Artist Film of the Month

George

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Dir: Luke Fowler | UK | 2008 | 4 mins | 16mm

Distributor | LUX

"George was an attempt to reconsider the basic components of my approach to filmmaking and boil them down to their bare essentials. The act of looking is implicit in my past documentary work but in this study it becomes the focus. The starting point for the film was the area that I was born and still reside in; the west end of Glasgow and its conjunction with the location where the film was first installed; a flat in Garnethill. The walk between these locations, and also central to the film is, through the St. George's X area". The film deals with the relationship between sounds and images, acoustic phenomena and architectural details.

Luke Fowler won the first Derek Jarman award in 2008 and had his first solo show at the Serpentine in May 2009.