Stay the Same

  • 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

  • Clocks for the New Year

    Standard Time is a performance project by Mark Formanek which he has built in different cities. Carefully choreographed builders change a huge wooden digital clock in real time. For more films and information click here. There is also The Human Clock which shows photos people have submitted of the time, in real time. It is…

  • Slighty Misaligned Clocks

    Due to delicate timing of my filming, the light changes significantly during my ten minutes in front of the camera each day and it can look radically different by the time I finish recording. I am always aware of the winter darkness living here, but right now every minute makes a difference. So this is…

  • The Longest Night

    Today is the winter solstice. I am half way through this project! I have taken my camera out, slotted it in to my homemade platform and filmed myself every morning now for 182 days. Only six months to go . . . When I started filming back in June it was getting light at 3am…