Film Categories: film studies

  • Conversations 26

    A mural of images and sounds assembled from various phases of my life, and an attempt to reconnect with my past narrative films. The search for patterns, through repetitions and reflections, is both within the materials used and in the ways I have combined them – and it extends to the mind of the viewer. Making the film involved a kind of conversation between these recordings and myself. Working without a preconceived structure, I approached the material intuitively, in a manner similar to that of a fine artist. It is part of human nature to search for meaning, and I…

  • End Rolls #2

    ‘End Rolls #2’ is a digital scan from the 16mm colour negative film ‘End Rolls’ (2009), originally a three-projector 16mm film and sound performance. Inspired by the colour fluctuations that appear at the beginnings and ends of developed film rolls, the work was made by exposing colour negative film directly to light sources such as candles, stove flames, and room lights by opening the camera body rather than using the lens. Positive prints were projected simultaneously on three unsynchronised projectors, causing shifting colour rhythms across the screens. Sound was also generated directly from the images using light-sensitive diodes attached to…