SPAZIO DI LUCE: A film for the Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery commissioned me to make a film about Giuseppe Penone's new installation, Spazio Di Luci, on show for the next year in the new Bloomberg space. I spent a couple of days in Turin at his fantastic studio with Achim Borchardt-Hume, the senior curator from the Whitechapel who conducted the interview. The sculpture is beautiful. Check it out...

GERHARD RICHTER: PANORAMA - A NEW FILM FOR TATE MODERN

Tate Modern are showing my latest film about the painter Gerhard Richter to accompany their new show Panorama.  Watch it HERE. 

I visited his incredible studio and filmed a visit from the Tate curators.  Christine Cynn and I then filmed Richter and Nicholas Serota in conversation, which forms the spine of the film. The show runs till January 2012.

TRAUM in the Floating Cinema

My film Traum made with Isambard Khroustaliov, will be shown on Thursday 7th July 2011 on the wonderful Floating Cinema, as part of their program The Artist's Eye 

Joan Miró Film for Tate Modern

My latest film is playing on Level 4 at Tate Modern and on their site here. 

The film explores Joan Miró's life and working practice, beginning at his first studio at his family's farm in Montroig.  Guided by Miró's grandson and the curators from Tate Modern, the film visits his complex of studios and workshops near Palma, Mallorca, where he moved after the Second World War and then worked prolifically until his death at the age of 93.  It includes rare material from films by Pere Portabella and Català Roca of Miró at work, and testimonials from friends who remember him as a remarkably generous and humble man.


The film was made to accompany the exhibition 'Joan Miró, The Ladder of Escape' at Tate Modern.  14 April - 11 September.   Directed, filmed and edited by MPH.

FLAT HOME

I've just posted a new film I made for the Not Applicable Festival of Experimental Music and Film this autumn in Berlin here.  

Different groups of musicians including the main N/A gang and special guests, improvised to the film on two different nights, and Isambard Khroustaliov (Sam Britton) mixed the recordings to create the sound track.  The idea was that the film should work as a score, so the shots are long enough for those playing to find the right feeling.  I used some of the material shot for the Gauguin film.  I think I prefer it without my voice/his words...

DP on The Silver Goat

I just shot a feature film, The Silver Goat, directed by Aaron Brookner. It's the first time I've worked as a DP on a full scale feature film.  For someone used to doing most things alone the experience of being part of a crew was fantastic .  I shot the whole thing handheld on my 5D Mark II in black and white using its ability to work in low light where possible, aiming for a strange hyper-natural noire style.  This seemed to fit the bleakness of the script; a dark psychological drama.  Watch the trailer here. 

We shot the entire feature in 10 intense shooting days which is pretty unheard of, all in locations around London.  I had access to some great lights thanks to Ben Liddell.  Thanks also to Anne Haaning who stepped in to shoot some of the steadycam scenes and pull focus.  Katy Zwetsloot-Hyatt kept things sane as cheerful camera assistant.

The film is being edited in Buenos Aires and will be ready for festival release some time in spring if all goes well.  

A film about Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds

I wanted to share this film directed by Kate Vogel for the Tate about Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seed installation. Kate has been commissioning films for many years but I believe this is her directorial debut.  I think its a great piece of work about an incredible project. Shame they've had to stop people walking on it because of the dust...