Not exact matches
Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) Gatten's films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography, and poetry with experiments
in cinematic forms and
narrative structures.
Directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney have adapted these recordings to visual
cinematic form, with actors lip syncing the words
in filmed vignettes that feel like a
narrative film, especially with fine performances from Simone Kirby playing Marilyn and Dan Renton Skinner bringing John's experience to the screen.
The writing doesn't really impress so far, delivering a dry slice of
narrative that very clearly was never intended to be delivered
in episodic
form, but the quality of the
cinematics and the excellent voice was superb.
The piece presents a fictitious time ticking, synched to the real one and infused with a conceptual
narrative, resulting
in an experience that pushes the experience of watching movies past the
cinematic art
form into fine art.
The work draws from
narrative structures and
cinematic techniques within different
forms of fiction,
in particular science and meta fiction.
Using cultural matter as his material - medium, he references art, history and theory to
form a spatial and temporal
narrative arc made up of intercommunicating texts, combined with an interest
in the sculptural possibilities of
cinematic structures and mise en scène.