STEVE FARRER – SWINGEING LONDON, 1974
2020-04-06First film made at art school, primarily painting and sculpture, a strategy to concentrate on film-making as the focus of my practice after being introduced to the London Film Makers Co-Op cinema and workshop in my first year.
The film had to be made without a camera, handprinted as per course activity, a photosilkscreen project as a movie, and appropriated from Pathé news footage of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser being taken before the court over drug charges, the material lifted from an Arts Council Documentary about Richard Hamilton, the 16mm movie documentary footage being transferred onto a photo silkscreen, both negative and positive imprints were made and then printed onto bleached 16mm film salvaged from the Wardour Street bins.
Opposite – Swingeing London, 1974 (video still)
Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2020
Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London
