Stuart Pound Movie Trailers
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A slower speed of light Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
Light is interrupted by a strip of old 16mm film seen under a low magnification microscope and is reflected from the surface in rainbow colours.
Retro disk chunter Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Files are copied then deleted from one of the 3.5" floppy disks that have almost disappeared into our past.
Black & White Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Scenes appropriated from Antonioni’s famous film L’Avventura show Monica Vitti as the central subject.
Life on Mars Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
The only companions of an artist stranded on Mars are what can be drawn with its red dust. The image is processed from found footage and the soundtrack from the spoken poem.
Sleepers Trailer (1974)
06 June 1974
A succession of images, overlaying, repeating, banging together around the figure of the filmmaker who crosses his work like a conductor over his orchestra.
:: another story :: Trailer (2021)
01 January 2021
Clips from two Italian films of the early 1960's meet on a train platform in Rome. Together they move towards, but don’t quite arrive at, another story, as the processing makes animation of what began as live action.
Reality Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
The speaker imagines herself on “reality” TV, surreal, but not much more so than "real" reality TV.
This is not a landscape... Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
A photograph of deer in Richmond Park, London.
ORWO Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
The film here is one I made in 1972. The surface is easily marked. I scratch the image off with a needle then sweep away the dust emulsion.
Chez Pigeon Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Monsieur and Madame Charles Pigeon at home in Montparnasse. The image is a motion path across a still photograph and the soundtrack is a Sardinian choir singing in Latin.
Postcard Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
An erotic postcard from Paris is processed into the moving image of a young woman posing beside her mirror.
Clocktime Trailer Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
A stroboscopic film in which several different time streams flicker by in parallel. The 16mm film was partly shot and processed at the London Filmmakers Co-op.
1960::Movie::Still Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
This video contrasts the moving and the still image. A sequence was taken from the iconic film L'Avventura made in 1960 by Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti .
Lost Photons Trailer (2020)
05 November 2020
A clip from the iconic 1999 science fiction film "The Matrix" becomes a much older silent movie with piano accompaniment, seen again in its own far future or where time no longer counts.
Kissing in hats Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
The poem Kissing in hats is a villanelle, a verse form where the regular repetition of two key lines gives added urgency to what is being said.
A day in the life of Gilbert & George Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Channel 4 News, 7 p.m , 20 January 2006. The footage is sliced into alternating time lines, and soune
Snow Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
Agile cross-cutting between images shows animals hunting in the snow. The soundtrack is a Roma song celebrating the coming of spring.
Reverberations in time Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
In this video, political debate becomes a mere residue of speech, amplified then reverberated as metaphor for the unforeseen repercussions of war.
Codex Trailer (1979)
28 August 1979
London is cut up and manipulated in this highly structured, emotionally compelling piece about the UK's capital city and its capacity to alienate and atomise people.
9 ½ weeks in 8 mins Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
The two clips chosen are the theft of a necklace from a department store and a look at the erotic possibilities of ice cubes, but the burden of narrative passes to the music, a performance by Maria João & Grupo Cal Viva, which, like the visual images, repeats the same ideas with variation after variation, but builds to its own unnerving climax.
now breathe out Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
Breathing out should be easy but it’s difficult with damaged lungs. The hospital uses gadgetry to measure exhalations.
Lungi dal caro bene Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
An image taken from the internet of the young Ezio Pinza and an old vinyl recording of this great Italian singer are brought together.
English Lessons Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Milton's Paradise Lost as remembered from the filmmaker's schooldays.
Kaleidoscopics Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Kaleidoscopics brings together pornographic stills from the internet and bubbles at the edge of running water, putting both through the same digital processes.
Song Lines Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
The sound of clapping hands and voices of two African girls orchestrate the thickness of vertical black lines.
Run version vertical Trailer (2020)
08 September 2020
The source clip is taken from a cult science fiction film where the world is literally turned on its head.
Birdsong Marimba Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
In the aftermath of a decision impossible to reverse, political debate is submerged in an ambient world of photoshoot, marimba and birdsong.
SF Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
“SF“, not as in Science Fiction - but Svenska Filmindustri who were instrumental in making “The Seventh Seal”, a film by Ingmar Bergman.
Père Lachaise Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
The spoken text of Père Lachaise is a poem about scattering ashes, illicitly, in the famous Paris cemetery.
