read this:
Film as a Subservient Art
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My current Film Highlights
London Film Festival 2009 – Sarah Turner’s digital film Perestroika (I saw this twice and enjoyed it even more the second time)
Peter Campus at the BFI
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My current Classic Film Highlights
Orson Welles’s Macbeth
Nick Roeg’s Don’t Look Now
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I have a youtube space where some of my short pieces are streamed, plus a few clips from longer pieces. The new stuff isn’t on there so contact me if you are interested in the longer films, or in Postindustrial Baroque or Tarkovsky’s River.
http://www.youtube.com/user/v1de0art
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New Film
TARKOVSKY’S RIVER
My film Tarkovsky’s River will be featured at the Format Photography Festival in March 2009 – the theme this year is Photocinema.
“Tarkovsky’s River” is about a journey into landscape, into the deep heart of a place where the river is as wide as a sea, where skies are vast and where often time seems to have stood still. It is about a journey into memory, not a personal memory but a collective one, holding within it a sense of the interconnectedness of man and the natural world. The landscape is old, lived in, beautiful – yet never pretty, never tamed.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s vision is in this landscape. His visual language is poetic, expressed through images of melting ice and trees moving in unexpectedly swelling breezes. Tarkovsky’s landscapes are always sentient. Houses seem to sigh and grieve for the characters who exist within them. A broken tree is a cross, a house, a temple, a piece of wood.
The photographs number about 150 and were taken during visits over several years, to the upper Volga region. The photographs capture the steady elements of daily life in the remote areas of the region. Creaking wooden houses; a child looks into a mirror; cattle drink from the river; simple hospitality; bread is delivered, and so forth.
The project “Tarkovsky’s River” brings together still images that document the journey along Tarkovsky’s river, the Volga, during several different trips.
The work is not “about Tarkovsky” but is about the journey and the experience of being in the same place, and taking inspiration from the same landscape. And about going beyond that specific place and into a deeper sense of the land, and of time itself, which is where Tarkovsky takes us.
Photography and text by Gillian McIver
Sound by Takatsuna Mukai
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Postindustrial Baroque
Postindustrial Baroque, shown 2-screen
15 min running time
Postindustrial Baroque - text
Postindustrial Baroque collects together a series of mysterious explorations and excavations of derelict, deserted and decaying places in different cities. Filmed in London, Berlin, St Petersburg, Zurich and Belfast – to name a few.
Text by Gillian McIver
Cinematography by Gillian McIver, Ben Foot, Julian Ronnefeldt, Valentina Floris
Edited by Valentina Floris
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2008 Film Highlights
Camerimage Festival 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, DoP Anthony Dod Mantle); Appaloosa (Ed Harris, DoP Dean Semler)
Raindance Festival – saw Peter Greenaway’s new film Nightwatching (DoP Reiner van Brummeln)
London Film Fest 2008 – Ibrahim El-Batout’s Ain Shams / Eye of the Sun (DoP Heham Farouk)
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[THE FIRST] EXPERIMENTAL CITY [BELFAST], a five-minute experimental documentary about the imminent transformation of Belfast, made in 2005, is available to view on VideoArt.Net
http://www.videoart.net/home/Artists/VideoPage.cfm?Artist_ID=2034&ArtWork_ID=2476&Player_ID=9
If you are interested in my DVD “Places” please email me.
“Places” is a collection of short films about unusual places on the global landscape.. Places that are powerful, holding within them history, memories, stories, images… Influenced by both Gaston Bachelard and Henri Lefebvre, the works investigate the physical and human spaces of cities and the legends or myths that surround them
(The First) Experimental City (Belfast)
MOSTI, the bridges of St Petersburg )
The House on Sadovaya Street
La Mort Toujours
Europa ( with Luc Boisclair)
total running time 35 min
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