A video booth was set up in the Byam Shaw School of Art during the time in which the students occupied the building in February 2009. The booth was open for people to drop in with objects and present them to a camcorder. By simply asking people to take in an object, stories & insights into their lives are revealed.
Excessive Aquisition
A film about discovery, attachment, anxiety and memory. From the point of view of a mother and compulsive hoarder.
From Mother to Mother Duration of film: 22:34 minutes
Fascinated by the simple magic of how human life starts to potentially develop in the womb of every woman, I decided to interview five Mothers and asked them to share their experience on motherhood. I name them mothers, because every woman is a potential mother and this feeling seems to be ingrained within our existence. I asked them to share this experience in their lives, which creates life, to maybe come a little closer to understand my mother and the reasons for why I am here.
Slow Down London Documentation Duration of film: 09:59
Following this exciting ten-day Festival through a lens, this ten-minute film, is the short version of documentation on the Slow Down London Festival 2009. It is grasping the essential notion, that as a collective we are finding ourselves in a time, especially in reflection to the economic crisis and climate change, where alternative ways of living are vital to explore.
The Slow Down London Festival offers debates over time, speed, travel, food, craft, mediation, gardening, yoga, culture and history. It is trying to give a space to place ourselves now, in real time, abs to inspire the idea that living more slowly is not that difficult. With the balance in each step, and in decision we make, we can create a more sustainable present. For more information visit: www.slowdownlondon.co.uk
Penguin Men Duration of film: 02:33 minutes
Every person has a unique development, according to minor and major variations in a life. At the same time, we are kept in classifications, establishing barriers, toward one of a kind. In Penguin men I am dressed in a bathing suit, swimming across Liverpool Street Station, swimming amongst an ocean of men and women all seemingly the same, dressed in black and white in the hope to create a little movement into crowd.
21st Century Human Being Duration of film: 02:30 minutes
Ian Angell:
Summary of research interests and expertise: Professor Angel looks into the global consequence of ICT. He is also involved in the Internet business, Strategic Information Systems, Anti-Money Laundering, Bureaucracy, Complexity, Computer Security, Creative Commons, Global Consequences of ICT, Information Systems Management, Internet Business, Motivation, National Information Technology Strategies, and New Technology. He teaches at London School of Economics.
Mediated Life Duration of film: 02:17 minutes
Jannis Kallinikos:
Summary of research interests and expertise: Professor Kallinikos interests are focused on information growth. Technology and Social Behaviour, Technology, Communication, Organization, Infrastructure. He also is a professor at London School of Economics.
This interview was very much focused on the development of technologies, moving from the mobile phone to the Internet. Kallinikos seems to be grounded in his field and it was more inspiring to be talking to him. We live in a time of great changes and the future is to be unknown. Mobile communication cuts through personal and private life, like a knife, disorientating relationships within the moment. We live in a chaotic world and as a counter balance, maybe we can take a snail, as a little creature to learn from and see things in the time and sometimes slowness that is needed for them to happen. Ironically his phone starts ringing during our conversation. It is inevitable.
I am a Tree Duration of film: 04:00 minutes
I have a human trunk, wooden arms and walk from the Hampstead Heath to Archway Station. Along this journey I get asked what I am doing, and see a positive bewilderment of my ‘audience’, that daily passes these streets. The meaning of this performance is to change a ‘normal’ day, with a little weird touch, into a day of an encounter. I hope to inspire my surroundings. Doing so, I am a person who is walking casually down the roads, carrying branches over my shoulders, realizing that I am turning into a tree.
Windmills over looking the City Duration of film: 01:17 minutes
This is a film about the arrangement of my four windmills at the top of Primrose hill, Hampstead Heath. The windmills are over looking the city, turning manically, until they all fall because of the force of the wind. Today, windmills do not fall because of the wind, but their usage has greatly been defeated through advancing industrialization. They are still used as alternative energy sources and survive as a mark in our history. This installation attracted by passers, and pleasantly reminded them of the essential beauty of a windmill standing amongst Nature.
I was heavily involved in the occupation of the Byam Shaw School of Art, which took place in the spring term of 2009. During this time, I decided to film as much of the events taking place as possible. Resulting in a body of film 24hrs long, detailing much of what took place. Archiving has grown to become an important aspect of my work and I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to document an event which I saw as hugely important. The question after the occupation finished, was what to do with all the material? How do I re-interpret the events when I was so heavily involved personally?
1hr 15mins
‘Dudley’ (2008)
The documentary is an interview with my great grandfather Dudley Van Koningsveld. It attempts to deal with issues of memory loss and the preservation of knowledge through storytelling, whilst at the same time opening a window into the curious yet uneasy relationship forming between us. Much of our relationship centres on the game of Chess, a game we play on a regular basis, so the film is interspersed with clips of a game we played on the day of the interview. The questioning centres on his role during the Second World War, he was a gun designer and civil servant, given the temporary rank of Capitan and charged with the task of finding and interrogating Nazi engineers as the Allies pushed into Europe. The second half of the film is a guided tour around his house depicting an array of oil and watercolour paintings of rural central Europe, painted by him toward the later years of his life after learning to paint by numbers.
1 minute 20 seconds, looped digital video with audio
The hanging belts of a crane ‘perform’ high above a construction site in Archway. Filmed from a stairwell window; the sound is the opening and closing of the various doors slowed and layered.
BIRDS (2008)
3 minutes, looped digital video with audio
The study of a blackbird and a performance in the rain with a sparrow.
Shot at the University of East Anglia, these three films explore the architecture of the buildings, with emphasis on shape, and the quality and quirks of the construction materials (especially concrete.) The architectural concerns within the films are further embodied through their presentation. Simultaneous projections, on surfaces at right angles to each other, ask us to consider the architectural and spatial qualities of film projection, and the unique event of being in a particular place at a particular time.
Films for Denys Lasdun (I) - Super 8 (colour) Approx. 3mins Films for Denys Lasdun (II) - Super 8 (black and white) Approx. 3mins Films for Denys Lasdun (III) - 16mm (black and white negative) Approx 1 1/2 mins
These films will be projected onto 'INTERCHANGE' once a day at 4 o'clock.
Olivia Bax Machine Age (2 minutes)
The constant movement of machinery is nothing more than mere repetition. Or is it? Mechanical action represents uncompromising function and unyielding form.
