Lucy Harris 2012 (16mm colour, 13²40² optical sound)

Composer - Andrew Lovett

Crossing Points, filmed in the 1936 Berlin Olympia Stadium and the
Kuppelsaal, exploits the interplay between memory, history and architecture.
Through the interweaving of these empty venues with two fencers performing a
series of choreographed gestures, a dialogue between distinct

architectural spaces disrupted by a legacy of past activity is created.

Painting the Town 

David Leister 1999 (16mm, colour, 7 mins, sound)

Composer - John Wynne

In this town I reckon that every place has had a coat of paint since I´ve
lived here. There´s always a bit of gloss drying somewhere. As the camera
wanders across the skyline, an over-laid image of a painter in overalls
rolls out an ever-changing palette of colour, giving brief renewal to
crumbling facades. As with layers of peeling paint work on an old dwelling, sounds of the city fall away to reveal noises of renewal and repair: the clank of

scaffolding tubes, the scratch of sandpaper, and the splash of paint.

CREMER

David Leister and Lucy Harris 2013 (16mm Black and White, 7'40" optical

sound)

CREMER is an abstract document of a lost studio, not easily categorised,
occupying the spaces between a photograph, a document and a film.
It is a collaborative record and examination of the fire and resulting smoke
damage that took place in the studio in 2006. As film is exposed to light,
the studio was exposed to smoke, leaving a shadow or imprint on all
surfaces. These appear almost as Œx-ray¹images, with the results also
reflecting personal circumstance of the time.
With the time elapsed there is now a broader connotation with the current
demise of film, so the work holds multiple meanings in its subject, image
and surface. Whilst melancholy in tone, and a lament to the loss of the
studio and all its related film elements, it also points to films ultimate

resistance to destruction.

Read an interview here with David Leister and Lucy Harris about this film

Medicine Box

David Leister (16mm Black and White, 11" optical sound)

Resembling a lost instructional film, Medicine Box draws attention to the
repeated cycle of medical ingestion and how a small pill can have such a

large effect on the human body.

Sideways

Lucy Harris 2006 (16mm Black and White, 3.30" optical sound)

Situated in a small area of London the film explores the shadows of
surrounding buildings to construct a secondary urban landscape. By inverting
the urban environment and creating solid matter and form from light and dark the camera searches and reveals elements of the urban landscape that
commonly go unnoticed. The organic detailed surfaces and textures of the
structure and fabric of the city create a filmed drawing with a musical
structure.