dots and spaces

sushi cam

 

A clever little film where a camera is placed on the conveyor belt in a sushi restaurant. Seen at Reubenmiller.

By the way, I'm thinking up ideas for an alternative Christmas tree for Aspex gallery, any ideas, feel free to let me know.

The XX Basic Space

Really enjoying this superb video and the equally superb band playing. Seem to be so busy at the moment, with various projects getting off the ground and some exciting news about work. I'm enjoying this time, working with some people with a great sense of their own abilities, extraordinarily generous with their time and immensely encouraging.

Fireworks in the sky all around me as I type, and possibilities are endless.

Pillow Shots

So called in order to give the audience a little chance to rest between dialogues, this footage is has been put together from Ozu's films. It's serene and peaceful, I love the movement and the detail in the shots. He often takes the alternative shot, displacing the usual view.

We watched Claire Denis' beautiful film 35 Shot of Rum last night, and it was Ozu influenced, an intimate portrait of a broken family, a widowed father and his daughter. The shots of the trains talk about systems, links, journeys and routine. I love that school of film making which is about reading people, talking about how we interact with each other, how we live through our relationships. There are so many observed moments, dispassionate and yet intimate. I loved it. I love the pace of Claire Denis' film making, everything unfurls slowly, a mystery and a journey. If you're not familiar with her work, I would recommend Beau Travail.

not bad not great by Anthony Burrill

Beautiful film using a John Lennon radio interview, directed by designer Anthony Burrill. It's such a pleasure hearing John talk, and I love the shots of the roberts radio, honestly, go and get one.

This building moves

555 KUBIK_ extended version from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

garbage island on VBS

Fascinating documentary about the huge amount of plastic floating about the oceans. There's a point in the pacific where currents bring all the pollution together and the number of parts of plastic per parts of water is dangerously high. Whilst there's no actual floating island, that you can see, its because the plastic has broken down into so many small parts and as one of the crew say, its not the coke bottle you see, but the millions of particles that make up that coke bottle that have been dispersed through the ocean. Some amazing bits, for instance, they find few orange or red plastic particles, because these are what the fish eat...and we eat the fish.

This is part 1 of 3, head to the VBS site for more - an exciting channel, with some great content.

Imakethings Profile

Artist Profile: Andrew Groves from Stephan Caspar on Vimeo.

Journey to the Mountain of Light

I'm very lucky to have found myself working with photographer Jon Snape who has embarked on a project to photograph a series of electricity pylons that thread their way through the Hampshire countryside. I'm going to be making some films for Jon's blog, which he is using as a modern sketchbook, to note ideas, show his inspiration and record his artistic process. Jon's pylon images relate to ideas about landscape and modernism, but also enjoy a range of disparate connections from ancient Egyptian history to Naval Aircraft. He's on a Journey to the Mountain of Light, and I'm joining him along the way. I'll update with some more stills and clips, and keep you informed of developments, there are some lovely ideas in the pipeline, and the project seems to have a life of its own, with Jon leading the way.

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SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Just a lovely little experimental film. I'm so sorry, my posts are almost shorter that those on twitter - which is on probation, I still don't know if I like it. I'm a sucker for all kinds of social networking, and I thought this could be fun - but really who cares? Again, the right brainer in me wants it to serve some kind of purpose and the no brainer in me want to turn the internet off and get on my bike. I'm assured my new Conti's are in the post and on their way - come on, let's all track it together - oh, if only we could.

Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

An amazing film from a group that call themselves Semicondutor. In their wonderful films, they tap into science and visualise the incredible shapes, patterns, sounds and images that sometimes can be seen, but more often is invisible to the naked eye. The films have a lovely feel about them, the one above sparkles with magnetic fields, bouncing and shimmering across the screen like tiny mischievous creatures.