View fom behind the screen
STRUCTURES is about the cyclic nature of the universe and how we see this being alluded to in the nature of the changing landscape.
Video projected on textile installation at the Ferini gallery, Pakefield.
4.08.2007
Structures
STRUCTURES is about the cyclic nature of the universe and how we see this being alluded to in the nature of the changing landscape.
Video projected on textile installation at the Ferini gallery, Pakefield.
4.03.2007
Having film screened at SHORTS film night at Norwich 10/04/07
My film "I've got one thing to do today and that is the one hundred and one things I should've done yesterday " is being shown at the SHORTS film night at the Norwich Arts Centre. To be held on the evening of the 10th April between 8 - 10pm.
It's one of many films being chosen that work with the theme of Against The Grain.
3.21.2007
Nelson Monument Protest Film
I have a film posted up on
http://protestfilm.blogspot.com/2007/03/nelson-monument-protest.html
visit this site and obtain a machine to fillm in this interesting project.
I was pleased with the soundtrack as I was using one of my experiements of turning the pictures into sound.
http://protestfilm.blogspot.com/2007/03/nelson-monument-protest.html
visit this site and obtain a machine to fillm in this interesting project.
I was pleased with the soundtrack as I was using one of my experiements of turning the pictures into sound.
3.19.2007
Why make a film...
"Why make a film about Lowestoft because it's shit..." said one of the teenagers to me yesterday afternoon whilst I was doing one of my experiments in outside animation.
Well why indeed.
I suppose because it's there and like a mountaineer and a large lump of rock it has to be climbed.
The Imaginary Film © rolls on and is making progress.
Well why indeed.
I suppose because it's there and like a mountaineer and a large lump of rock it has to be climbed.
The Imaginary Film © rolls on and is making progress.
3.18.2007
Converting Vision into Audio
It's probably been down to the fact that I have broken my video camera so my brain has been thinking about alternative strategies to make pictures whilst I figure out the financial repercusions of over coming this hurdle.
It's been a quite happening last few days thanks to some freeware software and my mac. It's been a revelation and a very much needed theraputic session these last few days.
I have then been making these audio segments into longer soundscapes using Ableton Live and then rendering these to put into Logic Audio. There's no secret in what is already availiable on the net...now. It's what you do with it that counts.
Very interesting but I have to put these into an order for a video piece I am putting into the Ferini Gallery in Lowestoft soon.
Then I discover something which will work with Puredata. Time to brush off the dust on my backup disks and reinstall.
There's always a discovery waiting to happen.
Keeping the mind active to new possibilities.
I need to meet yet more people and experience a differrant perspective to feedback into my arts practice.
It's been a quite happening last few days thanks to some freeware software and my mac. It's been a revelation and a very much needed theraputic session these last few days.
I have then been making these audio segments into longer soundscapes using Ableton Live and then rendering these to put into Logic Audio. There's no secret in what is already availiable on the net...now. It's what you do with it that counts.
Very interesting but I have to put these into an order for a video piece I am putting into the Ferini Gallery in Lowestoft soon.
Then I discover something which will work with Puredata. Time to brush off the dust on my backup disks and reinstall.
There's always a discovery waiting to happen.
Keeping the mind active to new possibilities.
I need to meet yet more people and experience a differrant perspective to feedback into my arts practice.
Daring and Daring 3 the review.
There's a review of Dark and Daring on Nigel Balls blog at
http://dubdog.blogspot.com/2007/03/part-3.html
and he spelt my name right. Good man.
Looking forward to next years event.
http://dubdog.blogspot.com/2007/03/part-3.html
and he spelt my name right. Good man.
Looking forward to next years event.
3.11.2007
One of my films playing at Dark and Daring 3, Ipswich 16th march in the evening
DARK&DARING(partiii)–STMARY@QUAY,
(Ipswich)
DAY TWO 16th March
Tonight Dark & Daring presents a programme of audiovisual work selected from
a national open call.
