I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING + MACHINE ON BLACK GROUND & PROPOSAL FOR AN UNMADE FILM (SET IN THE FUTURE)
Wed 25 Nov 7.00pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING
DIRECTOR: Ben Rivers. UK 2009. 29mins. 16mm
An off the beaten track road movie to the Isle Of Mull. Shot in 16mm anamorphic, the widescreen cinematography captures striking panoramic views of the landscape as Ben Rivers encounters beekeepers and forest clearers and revisits subjects from previous films. His first stop is with Jan Zalasiewicz, a geologist trying to imagine the Earth in one-hundred million years. “Powell and Pressburger’s heroine in their magical I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING knows exactly where she’s going …I decided to follow her lead and make my destination the same as hers, but with every intention of getting lost, following false leads, and trusting in the laws of serendipity, while winding my way through an almost abandoned, devastated Britain, to the Isle of Mull.”
MACHINE ON BLACK GROUND
DIRECTOR: Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone. UK 2009. 15 mins. 16mm.
Combining archive material and original footage to suggest both the construction of a utopian building and the world viewed from some kind of imagined subterranean space or vantage point. The film switches from the poetic style of late post-war architectural documentary, via BBC coverage of Tangerine Dream live at Coventry Cathedral, to extended, immersive sequences of abstract stained glass.
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PROPOSAL, FOR AN UNMADE FILM (SET IN THE FUTURE)
DIRECTOR: Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone. UK 2007. 21mins. 16mm.
Shot on the island of Lanzarote PROPOSAL…weaves together the extraordinary, shattered, volcanic landscape of the Timonfaya National Park and the ‘retro-futuristic’ utopian architecture of artist César Manrique. The film implies that it is assembled from ‘location recce’ and audition footage; the by-product of a pre-production process for a low budget science fiction film/architectural documentary, developed this far, abandoned, and only later discovered in an archive.
