These films were made by Ben Barker who is in the third year at Goldsmiths; he has been making them (I think) as part of the film workshop in the final year, and I love them.
My favorite so far was shot in Deptford; the editing talks of the subject matter and starts to give more meaning to the interview process; styling the content to have more impact perhaps:
In terms of content however, my favorite is from Greenwich:
This final year looks really exciting to me, the structure has been completely changed and the studio seems to be a factory of consistently good stuff. And they are all talking, drinking beers, and making stuff- i’m jealous. I can’t wait to see where these films are going and to see everybody’s show at the end of the year.
I have been working at Kin Design for the last month and a half. Having a great time, working with lovely people, and learning a whole lot. I will be here until December, when the current project ends; making an exhibition stand and set of films for the University of the Arts London. We have been shooting a series of stop frame films in order to show the art schools from the inside, pouncing on students and asking them to be in it; doing whatever it was they were doing when we found them.
It’s been lovely, partly to gain insight into the other London art schools, to be nosy and see what they have, and what is good about them individually… I miss college!
We have shot around 20,000 images in total, just some of them are printed off here (one still from each scene) and assembled into story boards; a great way of working, print stuff out and get it on the wall, not something I have done enough of in the past. Editing film purely on screen isn’t easy, and I think as a process this works so well. It costs a bit of money in ink, and you end up with potentially some waste, but it’s totally worth it in aiding process and decision making.
I seem to be in a habit of just posting really nicely shot films at the moment. Seriously though, this is exceptional. The idea was to use a warehouse for a few days to shoot some sort of syncronised skating and some static wood and somehow put it all together into this. We all know skating is awesome anyway, even without all the fancy stuff, but with it I seem to like it even more.
This was a short animation that Louisa and I made during our time at New designers when we were working the floor of the Goldsmiths design factory/meta-design experience. The brief was to take one of the winning arguments from the debate we held the previous day and make a film to communicate the winning notion in half a day.
Unfortunately, I only just had a chance to render it out, but here it is better late than never.
I can’t decide whether I love or hate this project, it borders on super cheesy at some points but then claws back and throws up some beautiful sentiments and an interesting method of interviewing. I really like these quite abrupt questions that give lots of similar expected/consensus type answers, but every now and again you get something super personal and poetic. Obviously it helps that it is beautifully shot, so at worst it’s a really pretty piece of film.
This one is shot in Brooklyn, which I actually prefer to the London film I think, though the guy at the beginning of London is pretty cool.
