GILLIAN McIVER

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SELECTED FILM

This page shows selections from my personal artist films.

 

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Selected Filmography
Taking Over the King's Land 2013 The Landscape of Pleasure 2011
Tarkovsky's River 2010
Postindustrial Baroque 2009
La Luna Nera: Black Moon Rising 2008
Places – 5 Films 2005:
Mosti: The Bridges of St Petersburg;
Europa; The House on Sadovaya St.; La Mort Toujours; The First Experimental City


Suspended somewhere between the artist film and the documentary, I am interested in real things and real places and how we perceive them. As a self shooting film maker, working with a an HD ENG-video camera and a DSLR, I am interested in the image and in making the image, and how meaning can be created from the combination of techncial process and imagination.

 

Taking Over the King's Land | 23:00 documentary.

In a forgotten corner of East London, Egyptian artist Nazir Tanbouli is battling weather, vandalism and lack of funds, to create a massive mural installation all throughout a condemned housing estate. 

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The Landscape of Pleasure

 

The Landscape of Pleasure 06:35
“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.” Voltaire
The Landscape of Pleasure is a short film that looks at the town of Southend as a landscape designed for pleasure and entertanment.

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Tarkovsky's River

 

Tarkovsky's River 09:57

"Tarkovsky's River" is about a journey into landscape, into the deep heart of a place where the river is as wide as a sea, where skies are vast and time stands still. A journey into collective memory that holds within it the interconnectedness of man and the natural world.

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(The First) Experimental City (Belfast)

(The First) Experimental City (Belfast)| running time 5:00

It starts as a walk down the street. From there to the river and further, to where the tall ships were built. A filmic journey through the city to the now deserted Drawing Offices of Harland&Wolff, re-connects two historic and magical places. Join the tour, hold tight and discover for yourself.

Text by Ivan Chteglov