1960's
China Tea - still
China Tea
1965, (8mm), 10 minutes, colour, silent
Shot with two 8mm cameras then projected side by side accompanied by an audio tape of ‘prepared piano’.
It is now available in a digital video version with the original music track.
Castle 1
1966, 22 minutes, B & W
A film made with found newsreel footage combined with sequences of a flashing light bulb. It is projected with a real flashing bulb hanging in front of the screen.
It is available as a 16mm film with the flasher unit or as a digital video version for repeating installation.
Castle 1 - short extract
Little Dog for Roger
1967, 12 minutes, B & W
– I thought it was about film as a medium and material – scratches, sprocket holes, dirt, slippage in the projector, blank screen, gaps in the sound-track – I forgot that one of the boys was me, the other was my brother, the young woman was my mother – now dead – and behind the camera in 1952 was my father - the dog was mine – nothing to do with Roger – that’s another story.
Little Dog for Roger - Short extract
Yes No Maybe Maybenot - still
Yes No Maybe Maybenot
1967, 7 minutes, B & W
A double projection of images of lapping water and the Battersea Power Station all transformed by negative positive superimposition creating a moving Bas-Relief effect.
Talla
1967, 20 minutes, B & W, silent
Shot on a misty Dartmoor with images of the rocky, granite outcrops, a derelict quarry-working and the ancient prison.
Talla - still
Blind White Duration
1967, 10 minutes, B & W, silent
A snowy day in Harrow - walking to the Met Line station – an interaction between the snow and a blank white screen.
Blind White Duration - still
Castle Two
1968, 32 minutes, B & W, two screen
Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.
Castle Two - still
Grass
1968, tape-slide, 10 minutes (approx.)
Originally presented as a tape slide work with an extremely slow fade
between 35mm slides of an empty area of grass and the same area including a photographed child.
Using the original slides and sound tape the work has been re-constructed as a digital video.
Grass- still
Wharf - still
Wharf
1968, film-tape-slide, 30 minutes (approx.)
Originally the work was presented as a pre-ordered sequence of 35mm slides showing two unknown people walking around the wall of a sea-side swimming pool. Switching between positive and negative focus on the mystery of the hidden and unresolved narrative between the ‘lovers?’. On occasions, this work was shown in superimposition with sections of the film Talla. Two sound tapes were mixed in improvisation.
A digital video version has been made using the original slide sequence and audio tapes.
Spot the Microdot
1969, 10 minutes
A hand made film rhythmically punching circular holes into fully opaque 16mm magnetic film.
It can’t be printed and is only projected on rare special occasions.