I was at Latitude Festival last weekend working on some visuals for a new Laurence Wilson play, Tiny Volcanoes. Duckie were also there that weekend and asked me to film some of their events for their website. Progressive middle class entertainment at it’s best.
I filmed this beautiful song from Alice Klar the other week. Chris Hilderbrand was on the second camera. Chris also edited the piece – what a lovely job.
Last I was part of a team of three camera people who worked on a project by artist Rineke Dijkstra called ‘I See a Woman Crying’. The project creates video portraits of school children from Liverpool, looking at ‘uninhibited moments’. The installation opened at the Tate in Liverpool this week and is also due to open in Brussels, Paris and New York.
This is a film I edited for Robyn Woolston which is part of ‘RIPOSTE: A POST EXCHANGE’ as part of ‘GLOBAL STUDIO’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (04-06/10) + Salzamt & Maerz, Linz, Austria (07-09/10)
Robyn’s description and ideas behind the work are below:
“Formulaically captured at head height: My face/the space/my face/the space…… By autobiographically ‘situating’ my response within the context of the concentration camp I am revealing the etched ‘effect’ of death itself.
I am sharing the context of my physical sensation and elevating an expression of grief by publicly sharing its context…to ‘give’ as a mitzvah (def:a good deed performed out of religious duty). To bear witness as a women and as a child who’s lost her mother, and poignantly, as a secular jew.
…And then to loop and layer the images into a ‘landscape’ that transposes the space of the face and embeds it within the architecture of the environment so it mirrors, ghosts and repeats like death itself.”
The work featuring in this film was created by young people from Merseyside working in response to Kneehigh’s production of Hansel & Gretel. I wanted to give the film a darker edge in line with the fairy tale itself. I filmed my friend Roy putting up the installation at the Liverpool Playhouse. The video below captures this process in timelapse using my iphone.