Douglas Gordon: Feature Film
CURRENT SCREENING
1 May - 23 June 2012
Mead Gallery, Warwick
[Warwick Arts Centre website]
ORIGINAL SCREENING
1 April - 3 May 1999
The Atlantis Building, Brick Lane, London E1
Douglas Gordon's fatal attraction to Alfred Hitchcock took a surprising turn in a major new work premiered in London - Feature Film.
Music always underscored Hitchcock's vision - most notably through his collaboration with one of the greatest of all film composers, Bernard Herrmann. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho, the chase in North by Northwest or the love scenes in Vertigo - and you hear Herrmann's music as you recall Hitchcock's film. Like Hitchcock, Herrmann was an aficionado of romantic obsession and a master of suspense.
In Feature Film, Douglas Gordon arranged a divorce between sound and vision - and orchestrated an affair between what you remember and what you see. The entire film focused on the conducter James Conlon as he conducted a new live interpretation of the score in a Paris studio: the work was, in effect, a portrait and a landscape, a soundtrack and a motion picture.
The Atlantis Building in Brick Lane provided a fitting location for what was Douglas Gordon's cinematic installation, the first major work he had shown in London since he was awarded the Turner Prize in 1996.
Feature Film was co-produced by Artangel & Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, New Media Department as The Artangel / Beck's commission in association with Kölnischer Kunstverein/Central Krankenversicherung A.G. on the occasion of the CENTRAL ART AWARD 1998. It involved the participation of Agnès b. Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and The Henry Moore Foundation with the support of Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris and Lisson Gallery, London. Presented in London with the support of London Arts Board.
Feature Film is included in The Artangel Collection.
This project was supported by Arts Council England, Special Angels and The Company of Angels.
