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Martin Sercombe
Приєднався 9 лют 2012
Passing Clouds UHD Video 2024
Poet and author Ron Riddell suggested this project as a means to illustrate his forthcoming book of haiku Passing Clouds, inspired by his travels through New Zealand, Colombia and Spain. In the foreword to the book he writes: "Writing haiku refreshes, it provides light, air, breathing space. The haikuist or haiguin can take his time; focus on details of landscape, of life, from his bedroom window or whilst taking an afternoon walk among tall, leafy trees. A haiku is a sudden joy, an awakening, an epiphany." Inspired by these words, Sercombe used AI to visualise moving image variants of the haiku: dramatic moments that unfold their micro-stories in 10 second clips. The poems and video clips are then juxtaposed side by side.
First screened at The Button Factory, Auckland in September 2024.
First screened at The Button Factory, Auckland in September 2024.
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One Sunday in Winter UHD Video
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This film poem was inspired by a day trip to Karekare, a wild and beautiful expanse of untouched coastline in West Auckland. Expressionist in approach, it tells its story via hand written haikus, digital painting, ambient sounds and treated flute. Each sequence is composed of many layers of moving imagery, each with its own rhythmic pulse. Animation of waves, clouds and gulls in flight combine ...
The Dance of Light Trailer
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This experimental film explores the primal and transcendent nature of dance, set in a series of interconnected land and cityscapes. It is structured as a kaleidoscope of moments; each a self-contained vignette exploring another style of performative ritual or dance. The journey begins on a conventional theatrical stage, where dancers perform before animated neon backdrops. As the film progresse...
Singing the Horizon UHD Video 1997
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“This sophisticated landscape video is one of a series of kinaesthetic works which arose from the co-operation between artist Sercombe and Jones, singer and composer of experimental music. The camera takes us on a melodic journey along the horizon of the Norfolk Broads. The line in the distance where heaven and earth seem to touch each other is the guideline which transports us through the rich...
The Whispering Bridge
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The Whispering Bridge 8 mins 25 secs UHD Video upscaled (2007) An evocation of an early summer’s day in Walberswick, Suffolk, told through quiet images and ambient sound. Shot in infrared and sepia toned to evoke memories of Victorian holidays on the English coast. “What a soft and shimmery feel this video has. Love the way it flows, like it’s life viewed through the eyes of the bridges that ca...
The Dance of Light
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The Dance of Light, UHD Video, 10 mins 10 secs, 2024 This experimental film explores the primal and transcendent nature of dance, set in a series of disparate yet interconnected land and cityscapes. It is structured as a kaleidoscope of moments; each a self-contained vignette exploring another style of performative ritual or dance. The journey begins on a conventional theatrical stage, where da...
Delirium UHD
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Delirium 10 mins HD Video (2006) Delirium is a gothic, trance-like vision of Brisbane, inspired by its skyscrapers, parks and surrounding forests. It was shot in high summer during a one month residency at Raw Space Gallery, using infrared, time lapse and closely worked montage. The use of infrared forced certain constraints on the film making process. Each frame was exposed for at least 1/3 of...
La Leccion Inglesa UHD
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La Leccion Inglesa 8 mins 30 secs SD Video upscaled to UHD (2000) “Your children are not your children…You can house their bodies, but not their souls, for their souls dwell in a place of tomorrow, which you cannot visit…” “These lines by Kahlil Gibran could have been the motto for the video, which was recorded in the Aragon region in northern Spain. Of the desolate village of Berdun we see onl...
Walking Breathing UHD
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Walking, Breathing was shot during a three day hike across the Hardangervidda mountain plateau in southern Norway, in August 2004. The landscape is a pristine alpine wilderness, populated by wild reindeer, red foxes, walkers and the occasional mountain hut. Its structure is organic and evolutionary, linking layers of activity as if lines in a visual music score. In this piece, two cycles, breat...
