Art Station Film - May 2024

Terry Bond

1957 -2021

Lived and worked in Suffolk.

Films:

1. Little Ideas. A compilation of short video pieces, using early VCR,  made whilst studying at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1979-81.
2. Blow Up. After noticing the Houses of Parliament illustrated on the label of a HP brown sauce bottle, Terry recorded himself igniting an inverted firework which had been inserted into the neck of the bottle.

Jack Wormell

Films:

1. Rapture. A fidgety and enthusiastic play in the grass.  Muted moorland captured in swinging capricious camera moves. Trying to burrow into the sod and clod, trying to inhabit the granular detail of the land. Flickering of shrubs, globules of water on blades of grass. A poem by John Clare appears somewhere in the middle of the film, celebrating ‘the rude rags of nature’. A fierce, smiley, quiet, howl of joy.
2. Really, Wonderful Exceptional Trees. A text-based dialogue between two voices concerning whether or not a small cluster of trees in some parkland is made up of boring trees. As the dialogue unfolds, the trees are pictured in wide shots, mid shots and close ups. This video emerged out of a desire to record the same subject using different but very similar camera angles. The voices appeared during the edit.
3. Bulbous Tree. It took me years to finally getting around to filming this Plane tree on Clapham Common. It’s girth and bulge was so impressive. I filmed it without much of a plan, and it took me another three years to figure it into a film.