Corps

'Corps' 36.2MB 3:48 min
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Everything You Need for Christmas

'Everything You Need for Christmas' 2.2MB 2 sec loop silent
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Animation of Twenty Soft Pastel Drawings

'Animation of Twenty Soft Pastel Drawings' 40.6MB 1:44 min silent
Twenty drawings done in an hour or so, scanned,
animated in Director with lots of pseudo-randomness & then videoed from the screen.
Compressed fiercely.
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Sheffield 10 on Foot & by Bus

'A Walk on the South Yorks. & Derbyshire Border' 20.8MB 1:15 min silent

'A Ride on the 51 Bus' 34.2MB 5:00 min
Take the 51 bus to Lodge Moor. Walk up Redmires Road to Wyming Brook
(the video starts here). Continue up Redmires Road until you come to the second Redmires dam.
Take the marked path that goes off to the right, by the overflow channel (marked something like "easy trail").
Carry on along here until the agricultural land on your right comes to a stop,
giving way to moorland. Go through the gate on your right & take the path which parallels the wall.
At the end of the wall turn right but watch out for a path that forks off to the left,
towards the line of trees in the distance.
When you reach the woods take the path to the right which descends towards
the old Wyming Brook/Rivelin Dams road, now a walking & biking trail.
Turn right, uphill, & continue until you reach Wyming Brook again (the video finishes here).
You can either walk back to the 51 terminus at Lodge Moor, along the road past the old
prisoner of war camp or take the more scenic route through the pine woods overlooking the ravine.
Streetmap.co.uk
Google Maps
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Funny Ideas

'Funny Ideas' 30.5MB 2:09 min
We're marching forward
Smiles on our faces
Wind blowing in our hair
Going ever onwards
We're going places
& we are getting there
Everything is sorted out
No need to worry
Chorus:
Too many
You have too many
You have too many ideas
Funny ideas
& we don't like that here!
Let's say that you are right
That means that we are wrong
And if we're wrong once
We could be wrong again
Now this will never do
People might begin to talk
They might lose confidence
In those who lead them
Chorus
We have a leader
Wise good and generous
Sitting in the driving seat
On the train of history
He's looking out for us
& for our country
& if he seems hard
It's for our own good
Chorus
Written for The Wisdom That is False, Harlow TheatreVan, 1986.
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Two

'Cherry Tree in November Rain' 26.3MB 36 secs

'Thirteen Minutes in the Garden' 26.9MB 1:00 min
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Stort

'Stort' 77.5MB 2:38 min
Last Saturday I left my mobile on the London-Cambridge train.
Sunday night a nice man from the Bishop's Stortford ticket office
rang to say someone equally nice had handed it in.
So, Monday, I took the train from Harlow to Stortford, picked up my
phone, did a bit of shopping & decided to walk at least some of the
way back along the river.
It is rather a big file, but do take a look...
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An Enemy of the People

'An Enemy of the People' 20.7MB 6:48 min
I made this before anything else here, as a Shockwave piece, in
2002. It features the voice of my late father Łukasz Szpakowski,
& is, amongst other things, an account of his arrest by Stalin's
secret police, the NKVD & his subsequent deportation to a forced
labour camp in Siberia.
It is dedicated to him, with love & gratitude.
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November Cat

'November Cat' 5.8MB 5 sec loop silent
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Wisteria

'Wisteria' 51.5MB 2:09 min
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Cherry Tree in Snow & Sun

'Cherry Tree in Snow & Sun' 5MB 24 sec loop
Manipulated QuickTime version of a pass through the third of
these.
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Wednesday 27th Sept, about 7 PM: By Tram & Bus from the Midland Station to Broomhill

'Wednesday 27th Sept, about 7 PM: By Tram & Bus from the Midland Station to Broomhill' 18.9MB 10:41 min
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In the Shakespeare Herb Garden

'In the Shakespeare Herb Garden' 3.4MB 1:11 min
For Jan, with love.
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4 Self Portraits With Music & Sprites

'4 Self Portraits With Music & Sprites' 25MB 24 sec loop
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Triptych

'Triptych' 1.2MB 7 sec loop silent
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Scent

'Scent' 1.2MB 5 sec loop silent
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From a Greek Hotel Room

