11 O’Clock High

Synopsis: A compilation of short films by London film and video artists George Snow, Andrew Kotting, Paul Bush, Sophie Outram, Sarah Pucill, Breda Baban and Hrvoje Horvatic. These films were the winners of a competition for short films challenging popular misconceptions about film/video art.
Language: English
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale; 1997 sale: £6.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)
Notes: Broadcast on ITV on 7/6/95.
Documentation: Accompanying teaching materials.
Subjects: Media studies
Keywords: experimental film & video; video art

Director: Andrew Kötting; Breda Beban; George Snow; Hrvoje Horvatic; Paul Bush; Sarah Pucill; Sophie Outram

Title: Irina is not herself anymore
Synopsis: 1: (directors: Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horvatic) A drama illustrating a moment from a woman’s life - a story about urban lonliness, about wanting to communicate, but also about the impossibility of communication, and exloring a texture of experience.
Title: Jaunt
Synopsis: 2: (director: Andrew Kötting) Records a trip down the Thames by boat and on foot from Westminster pier to Southend-on-Sea.
Title: Tall story
Synopsis: 3: (director: George Snow) A three-dimensional computer graphic visualisation of the form and space of London, introduced by Charles, the town-planning robot.
Title: Still life with small cup
Synopsis: 4: (director: Paul Bush) A reworking of an etching by Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. It is brought to life by scratching frame by frame directly into the photographic emulsion of colour filmstock. The viewer is taken on a journey which begins with the cl
Title: Impossible
Synopsis: 5: (director: Sophie Outram). The disabled adult in the film wonders what it would have been like if she had been able bodied. She has an idealised view of being well, an acrobat. Her thoughts are shown as if in a dream. Only in the last image are we brou
Title: Back comb
Synopsis: 6: (director: Sarah Pucill) About what different types and colours of hair, and the rituals connected with hair, represent in western culture.

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