Graphic Cities
onedotzero presents
Graphic Cities
A compilation of internal moving image
Wednesday 17 October
6.30pm
Free
Holdsworth: Arrive / UK 3:23
Exquisite, abstracted Japanese odyssey. Based on holdworth’s first trip to the city of Tokyo this is a meditation on travel and arrival - perfectly communicating the explosion of the senses and audio-visual burst that intoxicates you on your first arrival in the multi-layered metropolis.
Accompanied by beautiful music from Dom Mino. Commissioned by onedotzero in 2003.
Hendrick Dusollier: Obras / France 12:00 / world premiere
A poetic and graphical journey through wild and irreversible urban developments, explored in a single gradual shot. This highly original film offers a photographic and animated interpretation of the destruction and reconstruction taking place in the barrio ribera and diagonal mar, in Barcelona, Spain. Dusollier’s outstanding first film.
mk12: Overload / USA 2:40
A collaboration with NY-based artist Brian Alfred, to coincide with a recent exhibition of his work. The artist’s original paintings were scanned and shot through with narrative depth and motion to create a day-in-the-life portrayal of the urban landscapes Alfred has become known for.
The light surgeons: city of hollow mountains / 6:37 second instalment of abstract expressionistic documentary series of shorts, gilligan’s travels, from internationally acclaimed av visualists / filmmaking collective. Ruminations on the urban environment as vertical trap - full of skyscrapers, elevators, and long city canyons.
Commissioned/produced by onedotzero in 2001
Grant Gee: Tel Aviv City Symphony / UK 6:00 Gee’s rarely seen film directly harks back to the early music-based filmic montages of cities. Here the master filmmaker, acclaimed video director and documentarist [radiohead's: meeting people is easy] sets to explore identity in this “new” city and the bauhaus-inspired architecture in the year of the new millennium.
Commissioned by onedotzero in 2000.
Danny Yount: 6 x 7 Oct / USA 0:47
Commissioned for YouWorkForThem, the Baltimore-based graphic design studio. This piece presents the internet and its global community as a thriving organ capable of destruction of profound expression as we begin to interpret what is shared in entirely new way. Information as structure.
Richard Fenwick: Economic Growth / UK 3:00
graphical study of an english landscape, highlighting the implications of mass building development and housing crisis in the already overstretched countryside. idyllic hillsides gradually become invaded by graphic high-rise apartment blocks, cranes and smoky factory buildings to a linked menacing score.
Sam Tootal: Little numba: Mira Calyx / UK 3:00
Commissioned as part of warp/creative review music videos, Tootal fuses Calix’s hard electronic beats with a harsh urbanscape reflecting the synchronicity and soundtrack of the places we live.
Steve Glashier: I manifest / UK 2005 / 03:00
Cranes construct the iconic technics sl-1200 turntable in elegantly balletic style.
A dynamically directed short underscored by an infectious strings-meets-breaks soundtrack.
Oskar Aglert: Nature of Our Times / Sweden 2004 / 02:20
A revenging mother nature reclaims her territory. An apocalyptic reversal of thousands of years of devastation and destruction made by humans being - nature strikes back!
Metaphorm: Elephant and Castle Regeneration, London / UK 2005 / 01:27
One of London’s key sites of urban redevelopment. In the next ten years Elephant and Castle in South London will be dramatically redeveloped and, in the drive to ensure striking urban design and architecture through the area’s ten year plan, Southwark council has separated the housing association and architectural procurement processes, and invited architectural practices to form a competition panel that will bid for housing sites as they become ready. This film forms a part of the entry.
Rob Ward: New York is our bag / UK 2004 / 01:27
The film is a series of animated scenes in the style of street graffiti showing positive and negative stereotypes of America seen by outsiders with many eyes and faces watching throughout the film. Using photography, photoshop, spray paint, photocopies, pixilation, drawings and film.
Peter Kidger: The Berlin Infection / UK 2005 / 05:00
A terrifying yet gorgeous vision of haunting black television towers gradually building themselves over downtown Berlin. A recent discovery from Bartlett School of Architecture’s creative goldmine unit 15.
Guy Roland: Spacer / Canada 2004 / 03:00
The earth hurtles through space at 67,000 mph orbiting the sun and everything is in constant motion.
Spacer explores this world through a roving camera, finding odd rhythms and unexpected harmonies. The immovable monuments of our times [buildings, bridges, fences and walls] come alive and they reveal themselves as you have never seen before. Comprised of over 3000 high resolution photographs.
Alex Chandon: Borderline / UK 2005 / 04:00
Chandon takes London on a trip by way of escher, deconstructing both modernist and neoclassical landmarks.