'From a Greek Hotel Room' 1.7MB 16 sec
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After Ovid

'After Ovid' 1.3MB 13 sec loop silent
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My Secret Garden

'My Secret Garden' 820 KB 9 sec loop
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On Campo Lane

'On Campo Lane' 1MB 11 sec loop silent
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Dandelion Clock

'Dandelion Clock' 2.6MB 23 sec silent
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Keszthely

'Keszthely' 336KB 5 sec loop silent
After the rain, last summer.
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Cyclamen

'Cyclamen' 938KB 13 sec loop silent
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Teach Yourself Russian

'Teach Yourself Russian' 14MB 30 sec
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Walk (Version)

'Walk (Version)' 944KB 8 sec loop silent
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Walk

'Walk' 1.8MB 12 sec loop silent
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A Walk from Sandygate to Wyming Brook on the Longest Day of the Year, Recorded on my Mobile Phone.

'A Walk from Sandygate to Wyming Brook on the Longest Day of the Year, Recorded on my Mobile Phone.' 17.7MB 11:39 min
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New York Stutter

'New York Stutter' 5KB 3 sec loop
Images sourced live from a New York traffic cam.
The music is generative.
This has crashed browsers on both my machines several times,
not always just sometimes :)
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Art

'Art' 846KB 8 sec loop silent
Part of the Joywar events couple of years back.
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unfinished

'unfinished' 59 MB 2:24 min.
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Fragment

'Fragment' 2.6 MB 56 sec
The text is an unfinished fragment by John Clare,
completed by Alan Sondheim.
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Train Entering Liverpool Street Station

'Train Entering Liverpool Street Station' 1 MB 18 sec silent
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Dream

'Dream' 2.5 MB 41 sec
Thanks to Anna.
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A Self Portrait in my Father's House

'A Self Portrait in my Father's House' 645 KB 39 sec still
Two years ago. We sold the house couple of months back. I still miss him.
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d-d-d-dance

'd-d-d-dance' 11.6 MB 1:22 min.
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DVblog H4ckB4ck

'DVblog H4ckB4ck' 4.5 MB 7 sec loop silent
Remix of jimpunk’s wonderful DVblogh4ck, in turn a remix of various posts on dvblog.
Let it loop :)
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Jo, dancing.

'Jo, dancing' 1.2 MB 11 sec loop silent
Thanks to Jo.
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Glance

'Glance' 1.3 MB 11 sec loop silent
Thanks to Jo.
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The Garden, May 20th

'The Garden, May 20th' 6.4 MB 24 sec
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Wherever we looked, our beloved city lay in flames..

'Wherever we looked, our beloved city lay in flames..' 2.2 MB 26 sec loop
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Blue Shift

'Blue Shift' 5.8 MB 55 sec loop
The music is Wie Nahte mir die Schlummer by Carl Maria von Weber,
sung in 1910 by Marie Rappold, found in the University of California,
Santa Barbara, Cylinder Preservation
& Digitization Project & subsequently somewhat manipulated.
The photograph is by Craig Thomson.
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Portrait of the Artist in his Studio (2005)

'Portrait of the Artist in his Studio (2005)' 1.7 MB 9 sec loop silent
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Pentimenti

'Pentimenti' 1.1 MB 5 sec loop silent
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Day and Night in the Garden

'Day and Night in the Garden' 1 MB 12 sec loop silent
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Things Past

'Things past' 1.3 MB 20 sec
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Portrait of Amanda Congdon

'Portrait of Amanda Congdon' 4 MB 54 sec loop
Video grabbed from Rocketboom
26th April,
manipulated, a glitch in the colour gratefully seized upon, further manipulation, music added.
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Budapest

'Budapest' 1.8 MB 6 sec loop silent
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My Funny Valentine

'My Funny Valentine' 15.8 MB 2:55 min
The singer is Anna Szpakowska.
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A Tiny Opera For Anna

'A Tiny Opera For Anna' 0.8 MB 11 sec
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Accordion Fish

'Accordion Fish' 2.8 MB 23 sec loop
An accordion, with some fish.
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Tuff Dance Shipping Dubcast

