North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions
History
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In 2014 I had an idea which I put to the Founder and Director of the Maverick Festival of Americana Roots Music, Paul Spencer. Cutting a long story short i found an old red sofa in a barn and the rest is history as they say. Nearly 200 individual singer / song writers and bands have sat on the Red Sofa. Many of the photographs have been used by the musicians for publicity and some have made their way onto album covers. In 2018 I did the sessions on an iPhone when we couldn't get the red sofa out a barn full of hay bales. Examples of sessions between 2014 -2018 which shows the development of the concept.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
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Bill Jackson
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FILMS and MOVING IMAGES
I work across media and incorporate both still and moving images in my films. I work in differing genres including poetry based fotofilms, art documentaries, immersive installations and music films for the music industry. Much of my work concerns the relationships between ourselves and location.
Implicit rather than explicit, it centres around our relationship with our environment (s) and how we interact with it. For example the light drawings, harness wind and sea power alluding to alternative energy sources. We leave our mark on the environment by the way we manage our resources. In 'Angel in the Trees' and early journeys in interactive digital mapping, it highlights not only our physical travels but also our inner journeys.
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NICK DRAKE THE ENDLESS COLOURED WAYS
Collaboration with Chrysalis Records
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INVISIBLE LIGHT PRODUCTIONS NOCTURNAL WONDERLAND
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Investigating night time slow motion immersive films and stills, I work with invisible light technology at 240 frames per second I explore moving appearances and activities in wild spaces.
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TIMBERYARD RESIDENCY COLLABORATION WITH STUDIO FABRE HARDY
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My residency at Timberyard in Great Glenham Suffolk for Touchstones Earth as part of their Continuum Project.
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Created during lockdown 1 and shown to an invited audience over several days at the New Cut Arts Centre in Halesworth, Suffolk. Visitors had to pre book and only a maximum of 20 people over a two hour period were allowed in. Along side the main projection there were 25 HD tablets each showing a day's filming. FLOAT is currently enjoying great success on the film festival circuits. I am hoping to bring it to London when the current pandemic is over
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ArtDOCS
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In 2018 Laurence Edwards was awarded a commission by the City Of Doncaster for a sculptural installation celebrating and remembering the lives of those who had lived and worked in the pits around Doncaster
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My first artDoc was in 1987/8 on the environmental artist John Herbert for his Craft Council funded touring exhibition 'Silent Trails' followed by 'Image, Music. Text' on the artist David Dodsworth for his New York exhibition. My most recent is a film on the sculptor Laurence Edwards on his creation for the Sainsbury Centre at UEA Norwich.
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VIDEO POSTCARDS
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Ongoing exploration of how we as humans interact with each other and our relationship to touristic places. Micro dramas for the digital age, they are presented as video postcards on small HD tablets.
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FOTOFILMS
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The stills from this work have been made into several films working with the American playwright, poet, essayist, and librettist, and the poet Tamar Yoseloff.
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