Creative Arts and Design > Fine Art
Creative Arts and Design > Film & Video]
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| Creators: | Ellard, Graham and Johnstone, Stephen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Machine on Black Ground is a 16mm film that fuses archival and original footage, combining images from early 1960s industrial documentaries, a concert by Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral and original abstract material of modernist stained glass architecture (shot in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Berlin; Coventry Cathedral; and The Meeting House, Sussex University). In doing so, the film suggests a utopian architectural project viewed from an imagined subterranean space or vantage point. At the same time the film proposes two simultaneous formal analogies between modernist sacred architecture and cinema; i.e stained glass as filmstrip and the modernist cathedral as a projector of light. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional Information (Publicly available): | The film has been shown: eme3: International Architecture Festival, CCCB/MACBA Barcelona (7-9th October) Friday Late: Escape, Architecture Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London London Festival of Architecture, The Swiss Church, London (25th June 2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | architectural history, European post-war Modernism, experimental film | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date: | 25 November 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Funders: | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Golsmiths College, University of London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Related Websites: | http://www.ellardjohnstone.com, http://www.http://www.eme3.org/index.php?/projects/eme32010-presentation/, http://www.cine-city.co.uk/category/festival-2009/artist-cinema/, http://www.ellardjohnstone.com/assets/NewMuseum%2002.html, http://lux.org.uk/lux-notes-interview-artists-graham-ellard-stephen-johnstone-lucy-reynolds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Projects or Series: | Research Outputs Review (April 2010 - April 2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Material/Media: | 16mm film | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Measurements or Duration of item: | 15 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ID Code: | 3206 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deposited By: | Graham Ellard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deposited On: | 28 Feb 2012 16:52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2012 16:52 |