'Tuff Dance Shipping Dubcast' 5.4 MB 29 sec loop - total length variable
Mash up of A "Tough" Dance (1903), the BBC Shipping Forecast,
a Ska rhythm section & some home made sounds,
with a dash of randomness thrown in. Let it loop, usually ends within 10 cycles.
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Tribunal

'Tribunal' 1.8 MB 14 sec loop
Made with footage from the Prelinger Archive movie:
Speech: Platform, Posture and Appearance.
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Meadowhall to Brightside

'Meadowhall to Brightside' 1.4 MB 1:29 min
A walk from Meadowhall to
Brightside.
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Empire

'Empire' 2.9 MB 25 sec loop
Fourth generation descendent of Warhol's film by way of Wolfgang Stahle &
Doron Golan
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Glass Harmonica

'Glass Harmonica' 2.1 MB 21 sec loop
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Portrait Of The Artist With Scanner

'Portrait Of The Artist With Scanner' 4.9 MB 10 sec loop silent
From an idea by Lucy Barker.
Thanks, Lucy!
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The World Is All That Is The Case

'The World Is All That Is The Case' 8.6 MB 57 sec
More mobile images, everything here made from mobile stills, Summer 2004.
Score added later, early 2005, I think.
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Found Poem

'Found Poem' 0.7 MB 27 sec silent
Sheffield to Leeds & back one day in 2004,
images taken on my old mobile.
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Eclogue

'Eclogue' 9.8 MB 57 sec silent
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At Kew Gardens

'At Kew Gardens' 2.25 MB 2 sec loop silent
At Kew Gardens, last year.
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This Is Just To Say

'This Is Just To Say' 3.32 MB 36 sec
Poem by William Carlos Williams.
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The Cave

'The Cave' 7.9 MB 29 sec
Choreography by Diccon Hogger & Laura Summers.
The dancers are Andrea & Vicki.
Thanks to all.
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And then the Devil Appeared to the Poor Shoemaker

'And then the Devil Appeared to the Poor Shoemaker' 1.5 MB 16 sec silent
Thanks to Mark Smith.
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The Watcher

'The Watcher' 1 MB 6 sec loop silent
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In the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

'In the Yorkshire Sculpture Park' 1.4 MB 8 sec loop silent
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The Heart And What It Does

'The Heart And What It Does' 0.3 MB 30 sec
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The Divine Comedy

'The Divine Comedy' 0.8 MB 15 sec silent
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Transfiguration

'Transfiguration' 1.4MB 9 sec loop silent
‘Emotion stirs within and forms into words. As the
words are inadequate, one sighs them. As the sighing
is inadequate, one sings aloud. As the singing is
inadequate, without knowing it, the hands start to
dance, and the feet to beat in time.’
Wei Hung, from the Major Preface to the Shih Ching
Made with stills from my old cell phone & its
rather splendid onboard image editor.
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Road Movie

'Road Movie' 1.6MB 3 sec loop silent
Snippet of footage from Prelinger Archive movie
Midwest Holiday
There's a kind of remix of this fragment here
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The Red Shoes

'The Red Shoes' 0.9MB 18 sec
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LiveFeed back #3

'LiveFeed back #3' 8.8MB 41 sec loop
Details as 25th March.
The music to this is generative.
On each forward pass of the palindrome loop it will be different.
Each backward pass is silent.
Might stutter a bit occasionally but so do I.
Third & last of these , I think.
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LiveFeed - Another Remix

'LiveFeed back #2' 4.3MB 18 sec loop
Details as 25th March.
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Shalesmoor

'Shalesmoor' 1.6MB 20 sec loop silent
The Shalesmoor of my dreams.
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LiveFeed - A Remix

'LiveFeed back' 2.4MB 15 sec loop
A remix of video work by Charlotte Bernstein, Dominique Rivoal,
Garrett Lynch, Helen Pritchard, Jes Benstock, Laura Malacart,
Lucy Panesar, Melissa Bliss, Mike Padmore, Neil C. Smith,
Ron Hagell & Tahera Aziz made as part of this great project.
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Cherry Blossom Loop

