Louise Crawford

Test

Test is a multi-screen work using three animated sequences, a person, a teddy bear and the word TEST, whose synchronicity is continually being broken by the destruction of a tower block.

From Stalingrad to Jaurès

From Stalingrad to Jaurès was shot in the 90’s in Paris. At that time I was watching Godard films, walking, taking the Metro, looking at the Genie de la Bastille, filming a torso and eating baguette. I brought the different elements together and introduced a spinning 10 franc coin, a fall guy and a crime jazz music score. It is a return to black and white 16mm single screen film for me and also a return to the image of the male torso, that I first used in my film Claiming Territory in 1993.

A Set of Glances

A study on celluloid of the Siegessäule in Berlin, a series of furtive views and images. A cubist vision reduces a golden statue, by summing up its fragments, to the mere material and sculptural presence. Punctuated by interruptions in space and time, the absence of a constant visual flow makes us wait for the next image-- Retinal relief.

Claiming Territory

Claiming Territory refers to the landscape of the male body - claimed by the woman's hand - and the landscape of war - claimed by soldiers victorious in their actions. In contrasting the sensuality of the male body and its ephemeral presence with the escalating chaos of war, it was as if I was constructing a memory out of something I had no experience of.

Festung Europa - Shifting peripheries

Commissioned by Lux Europae in 1992. Shot in Berlin, a city whose borders were formed and defined by the political and historical climate of post-war Germany. This film has no narrative, it is a journey throuth the city using the 'jump-cut' and 'cinematic time' to move from the past to the present and the present to the past. Trains, airplanes and pesdestrians now move freely through what was a 'divided' city. This film was originally projected onto a shop window in an Edinburgh street in December as part of a Lght Festival celebrating the European Summit in 1992.