Single-channel video (5 minutes) and C-Type prints
2018 | 59.4 cm x 42.0cm
This short film was commissioned for Tintype's Essex Road Project, annual commissions now recognised for their significance within the ecology of moving image arts in the UK – enabling eight artists each year to make new work. Over the past five years, Tintype has commissioned and produced 40 artists’ films, which are back-projected into the gallery’s window and viewed from the street as a form of public art.
Essex Road is in the borough of Islington, London. It is roughly a mile long stretching from the Angel to Balls Pond Road. Essex Road runs parallel to its more upmarket neighbour Upper Street and in fact used to be called Lower Road. For ESSEX ROAD 5, I took the opportunity to work in Essex Road's old Carlton Cinema, which became a Mecca Bingo Hall and now operates as the Resurrection Manifestations Church. The faded glamour of the Carlton still pulses within the magnificent building, and I wanted to create a film that would conjure up the ghosts of its former workers and capture the enchantment of the silver screen.
ESSEX ROAD 5
DAVID BLANDY| MICHELLE DEIGNAN | RÄ DI MARTINO | DMITRI GALITZINE | JAYNE PARKER | HIRAKI SAWA | NICOLE VINOKUR |
MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAMAKER
13 December 2018 – 19 January 2019
2018 | 59.4 cm x 42.0cm
This short film was commissioned for Tintype's Essex Road Project, annual commissions now recognised for their significance within the ecology of moving image arts in the UK – enabling eight artists each year to make new work. Over the past five years, Tintype has commissioned and produced 40 artists’ films, which are back-projected into the gallery’s window and viewed from the street as a form of public art.
Essex Road is in the borough of Islington, London. It is roughly a mile long stretching from the Angel to Balls Pond Road. Essex Road runs parallel to its more upmarket neighbour Upper Street and in fact used to be called Lower Road. For ESSEX ROAD 5, I took the opportunity to work in Essex Road's old Carlton Cinema, which became a Mecca Bingo Hall and now operates as the Resurrection Manifestations Church. The faded glamour of the Carlton still pulses within the magnificent building, and I wanted to create a film that would conjure up the ghosts of its former workers and capture the enchantment of the silver screen.
ESSEX ROAD 5
DAVID BLANDY| MICHELLE DEIGNAN | RÄ DI MARTINO | DMITRI GALITZINE | JAYNE PARKER | HIRAKI SAWA | NICOLE VINOKUR |
MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAMAKER
13 December 2018 – 19 January 2019