Opening track from the Osaka Story EP: Available on Bandcamp. I remain grateful to the Arts Council of Wales (via their Wales Arts International scheme) for funding this project.
July 13, 2020
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Category Archives: Film
July 4, 2020
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Silver Lining
A short film I made in collaboration with glass artist Chris Bird-Jones. It has been accepted into the Glass, Meet the Future International Film Festival currently running at Northlands Creative.
April 30, 2020
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British Sounds
The facts: 1969 made-for-TV film by Jean-Luc Godard. The voice-overs are largely adapted from the Communist Manifesto. Godard claimed that the “news presenter” text was adapted from speeches by contemporary politicians. The “feminist” text is written and recited by Sheila Rowbotham. … Continue reading
February 1, 2020
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Empty Orchestra 空のオーケストラ
This film was shot at various locations in and around Osaka in August 2019. The film formed part of my submission to 1SSUE 43. A version is currently showing at the Swansea Open exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Gallery. I … Continue reading
September 10, 2019
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Japan 211
Here are the two films I produced for the Mirror exhibition at Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, 30 July – 11 August 2019. 白紙 [Blank Paper] is a Japanese language film that toys with narrative convention. It is sampled, intertextual, and semiotically … Continue reading
August 18, 2019
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Japan 209
Tragically, I can now report that we’ve arrived back in the UK. We’ve had a few hours sleep since the long trek half-way around the world, but obviously body clocks are hopelessly out-of-sync. Fortunately we’ve allowed a day to decompress, … Continue reading
August 10, 2019
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Japan 206B
What I’ve been up to recently, part two: Thursday 1 August On our train rides into town I’d seen a group of traditional-looking roofs amongst the contemporary sprawl. Again with the aid of Google Maps I identified where it is: … Continue reading
August 9, 2019
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Japan 206A
We’ve been here now for about two and a half weeks. We leave a week tomorrow. Heather has been blogging furiously so I guess we all know what she’s been up to, right? Printmaking at Atelier Outotsu mostly: even though … Continue reading
August 1, 2019
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Japan 203
On Monday at 1pm local time we gathered at Art Spot Korin in Kyoto to put our Mirror show up. “We” being myself and Heather (obviously), Masahiro Kawanaka (the curator), and fellow artist Matthew Fasone (who we met on our trip … Continue reading
July 24, 2019
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Japan 201
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Heather Parnell we have been generously funded by the Arts Council of Wales (under the Wales Art International programme) to visit Japan once again. Last year we moved around a fair bit: roughly two … Continue reading