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SEAVIEW DVD Release

SEAVIEW, our feature documentary from last year, is now available on DVD through Indiepix. The DVD included a version of the film that will play internationally, and several new special features including:

- a short with soundtrack composer Dennis McNulty who discusses his approach to the film.

- a short film by the directors made during the production.

- footage from the rap workshops in the camp.

- a postcard gallery of production stills.

All the information about ordering the DVD is available on the Indiepix website here.

The chair.

At the excellent Pictures Generation show currently up at the Met, they're showing a stack of Jack Goldstein's 16mm films from the 1970's. On film too. Such great films...

Cavo Rosso

Eggshells

Blocking out a new film

A building

Light minus one

Raval

Mies in Barcelona

The Barcelona Pavilion. Mies van der Rohe designed it for the 1929 Barcelona International exhibition. It was taken apart, and then in 1986 rebuilt. The combination of materials and angles in bright light create striking areas of flatness in both in actuality and in photographs - collapsed and skewed parallelograms dividing the frame into crisply drawn areas of light, shade, and stone.

While I was there an installation by Antonio Muntadas was on show. The project investigated the period when the pavilion didn't exist, from 1930-86. Along one wall of the space Muntadas had placed three boxes that contained cards, like files, or library cards almost. The cards referenced all the articles written about the place while it wasn't standing, but was resting as stone and marble flats stacked up in rows in a Catalan warehouse.

Tucked away as it is close to the bustling Plaça Espanya, and usually visited by maybe only one or two people at a time, the pavilion itself casts a quiet sense of removal on its visitors. While standing in the place alone and considering the lines of light and stone dividing the room, it feels as if you have stepped into somewhere where regular dimensions have shifted. Near and far become intertwined, and space is flattened by the walls that define it. Here, you can consider that by entering into the pavilion, you have in fact stepped into a place that does not exist.

Pink gun for a boy

Shaky, rainy, kino.

Barcelona

After Ellsworth Kelly

La France

Greenport

Hannover

Studio Sunday

A new suit, and a completed second draft.

Werkstatt Kino München

Best projection booth ever.

Brooklyn

New studio table. Artist admin day.

Asyl

I think Kurt Kren's Asyl has to be one of my favourite films ever, certainly one of my very favourite short films. When I was in Germany last month I came across a book about him, all in German, which meant my understanding of it was limited, but the diagrams he drew to plan out his structuralist films are amazing. Here's the planning he did for Asyl. Some are for timing, some for different areas of the 16mm frame to be exposed at different times during the year.

There are a few of his films on UBU but they're more the films he did with the Vienna Acionists/

Mood triangulation

Touring Deutschland with a 35mm film

We find that each city and cinema has a preferred way of knotting the print to the cart.

A silent film

Brooklyn

Transposition

While having breakfast with my friend Emily (also my musical collaborator and piano teacher - we're doing Messiaen 'Hawari' in March, she music, me video)  we were discussing my wirehair dachshund Finnegan and his love of piano playing. Finnegan has a Jaymar toy piano which he likes to nose around on. He especially likes to join in when someone else is playing. So in order to facilitate this, we have his Jaymar now sitting under my Kranich and Bach.

Emily suggests that Finnegan is most likely the reincarnation of the great Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, one of the greatest piano players of the twentieth century. I can't be certain, but will update with developments as Finnegan's Chopin improves. there sure is a likeness there.