“In 1992 I went to Russia as a cinematographer to shoot two documentaries about the rise of the Orthodox Church during the demise of Communism. I found myself in Zagorsk, a holy place in Russia that epitomised this changeover of values in the Soviet federation. Onward to Leningrad (or Petrograd) as it was being renamed St Petersberg and more shooting and eventually I had gathered my own material to make a response to what I was seeing happen. …
Parts of this were shot in 1980 and 1981 – black and white, it all fits…
-Terry Flaxton
youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5OZWULpfQ …
Michael Craig Martin and Flaxton were given the challenge of finding a way to show the Lloyds Building in London in a new light – sometime around 1989.
Part of BBC2 Building Sites series
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1982 and in the thick of the Thatcher destruction we were asked by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom to examine the way that the media distorted the news – not because there was a conspiracy now or then, but because this is the lens that media people use when looking at the world – a set of values that they’ve taken on because that’s the entry fee to the profession. The BBC used this for some years to teach their reporters how not to do it – …
1979 – we had realised that all a documentary documents is the attitude of the maker to their subject at the time of making so set about creating a documentation of what was going on inside of as as we realised that money was needed to make art… Shortly after this we went to America to make Towards Intuition: An American Landscape- Terry Flaxton
youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVQIk7VB9vg
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An episode of BBC series “Building Sites”
I was asked by the Beeb to be their video consultant (early days) but then we both realised they had very little video equipment outside of simple playback machines – quadruplex etc. So I gravitated into a role of making short projects about interesting buildings with interesting people. In this case the wonderful Beatrix Campbell.- Terry Flaxton
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Directed by Terry Flaxton a 1988 short video history written and presented by John Wyver, using the Video Positive’89 Video festival and the Video Wall section as context. Broadcast as part of Granada Television’ Celebrations arts strand.
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The Boots Factory in Nottingham is a vast glass palace built by Owen Williams in 1932. Iwona Blazwick, from London’s ICA, tours the factory which is acknowledged as a masterpiece of early British modernism.
Producer CLARE PATERSON, Director TERRY FLAXTON BBC Elstree.
Part of BBC2 Building Sights Series
elance for the BBC), 1990 – 15 mins
The Boots Wets Building with Iwona Blazwick
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“Taking on some ideas from The Inevitability of Colour, I decided that to develop the idea I was going to personalise Echo and Narcissus and I was going to have Echo be feisty and argumentative – that in fact Echo as Sound, though often gently and unquestioningly accompanying Narcissus (Image) in their joint procession in television, the cinema or the gallery, could this time interrogate and interrupt him and not let him get off so lightly. …
