Abstract
The research explores the relationship of film materiality and memory through practice-as-research; image elements are drawn from the director Stuart Moore's personal archive and informed by his experience of the location.
The poetry of Plymouth Sound and city seaside culture captured in glorious Kodachrome Super 8: meet the young people who gather on the cliffs under Plymouth Hoe at high tide to launch themselves into the waves below.
Shot on the last few remaining rolls of Super 8mm Kodachrome 40 colour reversal film before the processing lab closed, with location sound recordings. The film Sea Front focuses on the area of Plymouth Hoe next to the sea known as the Foreshore, where the once-grand man-made structures built into the limestone cliffs in the nineteenth century are now cracked and crumbling. This space between land and sea is the site of rites of passage for modern-day Plymouth youth, who gather here at high tide throughout the summer months to leap into the water.
Sea Front, directed, filmed and edited by Stuart Moore, and produced by Kayla Parker and features in the British Council’s Britfilm Catalogue 2011 in the Experimental Shorts section.
Winner of the Media Innovation Award 2010: Independent Film. The Media Innovation Awards celebrate the innovative use of media and design: the judges described the film as “a very atmospheric and nostalgic production that was beautifully produced.”
Winner of the 2010 London Short Film Festival Trick of the Light Award “for the most gorgeous looking film.”]
NOTE: The original transfer to video format from the Super 8 footage was undertaken by Moore. Subsequently, the footage was telecined professionally by Deluxe, London, to create an SD version; a frame-by-frame digital scan in 2019 created the current HD remediation.
The poetry of Plymouth Sound and city seaside culture captured in glorious Kodachrome Super 8: meet the young people who gather on the cliffs under Plymouth Hoe at high tide to launch themselves into the waves below.
Shot on the last few remaining rolls of Super 8mm Kodachrome 40 colour reversal film before the processing lab closed, with location sound recordings. The film Sea Front focuses on the area of Plymouth Hoe next to the sea known as the Foreshore, where the once-grand man-made structures built into the limestone cliffs in the nineteenth century are now cracked and crumbling. This space between land and sea is the site of rites of passage for modern-day Plymouth youth, who gather here at high tide throughout the summer months to leap into the water.
Sea Front, directed, filmed and edited by Stuart Moore, and produced by Kayla Parker and features in the British Council’s Britfilm Catalogue 2011 in the Experimental Shorts section.
Winner of the Media Innovation Award 2010: Independent Film. The Media Innovation Awards celebrate the innovative use of media and design: the judges described the film as “a very atmospheric and nostalgic production that was beautifully produced.”
Winner of the 2010 London Short Film Festival Trick of the Light Award “for the most gorgeous looking film.”]
NOTE: The original transfer to video format from the Super 8 footage was undertaken by Moore. Subsequently, the footage was telecined professionally by Deluxe, London, to create an SD version; a frame-by-frame digital scan in 2019 created the current HD remediation.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Place of Publication | Plymouth |
| Publisher | Sundog Media |
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Nov 2008 |
Keywords
- artists' film and video
- artist's moving image
- Plymouth
- rite of passage
- sense of place
- Super 8
- young people
- seaside culture
- Kodachrome
