Portraits Archives - Page 3 of 9

Background

In ‘Background’, a pair of figures walk and converse through a series of animated landscapes. The 16-bit representations are of Blandy and his father, John,

Record

A larger than life tribute to Prince Philip, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, recorded in 2002 and completed on the day of his

Henry

Henry is an interrogation of an image, an intimate examination of a stranger’s face and the filmmaker’s Grandfather. The film examines a portrait, which was

No Self

This video shows different parts of myself: the artist, the filmmaker, the writer and the shaman and my Buddhist belief that there is No Self.

Folds

Folds is a filmed portrait of dance artist and writer Alexandrina Hemsley that explores themes of intimacy, agency and temporality. Shot inside the controlled environment

Flowers of the Sky

Flowers of the Sky (a medieval term for comets) draws on two panoramic photographs, found in a Los Angeles thrift shop, that depict a gathering

Valeria Street

Initiated by an unearthed photograph of her father and his colleagues around a conference table in a generic mid-century office, Valeria Street charts a personal-political

Look and Learn

Look and Learn excavates the visual vocabulary we use to operate and construct the daily world. Look and Learn explores the juxtaposition of two material

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

Jennifer

The film is portrait of Jennifer – a friend of the filmmaker’s who is an enclosed Carmelite nun in a monastery in Ronda, Spain, where

Patrick

Luke Fowler’s work has long asked how we come to know someone in their absence. He has explored this question by creating posthumous portraits of

Deadphant

A portrait of Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre in South London, a weekend before it permanently closed, after fifty-five years on September 24, 2020.

Sunday’s Best

Sunday’s Best is a film and installation comprised of vivid audio and images of praise and worship sessions in a Ghanaian community church, married with

Jatiwangi

Shot between July and September 2017 the film is a collaborative portrait of the village arts community Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF) in West Java, Indonesia.

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

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