Amen ICA Cinema Steve
Hawley 2002, 10min
A Palindromic
video, that explores the magical power and absurdity of things that go
forwards and backwards.
Reading Room Steve
Connolly 2003, 2min
The reading
room traces the movement of visitors to the British Museum reading room
through an entire working day in under three minutes and in silence. The
work is
a short reflection on the changing nature of archives. The
film
notes that future access to them is not guaranteed
and the physical location
of an archive may still hold a fascination, even as a museum.
Unedited Material from the
Star John Latham
1960, 12min
An animated documentation of the production of Film
Star, another work by Latham which took its title from its appearance in
this film. Film Star is a canvas incorporating books whose pages have been
painted in twelve colours. Because the books can be opened at different
pages,
the work can exist in different states; during production, Latham
would stop filming at various points, turn the pages of the books, and
start filming again. In the film, the books appear suddenly to open, close
and change colour.
Word Movie Paul Sharits 1966,
4min
Fifty
words visually 'repeated' in varying sequential and positional relationships/spoken
word soundtrack/structured each frame being a different word or word fragment,
so that the individual words optically-conceptually fuse into one 3 and three
quarter minute long word. Voices on soundtrack, Barbara and Robert Forth.
Mile End Purgatorio
Guy Sherwin/Martin Doyle 1991, 1min
This work represents
a collaboration between filmmaker and poet responding to tensions between
film and the spoken word. The scene is a parade of shops in Grove Rd, Mile
End, London: the voice a male mid-life crisis. Shop fronts and other images
provoke and externalise the many themes of conflict. Biblical and literary
allusions reinforce the humour and sense of anxiety. MD
University Library Rosalind
Nashashibi 2004, 7min
Books, dust and young
people. New students negotiate shelves, lifts and dusty pot plants, keeping
silent and occasionally sneaking looks at one another.
Ex-Library William
English 2006, 20min
A crane and its operator observed
over approximately
18 months on a site which previously contained a library.
Secondary Currents Peter
Rose 1982, 14min
Secondary Currents is a film
about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable
narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense, it is an ‘imageless’ film
in which the shifting relationships between voice-over commentary and subtitled
narration constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech, and sound.
A kind of comic opera, the film
is a dark metaphor for the order and entropy
of language and has been the subject of a number of articles on the
use of
language in the arts. Percussion by Jim Meneses.