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Automaton. 2006

By Sean Dower. 

HD video with sound. 6 min.

Featuring Steve Noble. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, with support from Arts Council England and the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund.

Automaton was filmed using a motion control rig, commonly used for special effects in film and television. Though barely glimpsed in the final film, this machine assumes a performing role as the camera weaves around the highly reflective black and chromed curves, whilst tracking the detail of a complex and shifting drum solo, in which both drummer (Steve Noble) and camera are locked together into a single resonant performance.

Inspired by drum battles, Boccioni's Development of a Bottle in Space and the opening shot of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Automaton was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and first exhibited at Tate Britain as part of ‘Single Shot’ in 2006. It has since been exhibited internationally.

Sean Dower

Jordan Baseman 

July the Twelfth 1984

12 minutes 30 seconds

Courtesy Matt's Gallery London and Jordan BasemanJuly The Twelfth 1984 is an experimental animation based on the actual audio recording of the State of Georgia execution of Ivon Ray Stanley on July the Twelfth 1984.  We hear the voice of Willis Marabel an assistant to the warden at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. From a small room adjacent to the death chamber, Marable watched the execution through a one way mirror and described over the telephone, in detail, exactly what transpired, to officials in Atlanta. We see his words flash before us as we hear Willis Marabel dispassionately describe bearing witness to the death of a human being.

This work is stark brutal and uncompromising in every way.  It is a tragic document depicting Government controlled murder.

Jordan Baseman

David Austen

Larry Achiampong

Anne Bean

Brian Alfred

Brian Bress

Dara Birnbaum

David Blandy

Jordan Baseman

Livia Benavides

Nate Boyce

Paul Bush