A Walk With Nigel
2010 | 00:21:38 | United Kingdom | English | B&W and Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Art History, Artist Portraits, City, History, Memory, Photography


A Walk with Nigel is a video essay that constructs a dialogue between two artists from two different times, between movement and stillness, between speech and silence. An archaeological study of a community, reawakening the archive in the present. A materialist study of streets and social relations.
This is a two-screen video about the photographic work of the late artist Nigel Henderson (1917-1985). Re-visiting the same locations within which Nigel Henderson originally shot a series of photographs in the 1950s in East London, Louis Henderson creates a response to these photographs and locations on video in the present. The video is presented alongside the original photographs, forming a dialectical collage of a temporal/imagistic nature, combined with a voice-over created from fragments of text found in the Nigel Henderson collection in the Tate Gallery Archive. A Walk With Nigel is the continuation of certain aesthetic and political ideas, developing – through historical understanding – the afterlife of a body of work.
Premiere
European Media Arts FestivalOsnabrueck
2010
Exhibitions + Festivals
Official Competition - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival - Brazil 2011
Spectrum Shorts - International Film Festival Rotterdam - Netherlands 2011
Fascinations - Jihlava International Documentary Festival - Croatia 2011
Haus Der Kulteren Der Welt - Rencontres Internationales - Germany 2011
Centro De Arte Reina Sofía - Rencontres Internationales - Spain 2011
Centre Pompidou - Rencontres Internationales - France 2010
Tate Modern - No Soul for Sale - England 2010
Whitechapel Gallery - This is Tomorrow - England 2010
Emaf Osnabrueck - Germany 2010