Showing posts with label Kirkham Sheidow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kirkham Sheidow. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 June 2020

housebecomeshome


This week on the Book Art Course at Camberwell the email project has been all about mapping home - where it starts and stops - I used the video the RIBA Suffolk Design Awards made when the extension that was designed by architects Kirkham Sheidow was up for an award (we won!) thinking about my mum and the idea of a house becoming a home and then a house. Adding time lapse films made of the site of the house I grew up in was a little too much and video of the last time I saw my mum was just too sad.
Above are some screen grabs.
Irresistible by Adam Alter is an addictive book about addiction, focusing on the screens that surround us - there are some truly frightening and instructive moments that will see me altering my behaviour. http://adamalterauthor.com/irresistible
Who you think I am - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7552686/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0  Juliette Binoche is extraordinary as a woman adrift from her sense of self, developing narratives within narratives to make sense of a/the world. Truth with Binoche and Catherine Deneuve https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8323120/ explores versions of truth within collective and individual memories. Days of the Bagnold Summer was so sweet, you feel for both sides until they become at one The King of Staten Island had great moments of thoughtfulness where you are taken out of your own soul to reflect on oneself https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9686708/  Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee's  latest is a long mixture of every film genre you have thought about and a few you haven't. there are some extraordinary moments worth watching.

Sunday, 26 January 2014

cinemabox

Some interesting films this week – went out to my local arts centre (The Cut) http://newcut.org/events to see Blancanieves - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854513/ - an extraordinary silent black and white rethink around snow white involving bull fighting dwarfs. The lighting and framing brought to mind Bunuel. Spectacular now - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714206/ a quiet coming of age film that has a understated quality which stays with you longer that it should. The Hunger Games catching fire - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/ mad nonsense but you have to love those clothes that set on fire and Get lucky - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2175669/?ref_=rvi_tt – a film I can’t remember at all....Meanwhile a drawing of the proposed box to be attached to the house, a collaborative drawing between myself and the architects.. 

Sunday, 19 January 2014

demolitiondemolished

A weekend spent demolishing the heat store/veranda has created an interesting space for what should be an interesting space... designed with the architects Kirkham Sheidow http://www.kirkhamsheidow.co.uk/ its Donald Judd meets Richard Serra – a truth to materials brutal box.

Meanwhile the evenings were spent with the wolf of wall street – a behemoth of a film – excessive and then some, bludgeoned by the whole exercise but with a deeper understanding of why we are where we are. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/ and the very nice The Secret Life of Walter Mitty http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/ a beautifully shot film – two lives living fantasies.