Had a great couple of days filming The Flitter with Carl Hancock Rux and Benjamin Tiven last week. Ben also worked with me on The Gist n in January and he’s a great camera operator/general technical supervisor as well as a very good artist in his own right. You can see his work here.
There are a lot of links to Carl on the web – I’d follow any and all of them. He’s an amazing writer/ performer/ musician and an extraordinarily generous talent. I was thrilled he agreed to work on The Flitter with me and he made some very difficult material his own. We’d planned to film in segments but he performed the entire text in a single heroic take of over two hours on Friday morning…
I’m really, really pleased with the result and very grateful to have had two such fantastic collaborators. And of course, none of it would have been possible without the generosity and support of the EMPAC team. Curator Kathleen Forde has been a longstanding supporter of my work and I’m looking forward to working with her on a show of my work next year. And Ian Hamelin and the rest of the technical staff at EMPAC are doing amazing work in demanding circumstances.
On to editing now – a version of The Flitter will be shown at Sketch in London in July. More soon…
Graham Parker 