neil cummings

the enthusiast has the same relationship to capital as the gift to the commodity

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1895, cast in period costume

1. Establishing:

Mid shot: Large wooden factory gates.

Fade from black

Gates swing open, and workers stream from the factory; women, men, children, dogs, a few bicycles and eventually a horse drawn carriage.

2. Gimbal camera pulls back and slightly-up

Extreme close-up: The scene unfolding is revealed to be on-screen.

3. Gimbal camera continues to pull back

Close-up: The screen is of a mobile phone.

4. Gimbal camera continues to pull back

Medium shot: A mobile phone recording the workers leaving the factory.

Fade to black

Total Duration: 47sec.

Still Life 1914

Twenty two years ago I made a recycled cardboard version of Picasso's Still Life of 1914.

#TheMostBeautifulSculptureInTheWorld

Gallery Closed

prospectus

We began, students, staff, experts and others as Exhibition Experiments. The initial idea was, through collaboration and practice based research, to trace a history of radical exhibitions, and make an exhibition. Through weekly seminars, workshops and events our project morphed into prospectus, as our interests incorporated art education, and our own experiences of trying to perform it.

pre prospectus

Gold Rush

I saw Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush on Monday 3rd January 2011.

The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Carl Davis played a live accompaniment to Chaplin's silent classic in a special performance at the Royal Festival Hall.

Featuring Chaplin in his quintessential Little Tramp role, the film was described by The New York Times upon its 1925 release as

‘a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, and tenderness, [...] the outstanding gem of all Chaplin’s pictures’.

Workers Leaving

1895, cast in period costume

1. Establishing shot:

Mid shot: Large wooden factory gates.

Fade from black

Gates swing open, and workers stream from the factory; women, men, children, dogs, a few bicycles and eventually a horse drawn carriage.

2. Floating camera pulls back and slightly-up

Extreme close-up: The scene unfolding is seen to be on-screen.

3. Floating camera continues to pull back

Close-up: The screen is of a mobile phone.

4. Floating camera continues to pull back

Medium close-up: Mobile phone recording the workers leaving the factory.

Fade to black

Total Duration: 47sec.

the object

I participated in Key Ideas one of a series of events organised by the Design Cluster at Camberwell College of Art Design. The series aims to examine issues and theories important to young designers.