Television Archives

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2021, 63:30) is my latest feature length series of collage films, is a compilation of 6 films created between 2015

i eye aye

A post-mortem archaeology of the creative path followed by a non-existent artist into the cosmological eternal present.(A tissue of truthful lies documented by the Archive

Covid Messages

‘Covid Messages’ is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The work focusses on the British

The Muse

The second part of No End to Enderby, The Muse, in which a young historian journeys to a parallel universe to investigate whether Shakespeare really wrote everything credited

Cymbeline

By curtailing a manager’s pompous introduction to a new romantic groups early performance and adding imagery rendered through the almost redundant technology of an e-reader,

It was a lover and his lass

“It was a lover and his lass” a single-channel, video collage by Stephen Sutcliffe takes its title and soundtrack from a song in Act 5,

Ph03nix Rising: The 3rd Son

‘Ph03nix Rising: The Third Son’ is a short film and coming of age story. A textured synthesis of sci-fi, biblical and noir. Here late 20th

Looking For Gary

Set on Essex Road among an established local community in Islington London, this film looks at the complex relationship between people and place. Growing up

United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I)

United Red Army (The Young Man Was Part I) (70’, 2011) September 1977. The Japanese man speaks in halting English; the Bangladeshi negotiator with the

Writer in Residence

Writer in Residence take the form of a TV-style interview and continues Sutcliffes interest in collage as a means by which to shake certainty and

The Dictator Returns

Five years after Barbara Lopezs first interview with Colonel Riccardo Garcia Perez, the exiled president of St Ana, they meet again to record a further

TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces)

Conceived and made specifically for broadcast, these were transmitted by Scottish TV during the Edinburgh Festival. The idea of inserting them as interruptions to regular

Signal Tracing

Abstract audio-generated waveform patterns from an oscilloscope and modified TV, were filmed with super-8 and then treated with bleach and vinegar. The electronic music features

The Hand

The first video made by David Lamelas for Canadian television, The Hand proposes a satiric look at news programs on United States’ television. A hybrid

Monitor

“An assertive polemic around first, second and third generations of the same image and the allied implications of that for texture, focus and resolution. Monitor

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