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Augustin Gimel
(Paris)
Je n’ai pas du tout l’intention de sombrer, 2002
4’ 45”
Gimel’s films investigate the materials and rhythms of the city. Je n’ai pas du tout l’intention de sombrer is a collage of concrete, glass and metal giving way to blue sky.
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Augustin Gimel
(Paris)
N/E/S/W, 2002
4’
Shot on two cameras, one either side of the road, the two people filming move around Central Park in New York on opposite sidewalks, one looking across the street to the park, the other facing the buildings.
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Gil Pasternak
(London)
Untitled, 2003
34”
A thirty-four second film composed of one hundred and thirty-four digital still photographs of the night sky. Pasternak took the images from the window of his flat during several hours of observation. Each photograph has been exposed for sixty personally-counted seconds so that star and aircraft trails have written themselves into the image.
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McCormack & Gent
(Sheffield & London)
Rampy, 2000
4’ 30”
Rampy features a miniature mobile ramp and its encounters in the East End of London. Like all of us the ramp is shaped by its wish to measure up, to find a place where it can fit in. The soundtrack is herb soup, written and released by My Little Problem.
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Graeme Stonehouse
(Sheffield)
The Nelson Riddle, 2002
7’ 15”
Filmed during Mike Nelson’s exhibition, Nothing is True Everything is Permitted at the ICA in London. Stonehouse investigates the mysterious appearance and subsequent disappearance of the “Nelson’s Ices” van parked at the back entrance to Mike Nelson’s installation.
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Lucienne Cole
(London)
Wild Frontier, 2001
5’
Shot around the Cole’s former neighbourhood in Liverpool, the film compares the city to the Wild West. At one end of the street a man has been shot in his house in front of his son, at the other there is an advertisement for luxury show flats, forts with big fences. There'll always be cowboys and desperados; they just might not be wearing chaps and ten-gallon hats.
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Francis Gomila
(Newcastle)
Night Out, 2002
11’ 35”
A high-rise view of a drunken conflict between a man and a woman on the streets of Newcastle. Police come and go, the group is dispersed and the camera follows as the man wanders. Filmed in one take Gomila’s only intervention with the narrative is a melancholic soundtrack.
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Part 2
Selected by Steve Hawley
Steve Hawley is an artist and Head of Art, Design and Media at Sheffield Hallam University.
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Steve Hawley
(Sheffield)
Ghost, 1998
6’
Made in Hong Kong just after the Handover, this is a picture of a place where scale is compressed, and History itself has a museum. "Ghost" in Cantonese is "gweilo", the term of abuse for the white skinned foreign devils from the West, a term they adopted themselves as a mark of honour.
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Pascal Baes
(To Camera) Topic 2, 1987
7’
A crazed and beautiful pixillated dance around Prague at night in the eighties. Black and White 16mm film featuring incredibly cool dancers who just stand as the city washes around them.
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Ken Jacobs
(Midnight Underground) Little Stabs At Happiness, 1963
12’
New York in the late fifties. Notorious filmmaker Jack Smith clowns around, beatnik friends hang out on the street, nothing happens in a compelling way. The original beat home movie.
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Cerith Wyn Evans
Degrees of Blindness, 1987
20’
A bit before Wyn Evans became a Saatchi artist but just after he was a New Romantic super 8 filmmaker. Degrees of Blindness features Michael Clark and Leigh Bowery, and mutates from two blind boys travelling the world via a braille globe, to a heliotropic urban explosion, to a remarkable mystical conclusion.
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