KH-4
Full length video
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Title: KH-4
Reference number: 3631
Date: 1960s
Director: d. Jon Schorstein
Production company: Smith - Schorstein
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 12.41 mins
Description:
A strange film about a Glasgow artist (played by a young Bill Forsyth) who uses the city as a source of inspiration. As he wanders the streets, the ongoing demolition process causes a disintegration of his ideas which are subsequently expressed in a depressing canvas.
The title of the film KH-4 refers to the name of the German film stock that the film was originally shot on.
Credits:
The Artist Bill Forsyth
camera David Lewis
sd. Alec Brown
m. Iain McHaffie, Bobby Wishart , George McGowan
art Allan Shields
production facilities IFA (Scotland) Ltd.
Shotlist: title credit(0.06) a Glasgow artist who uses the city as a source of inspiration juxtaposing images of tenement destruction with modern high rise flats and motorway construction along with c/u's of people on the streets. As he wanders the streets, the ongoing demolition process causes a disintegration of his ideas which are subsequently expressed in a depressing canvas(12.03) ecs(12.41)