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Title: OUR EYE

Reference number: 6167

Date: 2000

Director: d. Chris Bowman

Sponsor: New Media Scotland, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund (Timelines Moving Image Commission), [Digital Arts Project, editing facilities]

Production company: Canis Horriblis Production

Sound: sound

Original format: various

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 41.00 mins

Description: Experimental in nature, this video is based around the 8mm film collection of the film maker's father. It takes that film, bends it around a bit, adding contemporary film taken 30 - 40 years later of the same subject matter, whilst the commentary muses on the passing of time and experience. Sound and visual effects are also used to enhance the film.

Screenings as at March 2002: Timelines Tour, February 2001 (Glasgow Film Theatre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Aberdeen Belmont Cinema) ; Viper Film, Video and New Media Festival in Basel, Switzerland, October 2001 ; Interstanding New Media Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, November 2001 ; International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 2002 ; Transmediale. 02 Festival, Berlin, Germany, February 2002.

Credits: 8mm footage William Stewart Bowman
video/sd.ed.text Chris Bowman
thanks John Cobban, Doug Aubray, Howard Mitchell, M.M. Bowman
[DV Camera, sd. rec. sd. design, text/voice, graphics, ed. Chris Bowman]

Shotlist: (00:00:00:00) title (00:00:13) [blank, with occasional flashes of film across screen, with commentary] (00:02:24) montage of slowed down film excerpts, film camera equipment , film reels, projector noise etc (00:06:37) montage focussing on concept of 'home' (00:08:08) further montage, featuring streets, landscapes (00:11:52) montage focussing on concept of 'holidays', including beach and swimming pool scenes (00:21:27) montage focussing on concept of Aviemore, depopulated Highlands etc (00:29:28) and Edinburgh, including zoo (00:35:00) end sequence (00:40:00) ecs (00:41:00)