Category: things I’m doing, done and planning on doing

cube archive framework

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CUBE ARCHIVE

This is a framework for developing an ARCHIVE at the Cube Cinema.

This diagram shows different classes of unique ‘objects’ that all connect to the Cube, represent or document it or are just part of its hosted collection.

Green oblongs are paper/print based objects. Programmes, posters, flyers, etc.

Blue Trapezoids are bound books and periodicals, magazines and books.

Pale blue drums are media carrying recordings in different mediums; video, audio, etc .

Pink sheets are Data based web blogs, photos, websites.

Pale green drums are analogue film materials, 16mm, 35mm etc.

For any one single ‘event’ there may exist multiple objects.

The next task is to develop a cataloging system or find a BIN big enough to throw it all into :)

Club Rombus

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Seems like a good moment to make some documentation of club rombus. Ill make a static page then add to it. Of course all these links really do is gravitate back to the Cube. For Rombus I’m going to have to dig into the paper, fax, photocopy archives. How did we manage before the www? Well we didn’t have a spellchecker!

ROMBUS

Heres th covers of Romboid, the  ‘zine’ programme / info pamplets we made.  All on a photocopier of course. I can scan them and make PDFs of each one, we only did 2!

romboids

Various quick online search results:

http://www.variant.org.uk/16texts/Cube_culture.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/883827138367779/

http://www.bristol247.com/channel/culture/film/features/a-brief-history-of-the-cube

http://www.hijackbristol.co.uk/board/the-forum/club-rombus/?wap2

http://openbuildings.com/buildings/cube-microplex-profile-11049

festival23 mention

Archeology Cube

 

Found inches

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Frames found under the pedastol of the Kalee21 projector we have been using at the Cube Cinema since 1998 that was recently retired to make way for some modern machines. For an 18 year period I thought this small sample of wasted, discarded, lost or just dropped frames would make a good Archeo-Cube project. So I am going to scan them and via a video timeline, attempt to place them historically and culturally within our history (the Cube Cinema) but also within the wider context of cinema and the changes that have taken place over the span of the samples.

 

 

 

What is Cinema?

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I’m asking people this question. Seeking peoples definitions in simple terms. Here I will compile the answers. If this question was “what is A cinema” we would get answers that only relate to he institution of a building and its use and this would weight the enquiry too much in one (predicatable) direction.

James Reed  “Film based projection”  (he was biased, I’d just summarised what I was up to).

 

 

 

See this for further practical reasons for thinking that film based projection is the ontological basis of ‘Cinema’.

http://www.filmadvocacy.org/2014/05/14/projection-the-politics-of-passivity/

finally got Crow / Pylon in digital form

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After 17 years I finally got my 1996 film Crow / Pylon Configuration digitised. It is going to be screened at Kino-Im-Sprengel In Hannover next week. Here are some frame grabs. Back in 96 there was only Standard definition. Now though HD has really helped the case for film because I can scan the original A and B rolls of super8 and it will look ‘pretty awesome’. The sound really holds up.

I’m getting it translated into German but this is proving difficult. They don’t appear to have the flexibility in language to make space for the absurd or ridiculous, or the grammatical willingness to speak what is impossible or non-sensical. Any decent French or Spanish tranlsators out there email me.

If you could be bothered, with all the pressing demands of modern life you can watch it all here. https://www.nachleben.org.uk/skomer/crow-pylon-configuration/ ‎

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light Show table of junk

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Heres the light show as we ended up setting it up. On several tables infront of the stage, effectively as the front row. Operating the OHPs meant standing up and this probably caused some obstruction to visibility for some of the audience. At the bottom left of the picture is the 16mm modified to hand cranked which featured in the track known as ‘Environments’ alongside James manipulation of acid soaked slides through various glass lenses, prisms and mirrored devices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Half way house

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Holding up in woodbridge at the half way mark for the tour. Its been impossible to blog because of time restraints, internet scarcity and mammoth workload and show schedule.

I can offer here but a mere sample of this tour in photo form. Its been an amazing journey so far, mentally, emotionally, phsyically, creatively. Erica, Matt and Tall have been awesome.