North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions
History
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Bill Jackson
fotofilm
THE VENETIAN MIRROR 2019
Winner of the Moscow International Foto Award 2019
Moving Image Gold Award
Tokyo International Foto Award 2019
Moving Image Silver Award
Screened at The Venice Biennale 2019
Alive In The Universe
May 19th 2019
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
In collaboration with Tamar Yoseloff. All text ©Tamar Yoseloff 2018 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2018
The Venetian Mirror 2018
Single Screen version
The Venetian Mirror 2018
Two Screen version
shown at the Venice Biennale 2019
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The Venetian Mirror
Stills
written by Tamar Yoseloff
When I first hung it in our bedroom we could not sleep all night, it was like having the moon for company,
so bright it shone
Jim Ede
1
Silver has its day, recedes
to reveal the surface beneath
gone black -
Its own Dorian moment
It reflects back what we have
not been able to understand
an abundance lost, just hinted
In the etched leaves, tendrils lacing
the frame. What’s inside is
rust, a pox on a lovely face
still we trade its dimensions
for our own : dumbstruck, vain
2
The basilica behind a slick
of rain, gold diminished
to don. The colour of nothing,
The bulk of it jagged
on the darkening sky
The end of day, odic light
illuminates a shrivelled rose;
all the sadness we contain
in this drop of rain, its
crystallised gloom
3
The ghost hulk of the palazzo
leans into the canal. Narcissus crazed
Tarnished jewels, pink marble
Dulled to flesh. Shiver of a ballroom
out of season, sliver of broken
glass, the first glistening of frost
as the campana strikes,
mourns itself in echo