Chris Lane

‘This Is The Byam Shaw’ (2009)

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.

23mins