Triple Vision & Videomakers 1982 - 1985
Early Broadcast work for the US shot mainly in the UK and Europe
1982 brought a move from teaching (I was briefly Head of Television at the London International Film School) and picking up work wherever I could to becoming an editor at Green Man Productions (for whom I'd shot things like the Grace Jones One Man Show) and Green Man became VideoMakers when several of the original people had moved on.
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Pieces Created in this period:
1982 A Slice of the Cake 1982 Going Local 1982 Bad Neighbours 1982 Circumstantial Evidence 1982 A Slice of the Cake (with Joel Cayford) 1982 Bad Neighbours 1983 And Then There Was Once 1983 The Gap 1983 Eurythmics 1983/1984 Prisoners 1983 Making News 1983/1984 Health Emergency |
'The Past' is spilt into 9 areas:
1: Vida 1976 - 1981 2: Transition 1981 - 1982 3: Triple Vision/Videomakers 1982 - 1985 4: Triple Vision & Channel 4 1985 - 1992 5: A Trip Sideways to the BBC 1988 - 1990 6: Cinematography & Scripts 1992 - 2006 7 Academia 2007 - 2016 8. CineFest 2015 - 2016 9. Sedition Art 2015 - 2023 10. Makersplace & NFT's 2019 - 2022 11. 2025 and Beyond? |
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So we joined up with Kez Cary and formed Triple Vision and then someone approached us with the journals of a vegetarian, atheist piano tuner they'd found in their attic and we applied for a grant and got another 1200 to shoot Circumstantial Evidence which was to be Gina McKee's first screen appearance (Gina later won best actor in the BAFTA's) and indeed this project won as an ITVA award fro innovation as we'd managed to create a drama made of constant dissolves (at a time when dissolves were almost impossible we set off a live mix with three machines an a vision mixer with the source tapes set up as best as possible, ready for the next dissolve - if you messed up around 15 minutes in - you simply started the entire edit again until you got everything right. On the night of the premier at the South Bank we started a last edit perhaps one hour before the screening and just got through in time to race across the river to a waiting audience. Anthony from Vida then rejoined us on his return from South America and we wanted to tie down what we did and distinguish ourselves from the general film production companies of Soho at that time.
We soon got work from America as we had proven to MTV that we could shoot under english lighting (which often flickered due to it's flashing 50 times per second when captured at 29.97 frames). We became European Stringers for MTV and did many of the early cable productions setting the look and the feel. Through MTV we worked with the Stones, Who, Grace Jones, Joan Armatrading - the Tourists who became the Eurythmics - and also Universal International who were responsible for one third of the world's music. We were the safe pair of hands. Quite a lot of deep learning was to come this way - hard on the job where you couldn't make mistakes. Anthony become available again and to make the business more secure we did casting sessions and because of our lighting prowess we had Ridley Scott Associated visit often. The two brothers were visiting the Film Co-Op and we used to joke that the avant garde was the research and development department for straight commercials - albeit the ideas which would express themselves at the film co-op sometimes through hours, and these 'steals' would flash by in a commercial in a second. In 1983 we had a call from Apple - would we shoot the Making of '1984' to be shot by Ridley Scott (maybe he'd recommended us to Apple to do this) and so we went to H Stage in Shepperton to cover one of the most famous commercials ever made - my 'take away from this is Prisoners - to be found top right of this page - 16 minutes. Earlier on in this period, being politically motivated we worked for Race today and Bogle l'overture Publications as well as the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (on one production with around ten trade unions which was a nightmare in the editing process) and we also found ourselves working with Jeanette Mitchell the Health Consultant for the GLC (which lead to making a programme called Health Emergency which was the first project we sold to Channel 4). Next: 4: Triple Vision & Channel 4 1985 - 1992 Latest Retrospective, Bath October 2023: Terry Flaxton: A Life in Video Art
Roseberry Road Studios From 6th October through to 5th November 2023 28 Roseberry Rd, Bath BA2 3DX Upcoming Exhibitions and releases in 2024
- United Kingdom, Bristol, RWA Open, November, Testing to Destruction (2017 - 2024), Prisoners (1984) September 2024 - January 2025 - Sedition International Online Release, Entangled /Travelling Faster than Light: The Human Gaze in an Age of Quantum and Tachyonic Entanglement Part III, November - Sedition International Online Release, In Paradiso, September - CIFRA International Online Release, August, The Golden Apples of the Sun - United Kingdom, The StoryHouse in Chester, July - CIFRA International Online Release, July, The Mechanism - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice | June 07 - 21, 2024 San Marco Art Space, Venice | June 20 - July 04, 2024 Anima Mundi, Exhibition titled Visions, A Sad and Divine Comedy, June - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Venice, Anima Mundi, Exhibition titled Consciousness, Hearts of Oak, May - Sedition International Online Release, Mexico: Landscapes of the Heart, April 2024 - Sedition International Online Release, Un Tempo Una Volta, April 2024 - - Sedition International Online Release, Hearts of Oak, April - Germany, Berlin Paris Recontres, Haus der Kulturen der Welt 9 - 14th April April 2024 - Germany, C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr Photo/Media Art Fair at Zeche Zollverein, March 2024 - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Venice, Anima Mundi, Exhibition titled Rituals, Un Tempo Una Volta (Once Upon a Time in Venice) May 10 – 24, 2024 - Germany, Berlin, Director’s Lounge, C.A.R Contemporary Art Ruhr, March 2024 - Germany, Berlin Paris Recontres, Haus der Kulturen der Welt March 2024 Between 2008 and 2023 Terry exhibited work in the China, USA, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Korea, Portugal, Iran, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, France, Norway, Malta, Madeira and the UK - some of these countries many times. A complete list of Exhibitions between 2008 and 2023 follows beneath the section on exhibitions beneath 1978 and 2007. |
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