“On 21st January 1980 word spread around Brighton that a fairly large boat had been grounded on the beach near the palace pier. The art college is only a few minutes from the beach so it was fairly inevitable that I would grab a portapack and head in that direction. A crowd had already gathered and many of them like me were there to record the event, mainly with still cameras. The rescue services were doing what they could and no one’s life seemed in peril so I recorded for about half and hour and then went back to work. …
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“Following on from the simple deployment of chroma-key in Cloud Cover, I planned a more complex use of the device, which would include a parallel use of spoken text. I had discovered that a readily available coloured mounting board available from any artists suppliers, gave better results for chroma-key than the officially recommended shade of blue. Using a standard sized example of this board as a kind of moving matte, I built up several layers of my own image wearing different coloured clothes to distinguish them. …
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“The main TV studio at Brighton Polytechnic was equipped with a chroma-key facility and I was interested to see what could be done with it apart from weather presenter type superimpositions. I felt that the bringing together of two spaces into a single image would be more effective the more similarities there were. I came up with a very simple idea of using the same mirror in the same orientation apparently reflecting both an interior and an exterior space in one seamless sequence” …
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The fear of falling while flying is ever-present, so the joy of flight can only exist in failed attempts or dreams. Those who are fearless never come to land. Lighthead is a flyer. -LUX …
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“The basic idea behind state of division was that a videotape would be found on a bus and played by the finder. It would be found to contain the rambling statement of a character aware of himself only as a video recording. In fact the tape was an attempt to deal in a state of tranquility with the experience of period of clinical depression I had had some years before. As I was no longer affected by these feelings, …
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The Parallel is intended as an illustration of a confused and frustrated man who cannot decide if he has made the right decision on which direction to take, his counter thought is mirrored in a parallel universe.
– LUX …
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‘Brian Hoey’ Film and Video Artists on tour, 1985/86.pdf here …
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Flier: ‘Horizontal Flow’ – a video project’, 1977. pdf here …
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