Brandon John Barnard

  This article will go over the creation of my film ‘ Under Ice ’, which was released on the 3rd of January, 2025. It all started when I saw a gallery open call from ADL Productions. This curator was requesting art pieces under the theme ‘Under Ice’, using  Kate Bush’s song  as inspiration. All selected pieces would be displayed at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London. W1J 7QX. Since my academic study is in ‘chance’, I try to engage within the theme whenever possible. I would never have made a film about this topic at this time if it were not for the prompt, so I decided to throw myself into it. I also found the deadline very appealing. I find that chance works best with a restriction, so the fact that this all needed to be done within a month was a great motivator My initial ideas can be seen below: While the sheet of ice idea was not used, I stuck with the idea of someone reading Bush’s lyrics over the footage I created. In terms of who read it, I decided not to ask Abi as I...

  For my film  diaDOGue , I wanted to continue my investigation into non-human agency like I did with  Doggy Style  and  Tinguely Feeling . For both of those previous productions, I tried to embrace chance by recording the subjects (dogs/robots) and having agency in the editing process through the selection of footage and its use in the editing process. I wanted to twist the format this time around. My plan was to film Toffee and Noodle and then use the selected footage to form a narrative. For example, if they looked concerned, I would write a piece of dialogue where they sounded concerned, and so on. So, I spent a few hours on the first day filming the dogs. They got tired pretty quickly, so I thought to myself “okay, so this will take a few days. No problem.” “Stop filming me” When I woke the next day, I found that Noodle had absolutely decimated my toy plesiosaurus (my favourite dinosaur). It was completely my fault because, one, she is a dog and knows no be...