This page was last updated on 30 April 2008
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I'm currently working on my first feature film: footinmouthmoovie.com – Watch this space
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The Clockwork Mouse Trilogy Clockwork Mouse was my first ever attempt at stop-frame animation and introduces the cute-looking, yet malicious title character. Clockwork Mouse Strikes Back looks at animal experiments from a fresh perspective. The film is also available from the onsuper8 podcast, along with a 5-minute interview I gave during Strawberry Super 8 film festival 2007. Clockwork Mouse Can't Get Enough is a tale of boundless greed, filmed on a clockwork motor driven Paillard-Bolex B8 camera from 1956.
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Etude Capitale Train journeys in May and September 2007 brought me and my Super 8 camera to Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Prague. The footage taken there was then re-arranged according to different moods, visually following the four-part structure of a classical symphony. The film is accompanied by the piece Requiem für Karlheinz Stockhausen in e-moll con vacuum that I spontaneously created on 8 December 2007, the very day I first heard about the avantgarde composer's death. The film project was completed five days later, on the day of Stockhausen's funeral. To watch the film as a QuickTime movie, click on the link below: |
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Da draußen – Lakonie in Subversion A thoroughly revised and significantly extended version of Da draußen. From 5 to 8 September 2007, I once again stepped as 'Person' in front of Peter Brecht's camera. This time our recordings focused on aspects of industry to be found along the river Neckar from Neckarsulm to Bad Wimpfen, and this new part of the film puts particular emphasis on the innate transiency of the landscape. Peter Brecht also added a solo performance by himself which expresses most poignantly the laconic nature of his project. |
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Presentations to IPPR Commission on National Security in the 21st century At the core of the Peace Leadership Programme, piloted in 2007 by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT), was a residential workshop held in Birmingham at the end of August 2007, culminating in a session where participants had to give presentations on issues raised by the recent report of the IPPR Commission on National Security in the 21st century. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is one of the UK's major policymaking think-tanks, and to make the workshop exercise more realistic, the organisers invited IPPR staff member Alexander Ramsbotham to listen to and discuss the presentations. JRCT commissioned me to record this particular session, using two digital cameras simultaneously, and to deliver an edited version on DVD.
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Sea Level Wise Silent film portraying the approaches of a scientist and a modern-day Druid towards dangerous climate change, this could also be called a tale of knowledge versus wisdom. The film stars Sandra Langley as the Druid and a cartoon professor illustrated by Ann Xiao. Original score by Andrea Caro. Click on the link below to watch this movie:
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The Mango Factory live at the Old Park Tavern The Mango Factory made their triumphant debut at the end of 2006 when they played before a full house in Bristol's Old Park Tavern. For their second gig, on 20 January 2007, another sell-out performance, they asked me to be camera operator, so that they could add some pictures to their newly established online presences. I recorded the entire concert, and several clips can be found on |
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Messengers of Moo Compiled from recordings made in the English West Country between autumn 2005 and summer 2006, Messengers of Moo takes a poetic as well as prophetic approach to the climate change debate. To watch the film online as QuickTime movie, click on the link below: |
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Da draußen For a change, I spent my time in front of a camera rather than behind it, to help Peter Brecht realize his vision of a film about the South German Hohenlohe region. From a technical point of view, Da draußen was produced in an extremely minimalistic way. The production involved only two people, the filmmaker and myself; the equipment consisted of a tiny digital camera, about the size of a mobile phone; despite its epic length, the film was shot in only four days (New Year's Eve and New Year 2005/06 and 2 days in August 2006). However, this is where the minimalism ends. Da draußen was filmed at over two dozen different locations, stretching from Heilbronn about forty miles eastwards, beyond Schwäbisch Hall and Künzelsau. The film draws much inspiration from Martin Walser's beautifully desperate prose. It features recitations of 19th century German Romantic poetry and several appearances of a Richard Wagner bust, and introduces its audience to some of the art collected by Hohenlohe-based Schraubenkönig ('King of the Screws') Reinhold Würth. Far from being just 'arty', Da draußen incorporates elements of a documentary, a mockumentary, a comedy, a melodram, a road movie, and a Heimatfilm, to name but a few. Peter Brecht rightly recognized that his film pioneers a new genre and appropriately subtitled it Eine Lakonie. Da draußen formed the basis of a revised and much extended new version, completed in autumn 2007, known as Da draußen – Lakonie in Subversion. |
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Paddy's Last Hour Surreal comedy short made in collaboration with Paddy Uglow who played the title role and created the original score. Features Lazy Dog and a pair of sunglasses of a certain significance. The movie is available to watch online in a QuickTime version: |
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We know who you are My (digital) filmmaking debut, this silent black and white comedy short was inspired by a past TV Licensing poster campaign. It features Katharine Peachey as a woman who gets into trouble with two TV Licensing Officers, played by Sandra Langley and Peter Brent. Original score by Edward Lewis. Three QuickTime versions of the movie are available for watching online (courtesy of Watershed Media Centre as part of their 90-second challenge):
240 x 180 pixels (3.2 MB)
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