Film stills

All underneath :

"Untitled"

Film stills from Baddesley Clinton, 2014. 

Tony Hill

" Tony Hill has an interest in space, place, viewpoint and orientation to his practice as an artist and film-maker.
He creates bizarre and sometimes humorous vantage points that make us re think our assumptions about perspective, gravity , scale and movement.

Developing his own camera rigs and ingeniously using mirrors and unusual lenses he exploits the great potential for film to see in different ways to show us the world afresh. "

100 heads

The doors

and Striking images.

Baddesley Clinton with sound.

Film I am going to be showing for assessments >> Link

"Untitled", 2014, length - 6:19

Baddesley Clinton youtube links.

FILM LINK

"Baddesley Clinton with sound"

2014, length: 0:33 , digital film.

LINK 2

"Baddesley Clinton edit 2"

2014, length: 6:52, digital film.

Baddesley Clinton

2014, length: 1:00, digital film.

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is English.

She makes films and does photography. "Her practise of drawing took form of storyboards,  a narrative format used in the planning of movies. Her taste for storytelling triggered many of her works, often based on the possibilities raised by chance encounter.

Dean gave equal weight to fictional and historical narratives, emphasising their power of evocation: notions of time, memory or nautical elements are part of her personal themes.

Deans works play poetically on the theme of searching as well as on the blurred identities of mysterious people or things.

Deans stories embraced the notion of struggle over elements, which explain the recurrence of the sell as a major protagonist in her work.

Deans minimal narratives are imbued with a sense of human failure and never ending expectation resulting from actions that are curiously both heroic and modest.

Some of Deans later works are reminiscent of the works of Berud and Hilla Becher in their focus on derelict places endowed with powerful history. The quaint and obsolete buildings are the remains of some prototype air-raid warning structures built in 1920; by accompanying the images with ambient sound recorded in 1999, she doubles the act of preservation of those buildings, already saved from destruction in 1988.

Self directed statement

For my self directed I chose to focus on video, the subject matter was a National Trust house based in Worcestershire, the time that I filmed was 9-11am so the light was prominent which was important to me as it shows the house in a better way.

The video was also filmed at that time because it was closed to the public, this was also important as it meant that there was no one walking in the way of the objects of the house so I was able to film it as it was. I also recorded natural sounds of the house to add to the video and create the atmosphere of the house so it is like you are there.

My aim was to explore the details of the architecture and interior to show what you might miss as you walk around. Also to show the way that the people that had once lived their might have viewed their house and what it was like to live there. I hope that it creates a story for the audience and makes them wonder what type of people would live in the house and from seeing the sort of personal items they left behind, how that would determine what type of person they were.

Artists I have looked at have been Zarina Bhimji for her use of light, texture and atmosphere, I have also looked at Annie Leibovitz 'Pilgrimage' for influence on film stills ,Sam Taylor-Wood and Paul Winstanley who focuses on interiors such as waiting rooms that have an eerie atmosphere to them he explores this through use of paint.

David Rowan Mac Birmingham.

Artist : David Rowan

Title : The Dark River

Date(s) : 2014

"Running from Waseley Hills in Worcestershire to Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction, the River Rea is a comparatively small river, often occluded by buildings and almost forgotten in a city more famous for its canal network. The Rea is, however, the subject of a video installation by artist David Rowan showing at mac, Birmingham. Entitled ‘The Dark River,’ the work seeks to explore and uncover facets of its unique character."

"In moving images that glow against the black gallery wall, the colours of sky, bushes and red brick structures are vivid in bright sunlight, dappled by the trees. The river narrows and widens, rushes and then pools. Two young boys play football in the water and two other people ride bicycles through shallower sections of the river. Some of the lining walls are covered with graffiti and the lush vegetation is kept wild by a lack of human intervention."

What I found interesting was how it was a simple idea yet captivated me as an audience to see what would happen in each film. I like the way it is presented in more than one film, I think this will be something that I will think about in the future. 

"Rowan’s slices of time and space allow for a kind of distillation or preservation of these fleeting moments within the Rea’s course. Ultimately, the thing that makes this installation most engaging is its specific context. The river must be crossed to enter and exit mac, and therefore when viewing Rowan’s work, the Rea runs just a few metres away from one’s feet."

How it is displayed. 

Annie Leibovitz 'Pilgrimage'

"As a historian, nothing matters more to me than the chance to wander through the rooms where my subjects lived and worked, to imagine them coming down the stairs for breakfast, writing steadily at their desks, entertaining guests at dinner, settling down in their favourite chairs to read. The people may be gone, but the houses remain. The landscape may have changed, the furniture, rugs, and draperies may be only the best representation of what was thought to have existed at the time, and yet, somehow, as one moves from room to room the people who lived there are brought to life."

This is a quote from Annie Leibovitz and I feel this explains my work very well as it is what I am aiming to do with my films, as well.

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Annie Leibovitz. From “Pilgrimage” (Random House, 2011)

Baddesley Clinton edit 3 without sound

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Editing more film from my visit. I think this is more successful from my last video as it is more atmospheric. I would like to add sounds to the videos to create more atmosphere.
I was not sure how long to make the videos. So I am thinking of joining the two together to see what it would be like.
I want to continue editing until I find one that I really like.
I am focusing on light and textures so it makes the viewer want to touch the objects being presented. I also want to show the house as it once was. As if someone was still living there.

I looked at some other videos that showed houses like this. They seemed to not show the house off in the best light.
This made me want to show my chosen house in a very atmospheric way.

Stills

For my assessment I plan on displaying some film stills alongside my moving image to show the process of the editing. I may show some that were not shown in the actual film. 

Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood is an English filmmaker and photographer .  Taylor-Wood used to be a sculptor.

Taylor-Wood began exhibiting her artwork in the early 90s . ' In 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score. From that point multi-screen video works became the main focus of Taylor-Wood's work.'

Sam Taylor- Wood is part of the young british artists. She explores 'The split between being and appearance in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict – has always been in the centre of her creative work.'

'Work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects – either singly or in groups – in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict.'

One of her most famous films ; A matter of time.

This takes a simple idea of still life and watching it decay over time. Here Taylor Wood is taking a theme that has been explored in many different mediums.

film

What I find extraordinary about it is that you think that nothing is happening and then suddenly it all changes. 

'The ability to play with time, stretching and quickening it is a distinctively modern phenomenon.'

Quotes from Sam Taylor Wood:

'I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.'

Sam Taylor-Wood: When I have an idea it presents itself as one or either; it’s never “this could be a film or should it be a photograph?” When I have the idea, it’s either a photograph or it’s film, and it’s dictated by the idea almost instantaneously.