Projects matching: Stuart Pound

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Ampersand, 1978, re-purposes clips from a 1974 film I never completed. In Specto they are re-purposed again. The hot tungsten filament of a Specto film projector is a recurring image, along with re-worked clips of a troupe of actors performing Artaud’s Jet of Blood at locations in the city of Lincoln. You’ll see the cathedral and a dilapidated mill with UNSAFE 74 painted on its wall.

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The “parts” are a painting of my own from some time ago, a waveform whose origin I don't remember, and a travelling letter “x” that suggests a stitch bringing them together, though what actually does so is almost certainly the Bach soundtrack.

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A street corner near the London underground station. It’s on the route to the Royal Brompton Hospital, where open heart surgery is carried out.

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Two cities with two women walking in them at night. In one (found footage), light is all that remains. In the other (created in AI), there was never anything else.

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A poem arrives on the screen letter by letter. The image is all text with the story in the soundtrack, a blackbird's song.

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All our heads have a moving collage in them of impressions and appropriations.
In LAST YEAR IN WISBORG, clips from F.W. Murnau's 1922 film NOSFERATU mix with colour film of a blue sky, a painting by the filmmaker and his own hand. The undead remember before and after their death. This double nostalgia of the Count's existence is felt in the meditative soundtrack.

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A clip from “The Abyss” (1910). A couple quarrel and a parade of numbers “times” them. There’s a mix of software in the processing, AI to separate the silhouettes from their background, but a now obsolete font for the numbers. The sound is a disco track played backwards.

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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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Guilty admiration for pickpocketing skills made me aware of my own hands to interact with the video image.

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The painter, now a filmmaker, talks through the making of a painting, and the making of a video from it years later. The oil on board surface is no longer still but animated with motion paths and filters.

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Music from central Africa is used to modify the size of black and white squares which cover the whole screen and change 25 times each second.

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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.