Burano (UHD)
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Burano is an intimate observation of domestic space on the small Venetian island. The camera acts as voyeur, catching glimpses of everyday life in a picturesque village, with brief portraits of the locals inter cut with the observation of textural forms. The visual treatment transforms its source materials into painterly abstraction, at times a pixillated tapestry of kinetic shapes, at others a...
Maud UHD
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“Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.” Maud is a visionary interpretation of Alfred Tennyson’s poem of the same name. The poem tells, in first person monologue, the story of a man’s obsessive and unrequited love for a rich lord’s daug...
Tongues Undone (UHD)
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Tongues Undone is a cross media work, seeking out a hybrid language at the intersections between gestural sound, music, projected image, text and improvised live performance. It is a collaboration with performance artists Cris Cheek and Sianed Jones. This version has been upscaled to UHD using AI technology. The central theme of the work is the human voice, and the translation of pure vocal sta...
Awakening to Timelessness
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‘Awakening to Timelessness’, is a cine-poetic collaboration between film maker Martin Sercombe, poet Ron Riddell and composer Raeul Pierard. The film features four poems by Riddell, drawn from his book of the same name, inspired by the village of Titirangi and its Waitakere rainforest surrounds in West Auckland, New Zealand. In his foreword to the book, he talks of the beauty to be found there ...
songs of vanishing
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The film begins as a study of the movements of fog through a range of landscapes at dawn and dusk. As it progresses, the fog becomes witness to a quiet celebration of nature, involving shadowy figures in a surreal forest world. The poem becomes a voice in the forest, responding to its changing moods as the fog moves through it. Inspired by e.e. cummings’ playful and innovative use of word layou...
Popa Pete's Pot
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Popa Pete’s Pot 4 mins 30 secs by Diane Blomfield and Martin Sercombe 2024 The film poem is a homage to Diane Blomfield’s father and explores the rhythms and repetitions of his daily domestic life, using AI generated ink and watercolour illustrations. It fondly recalls his evolving relationships with his children as the years pass by. The music was composed by Amos Turner.
Pat taught me to drive in the 80s and my mum was friends with his mum in Sutton. Bob was my doctor, I believe. Both lovely gentlemen.
Excellent! I admire anyone who can wrangle haikus artfully. My feeble attempts carry the weight of knock-knock jokes.
Beautiful!
This is really awesome. tons of emotion. love it!
No way this is AI. It has to be magic.
thanks very much!
Incredibly beautiful! Also magical, mesmerizing, mysterious….
thank you, so glad you like it!
What a level of sheer determination and effort, Sir!
I’m in. Digging more subversive music these days as opposed to just rhythm and beats. A pleasure to be gifted with your creation.
Actually - is this something that would interest you...?? Doing projects like this on some M.R.James stories...? I think this could be utterly brilliant, so atmospheric and terrifying in the best possible way..!
Thanks for the suggestion. I shall investigate!
This is magical! Subscribed!! It reminds me strongly of the feeling I get when watching the old M.R.James movies from the 70s, especially "Mr. Humphrey and his inheritance". Experimental, artistic, courageous. Can't wait to see what you do next!
truly amazing and evocative!
I do like the sound of the spoken word when it is delivered with a sense of weight and importance.
thank you. I will pass your comment on to Ron.
Inspiring. This should be viewed in a darkened movie theater on a hot day with the AC blowing in the audience's face. Spatialized audio drawing attention from unexpected corners. Everyone quiet and shifting carefully in their seats afraid to break the spell.
thank you for your interesting observations!
Great creation Martin!
this is a very pleasant 4 and a half minutes
Well done--especially as it concludes.
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Well done! This video deserves more views than you've received.
Thank you.
Glad to find this follow up . David you are legend 👍
was he speaking from the annexe?
wow a pleasure to have met Phillip as im a Chapman and my Grandad had that butchers shop and his family and Phillip bought it from my uncle George Chapman. Wonderful to see!!!!
A very interesting video
cool bro
No more Brother wars.