Showreel Programme – approx 1 hour
1. Dancing Plants – Paul Masters – 6’00
2. Slow Motion – Mark Sargeant – 0’40
3. No More Heroes – Tom Lock & Charlotte Colwill – 3’30
4. Descent – Emma Johnson- 3’04
5. Detroit – Nippa Quddus, Hayley Paternoster & Jason Smalley – 0’30
6. Contractual Freedom – Nigel Ball – 2’40
7. Forecast – Liam Frankland – 5’00
8. Untitled – Kyle Gregg – 0’20
9. Docks – Matthew Moseley – 2’10
10. The Light Side – Gordon Culshaw – 2’00
11. I See Yahoo – Bobby Makes – 4’40
12. Hive - Malcolm Moseley – 2’10
13. Small Things Toys – Henry Newcomb Jackson – 1’00
14. Deepspace – Beth Powell – 3’10
15. Mouth To Mouth – Vera Simmonds – 5’50
16. Red Letter Day – Tom Poultney – 2’10
17. W Project – Mostefprod - 10’00
18. Post It – Henry Newcomb Jackson – 2’40
On Monitors
1. Left / Right Mulberry Street – Madi Boyd – “Concieved as a film about vision and
perception of the urban environment, despite being silent many people have described
this as a loud film.”
2. The Land of Childhood – Ian Harris - 7’51 – “In this short film we travel to a realm outside
normal time.”
3. The Red Room – Emma Caddow – 5’30 – “forming an unrelated relationship between
sound and vision, this piece probes questions about the subjective nature of reality.”
4. Water – Annette Fry – 8’00 – “this video follows the journey of water from drip to torrent,
from sink to sea.”
It's going to be shown between 1900 and 2100 in the evening.
(Ipswich)
DAY TWO 16th March
Tonight Dark & Daring presents a programme of audiovisual work selected from
a national open call.
Showreel Programme – approx 1 hour
1. Dancing Plants – Paul Masters – 6’00
2. Slow Motion – Mark Sargeant – 0’40
3. No More Heroes – Tom Lock & Charlotte Colwill – 3’30
4. Descent – Emma Johnson- 3’04
5. Detroit – Nippa Quddus, Hayley Paternoster & Jason Smalley – 0’30
6. Contractual Freedom – Nigel Ball – 2’40
7. Forecast – Liam Frankland – 5’00
8. Untitled – Kyle Gregg – 0’20
9. Docks – Matthew Moseley – 2’10
10. The Light Side – Gordon Culshaw – 2’00
11. I See Yahoo – Bobby Makes – 4’40
12. Hive - Malcolm Moseley – 2’10
13. Small Things Toys – Henry Newcomb Jackson – 1’00
14. Deepspace – Beth Powell – 3’10
15. Mouth To Mouth – Vera Simmonds – 5’50
16. Red Letter Day – Tom Poultney – 2’10
17. W Project – Mostefprod - 10’00
18. Post It – Henry Newcomb Jackson – 2’40
On Monitors
1. Left / Right Mulberry Street – Madi Boyd – “Concieved as a film about vision and
perception of the urban environment, despite being silent many people have described
this as a loud film.”
2. The Land of Childhood – Ian Harris - 7’51 – “In this short film we travel to a realm outside
normal time.”
3. The Red Room – Emma Caddow – 5’30 – “forming an unrelated relationship between
sound and vision, this piece probes questions about the subjective nature of reality.”
4. Water – Annette Fry – 8’00 – “this video follows the journey of water from drip to torrent,
from sink to sea.”
It's going to be shown between 1900 and 2100 in the evening.
3.03.2007
The Abbey Taxi
I would like to say thanks to Kirsten Lavers and the Abbey Taxi for the photograph and the free hosting of the magnetic message. For more information about the Abbey Taxi which is based in Cambridge please visit http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kirstenlavers/taxigallery/
Almost this time last last year.........
360 degrees - a film about an art exhibition translated through words
2.23.2007
Experimental films and arts funding?
Had this in an email regarding a couple of my films. Interesting and of course I said yes. Funding and its relation to my work is always on my mind.
Hi there Mark
I am writing to you because i found some of your short films when i searched for 'examples of experimental film' in google.
I was really captivated watching your 'slow motion' film and the one with 'burgh? castle'
I am doing a dissertation about arts funding for independent filmmakers and i have to do a very long presentation in front of alot of people so i am trying to get some examples of experimental and independent film to not only fill it out a little but to support me evidentially as well.
