selected films

Associations (1975) | Leading Light (1975) | The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) | Hackney Marshes - November 4th 1977 (1977) | Blue Bathroom (1978-79) | Shepherd’s Delight (1980-4) | Om (1986) | The Black Tower (1985-87) | Slow Glass (1988-91) | Gargantuan (1992) | Home Suite (1993-94) | Blight (1994-96) | The Waste Land (1999) | The Kiss (1999) | Regression (1999) | Lost Sound (1998-2001) | Worst Case Scenario (2001-03) | Hotel Diaries (2001-07)

Associations
(1975)  7 mins. Colour. Sound. 16mm.

Images from magazines and colour supplements accompany a spoken text taken from ‘Word Associations and Linguistic Theory’ by Herbert H Clark.  By using the ambiguities inherent in the English language, Associations sets language against itself.  Image and word work together/against each other to destroy/create meaning.

"Associations is a straightforward rebus (a game in which words are replaced by pictures).  But the text is so dense (contemporary linguistic theory) and the combination of visual puns so extensive that a simple, unique reading of the film is impossible." 
A.L. Rees, Unpacking 7 Films programme notes.