Yeah, we just surrender and bend over and take it. Hell No!😎
Here are a few links to one of the follow-up programmes, 3 years after the original episode, showing practical completion - skip to 40 minutes in after enduring all the ads! www.my5.tv/george-clarke-s-build-a-new-life-in-the-country/season-3/episode-1 ...and some other photos. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6671419.stm I see from David's comment in the other UA-cam video ua-cam.com/video/pQJLUT_JHe0/v-deo.html that a separate structure was later added and there are further channel 4 episodes too.
I only saw this show today. I must say, it’s incredibly impressive. So happy for David & all his family. 👏🏼🙏🏼
Yeah me too and the fact the show ended before he completed it brought me here.
My grandfather was a stretcher bearer/ U.S. artillery soldier during the Great War. 😎
Respect to him, one of these most perilous jobs in the Great War.
The episodes for this tower have recently been on Channel 5 again, and it's the first time I've seen them, so thanks for this update, but who on Earth put that music over the top while they're still talking?! That's just damn irritating!
Hi David, its changed a bit from when we all worked on the tower, I really like the annex design.
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Thank you George for giving us another view of this wonderful restoration.
Would love to see internal tour of completed interior? ‘if you can imagine it, you can do it’. Very well done to everyone involved. ❤️
These Martham Memories are just great, Martin! My mother (Doreen Kirkland Huffman) is enthralled by them. She's the daughter of RB Kirkland (Draper's store, Matham and Acle, closed mid 70s) and granddaughter of William Kirkland. Lived at the Old School House. She says she knows lots of those referred to in them. Well done!
Thanks Ewen. So glad to hear these stories are still being viewed. I am currently making a new local history project in Oratia, New Zealand. Watch this space. Will be released late May.
nice video
Build A New Life in the Country Series 3 Episode 1 is a revisit to see more :)
George is my brother
Can someone please add link to what the tower looks like now? I keep getting tricked by these clips of nothing but talk.
ua-cam.com/video/6pVnwM0BKgY/v-deo.html
So frustrated this was all i could find on how the tower looks after 15 years. Anyone have links? please?
You need to do a trip to England :) when it will be possible, of course.
Here are a few links to one of the follow-up programmes, 3 years after the original episode, showing practical completion - skip to 40 minutes in after enduring all the ads! www.my5.tv/george-clarke-s-build-a-new-life-in-the-country/season-3/episode-1 ...and some other photos. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6671419.stm I see from David's comment in the other UA-cam video ua-cam.com/video/pQJLUT_JHe0/v-deo.html that a separate structure was later added and there are further channel 4 episodes too.
Just watched this episode on Build A New Life In The Country when David first started working on the tower. So nice to see it completed with an additional annex added. Fabulous job!!
Me too! Couldn't believe how much he sounds like John Gater from the Time Team show.
Yeah, you and the family did it! Beautiful!
Simply fantastic!
Same i met josh yesterday in school [chiken man] sorry about that chicken man ha ha ha ah aha lava a ha a ha ha ah a aha ha a aaa aha
was looking up history and great video but very disappointed that actors are female playing male roles, looked a bit nancy to me...
Hi I. Saw you at the library in miss Elgin hiiiiiiiiii love your songs
I would love to see more photos of this wonderful structure. Do you know if any more photos were published?
BBC has a show called "build a life in the country" that features this structure as he is remodeling it.
@@pacob4728 I just watched the BBC programme.ua-cam.com/video/pQJLUT_JHe0/v-deo.html I'm so glad to see the project was finished in great style with the Annex. Hats off to you David - few people in the world have the vision, skills and perseverance to design and execute this extraordinary project. Hope and your family enjoy it for years to come.
@@AlabasterSkin Why would you post a link to the original show? I think most of us here have watched that, and we are trying to find updates.
@@shecat1964 Because some commenters were not aware of the original show. Why take time to make such a pointless negative comment?
What an amazing achievement David Forster ! I have been to the tower and stayed there and it is even more spectacular now than it was when this video was made. stunning and awesome are two words to describe it....a brilliant engineer indeed to have turned this ancient monument into a beautiful, unusual and restored Vintage/Victorian home.....unlike any other in the world I would say. Lindsay Salthouse - South Africa