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SELECTED FILM PROJECTS ELEVATION | 2009
Elevation is an unique portrait of Sheffield's in/famous Park Hill estate, created during an eclipse period between clearance and reinvention. Lauded in its early '60s heyday as a pro-communal network of 'streets in the sky', the structure has since been loved and loathed as one of modernism's most visionary complexes or a crumbling concrete eyesore. Elevation comprises two concurrent elements: a sequence of ten fixed-camera portraits from carefully selected vantages around the estate; and a voiceover interview with longtime Park Hill caretaker Grenville Squires, who eloquently describes the structure's successes and failures. Above all, Elevation is a poignant memento of a turning point in the estate's history, as the last embers of its communal ideal flicker out, and the first glimmers of its coming second life can be sensed. Commissioned by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum  Next film > |
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CREDITS & TECHNICAL INFORMATION Film Credits – A Film by Esther Johnson – voice Grenville Squires Technical – Year 2009 – Duration 00:10:00 – Language English – Country of Production UK – Production Format HD – Viewing Copy DVD Pal – Screening/Exhibition Format DVD Pal and HDCam – Versions 1 screen – Aspect Ratio 16:9 – Picture Colour – Sound Stereo – Distribution Blanche Pictures |
EXHIBITION, SCREENINGS & BROADCASTS
– This is Not a Gateway London 10/10 – archinoise #1 Christ Church Spitalfields, London 06/10 – Urban Voids and Absences Turn-Berlin Gallery 27/04-21/05/10 – Voges Gallery Frankfurt am Main, Germany 10/03/10 – Sheffield Pavilion Showroom, Sheffield 02/02/10 – Sierra Metro Edinburgh 12-22/12/09 – Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival Germany 10-15/11/09 – Expo: Leeds 25-28/09/09 – Civic: Light Night Leeds 09/09 – 11th International Istanbul Biennial 10-15/09/09 – The Super estate: EXHIBIT Gallery, London 06/07
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