Film for an Abandoned Projector

I’ve been invited to talk about this work on 20 October, in Leeds.  I’m nervous already.  But the work is wonderful, and will be running as I’m talking…I think..and that’s reassuring.

The projector in question once worked at the Lyric Picture House in Leeds, a city where much of the projection equipment for all the of UK was once manufactured.  When everything about film began to change–the projectors, the stock, the audiences–this particular projector was no longer cost effective, and so was abandoned.  This project reanimates the projector, arranges for “it” to be the reason for making a film, and reassembles an audience…in the present.