Feature - an alternative Western set in the Cambridgeshire countryside

故事片是一项跨学科的事业，介于现场活动和电影的实践之间。现场演出包括在剑桥郡乡村上演另类西部片的表演，而著名艺术家和音乐家与当地演员和居民一起在电影中扮演一系列角色。表演混合了历史和虚构的比喻，借鉴了前卫戏剧的遗产：贝克特，布雷希特和托马斯伯恩哈德。通过雇用艺术家和非专业演员，我的目的是进一步研究表演和即兴创作的概念，这些概念已经在迄今为止实现的一些表演作品中进行了探索，进入电影表现的领域：探索将这些现场活动翻译成电影。编辑过程是支撑现场活动的基础，因为它成为现场活动的虚构或现实的关键，也是关注电影最终看起来/被观看和语境化。编辑过程将探索现场表演和电影表现之间的差距，并为我提供质疑和探索如何表达这种差距的手段。专题项目标题的简单但压倒一切的逻辑探讨了持续时间的概念，这对现场艺术和电影都是至关重要的，我感兴趣的是这两个非常不同的领域之间的时间运作如何让他们意识到彼此。电影编辑过程将使我能够解决研究问题，这些问题将通过本书的编辑，巡回展览和公共事件进一步进行，并将揭示真理的压制的伦理问题/现场事件能够通过电影表现多少。在编辑过程中，我将做出哪些选择来否定我揭示现场活动的意图？编辑是根据所做的选择来解决研究问题的过程。对所提出的问题的道德答案将在允许操纵真相的空间中进行探索，因此编辑的理由成为根本，通过过程揭示所提出的一些问题。专题将产生一部独立的电影，一本书和一个巡回展览，伴随着公共活动。通过设置参数的性能作为一个文件，以拍摄在专业标准，我打算电影存在作为一个独立的工作在自己的权利。例如，剑桥电影节要求放映这部电影。巡回展览将包括该项目的各种文物和文件，以便将艺术过程视为连续文本的想法，有三个确认的合作伙伴：曼彻斯特的Castlefield画廊;伯明翰的East Side Projects和利兹Met画廊（作为利兹城市大学的一部分）。我还将编辑一份出版物，这将继续该项目的生命，提供一个机会，进一步扩大编辑过程，作为一种手段，拆开翻译的过程中的现场活动，以电影。本着连续文本的精神，我将与作家塞巴斯蒂安罗奇和三位在电影中扮演角色的艺术家合作，并将给出不同的视角和阅读。通过这种方式，我希望通过表演和电影制作过程的各个方面提出一个严格和批判性的调查，这是建立在我对文化媒体和翻译的持续研究和使用各种媒体的基础上的，一系列备受瞩目的项目和成果证明了这一点。这本书将由Bookworks出版，他将监督和资助这本书的制作，并由Abake设计，我以前曾与他合作过。一系列公共活动将伴随着巡回演出继续编辑该项目进入公共领域，并进一步分解编辑过程和研究问题，这些问题位于该项目的核心。

Feature is an interdisciplinary undertaking operating between the practices of live event and cinema. The live event involved staging performances towards an alternative Western in the Cambridgeshire countryside which in turn involved well known artists and musicians alongside local performers and residents taking a range of roles within the film.The performance mixed historical and fictional tropes, drawing on the legacy of avant-garde theatre: Beckett, Brecht and Thomas Bernhard in particular. By employing artists and non-professional actors the aim was to further my research of notions of acting and improvisation, already explored in a number of performance works realised to date, into the realm of cinematic representation: exploring the translation of these live events to film.The editing process is what underpins the live event as it becomes pivotal to the fictionalisation or actuality of the live event and is what focuses the film in terms of how it finally looks/is viewed and contextualised. The editing process will explore the gap between live performance and cinematic representation and provide me with the means to question and explore how one might articulate this gap. The simple but overriding logic of the title of the project Feature explores the idea of duration that is pivotal to both live art and film and I am interested in how the operation of time between these two very different spheres might allow them to be aware of one another. The film editing process will allow me to address research questions that will be further carried through the editing of the book, the touring exhibition and the public events, and will reveal the ethical problems of the suppression of truth / how much the live event is able to manifest through the film or not. What choices will I make in the process of editing that will negate my intentions to reveal live event? The edit is the process of addressing the research questions based on the choices made. The ethical answers to the questions posed will be explored in the space that allows for the manipulation of truth, therefore the grounds for the edit become fundamental, revealing through the process some of the questions posed.Feature will result in a stand-alone film, a book and a touring exhibition with accompanying public events. By setting out parameters for the performance as a document to be filmed at a professional standard I intend the film to exist as a stand-alone work in its own right. For example, Cambridge Film Festival has requested screening the film. The touring exhibition, which will include various artefacts and documentation from the project so as to look at the idea of artistic process as continuous text, has three confirmed partners: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; East Side Projects, Birmingham and Leeds Met Gallery (as part of Leeds Metropolitan University). I will also edit a publication which will continue the life of the project, providing an opportunity to further expand upon the editing process as a means for unpicking the process of translating the live event to film. In the spirit of continuous text, I will be working with author Sebastian Roach and three artists who played roles within the film and will give different perspectives and readings. In this way I hope to present a rigorous and critical inquiry through every aspect of the performance and filmmaking process, which builds on my research and use of various media for my ongoing examination of cultural media and translation, evidenced by a series of high-profile projects and outcomes. The book will be published by Bookworks who will oversee and fund production of the book, and designed by Abake, who I have worked with previously.A series of public events will accompany the tour continuing the editing of the project out into the public realm and further unpicking the editing process and research questions that sit at the heart of the project.