I was wondering if i would be able to perhaps use your work with your permission and if it is actually possible for me to download the copies from you. I would mention you in the presentation and put your details in the bibliography of my essay. I understand of course completely if you dont want to but i would be very grateful.
Regards
Julie
Hi there Mark
I am writing to you because i found some of your short films when i searched for 'examples of experimental film' in google.
I was really captivated watching your 'slow motion' film and the one with 'burgh? castle'
I am doing a dissertation about arts funding for independent filmmakers and i have to do a very long presentation in front of alot of people so i am trying to get some examples of experimental and independent film to not only fill it out a little but to support me evidentially as well.
I was wondering if i would be able to perhaps use your work with your permission and if it is actually possible for me to download the copies from you. I would mention you in the presentation and put your details in the bibliography of my essay. I understand of course completely if you dont want to but i would be very grateful.
Regards
Julie
2.18.2007
Burgh Castle
Burgh Castle a series of processes 2006
Inspired by the marvelous ruins of Burgh Castle near where I live. I came up with this short film. It's a series of pictures I've took with a still camera and then edited and processed them together. Added in some footage I had with another session there to make this film. The piece like the ruins themselves have undergone a succession of processes. One of human intevention and of time itself. For me it has an earlier artistic connection as for the Landscape 200 exhibition of 2005 at the Norwich castle get a picture of mine accepted. One of the first major exhibitions I have exhibited at.
Haunting 2005
New stuff ...old stuff......
I have been doing loads of video editing of material. It's amzing what i have collected in the past seven years worth of tapes. All the photgraphs I have taken on this blog have been a remminder of what i can use. Like the terracotta head I dug up from college 20 years ago. Everything has it's place and nothing is forgotten unless it's thrown away.
In a simular fashion I have been warmly encouraged by the relative number of hits on my film pieces in the last couple of weeks that i have been uploading them. This has given me an impertus for producing ideas and trying them out. For they do nothing if all they do is reside lying in boxs on the shelf.
Everything has a purpose.
That is not to say that you can just rely on the internet and exist in cyberspace. Because that is wrong. A blog has to an input of real life and not a collection of data pasted from somewhere else on the internet. So this has been a notepad come scratch pad for me to recall and jot down ideas as I progress.
A depository for things that otherwise would be ignored is purpose for this blog. I have to have a place to put ideas in a form that I can recall.
The collection of architectural structures to be captured on camera for the next installation has grown.
As has my ongoing research for my imaginary film project.
For something new the artists group I am involved in with has launched a blog with the website we have developed over christmas to be on line in the next couple of months. These are excuses for real world activites to be iniated.
In a simular fashion I have been warmly encouraged by the relative number of hits on my film pieces in the last couple of weeks that i have been uploading them. This has given me an impertus for producing ideas and trying them out. For they do nothing if all they do is reside lying in boxs on the shelf.
Everything has a purpose.
That is not to say that you can just rely on the internet and exist in cyberspace. Because that is wrong. A blog has to an input of real life and not a collection of data pasted from somewhere else on the internet. So this has been a notepad come scratch pad for me to recall and jot down ideas as I progress.
A depository for things that otherwise would be ignored is purpose for this blog. I have to have a place to put ideas in a form that I can recall.
The collection of architectural structures to be captured on camera for the next installation has grown.
As has my ongoing research for my imaginary film project.
For something new the artists group I am involved in with has launched a blog with the website we have developed over christmas to be on line in the next couple of months. These are excuses for real world activites to be iniated.
2.13.2007
One of those 101 things....
A film made from a poem that was written and narrated
by Andy Smail from the writing group Quill. Andy also writes and makes his own visual poems which can be seen
here
The full title is "Ive got one thing to do today and that is the one hundred and one things I didn't do yesterday".
2.11.2007
2.07.2007
2.05.2007
2.04.2007
Relics
A film of two halves:
The recent past in monochrome and the future in colour.
The recent past in monochrome and the future in colour.
This piece is an assemblege of past fragments of myself. I have been colecting footage of abandoned cars for the last five years. Mixed in with this some footage of the 2002 London Mayday protest. The guitar soundtrack I was pleased with as well this being written five years old and it was nice to have an outcome for its creation.
2.03.2007
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