"See You in Heaven" (excerpt), video/animation, 2006
An ambient and haunting portrait of a derelict and neglected
Brighton property which is awoken and brought back to life by an assortment
of drawn and printed characters, scrawlings and words. Filmed in Brighton
(and Budapest) , the piece is a montage of still video and animated photography,
drawing on street art and vandalized cityscape as inspiration, and is set
against a soundtrack of electronic noise, and sampled coded radio messages
and electronic voices. This is a meditation on the myriad of words and symbols
(oral, pictorial, written and numeric) which surround us and which we often
fail to acknowledge or even recognize. Yet they pervade as textures and
very real elements of the fabric of our urban environment..
moving image