"ORWO, is an excellent yet inexpensive 16mm film stock made in Eastern Germany and used by many experimental filmmakers in the past. I scratch off the image surface with a needle then sweep away the emulsion dust beneath the microscope... I used a low powered USB microscope purchased from a LIDL supermarket in West London to capture the image to computer. The deliberately scratched film originates from a 16mm roll used to make image masks for my film 'St.Paul's Cathedral Movie', processed at the London Film-makers' Co-op in 1972." Stuart Pound
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand
A ghost actor haunts his screen life, and is haunted by it, to the clicking of a projector. What you see is scraps of film under a microscope, with its sprocket holes, oily colour, and accumulated fluff and dust.
Presented on paper, the concrete poem "Full Stop" (taken from Zata's poetry collection "Doppelgängers", 2005) takes the shape of a circular full stop. In this transcreation, the material is presented aurally as Morse Code, and visually as a moving telegram. This artwork was funded by Arts Council England.
Pale Shadows is told through the eyes of a young storyteller. She reveals the story of Bradamante who travels to a magical island to reclaim her lost lover Ruggeiro from the enchantress Alcina. This is a rich visionary approach to Handel’s opera Alcina, which explores the intrigue and turmoil of love.
An animation based on a poem about the sea as a lover to the land. The sea can give and it can take away, like an irrepressible force it cannot be tamed. Yet listen and it will yield its secrets...
The story of a collection of artworks made by residents of an English psychiatric hospital. From clinical material to revered items of outsider art, Abandoned Goods charts the transformation of these objects, and uncovers the forgotten lives of some of the key artists in the collection.
Set in 1960s London, Blotter is psychedelic exchange between a doctor and his patient as they trip on LSD. What seemingly feels like a normal conversation between a housewife and her therapist melts into a trippy projection of ire and lust.
In an uncannily nostalgic world, seemingly imagined by an unseen eccentric narrator, Al Crisps finds his life takes a strange turn when his usual routine is broken.
Peter (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) seeks to re-frame what is considered a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text.
Peter manipulates found footage and narrative voice in order to reveal difficulties of viewer identification when watching Blade Runner.
Set entirely inside a shopping centre, SYSTEM follows the interactions between two sisters; one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The sterile atmosphere of the environment quickly becomes menacing as the women’s personal safety systems begin to fail.