'Cherry Blossom Loop' 1.4MB 6 sec loop silent
Are poems written on such themes as 'Going to view the cherry blossoms
only to find they had scattered' or 'On being prevented from visiting the blossoms'
inferior to those on 'Seeing the blossoms'?
People commonly regret that the cherry blossoms scatter or that the moon
sinks in the sky and this is natural; but only an exceptionally insensitive
person would say, 'This branch and that branch have lost their blossoms.
There is nothing worth seeing now.'
Kenko, "Essays in Idleness," translated by Donald Keene.
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Santa Monica

'Santa Monica' 25.8MB 1:20 min
Contains footage from Prelinger Archive films:
'Where the Mountains Meet the Sea Parts 1 & 2' &
'Bororo UFO'.
All the music, too, is derived from these films.
Images from the Santa Monica Pier webcam appear as do various historical photos of the area.
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Tales Heard at my Grandfather's Knee

'Tales Heard at my Grandfather's Knee' 16.3MB 1:35 min
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Through the Looking Glass

'Through the Looking Glass' 0.8MB 11 sec loop silent
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Pissarro

'Pissarro' 1.2MB 8 sec loop
Based on a manipulated image of 'La Route de Louveciennes'
painted in 1872 by Camille Pissarro.
The reproduction used can be found at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Camille_Pissarro_043.jpg
where it forms part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project.
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Intimacy

'Intimacy' 59MB 11:54 min
for Jan.
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Time Machine

'Time Machine' 0.5MB 11 sec loop silent
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Fruit Machine

'Fruit Machine' 0.7MB 1 sec loop silent
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Scenes of Provincial Life

'Scenes of Provincial Life' 3.5MB loop - each cycle 25 secs
Eponymous.
It's generative: images & sound different every cycle.
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Memory Game

'Memory Game' 2.1MB 9 sec loop silent
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A Found Dance

'A Found Dance' 1.3MB 10 sec loop
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Myth

'Myth' 1.7MB 5 sec loop
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Karina

'Karina' 1.3MB 4 sec loop
A few frames from JLG drawn & re-animated.
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Another Early Spring

'Early Spring' 2.7MB 11 sec loop
Early Spring, my garden, last year.
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Man with a Pot of White Chrysanthemums

'Man with a Pot of White Chrysanthemums' 0.8MB 14 sec loop silent
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Counting - Kingfisher Remix

'Counting - Kingfisher Remix' 0.9MB 36 sec
Another remix made from (amongst other things)
material in the Squeeze project.
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Return to my Native City

'Return to my Native City' 1.9MB 46 sec
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Poem (version)

'Poem (version)' 0.6MB 21 sec loop
Details as poem below.
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Poem

'Poem' 0.7MB 11 sec loop
More magpies.
Recited by a young Anna Szpakowska.
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Metamorphosis

'Metamorphosis' 1.2MB 21 sec loop silent
Ovid, Metamorphoses, V, 294-678.
The dancer is Jo.
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Smile

'Smile' 1.2MB 13 sec loop
Jo Thomson, smiling.
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Self Portrait with my Father, Łukasz Szpakowski

'Self Portrait With my Father Łukasz Szpakowski' 0.8MB 32 sec loop silent
Łukasz_Szpakowski, (1913-2004).
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Diptych

'Diptych' 0.4MB 2 sec loop silent
Made from two watercolour self portraits.
Inspired by an idea from the genius himself -
Max Herman.
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Film

'Film' 1.6MB 17 sec loop silent
It's prelinger archive footage of 1920s London.
First I made a virtual 'film strip'
then I made a virtual 'projector' for this in Director.
I exported it all to QuickTime & Bob's your uncle.
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The Dioscuri

'The Dioscuri' 2MB 25 sec
The masks were made by Emily Jost.
The performers are: Bernice Bangura,
Daniel Graham, Lara Grant, Michael Hardcastle,
Seth Harris, Ayla Heath, Kyle Joseph,
Faye McGowan, Alissa Smith, Daniel Soloman,
Sarah Sullivan & Keeley Whitham
Thanks to all.
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Early Spring 2006

'Early Spring 2006' 0.9MB 2 sec loop silent
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The King of Spain's Daughter

'The King of Spain's Daughter FEAT J.Beuys' 0.6MB 19 sec loop
Contains footage from Doron Golan's version of Sonne Stat Reagan by Joseph Beuys.
I had a little nut tree
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg
& a golden pear.
The King of Spain's daughter
Came to visit me
& all for the sake of
My little nut tree.
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Nocturne

