Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen is one of my favorite short film director of all time, and one of my favorite of videos of his is his 1999 Turner prize 'Deadpan'. If you haven't seen it all it consists of is Steve McQueen standing in front of a house where the front simply collapses around McQueen who is left standing due to him standing where there is a window frame (The stunt that Buster Keaton Performs) but it's completely silent and it keeps changing angles. Thinking toward my video piece the idea of repetition is something that I would really want to work with as it would go with my photography and I would also make it fully moving, not stop frame which is my preferred style.The other piece of his work that I have looked at is 'Drumroll'. This video isn't as much of repetition as more of a way to loose you. All it is a simple drum with three cameras attached to it being rolled down a street but it is extremely effective and something that I would like to try and do.

What my ideas are leading me to do is one of two things. The first would be a straight kind of copy as 'Drumroll', but a single camera pointing towards the side of the bridge and being rolled over many bridges, hopefully disorientating you. The second would be a lot of the same but just waking over the bridge and stringing them all together to give the look of you continuesly going over one great big bridge.