Footage of Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock festival in 1969, repeated 12 times across a single channel film with a half second delay between each image.
In The Pines uses footage from the only known film of Leadbelly (Three Songs) with audio from a version of In The Pines by Leadbelly. The footage and audio are repeated and layered with each film starting a fraction of a second apart. It was made for an exhibition called In The Pines, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen.
161 Feet is the length of Super 8 film shot by an audience member of the two performances by the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester in June and July 1976.
Given access to the actual film stock Graham has approached this now historical document as an object, as a witness to a one off event, and explores the physical attributes of the celluloid. The entire length of the film (161 feet) has been digitally scanned in lengths as a series of images (112) then compiled into a single image which is animated across the vertical plane of the cinema screen. Repeated 8 times, the strips fill the entire screen with each strip running at a different frame rates. This creates a dizzying effect as the eye tries to make sense of the sequential images, disrupting the norm cinematic effect of 24 frames per second used to create seamless motion pictures.
We see the whole of the film stock, the sprockets, edit splices and taped joins, leader film, manufacturers watermarks and the history of its use; scratches, dust and marks. The material quality of the film enlarged and projected to full 4K cinematic scale and resolution the jump between the analogue world of 1976 and the digital in 2016 questions the legacy of punk, what remains and what has been lost and gained through the shifts in means of production.
Come Together, 2013 / 2022
Two channel digital film with soundtrack, looped
In summer 2013, I undertook a residency one at a large-scale North East music festival featuring celebrated bands who have accrued devoted fans. At the festival Dolphin was given unprecedented access to bands such as Primal Scream, Dexys and Spiritualized, whose lead singers we encounter close-up. We are able to scrutinize their smallest gesture and every expression. Dolphin also captures the audience, who, seen from a distance, are caught unaware in a state of adulation. The resulting videos are presented side by side, slowed down, and in silence.
The drummer Sam Woodyard, performing a drum solo with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, repeated 64 times in a circular format.
1500 non-sequential images of the model Kate Moss playing at 24 frames / images a second for one minute.
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