Projects matching: Stuart Pound

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The opening shots of the Danish film "The Abyss", made in 1910, show scars from repeated screenings. The dance section was censored and so remains undamaged. In " Drift through mirrors", the story of the two characters in the scratched clip and the less worn one, is told as they step through a sequence of mirrors created with software filters.

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The Alice of fifties animation visits the Wild West of fifties live action, but only through persistence of vision, they never meet in the same frame. The original Alice and the original Wild West were contemporaries too.

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Clips from two Italian films of the early 1960's meet on a train platform in Rome. Together they move towards, but don’t quite arrive at, another story, as the processing makes animation of what began as live action. To the sound of Wagner and Rossini.

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Nobody drowned. A poem about the 1910 Paris flood, with photographs of Paris and Parisians taken at the time.

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Not being, as a sense of not being out there or even alive.
The faces of iconic stars of the past mask or partly mask the film-maker's own face.

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A fast motion path circles into dance.

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A clip from the iconic 1999 science fiction film "The Matrix" becomes a much older silent movie with piano accompaniment, seen again in its own far future or where time no longer counts. The two lovers shift roles and even genders in the obscure cinematic space that contains them.

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I wouldn't have made this if I had not heard counter-tenor Hugues Cuénod at Covent Garden Opera House as a child. The film animates images taken mainly from old photographic plates, to pick up the beat and ripple of the soundtrack, overlaid by the voice of Jimmy Somerville with its astonishing range of pitch and timbre.

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Boston Manor Park, under the M4 motorway in early lockdown. The filmmaker adds his graffiti to what's already on the concrete pillars.

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A man is found drowned in a few inches of water. His only ID is his tattoo.

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1872: Lorenzo Lawrence walked an elephant south/until the name and walk were one,/noteworthy as the gentle beast himself, called/Maharajah…

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The source clip is taken from a cult science fiction film where the world is literally turned on its side. The audio track is cut along with the moving image and superimposed 5 times reverberating speech and effects tracks.