1980's
Finnegans Chin - temporal economy
1981, 80 minutes
Mainly shot in a studio, the action follows and creates an intricate fantasy based on the morning ritual of a man waking, shaving, eating breakfast and leaving the house for work.
Finnegans Chin - still
Digital Still Life
1984-6, 8 minutes, computer & video
A single performance made at the National Film Theatre against a blank screen – the performer twice leaves the stage on one side, exits the building and re-enters the stage on the other side – the duration was determined by the time it took to walk out of sight around the theatre.
Digital Still Life - still
Like a Fox, w. Gill Etherley
1988, 6 minutes, video
Edited in collaboration with Gill Eatherley who wrote the script and shot the film sequences, this work poetically treats the subject of Chernobyl as a piece within the overarching title of ‘Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy’
Like a Fox - still
Rock Wave - still
Rock Wave
1988, 8 minutes, vidoo
Music composed by Stewart Louis de Canonville
I film as de Canonville improvises on a music mixing desk in a small apartment in West London. The sounds make a link with waves on a distant shore.
Arbitrary Logic
1984 - 86, 9 minutes, computer and video
My first interactive programme experiment on an Atari computer where the mathematical system produces both image colour changes and the sound pitches, harmonies and rhythms. Originally performed live, a version was included in the Channel Four video ‘Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy’.
Arbitrary Logic - still
Juniper and the myths of origin
1988,
Music composed by AMM
Near the Gorge du Tarn is a prehistoric cave settlement and Judith and Claude picked Juniper berries.
Juniper and the myths of origin - still
Veritas
1988, 6 minutes, video
Growing vines, vine flowers to grapes – picked fermented, drunk and drunken.
Veritas - still
Heads I Win - Tails You Lose
1886, 7 minutes, computer and video
A set of small drawings inspired by punks where cubist distortions had become real on the street. Scanned to a computer and re arranged with a programme shifting the screen positions and producing a music like a punk, jazz night club.
Heads I Win - Tails You Lose - still
Beware
1988, 5 minutes, video
Driving in heavy rain – text messages appear about media fascism and fishes.
Beware- still
Et in Arcadia Ego
1988, 8 minutes
Music composed by AMM
Musical video based on superimposition of water lilies in a pond. Some of the video sequences and sound are re-worked in a multi-screen work ‘Water Lilies After Monet’ 2008
Et in Arcadia Ego - still