The Duellists was filmed using ONLY the in-house CCTV network (and no other cameras!) with a soundtrack created ONLY from the environmental sounds recorded during production (except the bass-line). I was commissioned to create this video for Futuresonic (now FutureEverthing) and is part of the body of surveillance filmmaking I explored while a part of MediaShed. Music is by Hybernation. Performance by James Hall and Joe Livermore of the Methods of…
The Duellists was filmed using ONLY the in-house CCTV network (and no other cameras!) with a soundtrack created ONLY from the environmental sounds recorded during production (except the bass-line). I was commissioned to create this video for Futuresonic (now FutureEverthing) and is part of the body of surveillance filmmaking I explored while a part of MediaShed. Music is by Hybernation. Performance by James Hall and Joe Livermore of the Methods of…
Video Sniffin No.1: the commercial is an advertisement for free-media made by hijacking signals being broadcast by wireless CCTV cameras (aka video-sniffing or war-spying). Momentum Arts commissioned this experimental film as part of their arts regeneration project Being Here and forms part of the body of surveillance filmmaking I explored while a part of MediaShed. Made with homeless young people from Southend YMCA and local school students interested…
Computer Love is a technology based dance film shot entirely on webcam made as a commission for DanceDigital and Thurrock Council. It's a modern interpretation of the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet played out in an on-line chatroom entitled Computer Love (a euphemism for cyber-sex). The audience are invited to voyeuristically spy upon their hidden private world via webcam – viewing both dancers and all typed communication simultaneously – privy…
Your Tiny Mind is a promo music video I directed for electronic pop duo Relation - the first single release from their 2009 album Fear of Night. It tells the story of two down-on-their-luck salesmen trying to spread the word of enlightened science while the whole world chooses to ignore both their message and them. Music produced by Richard Kayvan. Single and Album available on Urban Torque Records.
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Former journalist David Valentine is a filmmaker and writer interested in the way technology affects society and human behaviour - working across the fields of video art, short film, documentary and creative education. His work has received media coverage in the Guardian, Newsweek Reuters, the New York Times and More 4 News; with Arena magazine featuring him as: “part of the next generation of filmmakers set to revolutionize
Former journalist David Valentine is a filmmaker and writer interested in the way technology affects society and human behaviour - working across the fields of video art, short film, documentary and creative education. His work has received media coverage in the Guardian, Newsweek Reuters, the New York Times and More 4 News; with Arena magazine featuring him as: “part of the next generation of filmmakers set to revolutionize cinema with the aid of new technology”.
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