Friday 10 October 2014

Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is an English director, musician, photographer and designer. Kelly took on film making as an extension on his love of photography. He started making 'promo' videos for bands that he was with at the time such as: 'Hal', 'Cherry Ghost', and 'Saint Etienne' which I will focus on in the post. When Kelly and Saint Etienne first collaborated in 2002 The Observer described it as a 'cinematic hymn to London'. 'Finistene' is the name of the first project produced and it was premiered at The Institute of Contemporary Arts. The latest collaboration to come from Kelly and Saint Etienne is a piece called 'How we used to live.' It is described as an 'enthralling celebration'. The film is made up of rare color footage from the British Film Institute archive and a wonderful narratation by Ian McShane. 
Below is the trailer for Finisterre, it's a documentary-type music film made by Kelly and musically enhanced by Saint Etienne. Although it differs from your ordinary video montage/documentary about London as it doesn't physically feature any of the voices heard via voiceover. It's main narrator is Michael Jayston, according to Torodov Jayston's commentary isn't the correct way to go about commentating as he doesn't work on an equilibrium its more of a free flow of words. His narrative could be linked to Shakespeare's prose writing.

Here is the trailer for 'How we used to live':

Again, the narrative over this trailer doesn't follow Torodov's theory. The narrative is like listening to poetry about London - it can be taken as multiple intrepretations for many different ideas about London which circulate. This is an insightful tactic as it doesn't limit the viewers thinking, it allows for different perceptions which is what media essentially revolves around as what we see in media is just a representation of what truly is.

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