'Nocturne' 0.6MB 9 sec loop silent
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A Walk to Pins Del Bisbe

'A Walk to Pins Del Bisbe' 2.1MB 8 sec silent
2004 - a rainy spring morning in
the hills behind Tossa de Mar.
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Babes in the Wood

'Babes in the Wood' 1.5MB 26 sec loop
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The King of Magic

'The King of Magic' 1.5MB 10 sec silent
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The Firebird

'The Firebird' 1.4MB 8 sec loop
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Song

'Song' 2MB 1:34 min loop
When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tu-whit! tu-whoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all around the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl—
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tu-whit! tu-whoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
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From London Bridge to Liverpool Street

'A Walk from London Bridge to Liverpool Street 22 October 2003' 1.1MB 45 sec
A walk from London Bridge to Liverpool Street on Wednesday 22nd October 2003, 10:08 - 10:35pm.
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Portrait of the Artist in his Studio

'Portrait of the Artist in his Studio' 0.6MB 2 sec loop silent
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From the Prelinger Archive

'From the Prelinger Archive' 2.9MB 30 sec
Re-ordered & manipulated footage from Prelinger Archive movie
Midwest Holiday ,
with new score.
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flars

'Flars' 0.9MB 4 sec loop silent
'Lookit Herman, flars!
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The Scottish Peace

'The Scottish Peace' 13MB 19 sec
Details as 'The Scottish War'
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The Scottish War

'The Scottish War' 7MB 27 sec
Images & text by Anna Szpakowska, 1993
Supplementary images by Michael in 1963.
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Pages from The Children's Encyclopedia

'Pages from The Children's Encyclopedia' 2.1MB 19 sec
Pages from Arthur Mee's 'Children's Encyclopedia',
Images of Jo Thomson & some dried flowers.
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Window

'Window' 1.6MB 13 sec silent
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Numbers

'Numbers' 0.6MB 33 sec
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Shed

'Shed' 1.5MB 18 sec silent
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Spring Flowers of the Peloponnese

'Spring Flowers of the Peloponnese' 1.6MB 14 sec loop silent
Last year. On the beach at Tolo
& then walking to Nafplion.
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Three Women

'Three Women' 0.6MB 1 sec loop silent
Mother, Daughter, Granddaughter.
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The March Shout-Outs

'The March Shout-Outs' 3.7MB 1:09 min
The vocalist is Marisa Olson.
Her performance (& some of the imagery too)
was taken from here.
The vocal was originally a capella,
I added the instrumentation & cell phone video.
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Recitation

'Recitation' 18MB 30 sec
We're down in t'coil oil
Weer muck clarts up t'winders
We'v used all us coil now
And we're reight down t'cinders
But if bum-bailiff comes
'E'll never find us
'Cos we're down in t'coil oil
Weer muck clarts up t'winders
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Jump

'Jump' 0.3MB 10 sec silent
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Realm

'Realm' 2.4MB 21 sec
Clip from 'D.O.A' (1949) with new dialogue added.
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The Neon Pizza Man VS Busby Berkeley

'The Neon Pizza Man VS Busby Berkeley' 1.7MB 19 sec loop
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Orpheus

'Orpheus' 1.1MB 42 sec loop
Text (both English & Spanish) by
Ivan Monroy López
& the Spanish section read by him.
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Remake

'Remake' 2.7MB 13 sec
remake is just that:- a blow for blow remake of
George Landow's* fluxus film 'the evil faerie'.
*Although Landow, now known as Owen Land, denies
making the piece, attributing it to John Cavanaugh.
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Kingfisher

'Kingfisher' 2.65MB 10 sec
Hand copied frame by frame from a nature video
(hence the squaring up, numbering) then 're-animated'.
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Bicycle

'Bicycle' 5.3MB 1:51 min
A bike, a cell phone, dusk. Music that sounds
almost but not quite the same each time you play it.
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Remix

'Counting - Cell Phone & Strings Remix' 0.9MB 38secs
A remix of some of the movies from Mica Scalin's great
Squeeze project.
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