Journal
A review of the installation at Supersonic Festival
by Michael Wallace-Pigott The first thing we see on arrival in Birmingham is a free installation piece at Moor St. Station entitled There Are No Others, There Is Only Us. This open, airy station (more a big iron, glass and brick canopy than a building) is a surprisingly great location for work like this. Having already read some promotional stuff I had imagined it to be some sort of unavoidable large screen piece, to be experienced by those passing through the station whether interested or not. However, it was in fact separated from the main thoroughfare, enclosed in its own temporary tent. Inside, on a heap of fat nylon beanbags, we watched as a wide white screen slowly filled with…
Creating the music with Ben Frost in Iceland
This week Marc is working with Ben Frost creating the music for the 9 minute film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Frost_(musician) http://bedroomcommunity.net/Site/news/news.html http://greenhouse.is/
Eye of the Storm on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2008/11/12/eye_of_the_storm_feature.shtml
The video edit without the sound done yet!
Images from the shoot
Sunset
Hiding in the rushes, waiting for the birds
Sunrise in the rain
The cameras set up to film the wide sky
Near to where the birds roost
Sunrise
Filming swarms of starlings.
Inspired by the diverse ways different people find peace, we've decided to film swarms of birds to be projected as part of the art installation. The swarms of birds moving as one represent a need not to look to leaders to solve our problems, but rather are a metaphor for millions of individuals working as one, achieving something greater and more beautiful than if each bird acted alone. No-one knows why birds fly in formation like this, creating ordered patterns seemingly randomly, without a leader or an organised plan. We think there may be similarities between this and the way humans manage to live together.