An exploration of geometry and gravity through the complex. It seeks to experiment with viewpoint, orientation and camera movement together with sound shape-shifting to disturb and undermine the 'normal' perceptions of reality.
A film poem exploring the destructive power of our popular media, the constraints it places on what we consider beautiful and the damage caused to those who identify with the endless images of physical perfection.
The film evolves from the practice of film maker Barry Hale and dancer/choreographer Jane Mulchrone. Within the space time dynamics of video feedback, tiny actions can clearly be seen to generate instant and massive change.
Inspired by sculptor Bill Ming's life-size wood carvings of human figures, the film takes its subject from the idea of masks, the concealment of what lies behind them and the revealing of layers within human identity.
G.M. is a surrealist film in which an Edwardian gentleman is alternately tormented and rescued by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wallpaper. It was inspired by the work of film pioneer Georges Melies.
Hinterland is a resonant documentary that focuses on a community which lives on the fastest eroding coastline in England. The film asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes threatened by the elements.
Kaleidoscopics brings together pornographic stills from the internet and bubbles at the edge of running water, putting both through the same digital processes. Eyes, faces and limbs surface and sink again in sequences of coloured tessellations, lead by a music soundtrack that overlays breathy sound with formal patterning.
An Edwardian gentleman is tormented by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wall paper. The film was fully-funded by the London Production Fund 2001.
'G.M.' was inspired by the work of magician and film pioneer Georges Melies (1861-1938), whose most famous film - 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' - was exactly one hundred years old in 2001.
An experiment in personal history. The footage was shot in the London docklands, and its trains and bridges prompt a meditation on nationality, identity and language, spoken in German with English subtitles. The speaker's first words, in German, are " I don't speak German".
