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Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and projectionist David Leister, full of madcap comedic flair and DIY spirit.
The 16mm image of domestic blinds also forms the optical soundtrack, making the contained domestic environment dazzle.
A 35mm trailer print of Mission Impossible is cut up, dismantled, refilmed, replayed, reassembled, re-edited with tape and scissors and repeated to abstraction. Printed by torchlight and developed in a bucket.
A simple studio ident is deconstructed to reveal more than you’d expect about what lies behind the image of Hollywood.
Harry's perfectly normal adopted son Alan becomes disfigured by a Lollipop lady and thus becomes the boy with the big face and has to live through lives challenges due to alarming appearence.
A faded film ending from the 1966 Royal Ballet of Prokifiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Fonteyn and Nureyev receive endless appreciation, taking a bow in front of a non-existent audience whilst still in performance mode.
Starts Wednesday steals from a selection of forgotten 35mm cinema 'snipes' that offer days of the week for a film that never arrives.
John and Marge Schlintz have lived across the street from my parents old house in Franklin, Wisconsin, ever since I can remember. John always seemed to be cutting grass, and always in a different pattern. I always wondered about this. So 50 years later I asked him.
Set to the recollected soundtrack from the film ‘Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, 100 Foot Steps is an uneasy walk in the woods. Music and birdsong create a sense of familiarity as the woman takes her steps, leading us to an abrupt end. The juxtaposition of image and sound creates an artificial layer of intertwined narratives without any resolution.
Sally Rand's famous Bubble Dance routine is re-created and reprinted in a 3D-ish effect, this time with extra added foley.