Brighton
An alternative art tour of Brighton
Richard Billingham
Artwork format: | Video - web and mobile |
Launch artwork: | Richard Billingham on YouTube |
Richard will be exploring Brighton's history through a series of low tech videophone works that find their inspiration in filmic locations in Brighton. These include some of the earliest films ever made.
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"Here there are three short and very early black and white silent films from 1896 and a few short video films made by myself one hundred years later in 2006. Both were made in and around the same locations in Brighton.
The very early films were made by The Brighton School and it was typical back then to have rolls of film no longer than a minute. These one minute shorts when seen with my own modern day video shorts recognise the change in Brighton's cultural landscape as well as the huge development in technology used to record it, " Richard Billingham.
Background
Richard Billingham began taking photographs while studying fine arts at Sunderland University. After college he returned to his home town of Birmingham to stacking shelves in Kwik-Save, creating art by night.
Photographing his family as reference material for his paintings, he took so many shots that the family stopped noticing and the resulting photographic series became the artwork. Who's Looking at the Family was first shown at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 1994, with selected images published as a book called Ray's a Laugh in 1996
Subsequent work has seen him shift his practice from stills to hi-8 video footage, resulting in the 47-minute TV film called Fishtank, commissioned by Artangel.
