Genres: experimental

  • Slippage

    Linda Giles’ installation at Xchanges Gallery in 1998 serves as a set as Susy dances an impromptu piece of choreography. Shot on Hi-8. Black hands of the master printer dare not soil the bride’s wardrobe.

  • Chomont’s Selected Shorts #2

    FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Endymion Joe’s Maison 5 min. COL. SILENT 1984 The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by “La Maison Des Mortes” by Guillaume Apollinaire. After filming Joe destroyed the paintings and closed his gallery, Shekhina, where the paintings were filmed. The Heavens 5 min COL SILENT 1977 Earth 4.5 min COL Silent 1978

  • Myeyeye

    A self-surveillance video, shot in one take, exploring the limits of visual and aural perception. “The simple immediacy and eccentric austerity of the direct approach superficially contrasts with the abstract complexity of his other film works, but it shares their indeterminacy. The act of videoing is unplanned, a performance in itself, the results are fortuitous. In the silent Myeyeye the camera is the ‘wrong’ way round but the ear is clear, in focus, drawing attention to the act of shooting as much as any ostensible subject.” – Steven Ball

  • Late

    Radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls against a late-night urban landscape of seedy hotels and dial-a-saviour billboards. Awards: Detroit Film Center Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • Letters

    “Letters” explores the transformation of painting through photography and the movement of light as music, text and body language. Formed through a combination of abstract hand-painted film and live photography, originated on super 8mm and 16mm, ‘Letters’ uses extensive optical printing and single-frame editing techniques to draw the material and structural properties of film into focus and create a sense of rhythm, gravity, weight and mass.

  • Fuzzy Lover

    A collage of sampled and recycled sequences of digital and chemically manipulated live video and abstract animation; “Fuzzy Lover” explores the forms that emerge through the interaction of different materials and processes; the problems of authenticity, identity and representation associated with reproduction and the aesthetics of cultural overlay.

  • Root

    A notebook/catalogue of optical experiences, memories and thoughts composed of geometric and organic looking abstract images painted directly onto clear 16mm stock, interspersed with sequences of found footage. My first experiment in hand-painted film-making and optical printing, (painted in 1993 and edited in 2003) exploring the frame-by-frame interaction of contrasting colours, textures and shapes, and referencing Hans Richter’s ‘Rhythm 21’, Len Lye’s ‘Colour Box’, Stan Brakhage’s ‘MothLight’ and ‘The Flicker’ by Tony Conrad. Images from Root were used as source material for my other films Pour, Deluxe, Double, Radiator, SKZCP and Letters.

  • From Memory

    A poetic meditation on time and light, formed through an exploration of the material and illusory properties of paint and film, movement in counterpoint and miniature. Composed of organic-looking abstract marks and gestures painted directly onto film and manipulated photographically using an optical printer.

  • Enter

    A performance-to-camera video, composed in one take, reflecting my struggle for identity and order. Exploring the relationships between light and air, sex and food through a study of my mouth. Made using a similar process to the one that I use when optically manipulating hand-painted film, except in this work my body is the material. (RI)

  • Cold Tape

    Rapid-fire computer-composed abstract animation exploring difference, the interplay of opposites, and the impact of light on the body.