Depositions

Kvikmyndas?ning ? Her?ubrei?  b??sal, 24:21 min.

Stuttmynd Luke Fowler er huglei?ing um hva? getur or?i?, hva? hef?i geta? or?i?, hva? g?ti enn or?i? ef heimurinn myndi sn?ast ? a?ra ?tt.

Depositions film time runs in many directions, as do arguments. Film made only recently can be easily confused with the archival vintage of washed-out or saturated tones and blurred edges.

Only the disjunction between sounds that live close within the ear and rich voices from a fading past distinguish archive from present.

Gradually the pieces converge: our nostalgia for ancient folkways, traditional song and the romance of freedom, all undercut by scientific rationalism and the pressures of normativity bringing law to bear on lives resistant to conformity.

What is an archive if not a collection of letters to ourselves?

Luke Fowler?(f. 1978, Glasgow) er listama?ur, kvikmyndager?arma?ur og t?nlistarma?ur sem b?r og starfar Glasgow. ? verkum s?num kannar hann takm?rk og hef?ir heimildamynda og kvikmynda ? ?vis?gulegum st?l og hafa verk hans oft veri? l?kt vi? bresku heimildamyndahreyfinguna ? 6. ?ratugnum. Fowler skeytir saman gamla filmub?ta, lj?smyndir og hlj?? og skapar ?annig forvitnilegar svipmyndir ?af m?nnum ?r menningargeiranum sem f?ru i?ullega ?? m?ti vi?teknum venjum, ?ar ? me?al skoski s?lfr??ingurinn R. D. Laing og enska t?nsk?ldi? Cornelius Cardew.

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Lj?smynd Alan Dimmick

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