Feature - an alternative Western set in the Cambridgeshire countryside

特写是一项介于现场活动和电影实践之间的跨学科事业。现场表演包括在剑桥郡乡村上演另类西部戏剧，著名艺术家和音乐家以及当地表演者和居民在电影中扮演一系列角色。表演融合了历史和虚构的比喻，借鉴了前卫戏剧的遗产：特别是贝克特、布莱希特和托马斯·伯恩哈德。通过聘请艺术家和非专业演员，目的是将我对表演和即兴表演的概念的研究推进到电影表现领域：探索将这些现场事件转化为电影。剪辑过程是现场事件的基础，因为它成为现场事件的虚构或现实的关键，也是电影最终看起来/被观看和背景化的焦点。剪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一差距的手段。项目名称的简单但压倒一切的逻辑探索了持续时间的概念，这对现场艺术和电影都是关键的，我感兴趣的是，在这两个非常不同的领域之间的时间运作如何让他们相互了解。电影剪辑过程将使我能够解决研究问题，这些问题将在书的编辑、巡回展览和公共活动的编辑过程中进一步进行，并将揭示压制真相/现场事件在多大程度上能够通过电影表现出来的伦理问题。我在编辑过程中会做出哪些选择，从而否定我披露现场事件的意图？编辑是根据所做的选择来解决研究问题的过程。对提出的问题的伦理答案将在允许操纵真相的空间中进行探索，因此编辑的理由变得基本，通过这个过程揭示一些提出的问题。特写将产生一部独立的电影、一本书和一个巡回展览，以及伴随的公共活动。通过设定以专业标准拍摄的文件的表演参数，我希望这部电影本身就是一部独立的作品。例如，剑桥电影节已经要求放映这部电影。巡回展览将包括该项目的各种文物和文献，以将艺术过程作为连续文本的理念，有三个确定的合作伙伴：曼彻斯特的卡斯特尔菲尔德画廊；东区项目，伯明翰和利兹大都会画廊(作为利兹大都会大学的一部分)。我还将编辑一份出版物，它将延续项目的生命，提供一个机会，进一步扩大编辑过程，作为一种手段，取消将现场事件转化为电影的过程。本着持续不断的文本精神，我将与作者塞巴斯蒂安·罗奇和三位在电影中扮演角色的艺术家合作，他们将提供不同的视角和读物。通过这种方式，我希望通过表演和电影制作过程的每一个方面进行严格和批判性的调查，这是建立在我对各种媒体的研究和使用的基础上，以我对文化媒体和翻译的持续审查为基础，一系列备受瞩目的项目和结果证明了这一点。这本书将由Bookworks出版，他将监督和资助这本书的制作，并由我以前合作过的Abake设计。一系列公共活动将伴随着巡演，继续向公众领域编辑该项目，并进一步揭开位于该项目核心的编辑过程和研究问题。

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.