Programme, ‘Sunday Nights at Franklin Furnace’, November 1981.pdf here …
Diary
Beatnik
Performance video with a post punk anti nuclear theme. Intercuts artists’ performance and scenes from Hackney Swimming Baths.
Flier for ‘Video Art’ 1983-87 by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, 1988.pdf here …
True Life Romance
Performance video about a holiday romance in St Ives, Cornwall.
Charting Time – An exhibition of artists’ drawings, notes and diagrams for film and video, exhibited at Serpentine Gallery, London and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1986. Includes Marty St. James’ work ‘True Life Romance’.pdf here
Information on +VIDEO1+ – a selection of video works including Marty St. James’ True Life Romance.pdf here
Flier for ‘Video Art’ …
Naval Death
‘2nd National Independent Video Festival, IVA at ICA’, June 1982, with details of screenings of works, including Mike Stubbs’ ‘Naval Death’.pdf here …
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, …
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‘Some Thoughts on ‘Grown Up’, unpublished, Catherine Elwes, March 1992.pdf here …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‘Summer: What I want the Sounds and images to do’ unpublished general comments, Catherine Elwes c.1992/3.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. …
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. …
With Child
Application for ‘Major Video Bursary’ Arts Council AFV, 12th September 1984. (pdf currently unavailable)<!–pdf here–>
‘Out of Bounds’, Extracts from UK/Canadian Video Exchange programme (curated by Elwes), 2000.pdf here
‘Winter Break’ Ilppo Pohjola, interview with Catherine Elwes, Independent Media, 1988.pdf here
‘Voir Des Videos 84/85 – Wallonie, Bruxelles, Londres’. A selection of videotapes, including ‘With child’, exhibited in Brussels and London as part of the 5th video art festival ‘Voir Des Videos’. …