CINEMAMA (Heavenly Pussy) 9m 18 DV 2010-

ONGOING MOVING IMAGE PROJECT

country of production UK

using found footage and original material to attempt a cinebio of my experience of cinema.

From Vivienne Leigh In Waterloo Bridge to Vivien Merchant in The Homecoming Bruno S in Stroszeck and Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby

“As a child I thought films dropped out of the sky “

CINEMAMA begins with a reference to Etienne Jules Marey’s cinematographic study “Falling Cat” (1895), linking cats to secret and sensual interior worlds while questioning the filmmaker’s experience as a mother and filmmaker and the gravity of disillusion

Years later while recording a young girl singing Let it Go from Disney’s film Frozen, she is interrupted, Look cat! And her vitality and nature take the filmmaker back to innocent beginnings and wonder at the world viewed.

The film serves as a condensed expression of the filmmaker’s love for cinema, examining how the medium exists within us as an ultimate chamber where the hope and ghost of an interior history circulate. It explores the tension between the impulse to design and control and the impulse to let things go.

CINEMAMA PART 1 DV 2.43m

Screengrabs Vivienne Leigh Waterloo Bridge 1941

Screengrab Movie Raymond Bellour equates disenchantment of screen theory with loss of childhood ???

CINEMAMA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Persona Ingmar Bergman Falling cat Etienne Marey

Poly Photo 1963 Jacqueline Gaer

Streetkid Manor Rd John Miles

Waterloo Bridge Vivienne Leigh Leroy

Sandy Shaw always something there to remind me

The Homecoming Pinter

Late Spring Ozu

Made in the USA Godard

Gun Crazy Lewis

Le Mepris Godard

Kill Bill The lioness has reunited with her cub Tarantino

Bringing up Baby Hawks

Stanley Cavell The World

Wanda Loden

Alphaville Godard

The Big Sleep Hawks

Les Diaboliques Clouzot

Frozen Menzel

Pierrot Le Fou Godard

Fury De Palma

The Dark Knight Rises Nolan

Mouchette Bresson

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Murukami

Stroszek Herzog

A Gentlewoman Bresson

North By North West HItchcock

Mama Roma Pasolini

Trial of Joan of Arc Bresson

VIVIENNE LEIGH WATERLOO BRIDGE 1941

POLYPHOTO 1963 Sutton Uk