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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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 magic moment of an image and the emotion aroused following the suggestion of an imaginary itinerary, that makes the real world seem strange and far away are suddendly interrupted by words belonging to the language of bureaucracy, the most conventional language possible. – L Viola
Catalogue of an exhibition organized at Galleria del Cavallino in February 1975. It includes an essay by Ernesto Francalanci on the possibilities of videotape. pdf here …
