and romanticise modes of dwelling that derive from a more settled, agricultural past.
Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, the film is one of the outcomes of a three-year research project entitled The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image.
In this talk, Patrick Keiller discusses the origins of the film, his research, notions of landscape, economy, and ownership, and his wider body of work as a filmmaker and researcher.
Patrick Keiller studied architecture at University College London and fine art in the Department of Environmental Media at the RCA. His films include London(1994) and Robinson in Space (1997), the latter extended as a book in 1999. He is a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art in the Department of Communication Art & Design.
Nick Bradshaw is a film critic and web editor at Sight & Sound, who has previously worked as Deputy Film Editor for Time Out. He has also written for the Telegraph, Guardian Online, Times, Independent on Sunday, Village Voice, and LA Weekly.
Related Links:
The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image
Patrick Keiller BFI
Robinson in Ruins Guardian Review
Cinematic City
Cinematic City is a film commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre. It had its premiere with two outdoor screenings next to the sea at Plymouth’s Hoe Lido on 15 & 16 July 2011
The following proposal was chosen by the commissioning panel at Plymouth Arts Centre
strategy
Using audio material from SWFTA films, such as the Westward Diary local news programme, I will create a montage of sound to capture echoes of the past. The archive has, for example, episodes of Westward Diary featuring the narration of Kenneth MacLeod, which ran on the ITV channel in the South West from the late 1960s. I intend the sound elements to act as a springboard for exploration, filming the urban built environment in Plymouth using digital SLR technology – a Canon 5D MkII camera that produces an exquisite visual aesthetic, a hybrid of ultra-high quality still and moving images that enable the work to be viewed on a small screen and as a large-scale projection onto the exterior of buildings.
I will make a moving image artwork of 3 to 5 minutes duration which will be delivered to audiences on urban screens, including the Plymouth Big Screen, and online via Vimeo, YouTube or iTunes, and using portable devices. The film will work effectively as an installation piece, or projection where the image is foregrounded, but will also have a richly textured soundtrack to be enjoyed on headphones or during cinema projection.
context
I have recently been developing a personal film–making practice by focusing on the remediation of archive material through the process of digitisation, which allows for new meanings and contexts to be created. In 2009 for my postgraduate studies I made the film Sea Front from my personal archive of Super 8mm source material of Plymouth. The silent filming was mixed with contemporary, but not contiguous, sound recorded on location. Sea Front received the Trick of the Light Award from the London Short Film Festival and a Media Innovation Award in the Independent Film category. In the same year I worked with artist film-maker Kayla Parker to produce the short moving image artwork Teign Spirit which used archive material collaged with new audio and high definition digital imagery.
The Cinema City Artists’ Moving Image commission will enable me to develop my area of practice further, and to explore my connection with the city through the long–forgotten sounds of local television from the 20th Century. The audio is evocative, partly because it is very much ‘of its time’ both technically and sociologically, but also because it was produced to be heard in a domestic environment accompanying the images on the small screens of the day. The TV station was truly local to Plymouth, with its purpose–built Derry’s Cross studios situated right in the city centre – its transmissions permeating the urban landscape, but also reflecting the city back to itself.