Love is a Burning Thing
Fiery bursts lurk between movie reels, signalling unseen mechanics. Projectionists watch and count the governing pulse, anxiously attempting to perform seamless changeovers. Along with Ozymandias, this film draws from an ongoing collection of cue-dot episodes that are painstakingly sifted and appropriated from free digital-TV broadcasts. This growing archive of near-redundant objects provides an archaeological means of remembering cinema's outgoing physicality, and a method of inquiry into narrative and perceptual processes. Love is a burning thing was commissioned for the DVD catalogue of StoryRooms, an international media art exhibition curated by Andrea Zapp at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, October 2005 to January 2006. Published by Manchester Metropolitan University and funded by Arts Council England. "Dave Griffiths' image and sound fragments function as objects of found footage that are, in their swift collaging, reminiscent of random material collected from the Internet; and a distorted focus and resolution, together with measured cutting and close-ups, reworks key elements like surveillance shots or recombined and transient screen imagery related to the exhibition's installations". Andrea Zapp, StoryRooms catalogue essay. >> Clipviewer >> Publications 2009 > Outcasting [online]; All Change, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK 2008 > Purescreen 02, publication launch screening, Roxy Bar & Screen, London, UK 2007 > OUTPOST presents British & European Legs, Anglia Square, Norwich, UK; Studio 27, San Francisco, USA; Saison Vidéo, Espace Croise, Lille, France; Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France 2006 > Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada; Purescreen #15 Making Up For Lost Time, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Backup Festival of New Media in Film, Bauhaus Universitat, Weimar, Germany
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