Ut Pictura Poesis

This was made as part of the Arts Council funded Blipvert Project in 1997, so it was one of six commissioned pieces cut into the ads at independent cinemas and was seen in that context by an audience of something like three quarters of a million people. It was shot at 50 Beck Road in Hackney (since I appear in it, Nick Abrahams was operating the camera) and edited at Artec at Highbury Corner. It was intended for cinema screening and the "alienation effect" that is integral to it doesn't work outside that context, so it is placed here as a curiousity. This was an attempt to distill the lettrist cinematic experiments of the early 1950s (and in particular the feature length pieces "Has The Film Already Started", "Anti-Concept" and "Screams In Favour Of De Sade") into 45 seconds. Proletarian post-modernism lives on...

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Stewart Home
• cross dressing
• avant-garde
• boxing gloves
• neoism
• neoist
• situationist
• fighting
• short skirt

[dorlec01]

this shit is still dope after all these years

[stewarthome]

toot toot!

[twsmpjlz]

do u know if i could contact nick

i met him at a sigur ros show and did not get his email - thanksssssssssss

[stewarthome]

yeah but I'll private message you....

[stewarthome]

well watch out for your crack if your newsagents won't stock magazines with free half rolls of bog rag....

[stewarthome]

crazy ain't it!

[jimixsx]

Oh they'd never stock that in my local newsagents. Even with a demi-roll of shitwipe, it's still gonna reduce the amount of mags you can put in a box since there's no way you can just tape them up. These economies of scale make it more likely I'll have to bag a couple of copies of Esoteric Needlecraft, this month with a free gram of crack and a stitching-guard

[stewarthome]

if I was you I'd get the magazine with the free half toilet roll... you can never have too much bog roll....

[jimixsx]

I filled in the coupon in issue 4 and handed it to my newsagent but the next thing I knew the shop had changed ownership and is now a bread shop. Coincidence? Or a vast underground mind-control conspiracy taking in major celebrities and minor politicians? We'll find out in the august issue of 'Meta-Escatology' magazine which comes with a cover-mounted 'Whizz-Bang' and two sweets.

[stewarthome]

oh I seem to have missed that one, most of my attention was taken up by a copy of "The Bread Doll Fancier"....