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Dance 0 - 19                                 3:22 minutes
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.
simple simple simple                            1:42 minutes
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.
Bus Stop version 2010                       1:00 minute
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.  
Four Movements                              25:36 minutes
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.
Retro disk chunter 1:00 minute 2009
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.
Not you again ! 3:49 minutes 2009
NOT YOU AGAIN !                                                   3:49 minutes
Joyful self-hate in the recent snow.
Speech with subtitles 4:25 minutes 2008
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.
Venus, Separated 1:00 minute 2008
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.

Die Nebensonnen    2:24 minutes    2008

DIE NEBENSONNEN                                              2:24 minutes
Audio amplitude draws its own picture

Oh no, not you again !  1:00 minute 2009

OH NO, NOT YOU AGAIN !                                     1:00 minute
And the self-hate continues but doesn’t last quite as long.

The crying of the forest  3:41 minutes  2009
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.
Dominant Culture     14:54 minutes      2007
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.
SF             8:33 minutes             2008
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.   
This is not a landscape..      1:00  minute      2008
THIS IS NOT A LANDSCAPE…                             1:00 minute
A photograph of deer in Richmond Park, London.
Senza Anna      14:06 minutes        2008
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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