Miss Dover and I decided to take a day away from the Mill today and visit my parents who live nearby. My washing had reached critical state and we were looking forward to a belated Sunday lunch promised on our […]
FAFF2010 Programme Monday 16th August 2010 Fumiko Matsuyama (DE) Abenteuer der Rumflasche (Adventure of the Rumbottle) A mischievous rum bottle travels in a country where the ideals and the reality of the revolution do not always reconcile with ideals with […]
FAFF2010 Programme Monday 16th August 2010 Continued Rä di Martino (BE) August 2008 In a spacious, classic-looking room, which could also be the décor for a 1950s movie, a man and a woman are singing to each other. In an […]
FAFF2010 Programme Tuesday 17th August 2010 Paul Tarragó (UK) The Badger Series Episode 3 The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role […]
FAFF2010 Programme Tuesday 17th August 2010 Continued Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK) Carbon Dating Angels The idea of “carbon dating angels” suggests a search for origin, and by extension meaning or truth, in that which is beyond the realms […]
FAFF2010 Programme Wednesday 18th August 2010 Çağlar Çetin (TR) Peki (Alright) A motionless woman, who is surrounded by ceaseless speeches of her family, colleges and childhood memories, comes across with people shaking their heads. Would she really like to take […]
FAFF2010 Programme Wednesday 18th August 2010 Continued Vincent Meessen (BE/US) Dear Advisor This must be Chandigarh, the well known preconceived city in the Indian state of Punjab. With his black suit, bow tie and bowler hat, the walker looks like […]
FAFF2010 Programme Thursday 19th August 2010 Clare Harris (UK) Passing Moment Passing Moment is a short film in which the viewer is placed in a position of being a voyeur in which they observe consciousness looking in on its self. […]
FAFF2010 Programme Thursday 19th August 2010 Continued David Cochrane (UK) Dealt Performance related video A deck of card is dealt out Lernert & Sander (NL) How To Explain It To My Parents: Arno Coenen In How To Explain It To […]
FAFF Programme Friday 20th August 2010 Sam Holden (UK) 70 still frames and 5 minutes 50 seconds 70 still frames and 5 minutes 50 seconds of video Using a digital SLR, image capture software and a hidden video camera 70 […]
FAFF Programme Friday 20th August 2010 Continued Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK) Space Drawing No.5 Space Drawing No.5 was created in 2009 in Russia. Through the simplest yet most fundamental function of line – to divide, subtract, Space Drawing attempts to […]
Yesterday started badly and ended mediocrely. The middle went well. I was full of excitement because my Helium arrived early transported in an unmarked silver van by a man who would not have looked out of place in GBH (the […]
i sometimes would like to be able to “send via thought transfer” my thoughts about the moment. last night was the most recent occurance of this. as i sat listening to music with pizza cooking and wine breathing i really […]
The editing is more or less complete with 18 films on my hard drive. My thoughts have now turned to how the work will be shown. The plans so far are that a room will be built on the second […]
Still messing up the way I work. I’ve been collecting images, quotes, snippets of film inrelation to the sea and just leaving them. I’ll be posting them up here hoping that through the process that not only do the ideas […]
Dusk
I’ve set myself a summer project to keep my hand in, but it’s here, there and everywhere. I think this indicates to me that I have loads of ideas, some good, some bad. I make time to follow these ideas […]
One of the most rewarding aspects of exhibiting in the Royal Academy has been the unexpected emails and hand written letters from strangers. I received a lengthy one today and it was good. My painting went better today after a […]
Today I went to the Stephen Friedman Gallery to see work by the four artists shortlisted for the Dazed & Confused Emerging Artists Award – one of whom is Laura Buckley. Buckley is showing a new installation, KZN, in which […]
