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Lyrical Doubt
Kensington Gore
12m 4s
3/4″ Umatic
‘In Kensington Gore, a real life injury which happened on a location shoot is related in various theatrical forms ranging from the slapstick of mime to the authority of a text read with my classic BBC accent. In this way the story is constantly being reduced to the form of its telling and I never present it as the irrefutable truth. In the same way that reality and fiction are often interchangeable, …
Nostalgia
Letter ‘Dear Alex’ with descriptions of ‘Nostalgia’ 1982 and ‘The Critic’s Informed Viewing’, 1982, 14th January 1983. (pdf currently unavailable) <!–pdf here–>
‘Alternative Television – contemporary video artists presenting their own work’. A selection of videotapes presented by the artists at the Northampton Arts Centre January 1984. Including Elwes’ ‘Nostalgia’.pdf here …
Grown Up
‘Some Thoughts on ‘Grown Up’, unpublished, Catherine Elwes, March 1992.pdf here …
Introduction to Summer
‘Summer: What I want the Sounds and images to do’ unpublished general comments, Catherine Elwes c.1992/3. pdf here …
Postcard
3m 46s
3/4″ Umatic
‘When my son was only a few months old, I recorded a 4 minute sequence of me trying to dress him while he howled his ritual protest. The post-card theme allowed me to explain the situation in a despairing message to my mother. The constant crying of an infant is experienced as an assault on what is left of one’s sanity after months of sleep deprivation and the nagging of post-partum aches and pains. …
Gunfighters
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Autumn
This tape is the last in the ‘Three Seasons’ series for Channel 4’s Eleventh Hour programme. ‘Autumn’ is a psychological landscape in which different facets of a woman’s personality and experience are played out and resolved – if temporarily. Different elements in the landscape are at times malevolent or benign, symbols of creativity and fecundity or missiles of self-destruction. The real and the imagined are interchangeable, internal and external events fuse. The landscape is a canvas on which images are continually worked and reworked. …
Spring
Programme for ‘The Three seasons’, Channel 4, c.1991. pdf here
Electric Eyes brochure detailing prominent video artists of the eighties, their work and video screenings in Vienna, 22 – 25 November 1989, London Video Access and Film and Video Umbrella Touring Programme. Includes the work ‘Winter/Spring’.pdf here
Electric Eyes – screening times for featured videos in Vienna, 22 – 25 November 1989, London Video Access and Film and Video Umbrella Touring Programme. …