Joe Duffy
Block
Block
Length of Work: 6:40 mins
Sound: Stereo
One line summary of the work:
Rhythmic patterns of individual existence integrated into the fabric of architectural habitat.
Synopsis:
Block is a video piece concerned with the relationship of individuals to contemporary urban environment through the modernist architectural living spaces of a tower block in Salford, UK. [More Details...]
European Vacation
European Vacation was an experimental short film that was created through the animation of photographic images to create a notion of a fleeting transitional movement and an investigation into spatial relationships through an imagined Europe.. [More Details...]
Excerpt
A short film based on an Excerpt from the writings of Maxim Gorky on Cinema 'The Kingdom of Shadows,' the film utilises a camera lucida device to refererence earlier forms of image representation.. [More Details...]
Ladybird
Ladybird,
Original Format: Mini DV
RUNNING TIME: 4mins
Dialogue in Spanish with English Subtitles
Year of Production: 2006
Ladybird is a work concentrating on the natural phenomenon of Ladybird Season in Spain. In this parodic film the Ladybirds become metaphors for migration through the transmitting of ideas, hearsay, gossip, philosophical muses on life, the universe, cloning, sex, marriage and notions of community. [More Details...]
Merapi
Photographic and video installation based around disruption and displacement through volcanic aftermath.
Fragmentation of domestic and place through architectural remnants. [More Details...]
Messala
Found footage revisitation of iconic filmic myth in this work that explores repetition and frame. [More Details...]
Mobile
Mobile is a work based on Edward Burne-Jones tapestry, ‘The Adoration of the Magi,’ which once hung in the Holden Gallery of Manchester Metropolitan University. As a video-piece it explores the original through the trajectory of the Star of David with aeroplanes slowly blinking in and out of the frame like dying stars, simulating and uniting, temporarily, with the constellations. [More Details...]
Offshore
This is a collaborative project as 'Birkbeck & Duffy' and is at the research stage. It is an exploration of contemporary landscape that involves offshore windfarms. [More Details...]
Prelude
Prelude, is a moving image work that depicts the banal functioning of a car wash machine from the point of view of a passenger, an experience that relates the teleogical aspect of society with the mimetic harnessing of nature in an act of simulation. The car wash as metaphorical journey through hyperreality and thus an encounter with technology’s relationship to the sublime. [More Details...]
Reclaimations
A photographic documentation of historic buildings in Manchester such as Elizabeth Gaskell's House.. [More Details...]
REUNION
Birkbeck & Duffy investigate time unfolding within the moment, anticipation and tension within all layers of a reunion.. [More Details...]
Untitled Coin Operation
Birkbeck & Duffy explore Sound and Image based exploration into narrative potentials and de-familiarisation of automated childrens rides, as often found within shopping and retail spaces. This first video piece reveals dark tensions beneath the surface of the characters 'Noddy' and 'Tessie Bear'. [More Details...]