Art films, and films and videos featuring artists and poets
ART
Min Tanaka Dancing: b&w video 60 mins (1982) with Derek Bailey on guitar.
Reflections on Space: 16 mm colour 20 mins (1983) with Meret Oppenheim + Markus Raetz.
IMAGO Meret Oppenheim: 16mm colour 90 mins (1988/1996), a biopic of the Surrealist artist of fur-lined teacup fame, winner of several awards, including the Swiss Film Board's Prize for Outstanding Quality and the Gold Apple Award at the National Educational Film and Video Festival in America. Excerpt available on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/3894796
Gifted Beauty: video colour 50 mins (2000) other women artists in the Surrealist movement, including Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller Meret Oppenheim and Remedios Varo, along with contemporary Norwegian artist Vilde von Krogh. My interviews with Leonora Carrington and other Mexican footage can be seen in this excerpt on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/10760131
Borderline: video colour 30 mins (2009), a work in process: "By this I mean that Borderline is still evolving as I continue using video to respond to my new environment, the remote Tarset valley in rural Northumberland." First shown at Northumbria University's conference Northernness: Ideas and Images of North in Visual Culture in June 2009. The whole of the present version of Borderline can be seen on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/5348645
POETRY
In Person: 30 Poets: video colour 6 hours (2008) with 30 poets reading their work at home, DVD book edited by Neil Astley published by Bloodaxe Books. Excerpt on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/1021958
Life is Immense: visiting Samuel Menashe: video colour 50 mins (2009), documentary of a visit to an engaging octogenarian poet in his New York apartment in which he recites over 40 poems from memory. Published by Bloodaxe Books on DVD with New and Selected Poems by Samuel Menashe. Excerpt on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/4791273