“By 1987 I had decided that I should go back to the root of my art and so became was primarily interested in the construction of art and my interest had moved toward narrative, …
The World Within Us
Trialogue
“With Trialogue I was beginning to want to work in a more controlled way, trying to use video across multiple monitors and multiple layers of recording to explore ideas that went beyond looking at the nature of the medium. …
Two Reelers (1985)
A compilation of short videodramas written by Tom McGrath. the ensemble of actors includes:
Louise Scott, Stuart Bishop, …
Unassembled Information
“In Unassembled Information (1977) the screen is dominated by the back of her head, past which can be glimpsed fragments of her face in the small mirror she is holding, …
Vanitas (1976)
“Vanitas came after seeing a French painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, An Allegory of Justice and Vanity . …
Vide Voce (The Threes in The Four)
“As a pure example of ‘landscape video’ in Partridge’s output, Interrun is in the larger tradition of landscape art – …
Vidicon Inscriptions (The Videotape 1976)
‘Over-lighting exceeds capacity for assimilation in a 1970s video camera and images are burnt into the surface of its ‘vidicon’ …
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Water Cycle
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. …