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)

Blue Bathroom
(1978-9) 25 mins. Colour. Sound. 16mm.
 
Blue Bathroom is a distillation of ideas concerning the tension between representation and materiality. It begins with an apparently straightforward representational image which is gradually revealed to be an artifice, foregrounding the filmmaking process as subject matter. By superimposing and alternating identical framings of three windows filmed by day and by night the film uses their positive/negative aspect to construct and break down representational images and sounds.

Blue Bathroom consists of three parts which can be shown individually or together. These are Fan (6 mins, silent), Blue Bathroom (11 mins, sound) and Behind the Mask (8 mins, sound)