TIME MACHINE
While making our new film Yellow House Afghanistan I have often looked down at my feet and realised what it must have been like for an Apollo astronaut when they looked down to see their feet on the surface of the moon. No foreigner would have walked in the places where I have had the privilege […]
Blue Poles and Doors of Perception
I have read a couple of biographies of Pollock and the man disgusts me. I have a huge collection of art books but never felt the desire to buy one with reproductions of Pollock’s paintings. He was someone I didn’t think I could learn anything from except that art is at its best when it […]
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Ukraine Guernica – Artist War
Winter Light Photographers and filmmakers call the last hour of sunlight in the afternoon the “magic hour” because colours glow with their fullest intensity and are no longer washed out by the intensity of reflected sunlight. It is the same in mid-winter when the sun is at a low angle all day. People caught up […]
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I Live in a Bombed Apartment Block in Borodyanka
Spending time filming George painting on a wall of a destroyed apartment block in Borodyanka today was like sitting still in a forest as creatures gradually start emerging quietly everywhere. However, the spring flowers here are blooming in a tortured forest of burned monolithic giants, towering totems of torched horror, smattered with occasional blossoms. It […]
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