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Fish Observation
Veritas
Rock Wave
Heads I win Tails You Lose
Juniper and the Myths of Origin
To the Dancer Belongs the Universe
The daylight club: catalogue and programme including Marion’s Urch : Dancer Belongs the Universe; the Venus Tape; Speak English Cathleen, 1986 pdf here. …
The Object of Desire
“After having developed The Inevitability of Colour a stage further with Echo’s Revenge, I realised I had another step to go – I had to visualise the fascination that Narcissus had experienced whilst being enchanted by his own image – a punishment from Nemesis in response to the prayers from a youth whom Narcissus had spurned. Though initially predicating a feedback loop between Echo and Narcissus, I felt I should take my basic strategy of generating an image and sound track which having utilised a developed and therefore artificial grammar to produce meaning in the Inevitability of Colour, …
Zagorsk
“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. …
In The Belly of the Beast
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 Byker Wall
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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