Piano Burning

Un Chien Andalou

Louis Bunuel's famous collaboration with Salvidor Dali, I've just sent off for a copy of this on DVD, I love the nonsensical randomness of it all. The anti-narrative approach using no plot, no rational story-line, no real literal or allegorical explanation, a cacophony of disjointed shots.

I guess Un Chein Andalou is the template for a lot of contemporary video artists, the cut and paste montages, the atmospheric artwork shown in rapid succession, the iconic shot of a man slicing through the eye of an unflinching young woman, merged with the visual of a cloud cutting across the center of the moon. (OK Bunel used a calf eye but this film as given me an eye phobia ever since!).

Duchamp's Rotoreliefs

Duchamp's Rotoreliefs were for a time a very interesting piece of his work, lately maybe due to over kill and having a more indepth knowledge of Duchamp's work, these illusionary discs seem lesss interesting than say the idealogies behind the father of the ready-made'

STEVEN BERKOFF ' Metamorphosis The Play'

Tim Roth has Samas Gergor in Steven Berkoff's Metamorphosis
















I think its only fair to acknowledge the work of Steven Berkoff, who was a visual influence to my using 'Metamorphosis' as a subject matter, the Novel by Franz Kafka was the spark of course, but putting the idea into visual, the credit as to go the Berkoff.

Both the play and rediscovering the book through first the audio tape from a fellow Dyslexic art student and then dusting off 'The Castle' and 'Metamoprhosis' redeveloping a love for the dark world that Kafka seemed to be engulfed by. It is hard to imagine when walking through the streets of Prague that these same streets could compound Kafka to write with such dread, of course the political regime and the dominance of a father's tranny have to be taken into the whole make up of Kafka and his work.


Steven Berkoff's 'Metamorphosis' is inspired by Franz Kafka's renowned story - the parable of Gregor Samsa, a humble, industrious man who, upon waking one morning, finds himself transformed into a gigantic beetlelike insect. His metamorphosis is both physical and psychological, and through his harrowing and absurdly comic journey Gregor comes to represent the quintessential outsider and alien. Directed by Lisa May, Bruiser matchs the wonderful language and dark humour of the text, with fast moving and beautiful visuals. With Bruiser nothing is hidden - stripping the performance down to the essentials: the actors, the space and the audience.

METAMORPHOSIS 'THE MOVIE'

This is a strong image, that has inspired the DVD ' Metamorphosis'. There as recently been a re-editing (Post Production Room 6th Dec) where some images in the series that were more experimental and simply didn't work these images were cut, and the running time including credits was reduced to less than 3 minutes, which I believe is just enough of a time-scale to keep the viewers attention, and stops the piece from becoming contrived and uninteresting.

The presentation of the DVD, which is not essential if the work is being submitted to a gallery, the quality of the work is what will be judged by the curator, judging panel, but for this Movement Image & Sound project, I felt that the cover and the end result needed to convey a professional out put.

Granula Synthesis John Mackey


This is a great piece of work, using Granula Synthesis, and shows a what can be done with simple but effecivet manipulation, there is alot of very badly done granula synthesis around but Mackey shows how you can push the boundaries, keeping an interest and suspension.

Optical Illusion Mirror! - Funny blooper videos are here