No Loitering

‘No Loitering’ is a short video made in Glasgow in 2002. The film is a provocation against the signs almost always present at the entrances of housing blocks : ‘no ball games’, ‘no cycling’, ‘no loitering’. The film describes a solitary, personnal and sometimes even obsessive wandering in Glasgow and its ‘no man’s lands’. It evolved from a series of experiences as I fell in love with the city. No Loitering is accompagnied by You Can Go, a small glimpse of the shooting.

No Loitering («ne pas errer, ne pas s’attarder») est un petit film vidéo de 10 minutes tourné à Glasgow en 2002. Le titre du film est une provocation face aux interdictions placardées dans les halls des grandes barres et tours : «no ball games», «no cycling», «no loitering». Le film est la transcription d’une errance personnelle, solitaire et parfois même obsessionnelle dans Glasgow, dans certains de ses «no man’s land». C’est l’évocation d’une succession de petites histoires par amour de la ville, de ce qui la compose et de ceux qui l’animent. Cet amour fou pour Glasgow a porté mon projet. No Loitering est accompagné de You can go, petit «making of».

Changes

Changes is a film about an architectural disappearance. Stirlingfauld Place in the Gorbals in Glasgow was demolished by explosion in June 2008. The four blocks we see in the video were a landmark, marking the city centre as arriving from the south, marking the crossing of the river Clyde. The film explores the spatial and emotional implications of this disappearance. In seconds the buildings disappeared. It was abrupt, violent and strangely spectacular.

Mounds

A figure runs up and down in a landscape of small grassy mounds. A small wall and a lamppost give a clue to what might have been here before. An accidental memorial. The mound is a common theme in the landscaping around high rise housing. As if the ground is trying to create a counterbalance to the huge scale of the buildings. And large scale building often requires large scale demolition, which creates masses of material. Enough to build mountains.