Stay the Same

  • Flaneur Arts Blog Article

    I’ve just finished writing this for the Flaneur Arts Blog who contacted me after reading the Telegraph article earlier this week . . Stay the Same by Sam Firth I currently live on the most remote peninsular in Britain and for the last eight months of my life I have gone to exactly the same…

  • #15 Radio 4 Listeners

    I’ve been getting lots of messages and interest in the film since Monday and it may well reach a larger audience as a result of all the press coverage (increasing it’s value for the tax payers money even more, if you see it that way!), I hope so. I am going to write more about…

  • #14 The Telegraph & Tabloids

    A few months ago I wrote about the range of reponses I was having to this project and invited people to submit a response artistic or otherwise see creating a living notebook. In one of the posts below is a lovely drawing by Mia who is aged 8. This was partly because I am working…

  • Noah Kalina every day for six years

    I’ve now been filming myself every day at exactly the same time in exactly the same place every day for over seven months. Today the sun rose at the same time I turned on my camera, and it is now light when I get up in the mornings (usually about twenty minutes before filming). As…

  • Stars . . .

    This week the weather has got much better. It is colder but clear and the stars are out. I even caught what I thought was a glimpse of the northern lights the other night through the clouds. Here is a timelapse film by Jim who lives down the road. I have read that on a…

  • Response #13 Mia’s Timeline

  • Moon shots

    As you can see from these pictures, this week the moon has been in shot during my filming! (The pictures also show how different the light can be on consecutive days this time of year). I imagine it will only happen once during this year that the moon exactly in the right place at exactly…

  • Jonas Mekas

    In 2000 I had the pleasure of spending an evening with the filmmaker Jonas Mekas while I was working for the London Film Festival. I was quite young and had never even heard of him before, despite him being the godfather of american avante garde cinema. Jonas drank only Bushmills whisky. I know this because…

  • Response #12 Abby Boutlebee

    Mending Wall ‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,’ Robert Frost, 1914 This is a clip of hands (mine and the instructor’s) mending a drystone wall near Edinburgh as part of an employability project for homeless young people. As we worked, I started thinking about you and your film project. Frost’s poem was also…

  • Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits