City of Sound blog

Just had a look again at the City of Sound blog and found loads of good stuff on there - a recommended read - including...

A film of Gordon Matta Clarke making Conical-Intersect (1975) in Beaubourg Paris



plus info and footage of a film called Utopia London

Photography: Idris Khan, Michael Wesely and Darren Almond

I have just seen a reference to the work of Idris Khan in the Observer (17.04.11) - I realise now that he did the visuals for the Editor's albums. I was reminded, when looking at this work of the photographer Michael Wesely who also creates amazing images of architecture, spaces and places.

Above is "Homage to Bernd Becher" or "every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Prison type Gashouse" from 2004. Here Khan has taken the Bechers' works and overlaid them to produce a single image.
It looks like a time-based piece created by Muybridge or Marey but is instead multiple photos of spaces placed one over the other to create a new kind of space. There is a ghost-like nature to the image with the space appearing undefined or undefineable, while also appearing to move or spin.

Michael Wesely generates similar ghostly apparitions in his photographs (and they are photographs - often made with pin-hole cameras) by creating single images from extremely long exposures. The images below reflect long term architectural construction processes in Berlin and MOMA New York - the New york image was something like a 3yr exposure.





This in turn reminds me of the 'Fullmoon' images created by Darren Almond. The images were created by using long exposure times at night using only the light of the moon.



Fullmoon-Tondo@Orkney C-Print 2007

Neue Museen at The Esotrick Collection, London.

(16mm, 14:00, colour, sound)

Tuesday 22nd March 2011

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition From Morandi to Guttuso: Masterpieces from the Alberto Della Ragione Collection.

Focusing on the radical, Modernist exhibition designs of Italian architect Franco Albini and his collaboration with museum director Caterina Marcenaro in the early 1950s, Neue Museen features material shot in the galleries of the Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Rosso in Genoa.

The screening will be accompanied by a discussion between the artists and Robert Lumley, Professor of Italian Cultural History, University College London. The evening will also feature a screening of Machine on Black Ground (16mm, 2009).

For details see the Estorick website

Dollies Rigs Jigs and other devices (a starting point – help needed to expand this resource, please send your own links)

IKEA HACK Dolly. Came across this today and it got me thinking that I should put these together as a resource.

DIY JIB. Good example here and there are loads actually – you can take your pick depending on how much you can spend and what soundtrack you prefer to listen to while you are learning.

MOTION CONTROL RIG I made earlier – NOT, it’s a milo - we can all dream...

Not exactly DIY but still good – THE DRONE

Devices to watch Polar Bears by: HERE and HERE

BBC's Human Planet: Behind the scenes, start watching at 48mins, 45secs

This one is from KAT, CamTramSystems - go to the SEE VIDEOS page

This week I have been mostly watching:

1. Last Year in Marienbad Alain Resnais (1961)
Beautiful Surreal film beautiful sets/locations loved by the camera with a hint of pretension

2. Radiohead videos (All Good)
Particularly House of Cards and Ceremony

3. Synedoche New York
This way madness lies through the construction of multiple spaces/characters
“Knowing that you don’t know is the first step to knowing, you know?”

4. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
Great Pans and still shots, gripping plot.

5. ILS Approach Runway 35R at Milano Malpensa Airport

6. Tony Hill Films:

7. The making of Tron (Original 1982)

8. Wavelength Michael Snow (1967)

9. Shutter Interface Paul Sharits (1975) :

10. Sensoria Cabaret Voltaire, (1981/2?):

Oh and the vids off showstudio...