Feature - an alternative Western set in the Cambridgeshire countryside

特色——剑桥郡乡村的另类西部场景

• 批准号: AH/G000050/1
• 负责人: Shezad Dawood
• 金额: $ 2.09万
• 依托单位: University of Westminster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG000050%2F1
• 关键词: Feature; alternative; Western; set; Cambridgeshire

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.

故事片是一项介于现场活动和电影实践之间的跨学科事业。现场活动包括在剑桥郡乡村举办另类西部片表演，知名艺术家和音乐家以及当地表演者和居民在电影中扮演各种角色。这场表演混合了历史和虚构的比喻，借鉴了前卫戏剧：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，目的是进一步推进我对表演和即兴创作概念的研究，这些研究已经在迄今为止实现的许多表演作品中进行了探索，进入电影表现领域：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，也是电影最终外观/观看方式和背景的关键。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阐明这一差距的方法。该项目标题的简单但压倒性的逻辑“特征”探索了对于现场艺术和电影都至关重要的持续时间的概念，我感兴趣的是这两个截然不同的领域之间的时间运作如何让他们意识到一个其他。电影剪辑过程将让我解决研究问题，这些问题将通过书籍的剪辑、巡回展览和公共活动进一步进行，并将揭示压制真相的伦理问题/现场活动能够在多大程度上发挥作用是否通过电影体现出来。在编辑过程中我会做出哪些选择，从而否定我揭露现场活动的意图？编辑是根据所做选择解决研究问题的过程。对所提出问题的道德答案将在允许操纵真相的空间中进行探索，因此编辑的基础变得至关重要，通过这个过程揭示了所提出的一些问题。该功能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。通过将表演参数设定为以专业标准拍摄的文件，我希望这部电影本身作为一部独立的作品存在。例如，剑桥电影节就要求放映该影片。这次巡回展览将包括该项目的各种文物和文献，以便将艺术过程视为连续文本的想法，已确定的合作伙伴有三个：曼彻斯特的 Castlefield 画廊；东区项目、伯明翰和利兹大都会美术馆（利兹城市大学的一部分）。我还将编辑一份出版物，该出版物将延续该项目的生命，提供进一步扩展编辑过程的机会，作为取消将现场活动翻译成电影的过程的一种手段。本着连续文本的精神，我将与作家塞巴斯蒂安·罗奇以及在电影中扮演角色的三位艺术家合作，并给出不同的视角和解读。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严格和批判性的探究，这是建立在我对各种媒体的研究和使用的基础上，以进行我对文化媒体和翻译的持续检验，并通过一系列备受瞩目的项目和成果。这本书将由 Bookworks 出版，Bookworks 将监督和资助这本书的制作，并由我之前曾合作过的 Abake 设计。一系列公共活动将伴随巡演，继续将项目的编辑推向公共领域，进一步解开该项目核心的编辑过程和研究问题。