Greg Pope

The film was made by scratching stenciled text into the surface of the film material. The text is a synced replication of the lyrics from The Fall song Art Prole Threat. Each word is reproduced on one frame only, appearing in the exact time/ space of the original recording (from The Fall’s 1981 EP ‘Slates’). The original track is intended to be played (loud) in the darkened cinema before the film is played (mute) on the screen directly afterwards.

"Made using lengths of black 35mm movie film [...] the film was attached to a board and shot with a shotgun. The resulting damage was then repaired and the separate lengths joined together in strict order. At its simplest it is a pun on the phrase "to shoot film". My idea was to portray the concept of shooting a film as a physical and literal action. The film can be seen as pure documentation of an act. The damage done becomes the image and the soundtrack." -Pope

Shards of emulsion, layered and structured over clear film.

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

Almost subliminal lunar images flash by. Contrasts of light and dark are evocative of the mechanisms of filmic process itself - positive/negative. A fantastic, though familiar, moonscape is momentarily exposed.

Crashing through the Arctic ice and snow - a journey to Joes' grave 1934 - wrapped up in the chaotic beauty of the churchbells of England - white light vision.