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Performance for Degree
This may be my last ever blog – or not? Today has been challenging. The Loop Box we made is not deep enough for the length of film I have and when I was playing my film it got jammed […]
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The Accuracy of Memory
How come we remember some things so clearly and not others? I recently recalled a memory I had of attending my Uncle’s funeral when I was younger. I remembered how the Church looked and where the grave was in relation […]
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Making a Loop Box
I wanted to loop the projector film but because the old projectors are not designed to play a looped film, there is always a risk that it could damage either the motor of the projector or the claw that pulls […]
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Disaster Averted?
The curtains are now up in my space. We used wooden batons to support the rail but had to manually drill a hole in the batons at an angle so that the rails would go through and remain the right […]
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Sound in Space
I wanted to look at how different sounds can fill the space I have for the degree show. I was surprised at the strength of the gramophone sound considering there are no speakers or digitally enhanced sound. The records are […]
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Making a Film Loop
I needed to be able to make a loop of film so that it would play continuously. I had bought a couple of splicers from the internet so I started to splice one of the found footage films into a […]
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Projecting in Loops
I wanted to use my Prinz projector to project the Super 8mm film but to do this I would need to put the film on a loop. In an exhibition by Sandra Gibson and Louis Recoder they had looped the […]
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Past Memories
The first film I had used in the Chinon Cine camera was not going to be easy to get developed and would need a further process to enable me to run it on the projector. As I did not have […]
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Signs of a Struggle
Signs of a Struggle (2002) by Clare Strand was a work made in response to the phenomena of the New Town and Garden City movement. These were supposed to be developments that offered an ideal way of living but they […]
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Access to a Metaphor
David Claerbout’s projection Shadow Play (2005) showed the doors of a large corporate building. Periodically people would come up and try the doors but they were locked so no one ever managed to gain access to the building. The artist […]
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Untitled blog post from "Life and Death"
Tutorial with Vicki to discuss ideas for the degree show. I have been reading The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin and this has made me question the consequences of reproducing art and what […]
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Found Film Footage
I found some Super 8 film footage, a Prinz projector and Cine camera in my garage. Neither the camera or projector were working so I set out to try and find how I could get them functional again. With the […]