Using the Islington Gazette and local pigeons as my guides I strolled, re-strolled, and strolled some more along the Essex Road: updown, downup. Paving stones, buses. Railings railings railings. More buses. Abandoned dummies and mystery blotching on the concrete – is that gum or lichen? – as shadows sundial the day away.
A combination of live action, stop motion and table top animation – my contribution to Essex Road IV draws on the glee of motion through cinematic artifice: a 25 fps flick book of a film.
This was commissioned as part of an ongoing series of films by Tintype Gallery, themed around the local area (in North London). The finished works were screened in the gallery window after dark, so could be viewed from the street - which meant that overly subtle soundtracks were best avoided. They were also (and still are) viewable online too, of course.