AV Projects
The media lounge
What was the Media Lounge? Hard to be sure. A VJ collective, an art project, a performance piece - disposable pop culture chaos too late for VHS but too early for YouTube. More info contained within but, be warned, it’ll make very little sense.
The shining remixed
This was a collaboration with electronica artist Digitonal where we disassembled and rebuilt Kubrick’s snowbound classic as a Halloween performance piece. Copyright keeps seeing it removed from YouTube but click the image to see what is left of it online.
unearthing
Alan Moore’s wonderful and lengthy essay on the imagined life of his friend Steve Moore was turned into a film by Damn Sung. I was VHS cinematographer and one of the editors on the project which was released as a box set by Lex Records, alongside a book and score.
Space shuttles united
Editor
One of the best editing jobs I have ever had, this was a celebration of the Space Shuttle produced and directed by Adam Rutherford for Nature Magazine. This was constructed from the original VHS tapes from NASA’s archives and features one shot from every mission the Space Shuttle undertook, in order.
Scored by 65daysofstatic, it was released minutes after the Shuttle landed safely for the final time in July 2011. It was later screened with a live score at Robin Ince’s ‘9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People’ event.
Bangfaces
producer, director, editor
Bangface is a neo-rave armageddon of a music festival that features some of the nicest crowds I’ve ever had the pleasure of being with. Taking place each year at a Pontins, the Media Lounge ran their on-site and in-situ TV channel Bangface TV - programming movies and broadcasting live shows to every chalet on site for the duration of the whole festival.
We did this for many, many years and if you’re so inclined you can find plenty of video evidence on YouTube. Bangfacers the video, though, is probably the closest you’re going to get to understanding the chaos that those events were…
‘Nam 2
Guest editor
‘Nam 2 was a feature length AV show created by the Media Lounge with a live DJ set from Power Sherlock. It was performed live alongside ‘Bring Me the Head of Rob Lowe’ at the Big Chill festival in 2006 and then toured the UK in a number of different versions. You can see the whole project at the dedicated YouTube channel.
The piece examines the Vietnam War through the prism of the pop culture that it inspired, drawing in references to Robert McNamara, John Rambo and Star Wars in the process.
Bring me the head of rob lowe
Producer, director, editor
Bring Me the Head of Rob Lowe was a feature-length Media Lounge show commissioned (inexplicably) for the Riverdance Film Festival and was showed (also inexplicably) in a real cinema with real seats and a real paying audience. It comprised of our most popular remixes, sketches and pieces of baffling archive, plus a few special new additions just for Riverdance. Playing at midnight as it did, it attracted a small but mostly appreciative audience. A few years later we retooled it for the Big Chill Festival where it played at <checks notes> 2am…
Mixtapes
Like every child of the 90s I made C90 cassette tapes for my friends and, like every adult alive today, I used the internet to faithfully recreate nostalgic memories. In this case, in the form of Spotify playlists…