Projects matching: Stuart Pound

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The mysterious love poem by Wilhelm Müller from Schubert's 'Winterreise' provides the audio amplitude samples used to draw the waveform.

Awarded Best Experimental Film Prize at 2010 Ismailia International Documentary & Short Film Festival in Egypt.

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A homage to Lewis Caroll and Alice Liddell, where the words of the final paragraph of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' are re-arranged into a poem, using each word once, unless it appears more than once in the original.

The title simple simple simple is the words left over.

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Most of the source footage for “Camouflage with White Shirt” is selected from “Man with a Mission”, a TV documentary about Tony Blair. For the first six minutes, image and sound are cut and alternated to create a flicker effect with a rhythmic soundtrack, only snatches of it intelligible.

The second part offsets Blair inspecting troops against Hugh Grant making his famous speech from “Love Actually”. In the third part, Peter Mandelson’s voice is heard praising Blair, against a shot of a wall in Berlin with an anti US/UK slogan painted on it in English.

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Sequences of frames, sampled from a Big Brother broadcast on Channel 4 television, are repeated three times each in rhythmic succession.

Nothing is slowed down or speeded up, but movement becomes unreal and fractured, parts of spoken words tumble out into a new stream of image and sound, and 'reality television' begins to look like Pop Art.

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Tehran Trace takes the same motion path slowly and silently across four still photographs; the foyer of the Hotel Laleh, the Mirror Hall of the Golestan Palace, a stone arch towards the north of the city, and a bazaar with a view of mountains. Each 'trace' begins close up, curves away from its opening subject and ends with the original image fully framed.

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In the aftermath of a decision impossible to reverse, political debate is submerged in an ambient world of photoshoot, marimba and birdsong.

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The poem Kissing in hats is a villanelle, a verse form where the regular repetition of two key lines gives added urgency to what is being said.
The effect is intensified here by double tracking of the speaker's voice, as a moving path scans a drawing of World War Two lovers kissing in hats
before the men must board their train. This is a new version with the text of the poem on screen.

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Milton's Paradise Lost as remembered from the videomaker's schooldays.

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The last in the Fish in the Machine trilogy. A yellow puffer fish, caught in a world of mirrors, flickers from colour to high contrast black and white, in syncopation with the percussive rhythms of gamelan music. Suddenly, the video changes tone, incorporating an extract from a television broadcast with rather more political and social consequences for us all.

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Ghost & The Crystal  is a re-working in video clips from a film made by Stuart Pound almost thirty years ago. The new technology and the old examine each other with mock-cinematic effects of colour, contrast and movement. The soundtrack is contemporary music played on a traditional instrument of popular entertainment, the hurdy-gurdy.

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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.

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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".