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Category Archives: Film
Rebekka Nightingale – at HeArt of Heritage
Uploaded 14 February 2015 Continue reading
Spanner in the Works
Uploaded 11 November 2014 Continue reading
One day in Derby Road
Uploaded 10 May 2014 Continue reading
Uriel Orlow: Unmade Film
Uploaded February 2014 Continue reading
St George’s Day Films
Uploaded 23 July 2014 Continue reading
Southampton docks at night
Uploaded 17 December 2014
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Special Effects Showreel
Uploaded 14 November 2014
The showreel of William Clinker, a third year Special Effects student at Southampton Solent University specialising in animatronics design/ fabrication and stop motion animation.
Stranger Than Known
Uploaded 30 October 2014
Stranger than Known; South Home Town by Steve Hawley. Installation at Southampton Showcase Dec 2014.
The Southampton of the imagination is known more for those who have left the city than those who stay. The beautiful medieval city has been largely erased by the terrible bombings of World War II; the romance and drama of the flying boats of Imperial Airways, not to mention the Mayflower and Titanic, were about transit, about departures and fugue, the flight from the familiar, and not the city’s people who were left behind.
In the fiftieth year of Southampton’s incarnation as a city, this video installation seeks to interrogate the uniqueness and spirit of this south home town. Drawing from the city symphonies of the 1920s, which used new film techniques to examine the city in the modern world, and through wayfaring its streets and shorelines, the exhibition looks at the shifting identity of the port and its people.
Using ultra slow motion video and unique film of Southampton soldiers addressing their far off families seventy years ago at the Classic Cinema, Above Bar, the work addresses the question, what is home? Drifting through the city streets, layers of meaning as well as layers of real and imagined places show through the everyday, the mediaeval glimpsed dimly beneath the skin of the twenty-first century. Voices speak to us from the past; it is in these liminal spaces of borderline and uncertainty, of shorelines and pavements, that we begin to make out the myth of our own place.