Popehelm : Single channel film with sound
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 24759701
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, USA
- Month
- April
- Year
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Popehelm is a short film made in a multi-disciplinary collaboration with experimental writer Sarah Goldstein and composer Rob Godman that imagines a societal decline in the wake of an unnamed disaster. The film merges three distinct conventions in dystopic cinematic, personal narrative, and the experimental use of voice to create an atmospheric acoustic and a set of alternative modes of visual representations of disaster - war, post-colonialism and climate change - that extend the range of normative media coverage. The research process deploys several new forms, among them the development of a script akin to an ‘exquisite corpse’ drawing, whereby Goldstein wrote in response to filming by Jury and vice versa. The script then developed to incorporate multiple texts from pre-existing material - 19th century correspondence, cold-war public safety videos, computer coding etc - to create a form of linguistic liminal space. Voice performances were captured by Godman to create acoustics spaces, both perceptually real and imaginary. Visually, the film's point of view is split between a mechanically moving camera and static CCTV-style framing where subjective and objective component periodically coincide. Here, both narrative and image are constantly in dialogue with other forms of representation: TV screens, radio transmitters and on-line profiles. Throughout, Jury’s research builds on previous works exploring agency and meaning in the use of camera, re-examining the relationship of split-subjectivity to traumatic, dissociative memory. Here. Popehelm's contribution to the field lies in its creation of a filmic response to notions of self-perception, sanity and surveillance found in works such as 'Stalker' (Tarkovsky, 1979) and 'Film' (Beckett, 1963). Between 2017- 8, Popehelm was shown internationally, at the Disasters of Peace, Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, USA; Whitechapel Gallery Cinema, London; 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA. The output comprises a single channel film and indicative installation shots.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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