A film commissioned by Metron (Diane Jones-Parry and Annabel Ralphs) for the Endnotes Exhibition in the O3 gallery in Oxford.
All the artists came from a variety of disciplines but were unified in being given a ‘random’ wrapped up book taken from the out-going stock of the Oxford Library.
We had around five months to create a piece exploring whatever themes we wanted and the result was fantastic, from very considered beautiful photgraphy to georgeous mono-prints, films, audio installations, performance pieces and much more.
For my piece I received ‘The Great Movie Stars – the International Years’ by David Shipman and found myself wanting to explore the differences and similarities of books and film, pages and frames. I turned the book itself (of 645 pages) into a thirteen second film documenting the journey between the shelf where the book originated and the gallery where the exhibition took place.
In the gallery itself the book sits next to a small screen looping the film and you are encouraged to pick up the book and flip the pages yourself.
If you visit the gallery before the exhibition finishes you can pick up an individually numbered and printed DVD of the film (each cover is a print of one of the pages in the film) for a small-ish sum of money.