Projects matching: Stuart Pound

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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.

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Scenes appropriated from Murnau's Nosferatu with the utterly iconic Max Schreck. Music by Evangelista.

Selected to be screened in the Experimenta section of the BFI London Film Festival this October

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Pandora’s Box and unrequited love for Louise Brooks.

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The spoken text of Père Lachaise is a poem about scattering ashes, illicitly, in the famous Paris cemetery. On the screen, the central image is the face of the dead woman, photographed in ATS uniform in black and white. The face is almost always partly obscured by flames. But there is humour in the text, and the brilliant colours of the flames, and the fairground music, suggest life and energy.

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A fragment taken from a well known science fiction film is prematurely aged to a time when there was no film sound other than piano accompaniment.

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An action sequence appropriated from a famous late 20th century Hollywood Science Fiction film is reprocessed to give it a look from an earlier period, making semi-abstract patterns where the world is turned right to left, sliding on its side.

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Richmond on Thames has two River Gods, identical reclining nudes in middle age, who pour the river waters out from urns.
They are made of an artificial stone, Coade stone, developed at the end of the eigtheenth century to satisfy a demand for garden ornaments. This video celebrates their improbable dignity and resilience.

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Scenes appropriated from Antonioni’s famous film L’Avventura are centred on Monica Vitti as the central subject. The constant alternating positive and negative image appears to vary with the percussive sound of Gamelan music.

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Action sequences taken from three cinema films are turned into a semi-abstract experience in which the world is literally turned on its side. Material was taken from DVD’s purchased recently from charity shops in London, a further example of appropriating dominant cinema as a canvas for video art.

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Grandmother is a Crab borrows from an earlier digital video, made fifteen years ago, that itself used footage captured from a travel advertisement on television. Black and white, and mirror effects, take the image out of time, giving it both vividness and distance. The music is played in reverse. And the voice-over and under-titles are a poem that re-enters the magic world of a child on a beach.

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A poem about software and other neologisms. The letters of each word appear in a randomised sequence on screen.

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16mm black & white film frames from the distant past fondly remembered and seen through a microscope connected to the computer.