Projects matching: Stuart Pound

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Colours blue and orange dominate. Dolphins navigate desert regions through rapid scene alternation

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Agile cross-cutting between images shows animals hunting in the snow. The soundtrack is a Roma song celebrating the coming of spring. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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“The angry sleeper stalks his dreams/hard from night to night”. Dirk Bouts's 1470 painting of demons carrying sinners off to Hell is the starting point for this not-quite-serious animated nightmare. Pachelbel's famous canon played on a musical box is the accompaniment.

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A Boogie dance performed by William & Maeva was downloaded from the internet and vertical sections were taken from each frame and arranged into 24 panels to show pattern and movement across each second.

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Original footage was taken from the internet, reprocessed into vertical stripes with three frame blocks of positive black & white alternating with high contrast negative. These dance spotlights were part of the International Lindy Hop Competition held in Washington, D.C in 2013.

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Passing time on Brighton Beach, ultimately getting my bum soaked while watching the sea.

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This video contrasts the moving and the still image. A sequence was taken from the iconic film 'L'Avventura' made in 1960 by Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti. The soundtrack is a train trundling at night through the Carpathian mountains towards Bucharest.

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Night, columns, fish, rocking-horses, celebrities, a hurdy-gurdy, all are collaged together to make up "Reality".

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“for the time being” is a collage of moving images made thirty years apart and re-worked into seventeen sections of tentative autobiography. The soundtrack mixes music and environmental sound with conversation, not all of it intelligible. In the scraps that are, the film-maker and his partner talk together about how we document and re-interpret our lives.

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Six Portraits of Clara Schumann resolves into perhaps the oldest multiple we know.

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An image taken from the internet of the young Ezio Pinza and an old vinyl recording of this great Italian singer are brought together.

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The Pagoda in London’s Kew Gardens is rarely open to the public. It was open for a short time last year and I took the opportunity to climb all 253 wooden steps having first done so 60 years before.