Three Art Film Commissions: THE BARBICAN / FILTHY LUCRE / DENMARK - 7/5/2014

THREE  Art  Film  Commissions


Hello! Thanks for clicking on my blog - it means the world to me that you'd even consider giving me some of your time! I have three new films I've been commissioned to make in the next two months and I am in the midst of development for them. Here's the short rundown of these varied projects:

Outside The Back of The Barbican Centre

#1   THE  BARBICAN

On May 8th (that's tomorrow!) I'll be filming 'The Next Room' for their OPEN LAB day at renowned London arts centre THE BARBICAN in the Pit Theatre. This will be the third in my ongoing VIDEOS FOR ARTISTS series, in which I create a documentary of an exhibition/event. A document of the artist's work but also a video piece in its own right. I'm told there will be dance, body-painting and audience members recording their experiences for live broadcast. It should be very interesting to shoot and I have little specific knowledge of what to expect. I'm excited to enter the experiment fresh, sensitive to what occurs.

Marketing Images Danish Workshop / The Dome!

#2   DENMARK

I'll be travelling to Denmark at the end of June for my fourth collaboration with choreographer/dancer JULIE SCHMIDT ANDREASEN. Our first piece of work together was THE BODY CANVAS, which had its World Premiere at the 'Zealous X' exhibition (Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London) in late November 2013 and was mentioned in TIME OUT LONDON. We then worked together to make the FILTHY LUCRE trailer, now viewed as a separate dance-on-camera work in itself. I see this new film as a psuedo-continuation of previous work, in which similar ideology about dance and its interaction with objects or circumstance, influence and cause conversation in the movement. It will sensitively document non-performers who have signed up to Julie's workshop to interact with the environment through dance. We will also be shooting a short film showcasing new choreography from Julie, at an incredible giant dome-like location that's very picturesque, by the sea.

In Development: Sketching a Shot Idea

#3   FILTHY LUCRE

Following the success of my FILTHY LUCRE 3 trailer, I've been asked to return and commissioned to create a new film for their fourth edition of the arts event! The night will also have an orchestra, designers and slam poets demonstrating new work and song covers. My piece will be interpreting "the city" and "urban spaces" in London. How I portray or visually discuss these elements has been left up to me as an artist to develop through an organic and rewarding process, towards a final visual piece. The film will be accompanied by a live music soundtrack of Steve Reich's 'Electric Counterpoint' on the event night of July 12th at the Bussey Building in Peckham. I want to subvert and distort common images of the city skyline and famous buildings using perspective, composition, close-up texture and different methods of mirroring/layering the imagery. The video elements will be shot in black and white, but I've also decided to include full colour photography within the film. Despite the obvious comments that will likely be there, about commercialism and expansion in the capital, I don't want to make a film that hammers home a political view or is an indictment of the place. I want the film to be interpretive and insightful for the audience, pessimistic and also optimistic; an artistically journalistic account of the city from someone only just getting-to-know it. The film will incorporate experimental efforts of inducing nostalgia, through the people and colours of the streets, captured through the innocence but unpredictability of my modified disposable cameras. I can't wait to see how all the components mix and what we might see of London through it.

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