How Little We Know of Our Neighbours
Combined programme
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IFFR 2006
Curated by Mark McElhatten Observations, visitations, surveillance leave marks on the surface of environments and the interiors of individuals. Permission from above may lead to invasion of privacy or intimacy; lack of consent from the individual may leave poignant truthful artifacts compounded by circuitous fabrications, clues to histories otherwise effaced. Watching openly or in stealth, something is at once subtracted and preserved, revealing and surpassing the stability of a partial point of view, scattering into a thousand eyes.
In this combined programme
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Catalog
From the blueprints of found family photos, Barber builds tableaux vivants in a stately fictional story about former uprooted dynasties. -
Same Day Nice Biscotts
From a pile of 13 identical film prints that document the dangers and perceptions of old people, Price creates a film of gripping, repetitive incantat -
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours
The history of the British Mass Observation movement and its relationship to contemporary phenomena, from police observation to WebCams and reality TV -
Block
From day to night. A portrait of an apartment building in London, the inside and outside of which are investigated and revealed. -
Dangerous Supplement
Dangerous Supplement looks at the cultural and perspective balance between aerial shots and everyday life on the ground, between blunt intent and inci