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16/9/2010

Anthony Gross

Beaconsfield, London

Gross is showing his new film that constructs narrative from found Chinese comics, web browsing, London gang imagery and shared filmic conventions, freely associating between each to create a fast-paced new 'episode of Columbo': a turf war between politicians, planners, gangsters and replicants has erupted in a South London of the near future - who does the shaping of the metropolis belong to?

Made up from a cast of local artists and actors, including Paul Hyu, formerly Chinese Elvis from The Old Kent Road, and Douglas Park as a Columbo look-alike and others, the film applies a subtle and subjective 'Chinese filter' of urban renewal (based on visits by Gross to Beijing and Shanghai) onto London, in the process investigating the role of the artist-creator as a stakeholder in regeneration.
The film carefully weaves comic book image, 3D animation and vignettes of locally-filmed live action via a complex electronic score, leading both the protagonists and viewer to slip in and out of a gritty, and dreamy, alter-reality.
For Gross, Columbo has become an on-going vehicle with which to investigate a meta-fiction of art-making, a tool to investigate constructs of multi-culture, experimental cinema and autobiography.

TestBed 1 artists’ discussion: 19 September at 2pm

Chaired by Francis Summers, an open discussion with artists commissioned for TestBed 1 will take as its starting point the idea that internet ‘browsing’ may have become implicit in the process of making work.
Francis Summers is a video artist and lecturer, currently conducting doctoral research by practice at the Royal College of Art, London.
TestBed 1 is produced as part of Beaconsfield’s curatorial mentoring scheme for emerging artist-curators. Mentees: Dafna Talmor and Joseph Walsh.

Opening: 17 September 6-9pm

Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street, London
tue-sun 11am-5pm
Free admission

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