A selection of my previous projects with an internet
component:
START Moving Image
The initiative was set up in 1993 to promote
film culture in south west England and Kernow. In November
2006 Sunday Shorts, a day festival of
international short film held at the Desmond Tutu Centre at
the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth UK, showed the
film programmes exchanged between Plymouth's START Moving
Image Festival in Plymouth, UK, and the Plymouth
Independent Film Festival in Massachusetts, USA.
http://www.sundog.co.uk/start/index.html
Unity online
A microsite documenting a series of projects
to support the learning of BME (black and minority ethnic)
students at Plymouth College of Art and Design and promote
cultural diversity. The Unity site gives details about the
4 projects I co-ordinated between autumn 2004 and June
2006, and some of the interventions trialled, including a
collection of recipes from around the world contributed by
students and staff, the residency of artist Chila Burman,
and a day of multicultural graffiti. Unity online
was published in September 2006 on the Plymouth College of
Art and Design intra/extranet, with a quick link off the
front page. The institution re-branded itself as Plymouth
College of Art in 2009 and changed its domain: PCoA
continues to keep Unity online as a live site.
http://artifax.plymouthart.ac.uk/unity_online/index.html
Street Rat
I worked with artist Stuart Moore as a
project mentor for First Light Movies (UK Film Council) on
the production of a hybrid live action/animation drama set
in Newton Abbott, Devon. At the beginning of September
Stuart and I set up an online production office - each
stage of the complex production process was documented on a
website so that all members of the team could check out
project developments and post contributions. We developed
the script and screenplay in September 2005 during a series
of Wednesday afternoon workshops, followed by location and
studio shoots in October. Post-production and editing took
place in November - the film premiere was at the end of the
month.
http://www.sundog.co.uk/streetrat/index.html
Perfect World
In Autumn 2004 we set up a website for the
production of a music video with an ecological theme, as
part of a Wild Ideas commission from the Bristol
Natural History Consortium. Each of the 5 young people we
worked with had their own page on the site, and a
photographic archive was also published so that the
film-makers could share the project with their friends and
families.
http://www.sundog.co.uk/perfectworld/index.html
Greenlink Environmental Art Project
Between 1998 and 2002, Stuart Moore and I
were appointed documentary artists for the public art/urban
regeneration project in Mount Wise, Plymouth. We worked in
collaboration with residents, creative practitioners,
professional advisers, South West Arts and Plymouth City
Council to produce an accessible project archive using
video, photography, animation and audio recording.
Skill-sharing was part of our brief: with a small team of
Mount Wise residents we created an online presence for
Greenlink during the life of the project.
You Are Here
In September 2000 12 artists around the UK
were assigned a Royal Mail millennium stamp from which to
create a one minute 'poetry film' with a group of children
for the Poetry International festival at the Royal Festival
Hall. I was given the Cycle Network Artworks stamp and
worked with Dolton Primary and Stuart Moore on a film about
the Tarka Trail in North Devon. We made a microsite about
the project for the school, the kids and their families,
and the Shooting the Messenger project
commissioners in London.
http://www.sundog.co.uk/minifilm/index.html
Project
In 1997 I was commissioned by the London
Filmmakers' Co-op to create a one minute film for the
launch of the new Lux Centre in Hoxton Square, London. The
producer assigned by LFMC was based in London, the
locations for the film were all in south west Britain. So
Malene could keep track of how the project was developing
and read about the background to the production work,
during the summer of 1997 I published extracts from my
production diary online, along with a selection of pinhole
photographs which formed the artwork for the film, in an
early form of blogging..
http://www.sundog.co.uk/project.html