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as one of the first images are made if I
father when he lived in this one room
and didn't really go outside and I put
this bread here so that he might eat
something because it didn't eat during
this period he just drank so yeah this
is a little allegorical portrait
back then when you released photographs
there wasn't the internet so they would
be shown in a book or in a gallery you
know you didn't just see em random on
the internet they were sort of protected
by the form in which you saw them
they were made in a bubble they've
gotten innocence about them that may be
one of the strengths is that innocence
das been trusted in the work of the
vershbow steam freshness painters like
Sickert and how Gillman I liked how they
depicted figures and interiors and
everyday life in the late 19th early
20th century it feels as if time has
stopped still in those paintings but
time is still going on outside that's
how it felt a little bit when I was
growing up
I've been making landscape work here on
the gallon for 10 years mostly with
panoramic format I like that the
Challenger found him
get a rhythm that goes from left to
right dr. tend to be drawn towards
places that feel like they're timeless
they're usually places that wanted to go
for I dreamt about going to as a kid I
spent till four years making work in
zoos and they're sort of they're
composed a little bit like some of the
family images that I've made
and I always had this idea that I'd like
to make a short film that charted 2 to 3
days of my father's existence in that
room while that was being made I I wrote
another short piece about my uncle and I
thought if I could write another that
interconnected those two pieces they're
not ever feature-length piece it evolved
gradually from the bottom up the feature
was made as much as possible for my own
memory there's photographs that can be
drawn on photographs of the years I've
made night and there's photographs of my
own children I was able to draw on these
bodies of work to earn to inform that
look of the film I shot it on analog
film as opposed to modern digital
technology partly because I wanted to
see this to go back in time
I thought it would be better to use the
technology of that time analog seems
better in a traditional materials like
wallpaper wood cotton wool stuff leather
a 3/4 ratio in this is more like the
technology of the seventies and eighties
we had super 8 cameras it was before
they show I didn't but you know that
though they existed back then and
people's TV screens were 3 4 ratio even
the windows I looked out off in the
tower block earth 3/4 ratio I guess it
was important for me to try to recreate
my my own my own memories if you like to
try and make a film that is from lived
experience it's not like mine my
childhood was any different from other
people's there's lots of kids living in
the same way but I just wanted to show
up the world look like
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