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DANCE
0 - 19
3:22 minutes
Both audio channels are represented
visually as whole numbers corresponding to the amplitude
of the soundtrack, music from the island of Bali: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan / Gamelan of the Love God.
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simple
simple simple
1:42 minutes
A homage to Lewis Caroll and to Alice
Liddell, where the words of the final paragraph of “
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are re-arranged into a
poem,
using each word once, unless it appears more than once in the original
. The title “simple simple simple “ is the words left
over. The poem, text and sound, plays against the final page of a
manuscript in Caroll’s own hand, with one of his photographs of
Alice at the foot of the page.
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BUS
STOP version 2010
1:00 minute
The
sky is nice. / I negotiate / with its gauzy
clouds on blue / for an immediate bus. /
Remarkable that years / of my bad temper at /
missed buses
(
for example ) / is absorbed by these streets /
and has no effect / on the blamelessness of the blue
sky / or its little wings of cloud.
The
framing of the image,clouds in a blue sky, changes with the loudness of
the soundtrack, a composition made entirely of elements
from the spoken poem.
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FOUR
MOVEMENTS
25:36 minutes
For Four Movements Stuart Pound has adapted four earlier works that
become, together, a study of showing, looking and hearing in a gaudy,
fast-paced world.
Two movements are very short and return to familiar paintings of the goddess
Venus, with a soundtrack of birdsong. Two are longer. The first is an episode of
the reality TV show Big Brother, reprocessed, and the second is a
collage that includes a photo of the artist and a soft-porn shot from
the internet.
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RETRO DISK
CHUNTER
1:00 minute
Files are copied then
deleted from one of the 3.5” floppy disks that have almost
disappeared into our past. The soundtrack is the unmistakeable
chunter and the image is a graphic representation of it.
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NOT YOU
AGAIN !
3:49 minutes
Joyful self-hate in the recent snow.
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SPEECH with subtitles
4:25 minutes
Stuart Pound’s critique of US foreign policy appears on screen as a moving image driven by his spoken words.
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VENUS,
SEPARATED
1:00 minute
A look at colour separation, using the face of Botticelli’s Venus.
Colour planes are separated and then merged to re-create the original image.
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DIE
NEBENSONNEN
2:24
minutes
Audio amplitude draws its own picture |
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OH NO, NOT
YOU AGAIN !
1:00 minute
And the self-hate continues but doesn’t last quite as long. |
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THE
CRYING OF THE FOREST
3:41 minutes
Traditional music from Bulgaria is the starting point for a study in
time and memory. The layered voices in The crying of the
forest are accompanied by a sequence of layered visual images that
partly reveal and partly obscure each other. |
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DOMINANT
CULTURE
14:54 minutes
Sequences of frames, sampled from a Big Brother broadcast on Channel 4
television, are repeated three times each in rhythmic succession.
Nothing is slowed down or speeded up, but movement becomes unreal and
fractured, parts of spoken words tumble out into a new stream of
image and sound, and
“reality television” begins to look
like Pop Art.
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SF
8:33 minutes
“SF“, not as in Science Fiction - but Svenska Filmindustri
who were instrumental in making “The Seventh Seal”, a film
by Ingmar Bergman.
When I first saw this film, a game of chess
played by the personification
of death seemed strangely odd to me, not
so now some 50 years later.
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THIS
IS NOT A LANDSCAPE…
1:00 minute
A photograph of deer in Richmond Park, London. |
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SENZA
ANNA
14:08 minutes
I first saw
Antonioni’s “ L‘Avventura” as a teenager in the early 1960’s and it
continues a strong memory with me today. It begins with a mysterious
disappearance but the plot moves on, leaving the mystery unresolved.
“Senza Anna” follows Monica Vitti, as Claudia, through this plot.
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