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Time As Activity (Dusseldorf)

Time as Activity (Dusseldorf), made in 1969, is comprised of three four-minute sequences, that register real time from a fixed point, at three different places

Under The Freeway

First film in the ongoing Freeway Series. “Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying

Cultural Quarter

Cultural Quarter presents the relationships of observation in the city to its citizens, whilst begging ethical questions on surveillance, the gaze and human behaviour. It

Nocturne

Nocturne is a 5 minute film shot entirely at night in deserted streets of the city. The film attempts to find images of London at

Jetzt im Kino

Jetzt im Kino (Now in Cinema) brings together adapted texts from Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s ‘Painting, Photography, Film’, Rudolf Arnheim’s ‘Film As Art’, David Cooper’s polemical psychology

MM

Like an alien spacecraft landed on a poisoned wasteland, the Millenium Dome makes a fitting tribute to the works of New Labour. Taking the dome

Social Visions

Social Visions suggests the myriad histories and futures that constitute Los Angeles; a city whose public image has been used as cover for the abuse

Back East

Back East continues a chronicle of childhood intitiated in previous films. It combines images of present day Manhattan, especially the Upper West Side, with memories

Talking to a Stone

‘Talking to a Stone uses cinema’s dimension of time to explore decay in an urban landscape, accelerating the destruction around us through invisible human intervention.

On the Mountain

Made in Edinburghs Rose Street, On the Mountain incorporates the whole of a previous film (Rose Street, 1956), including the leader and the titles. The

Visitor’s London

A very personal view of the capital by a foreigner living in London for a year. Audio visual impressions in a notebook style.

New York

New York was made on location throughout January 1978. It was shot all over Manhattan including Harlem, Battery Point, the West Side Docks, the roof

Non Places

‘We are increasingly in transit through ‘non-places’.Corners that lurk at the edge of activity. Passageways where activity occurs but the relationship between use and place

Little Flags

Cohen shot Little Flags in black and white on the streets of lower Manhattan during an early-’90s military ticker-tape parade and edited the footage years

Amber City

A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary place that draws

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