REAL-TIME: Film

Selected short films

'colleague #1'

Based on a discarded workplace training video, the loop replays continuously, losing information on each cycle. The repetition and shift between video formats slowly degrades the image; the worker is trapped by the screen; condemned to repeat the same menial task over and over again in perpetuity. Finally the image breaks down into its component parts leaving only residual noise and abstraction.

Colleague #1 (6:00 mins: VHS transferred to DV: 2006)

'error #17'

A 'flicker film' comprised of errors made whilst experimenting with digital video and the broadcast signal. The soundtrack is derived from the sound made when the signal cut out, relayed and re-processed through a number of effects.

Error #17 (3:00 mins: Digital Video: 2006)

'TARGET:MARKET'

The film was shot clandestinely after a number of unsuccessful attempts in a busy urban shopping centre. Shot on Super 8 film at 54 frames per second, the film attempts to draw parallels between the methods of mass persuasion employed by advertisers and the entertainment industry and the politics of fear employed by governments and terrorists alike. Heavily influenced by William Burrough's 'The Electronic Revolution’ it has been shown as both a conventional film and as an immersive sound installation using multiple audio sources from carefully placed tape recorders.

TARGET:MARKET (12:00 mins:Super 8mm transferred to VHS:2007)

'Reflections on the Brave New World' (split screen version)

In 1962 shortly before his death, Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World addressed an audience at Berkeley CA with a speech entitled 'The Ultimate Revolution'. He reflected on the advances made since the publication of his prophetic novel in 1932 and contemplated the nature of control in advanced democratic societies, where technology plays an increasingly centralised role in the regulation of body and mind:

"If you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they're living...the state of servitude the state of being, having their differences ironed out, and being made amenable to mass production methods on the social level, if you can do this, then you have, you are likely, to have a much more stable and lasting society. Much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs and firing squads and concentration camps.”

Reflections on the Brave New World (12:00 mins:16mm and Super 8:2008)

'Trial by Fire-Part one'

Short durational piece and the first part in a conceptual cycle projected over three walls. Film is shot on Super 8mm film stock and refilmed as a composite image.