Application materials 22-09-11

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Quiet Skies A Future Manifest (single screen film)

Footage of Heathrow airport at a standstill, closed due to a no fly zone imposed by a volcanic ash cloud is overlaid by Marinetti’s 11 points from the Futurist Manifesto read out by computer.

Towards A Disarmament Of Theatrical Cinematography (installation)

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Towards a Disarmament is a piece of live or 'direct cinema'. 3 cctv cameras and a video switcher are connected to a clock. The clock doesn't so much tell the time (it wavers back and forth over a second), as tell the pace and instruct the live, machine-ordained cut.

With a nod to Vertov and his rally cry against the lazy institutional mode of representation so loved of the thriller genre best represented by countless James Bond style countdowns, this mini-thriller, devoid of actors circles round three cuts to the metronomic beat showing the clock, the abandoned suitcase and the phone, all placed around the cctv/film-making equipment.

The moment of release never comes, the clear dramatic arc going nowhere, programmed to continue as an endless realtime loop, with only the occassional hand or leg of the audience drifting into shot, reconnecting the 'film' with the construction that it sits inside.

Pidgin (single screen film)

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"Pidgin' follows structuralist filmmaking emerging at a point where urban critique driven by Marx’s “Manifesto” meets wildlife observation." - Ian Padgett.

'Pidgin' was shot from the visitors gallery of the Empire State building in 2001 and is overlaid with text from the Communist Manifesto's chapter on world trade.

By confronting geographical, political, social and cultural standpoint within a single “cultural specific situation” the response and/or challenge involved bringing forward issues of identity or identification of territory and “imaginary geographies” to reflect “cultural site-specific realities.”