I have just finished a 4 week stint as a ‘film-maker’ in residence at the North West Film Archive as part of AND Festival. I have to develop a 20 minute film for screening with a live soundtrack for September. I spent my time there trying to take in as much of the archive as possible – the films, the people, the operations, the technology. From this I have been developing an idea around ideas of preservation, selection, materials, and collection. You can see my thunks at a special blog I have set up – www.videosmithery.co.uk
A visual mix of selected video works over the last five years. I decided to take stock of my work as part of an application for a residency at the North West Film Archive as part of AND. Fingers crossed.
Featured works:
0. Intro 1. Insane Mind 2. Human Grace 3. Electronica / Experiments in the revival of organisms 4. Angry boy 5. Noise Clouds 6. A Long Journey 7. LOVE 8. Symphony of Bells 9. The Model City 10. The Huge Entity
All material used is either produced by myself or taken from archive.org and used under the Creative Commons license.
‘Kinetic Fallacy – Audiovision’ – music by Kinetic Fallacy (Hannah Peel and Emma Welsby)
tracks:
‘Insane Mind’ – footage from ‘Nosferatu’ ‘Human Grace’ – Footage from ‘Olympia’. ‘Electronica / Experiments in the revival of organisms’ footage from ‘Experiments in the revival of organisms’ ‘AngryBoy’ – footage from ‘Emotions of Everyday Living’ and ‘Angry Boy’ ‘Noise Clouds’ – video by Steve Clarkson.
A Long Journey – Sounds by Amos. Videos by Sam Meech / Pete Bamford. Mix by Sam Meech
‘Love’ – recordings and colours by Sam Meech, sounds by Amos.
‘Symphony of Bells’ – filmed by Tim Brunsden, Steve Clarkson, Markus Soukup, Sam Meech. Edited by steve Clarkson.
