Themes: Structure and series

Screen Saver

A screensaver icon bounces around the screen to a stuck loop from a soul record. Screensaver is part of a suite of three short video

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Otolith III

Otolith III takes The Alien, the unrealised screenplay of the legendary Bengali director Satyajit Ray, as its point of departure. Written in 1967, The Alien

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Abstractions Quotidiennes

Various lengths (1 – 4 mins) “In her ‘Abstractions Quotidiennes’ series, bland visuals of peripheral urban spaces give way to colour-saturated monochrome screens that have

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The Add Series 1-10

A series of very short narratives woven from meagre materials: a pen on a desktop becomes a cautious lizard, a carpet in close-up becomes a

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Object Studies

Object Studies was shot in northeast Umbria, Italy. It was made in the same location as a number of my other recent films. It is

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To Pour Milk Into a Glass

Many of David Lamelas’s works are exercises designed to test how meaning is constructed in film. “I wanted to find symbols for ‘container’ and ‘contents’

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The Flicker

‘The ultimate to date in the nonobjective film is Tony Conrad’s The Flicker. It has only black and white frames… and the resulting strobe effect

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Film Feedback

The cybernetics of video applied to film production. Film Feedback was produced in ‘real time’ by processing and projecting the film while it was being

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Shepherd’s Bush

Taking re-found image of a patchwork of black and white confusion and working on it using the Debrie Printer neutral densities and aperture band, the

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Deck

‘During a voyage by boat to Finland, the camera records three minutes of black and white 8mm of a woman sitting on a bridge. The

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Breath William Raban

Breath

The procedure: the filming location was a remote part of Dartmoor. A central position was selected in the landscape and a tape recorder was left

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