She's not there Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
A video interpretation of the sixties pop classic. The size of the image responds to the loudness of each note.
Voices Off & On Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
“It’s all about what you do with it afterwards…” one of the voices says. That is make it black and white, wriggle out of the 16:9 frame, and overlap and reverberate the talk and laughter.
Lindy Hop Trailer (2017)
22 March 2017
Short film with original footage taken from the internet, reprocessed into vertical stripes with three frame blocks of positive black & white alternating with high-contrast negative.
Ventura, California Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
An experiment in personal history. The footage was shot in the London docklands, and its trains and bridges prompt a meditation on nationality, identity and language, spoken in German with English subtitles.
Maharajah Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
1872. Maharajah the elephant and his trainer Lorenzo Lawrence travel on foot from Edinburgh to Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester, a ten day walk that makes them both famous before they arrive.
Dominant Culture Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Sequences of frames, sampled from a Big Brother broadcast on Channel 4 television, are repeated three times each in rhythmic succession.
Writing Behaviour Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Writing Behaviour is a poem set to images and sounds. The image foreground is made up of the lines, words and letters of the poem, floating and twisting in the light, as the incarcerated writer writes his escape.
Satara Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
Satara is a study of a moving figure in black and white, returning at the end to a real world of colour.
“Value” : boolean Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
To the right, a distorting face inside a rectangle tries to avoid being classified as human - but fails! To the left, algorithms including Boolean operators seek to refine a description of image content with varying amounts of confidence.
Boogie Stomp Pink Trailer (2017)
20 September 2017
A Boogie dance performed by William & Maeva was downloaded from the internet and vertical sections taken from each frame arranged into 24 panels to show pattern and movement across each second.
Grandmother is a Crab Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Grandmother is a Crab borrows from an earlier digital video, made fifteen years ago, that itself used footage captured from a travel advertisement on television.
Alice in Arizona Trailer (2021)
30 December 2021
The Alice of fifties animation visits the Wild West of fifties live action, but only through persistence of vision, they never meet in the same frame.
Shooting Loops Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
A further fragment taken from an well known Science Fiction film is changed into a semi-abstract experience in which the world is literally turned on its side.
Hopeless Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
The starting point for "Hopeless" is a song of the same title, recorded by the group "Evangelista". The song is about an impossible love for Louise Brooks, impossible because she died in 1984.
Die Nebensonnen Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
The mysterious love poem by Wilhelm Müller from Schubert's Winterreise provides the audio amplitude samples used to draw the waveform.
Chase Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
A famous Schwarzenegger chase sequence is literally turned on its side, four times over with a slight time delay between each panel.
Six Portraits of Clara Schumann Trailer (2016)
16 March 2016
Exploration in split screen of Clara Schumann’s face, on her Romance Op. 11 no.1 Andante.
To Be a Ghost Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
A ghost actor haunts his screen life, and is haunted by it, to the clicking of a projector. What you see is scraps of film under a microscope, with its sprocket holes, oily colour, and accumulated fluff and dust.
Bus Stop Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
The framing of the image, clouds in a blue sky, changes with the loudness of sound composed from the spoken poem.
Foxtrot Trailer (2023)
01 January 2023
The brown spots on the pages of old books are called foxing. This poem was written in 2022, the centenary year of modernism.
Smile Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Smile is both a noun and a verb. The noun is represented as a zoom out from what seems at first to be an abstract surface but becomes a tooth, a smile and then a smiling face.
Film Without Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
This immersive experimental film work demonstrates the influence of collage and psychedelic light shows.
The Eagle Tattoo Trailer (2020)
01 January 2020
A man is found drowned in a few inches of water. His only ID is his tattoo.
Specto Trailer (2025)
01 January 2025
AMPERSAND, 1978, re-purposes clips from a 1974 film I never completed. In SPECTO they are re-purposed again.
Aviatrix Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
A poem about Amy Johnson that looks at how flight disturbs our sense of space, time and what is “modern”.
Venus, Separated Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
A look at colour separation, using the face of Botticellis Venus. Colour planes are separated and then merged to re-create the original image.
…all that passed. Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
A fragment taken from an well known Science Fiction film is prematurely aged to a time when there was no film sound other than piano accompaniment.
Late self-portrait Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
An eye in close-up moves ever nearer to abstraction.