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Posted in Inspiration, tagged A View From the Shard, Betty Wants In, By The LAke, Daniele Manoli, Fire Drawing, Fragments of Time, Glithero, Hong Kong, Kenneth Tindall, Linder Sterling, Richard Nicoll, Sense of Place, Stuart McCallum, Tasmania, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Film Artist, The Hepworth Wakefield, The Ultimate Form on May 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

This week I have been shooting films a lot more than watching them and as I write this, I am sitting in the cafe of The Hepworth gallery in Wakefield preparing for another. We are here to document an afternoon of performance entitled The Ultimate Form by Linder Sterling. The event promises to be an exciting collaboration of creatives including award-winning choreographer Kenneth Tindall, dancers from Northern Ballet, original composition by Stuart McCallum of The Cinematic Orchestra and costumes by fashion designer Richard Nicoll. You can watch the Illuminations trailer for The Ultimate Form here.

Anyway, I hope to one day live by a lake. Melbourne based Betty Wants In just happened to have reminded me of this fact.

By The Lake, Tasmania. from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.

More and more now, short films online seem to represent exactly what the title of this next film suggests. Fragments of Time details Daniele Manoli‘s very own personal portrait of Hong Kong shot over a period of two years. What I love about this kind of filmmaking is its strength in evoking particular feelings and sense of place. There aren’t enough outlets for this kind of work to exist and thrive in so it’s always great to come across it online and be completely taken by it.

Fragments Of Time from Daniele Manoli on Vimeo.

Daniele’s recent work includes an impressive project of short films each dedicated to a letter of the alphabet. Forget Sesame Street though this series has much more nostalgia, music, chaos, randomness, hallucinations and vomit! You can work your way through them all here, and it really is an epic journey! One of my favourites is Q.

Q from Daniele Manoli on Vimeo.

Here’s one for the pyromaniac in me.

Fire drawing from Glithero on Vimeo.

If you still haven’t been up to the top of the tallest building in the European Union then this next video should give you an idea about what you’re missing!