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Being
and Doing
Documenting
an art that deliberately seeks to exist within the moment is fraught with
contradictions but significant aspects of performance exist solely through
being recorded. In this film- a collaboration between one of Britain's leading
performance artists and a major independent filmmaker-the recordings of the
performance have been extensively manipulated, the images slowed down, fragmented
, details isolated to construct a filmic memory of the events. This process
combined with a jagged editing style, has both reinstated the original impact
while giving the film the grainy quality of newsreel.
A
film by Ken McMullen and Stuart Brisley 58min 1984 The
raw material for the film was collected from 1979 to 1983 using different
crews. Major credits are; Director Ken McMullen, Assistant Director; Paul
Cheetham. Texts by Stuart Brisley and KM. With Sound Score by David Cunningham.
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