Gabriela in the Woods by Tina Hillier

lost girl with green hair.

recently watched #10.

lola rennt

i go a long time without watching this film but then it comes back to me and i obsess over it again every time. an inspirational piece of work and the soundtrack is just beyond words.

eight astronauts strapped to the back of a bomb.

sunshine (2007, danny boyle)

cillian murphy's character, physicist robert capa, is based on professor brian cox. need i explain more?

physical states.

trying to come up with ways to "present" your work when the whole point of the work in question is about memories and their ethereal reality is hard work.
i don't want the series of photographs to be seperate from one another. i don't even want physical versions of them. you cannot hold memories and you cannot take any of this with you when you go. so how do you show work that tries to say this without contradicting it all?



edit: i've since come to the conclusion that the best solution is to simply project them. if i had to present these pieces to the public (which at this stage i wouldn't but let's be theoretical here) then i couldn't simply just window mount this work. memories and mind states are not tangible things and so i don't think their presentation should be either. a projection gives the images a kind of pseudo-existence - it remains as light, the way everything else is seen.

recently watched #9

time & memory, an act of remembrance

the weather finally cleared enough to shoot more work for this project.
my idea has undertaken another slight alteration. initially i had been planning to take a number of "memories" and represent them all in the same way, but as my concept has developed this idea doesn't really fit anymore - all the images would be of the same thing. a more interesting idea would be to take one memory and show an act of remembrance connected to it. the props or objects (the coloured bottles) become triggers in a more personal way - they either mean something to you as a viewer or they do not. my main aim is to show how anything and everything, sound as well as visuals, act as triggers and it's because of these small things that "remind" us that we are able to dig things up from deep seated long term memory. i have chosen my props for specific reasons (outlined in one of my earlier blogs) but ultimately they are just subjective things.



these four images become a story arc. that foggy moment when something has clicked but you're still trying to sift through all the information you've ever withheld... the triggers then act as a focus, and a memnory is eventually formed. this can all happen within milliseconds, or if you have an appalling memory like me, it can take a very long time to fully form the memory.

i also recorded a video and am still in the editing process. the sound needs a lot of work, as does the colour correction for obvious reasons. i also intend to shoot another short scene which should hopefully help you as a viewer understand what the character is "remembering" a little better.

here is what i have so far:

my favourite mycroft.

unbelievably the god that is mark gatiss came to the mill arts centre in banbury last night for an interview session in aid of the samaritans (charity is the only thing that can get people of interest to come anywhere near this town it seems). dragged my sister along as no-one else i know seems to appreciate this man... and i came away feeling inspired again. there isn't much more i can ask for than that.

short summary of mark gatiss, not that i should need to give it - co-creator of the league of gentlemen, co-writer in several episodes of dr who, last year gave us my new favourite thing, the new sherlock, as well as having acted in and written numerous other productions (starter for 10, the first men on the moon, the worst journey in the world, a history of horror...).

i suppose what impresses me most about mark gatiss is the fact he's become extremely successful, not just because he knows the right people, but because he is a talented writer and actor who did nothing but simply "stick at it", and in doing this has had a healthy career doing everything he's passionate about - he said he didn't think he'd ever worked on a project his heart wasn't in 100%. he's never lost an ounce of integrity.
his advice - if you want something enough, whether you want to be a writer, a photographer, a filmmaker, an actor, if you have nothing but passion then just work and work and create something you are proud of. even if you have rooms full of discarded ideas and scraps of paper, keep going. find a good idea.
the people who are "stars" don't always deserve to be stars... and there will always be wealths of talented people who never get to be well known for what they do. contacts can only get you so far... talent, hard work and good ideas are worth so much more.

accidental art.

vivre sa vie (to live her life) (jean-luc godard, 1962)

is this where gizzi erskine gets her looks from?