City
A sequence of shots mostly from a 14th floor flat in the City of London starting with a building shattered by the IRA, a crane and its operator, roadworks, building site, the last minutes pass into abstraction. Originally shot on 16mm film.
100 People: A Portrait of Coexistence (Trailer)
100 People: A Portrait of Coexistence is an experimental feature that articulates a complex and incomplete story of ordinary people and how they matter. A film-portrait of Shieldfield, a small residential neighbourhood located just outside the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, ‘100 People’ is an ambitious film that combines several conversations between residents and […]
A Whited Sepulchre
A Whited Sepulchre is an hour-long autobiographical film based on the stories of two journeys: my great grandfather’s account of his posting to Sierra Leone in his diary, and my own ‘video diary’ of a trip that I made in December/ January 2004-5, following in his footsteps, but seeking a different vision of Africa, and […]
The Orchard
The Orchard takes its narrative form from the four-act structure of Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’. Its underlying tensions and levels of acting are aided by Pirandello’s ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’. The film is concerned with tensions between collective memory, both fictional and real; problems with nostalgia as the filter for remembering […]
MPATV MARCH 2021
The Art of Resistance presents Merseyside Pensioners Association TV (MPATV). “What a joy to hear people speaking with passion and clarity about things that matter without being patronised by a BBC or ITV reporter! Well done to Phil, Haz and the MPA. More please!” – KEN LOACH Commentary, observations and satire on contemporary events on […]
Passing Through
A metaphysical journey with her/him/they. Jeremy Deller talks of his work as “places where things have happened, sites of conflict and controversy”. In Passing Through the idea of travel and tourism take on a deeper meaning when English voices penetrate each other’s personal space, colliding with deteriorating social spaces and sounds in the US Gulf […]
parallel lines
a dystopian blues