Stay the Same

  • Time by Sam Spreckley

    I thought I would share this lovely short film called Time by Sam Spreckly also showing at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition in the same programme as Stay the Same. It captivated us at the private view and I could watch it over and over . . <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/70490735″>T i m e</a> from <a…

  • A History of the Sky

    A years timelapse study of they sky. Each pixel is a day. Thank you Alasdair.

  • Response #25 Overtime by Claudia Firth

    My older sister, Claudia Firth, is also an artist. There are many ways in which our lives our weirdly parallel despite her living in the centre of London and I in the north-west of Scotland.  A couple of years ago Claudia started a project called Overtime. From her home in the Oxo Tower, a housing…

  • Time Piece by Jim Henson

    Just as I was starting to despair with the internet (see last post) thanks to Matt Hulse on facebook of all places I discovered Jim Henson’s 1965 experimental film Time Piece, below, which I’d never seen before and is a bit wonderful. The film was nominated for an Oscar and Henson made the first episode…

  • Dog takes his photo every day for a year

    Lots of people have been sending me videos and clips from you tube of people growing old, growing beards, travelling around the world taking their pictures every day.  There are so many of them out there that there is now even a subsection parodying the original ones. I watched a lot of them before the…

  • Tim MacMillan experiments in film and time

    Moving pictures have been used to explore our perceptions of time since their invention. When Tim MacMillan was at art school at Bath Academy in the 1980’s he experimented using multiple cameras to create different viewpoints of the same space. When these multiple viewpoints are spliced in to one film it feels like time has…

  • The psychology of time perception

    There is a developing psychology of time perception, which suggests our relationship to time affects how happy we are. Below is a fantastic animated illustration of Professor Philip Zimbardo’s theories on this. I love that where you live in relation to the equator affects your perception of time.  You can also hear more about Robert…

  • Cesar Kuriyama – One second every day

    Cesar Kuriyama is making a film using one second of film from each day of his life from. He started on his 30th birthday which, coincidentally, was the same week I started filming Stay the Same.  His is a fascinating and incredibly ambitious project also about time, memory and the desire to capture all of…

  • #24 Simon Lynch who I haven’t seen in ten years

    Simon saw this project in the papers and got in touch through facebook last month. I went to university with Simon. We also worked together as interns in the Labour party media unit in ’97  helping make short films about how great the new Labour government was going to be (we were young!). As a…

  • The Story of Self

    I read this article in the guardian by Charles Fernyhough which connets with a lot the research I have been doing recently in to memory and self, as our perceptions of time and narrative are very much related to memory. I’m really looking forward to reading his book. Our ability to remember forms the basis…