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
(Freelance for the BBC), …
“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. …
Documentary on NHK in Japan about the work Kaleidoscope at the ICA in London. …
I shot this in 1983. The Tourists used to come down to a studio called Videomakers in Shaftesbury Avenue and did a promo or two there. But by 1983 I had started as stringer for MTV in Europe and got this job to interview Annie and Dave – I realised that within the footage was a way of characterising who/what they had going and we’d just got a new box which enabled us to freeze an image – …
The text is an excerpt from the catalogue of the Third International Open Encounter on Video (Ferrara, Palazzo Dei Diamanti, 25th-29th May 1975), organized by CAYC, 1975. pdf here
Extract from Nuovi Media, exhibition catalogue, curated by G. Sartorelli and T. Toniato, (Venezia Bevilacqua La Masa 1978), Venezia 1978 pdf here
Catalogue of an exhibition organized at Galleria del Cavallino in February 1975. It includes an essay by Ernesto Francalanci on the possibilities of videotape. …
Excerpt from: VIDEO ’79, recording Videobase- Lottando la vita 1975 pdf here …
Excerpt from: VIDEO ’79, recording Videobase- L’isola dell’isola, 1974-77 pdf here …
Still image and text description of artwork ‘Nativity’ by Theo Eshetu from the World Wide Video Festival ’89, Kijkhuis, Catalogue pdf here …
Excerpt from: VIDEO ’79, Referencing Vincenzo Agnetti, Documentario no. 2 pdf here …
