Steven Eastwood
SHORT FILMS
The Hiss Of The Blow
(16.00 loop, 16mm/HD. 2009. 2 screen installation with field monitor)
Visceral invocations of boxing, focusing on Marianne Marston and Angel Mckenzie.
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Seminar in Film Sound
(10.00 loop. 16mm. UK/USA 2007)
A film production student presents a seminar on the relationship between dialogue, music score and environmental sound in the fiction film.
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Like a House on Fire
(16.00. 16mm/DV. 2006)
The cards dealt during a tarot reading seem to determine or reflect events unfolding on the screen.
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Hearsay
(9.00. DV. UK/CAN 2006)
Waking from a disturbed sleep, caricatures of the placative curator and the neurotic artist-filmmaker ponder the current and historical predicament of the moving image.
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The Film We Didn’t Make
(25.00. 16mm /DV. 2006
Delivered by car to a remote coastal location, a stranded fictional character is equipped with suitable props but reluctant to perform.
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Come As You Are
(11.00. DV. UK/Croatia. 2005)
The filmmaker wandered a Croatian village, transcribing what could be seen and heard into a script. This generated an extensive list of characters. An open casting was held, and local residents auditioned for the part of themselves.
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The Film
(28.00. 16mm / DV. 2004)
An open-ended, free-associative drift involving the filmmaker and numerous strangers encountered in a seaside town.
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Of Camera
(14.40. S16mm. 2003)
Of Camera explores the abortive attempts of two people to be together in the same space. Their disagreement is fuelled by technical difference: the woman exists on video and the man on celluloid.
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Chris Crossing
(4.00. DV. 2003)
Chris explains to Tom the 180-degree rule in cinematography but crosses the line. Tom grows irritated. Chris never gets cross.
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Different Systems of Chaos
(with Anya Lewin 27.40. DV. 2003)
A film about the artist versus the administrator and the director of a post soviet Lithuanian art school for 12-18 year olds.
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The End
(9:00. DV. 2002)
A French tourist treads Soho asking strangers directions to "The End". Nobody suspects however that she asking directions to the end of the film.
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Auditorium
(7.00. Hi8. 1999/2002)
A single take which presents in real time the total eclipse of the sun in the summer of 1999.
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Those Who Are Jesus
(56.00. Beta Sp. 2001).
An account of three compelling individuals who have each had profoundly revelatory experiences. Nominated for a Grierson Award.
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I Make Things Happen
(6.00. DV. 2001)
A young woman wanders London in the belief that through sheer force of will she can change what goes on around her, including the film itself.
