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My latest hauntological work is out now on Subexotic Records.

VHS glitch from Memorex Mori by Conflux Coldwell (2023)

#hauntology #music #experimental video #gif #glitch #archive #memento mori

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My new portfolio is now live:

www.michaelcoldwell.co.uk

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“Delayed” is 10 years old this year. This little film was really the start of my preoccupation with time, ghosts and #experimentalcinema. My second project about the horrors of urban commuting (I had been recently traumatised by a three hour daily commute), the short took audio and visuals from different parts of the day to represent the lost time.

Michael C Coldwell

New portfolio site:

www.michaelcoldwell.co.uk

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“What makes photography a strange invention is that it’s primary raw materials are light and time” John Berger https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPFPssM3XX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#quotation #John Berger #light and time #photography theory

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Haunting is about space as much as time - about the spaces where the time rift becomes perceptible

Mark Fisher, No Future 2012

#hauntology #theory #mark fisher #quotation

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Views from Sunk Island has made another selection. The film will be screened as part of the European Short Film Festival (26-30 December 2022) in Berlin. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMKmw3sqpg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hauntology #time #film #place #disappearance #climate change

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Without a doubt, Aristotle thinks of time on the basis of ousia as parousia, on the basis of the now, the point, etc. And yet an entire reading could be organized that would repeat in Aristotle's text both this limitation and its opposite.

Derrida, 1972

#quotes #quotation #jacques derrida #time #metaphysics of presence #philosophy of time #the specious present #punctum temporis

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Rephotography by Michael C Coldwell

One year of coastal erosion in #holderness - Return to the Battery (2021-22) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgK–itIhPi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#michael c coldwell #rephotography #time

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Time-lapse masterpiece recreated with virtual photography in GTAV!

#virtual photography #time-lapse #Koyaanisqatsi #video installation

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From A Window on Time (2018) by Michael C Coldwell

Globe Yard, Quarry Hill 1909-2018. Rephotography quickly goes out of date. You can’t even stand here anymore. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcFrr0csGla/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#michael c coldwell #deconstruction #rephotography #time #research #slum clearance #leeds #hauntology #changing city

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The still image is much better than the moving image at conveying the past-ness of the past, the absence of the absent and the deadness of the dead. Using photographs in a film about these things we can have the best of both worlds, presence and absence together - immersion and storytelling alongside haunting moments of reflection and room for the viewers imagination. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGswPhMY-p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Views from Sunk Island (2022) Trailer.mp4 from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.

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From https://www.facebook.com/sovietvisuals

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My latest thoughts on media spectrality

The moment we record things they become spectral. We might not notice them as ghosts at first. Often the spectrality is totally invisible to us - such is the illusion of presence in our creations. As time goes by and the medium breaks down, we notice ghosts emerging, before eventually they too disappear, as the matter that once preserved their trace so well, is exorcised by natural decay. Recordings are not natural, they are creations that we desire. We are makers first and foremost. We routinely organise matter into tools, structures and the phantoms that suit our emotional needs - but matter was not built for our needs. It is subject to a myriad of other forces that always gradually undo our work. Ultimately it is this, inescapable fact of nature, that haunts us in everything we record. Michael C Coldwell https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOQi9xMKOp/?utm_medium=tumblr

#time #hauntology #theory #recordings #media spectrality #philosophy of time #michael c coldwell #entropy #decay #ghosts #Mark Fisher #jacques derrida

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The prime goal of any recording is the creation of an illusion that creates an honest sense of place

Bernie Krause, quoted in David Toop’s ‘Haunted Weather’

#illusion #spectrality #hauntology #recorded media #field recording #quotation #theory #musicology #david toop #bernie krause

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I have re-visited this haunted landscape many times over the years, searching for ghosts of various kinds in the emptiness – I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever found evidence of anything. These expeditions have become characterised as much by what I’ve just missed, as what I’ve managed to capture on film. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVLoTl3MvyN/?utm_medium=tumblr

Views from Sunk Island (2021) directed by Michael C Coldwell

#memory #time #photography in film #landscape film #essay film #hauntology #michael c coldwell