Gilbert & George - The Early Years

Who are Gilbert & George?

Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore are artists who met while studying sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967.  Gilbert is an Italian and George an Englishman.

Sometimes described as a collaborative duo they don’t agree and have said “It’s not a collaboration….We are two people, but one artist.”

Gilbert & George Art

During the 50 years that they have created art together, they have used a number of different mediums but unusually classified all their work as sculpture.  They have also incorporated themselves into the majority of their sculptures.  To begin to understand just a little about these wonderful gentlemen and their work, there are some articles on the Museum of Modern Art.

The Early Years

Between May and September this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York held an exhibition of their Early Years’ work.  As part of this exhibition, they commissioned a short film where we were able to film Gilbert & George talking about their early work. 

Gilbert & George - The Early Years from STROMA Films on Vimeo.

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker, Rapid Visual Media

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The Harmonium Project – Behind the Scenes with 59 Productions

Once again 59 Productions allowed us to film them at work.  This time we were given the opportunity to find out exactly what effort goes into creating a spectacular production for the Edinburgh International Festival. 

59 Productions were commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival to create a brand new artwork to mark the opening of the 2015 festival and the 50^th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.  This was not a fairly simple case of filming the Edinburgh Festival Chorus performing John Adams’s choral work Harmonium, but it was to become an amazing piece of outdoor art.

They worked in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Design Informatics to create a piece of art that examines the effects singing has on both the performer and the listener.

A recording was made of Harmonium by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus conducted by Peter Oundjian and while it was being played projections were made on the Usher Hall to a very large audience.

To find out more about this remarkable event and the effort required to make it such a success please spend a few minutes watching our film.

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker

Rapid Visual Media

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Design in Motion – V&A Museum of Design, Dundee

The V&A Museum of Design, Dundee will be an international centre of design for Scotland, however the planned opening is not until June 2018.  Until that time there will be a pre-opening programme of events.  Design in Motion is a collaboration with the Travelling Gallery; a custom-built, mobile, contemporary art space inside a big beautiful bus, which brings high quality contemporary art exhibitions and events to schools and communities throughout Scotland.  The bus has been upgraded and re-designed for the Design in Motion exhibition.

All the designers featured use digital technologies to push the boundaries of their discipline.  Design in Motion has visited over 40 schools and colleges across Scotland since February this year and ended the tour outside the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

As part of this exciting project Rapid Visual Media were selected to create 3 films. 

Geoffrey Mann – Products in Motion

Geoffrey Mann is the Programme Director in Glass at Edinburgh College of Art.  His work has been exhibited around the world including The Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Mann is fascinated by transforming the ephemeral nature of time and motion, such as the flight of a bird or the fluttering of a moth, into forms that we can see and hold using photographic and digital technologies.   To learn more about his work and the man himself, please take time to watch our video.


V&A Design In Motion - Geoffrey Mann from Rapid Visual Media on Vimeo.

‘This is beautiful and amazing!! Thank you so much’.  Sarah Saunders - V&A Dundee

Sophia George – Games in Motion

Sophia George is a games designer and artist.  She is already an accomplished games designer and has won several awards including BAFTA Breakthrough Brit (2013).  Our film allows you to meet Sophia and learn all about the making of her Strawberry Thief game. 

 
Sophia George - Design In Motion from Rapid Visual Media on Vimeo.

Travelling Gallery – Design in Motion

Our final film provides the viewer with an insight into the Design in Motion project, how students and the public responded to the interactive gallery, the new technologies, and the skills of the 7 exciting Scottish designers.  The film also includes some stunning footage of the bus travelling around the beautiful Scottish countryside.

 
Travelling Gallery - Design in Motion from Rapid Visual Media on Vimeo.

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker, Rapid Visual Media

hello@rapidvisualmedia.co.uk

07813 988968 

St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardross

St. Peter’s Seminary in Kilmahew on the outskirts of Cardross was completed and consecrated in 1966.  It was used until the late 1980s but is now in a dilapidated state.  

This ruin has created great interest as it is considered to be one of the most important examples of modernist architecture in Scotland.  The architects Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia won the RIBA royal gold medal for this building.

NVA has produced an ambitious scheme to reclaim the future of this world-renowned seminary complex and its surrounding Victorian designed landscape and woodlands.  Combining partial restoration, consolidation and new design, the plans will create unique performance and exhibition spaces and establish a place for public art and knowledge

exchange in the 21^st century.

We were delighted to have been chosen to produce a short film to highlight NVA's campaign for support that will see this unique and amazing landscape re-imagined for future generations to discover and delight in.

Please take a few minutes to watch our video: NVA - A Future Reclaimed 

"This packs quite a punch in its ten minutes. Thanks again for some really fine work."

Angus Farquhar - NVA

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker, Rapid Visual Media

hello@rapidvisualmedia.co.uk

07813 988968