Projects matching: Rosemary Norman, Stuart Pound

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The brown spots on the pages of old books are called “foxing”. It’s odd to see on 1920s designs that still look “modern”.

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What better to do while waiting for a bus than ponder on the clouds in the blue sky above and their place in our lives? The soundtrack is a composition made from a single recording of the poet's voice, and is best heard through headphones.

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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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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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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.

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“It’s all about what you do with it afterwards…” one of the voices says. That is make it black and white, wriggle out of the 16:9 frame, and overlap and reverberate the talk and laughter.

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"ORWO, is an excellent yet inexpensive 16mm film stock made in Eastern Germany and used by many experimental filmmakers in the past. I scratch off the image surface with a needle then sweep away the emulsion dust beneath the microscope... I used a low powered USB microscope purchased from a LIDL supermarket in West London to capture the image to computer. The deliberately scratched film originates from a 16mm roll used to make image masks for my film 'St.Paul's Cathedral Movie', processed at the London Film-makers' Co-op in 1972." Stuart Pound
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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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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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.