The BBC Radio 4 shipping forecast, a British institution and still relevant for today's mariners. I find the narration has a hypnotizing quality, and I hope this film translates that feeling. The shipping forecast is broadcast on BBC Radio 4, three times a day.
Short film about the end of Super 8 Kodachrome film processing. Super 8 film was used extensively for home movies and reached its peak in the 1960's and 1970's. Allegedly, since this film was made Kodak have re-opened the Kodachrome factory due to public demand...
Short film featuring some examples of art deco architecture in London. Some of the buildings in this film are not listed, and many art deco buildings are still at risk of demolition.
In memory of the Firestone Building.
Behind the Iron Curtain. Some holiday clips from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and East Germany cobbled together to create a pastiche of the western perception of life behind the Iron Curtain before the end of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. I made this one in 2006.
Visual recollection of some of the problems faced in the first half of the 1980's dealing with the economic and social changes in the Britain during Margaret Thatcher's rule.
Life on Mars. A quick look at social and political history in Britain during the early seventies. Inspired by the excellent BBC TV series, and of course the excellent record by David Bowie. I made this one back in 2006.
Time Zones. An attempt to make logical sense of the abstract concept of different time zones in different parts of the world. The sound collage is from 1983.
Short film featuring modern architecture from the 1960's and 1970's in London and beyond. Some of the buildings still look fresh today, others less so. Pimlico School, a great piece of modern architecture featured in this film is currently facing demolition.
Short film featuring art deco architecture from the London Underground network. The tube as it is know to Londoners has some of the best art deco design in Britain.
Going Underground - quick journey across London on the London Underground, or the tube as it is largely referred to by Londoners - the first underground railway in the world. Features 1972 stock on the Bakerloo Line and 1995 stock on the Northern Line.
The Frankie Machine track Gyproque, remixed by Plans and Apologies. For more info:
www.frankiemachin e.com
www.plansandapolo gies.com
Both Frankie Machine and Plans and Apologies come from the East Midlands city of Derby, UK.
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." The sound excerpt is from Swiss Radio International, 1982.
Short stop motion animation about the passing of time and coming of age, using the theme to the 1974 BBC comedy 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads'.
The London Prologue time trials from the Tour de France 2007, which commenced in London. The Tour de France prologue took place around the West End and Westminster on 7 July, with the Grande Depart on the 8 July setting off from Greenwich to Canterbury.
