Session by Mandy Macintosh

07.10.09
Session, Mandy Mcintosh Here is an extract from Session, the latest film from Glasgow-based artist Mandy McIntosh, commissioned by Picture This, Bristol. Session considers the mental health of an 18th century slave called Pero who lived and worked in Bristol for his master John Pinney. Pinney’s house is now a museum but Pero’s room is closed to the public and used to store furniture. In the film, ...
Leave a Comment 

How the air feels to the birds by Nick Jordan

22.09.09
How the air feels to the birds, Nick Jordan They act as if they had never heard the question before. The what? they say. The air? What about it? We smile and rephrase the question: What does ...
Leave a Comment 

Dance by Alex Pearl

22.09.09
Dance, Alex Pearl Alex Pearl: Dance was my first film. I was so unsure of what I was doing that I was blushing while I made it. Essentially I was recording while playing with an electric toothbrush, a Barbie skirt, string and a red trolley. Without a plan when I started, Dance turned out to be the first of a few films documenting moments ...
Leave a Comment 

Alex is still Alive by Simon Baumann

18.09.09
Alex is still Alive, Simon Baumann Simon Baumann introduces his short documentary film, Alex is still Alive: Following Kubrick’s detailed location notes for A Clockwork Orange, Alex is still Alive takes the viewer back to the architectural space of the ultra-violent activities of the Droogs. Can you still hear echoes of boots, Ludwig Van and Gene Kelley? Has the 1960s concrete decayed with acid rain or the ...
4 Comments 

I Know Where I’m Going by Ben Rivers

15.09.09
I Know Where I'm Going, image courtesy of Ben Rivers Ben Rivers’ I Know Where I’m Going documents a road trip undertaken by the artist earlier this year. The title is a nod to the Powell and Pressburger movie of the same name, the location of which – the isle of Mull – provided the end point for the journey. Contrary to the title’s assertion, Rivers ...
1 Comment 

Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill

15.09.09
Photograph of Jesus, image courtesy of Getty Images Photograph of Jesus is Laurie Hill’s response to a challenge set by Getty Images, who invited filmmakers to create a piece utilising images from their Hulton Archive. Rather than set a rigid brief, the challenge offered key words and phrases as prompters to guide the filmmakers’ creativity. Examples of these prompters included ‘discover our past,’ ‘images that shape ...
Leave a Comment 

Duncan Campbell

10.09.09
Bernadette, Duncan Campbell, image courtesy of LUX Duncan Campbell’s films are documentaries, but documentaries that test the boundaries of the form, acknowledging, in Campbell’s words, that ‘documentary is a peculiar form of fiction.’  Using archival material – images of bygone youth culture and urban decay in Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2004) and footage of dissident and Activist Bernadette Devlin in Bernadette (2008) – Campbell attempts to ...
Leave a Comment