Appropriated Found Book Source Imagery & Narratives : Reconfigured / Altered / Edited : Spoken Narration Generated by Appropriated Book Text Extracts
Film Short Stills “Roma Marching” GB 2009
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“Roma Marching” (Guy Begbie 2009) is structured and made using a ciné-roman approach. The source material (imagery and texts for narration) has been gleaned from appropriated travel guide books.
From the opening sequence, there is the anticipation/record of a journey made in a pedestrian mode of travel.
The flicker element caused by the method of editing static images, finds parallels with both turning the page and making observations while in transit.
Film Short Stills “Roma Berlitz” (GB 2009)
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“Roma Berlitz” (Guy Begbie 2009) has been constructed as a reconfigured new narrative using found travel guide book imagery. The narration content derives from found fragments of guide book text.
In developing ideas for the film short work, old editions of city travel guide books were appropriated and physically altered and treated as spaces for conceptual stimulus to produce reconfigured book works.
The intention behind the film short work is to construct a narrative of examined fleeting moments to be perceived by the viewer as a historical and architectural documentation of place and people both real and imagined.
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