Sunday 7 October 2007

Lumiere - Shetland field 13th August 2004 19:02

A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a field on Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Shetland bay 17th August 2004 17:39

A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a bay on Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Isle of Man beach 17th September 2004 19:00

A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a beach at the northern tip of the Isle of Man.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Norway cabin 18th August 2004 12:24


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a cabin in a valley in Norway.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Saturday 6 October 2007

Lumiere - Isle of Man foghorns 17th September 2004 18:52


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. These are fog horns on the Isle of Man.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Norway fjord 17th August 2004 17:04


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a beautiful fjord in Norway.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Ostfold viking burial, Norway 19th August 2004 13:27


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a viking burial in the Ostfold, Norway.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Ostfold stone circles, Norway 19th August 2004 14:12


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a forest clearing in Norway, containing lots of stone circles.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Standing stone, Shetland 13th August 2004 19:00


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a standing stone on Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Norway valley 17th August 2004 17:45


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a valley in Norway

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Night over Whiteness, Shetland 14th August 2004 04:19


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the night sky over the Inn on the Hill, Whitness, Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Esha Ness rock formation, Shetland 14th August 2004 18:58


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a rock formation that looks like a drinking horse at Esha Ness, Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Thursday 4 October 2007

Lumiere - Shetland Loch 14th August 2004 16:14


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of a loch on Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto here.

Lumiere - Unst sea view, Shetland 14th August 2004 18:21


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of the sea from the island of Unst, Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Unst road, Shetland 14th August 2004 18:28


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a road on Unst, the northernmost island in Britain.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Melby harbour, Shetland 13th August 2004 18:36


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the harbour at Melby, on Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Wednesday 3 October 2007

Lumiere - Scord of Brouster, Shetland 13th August 2004 17:59


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is of the neolithic settlement of the Scord of Brouster in Shetland.

See the Lumiere manifesto here.

Lumiere - Busta Voe and Brae, Shetland 14th August 2004 16:53


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the village of Brae, overlooking the waters of Busta Voe. In front of that, a standing stone.

See the Lumiere manifesto at http://videoblogging.info/

Lumiere - Unst beach, Shetland 15th August 2004 15:04


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is of a remote beach on Unst, the most northerly island in Britain, at the top of Shetland. We had to climb down a blue nylon rope fixed to the cliff to reach it.

Lumiere - Sumburgh Head, Shetland 12th August 2004 14:01


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the view from Sumburgh Head, at the southern end of Sheltand, looking north.

Lumiere - Loch of Tingwall, Shetland 14th August 2004 14:31


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the Loch of Tingwall, Shetland.

Lumiere - Torhousekie stone circle, Wigton, Scotland 2nd August 2004 21:24


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is Torhousekie stone circle, Wigton in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotand.

Tuesday 2 October 2007

Lumiere - Pontypridd rocking stone, Wales 15th June 2004 13:20


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is of the rocking stone, high above the town of Pontypridd, Wales.

Lumiere - Jarlshof beach, Shetland 12th August 2004 10:37


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the beach just to the north of the multi-age archaeological site at Jarlshof, at the bottom of Shetland.

Monday 1 October 2007

Lumiere - Din Lligwy 19 July 2004 12:08


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the ancient village of Din Lligwy in Angelsey, Wales.

Lumiere - Stroud clouds 15 June 2004 14:51


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. These clouds floated aboe Stroud in Gloucestershire, England on a fine day in 2004.

Lumiere - Muckle Flugga 15th August 2004 18:01


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is Muckle Flugga, the rock at the very top of Britain. It sits at the northenmost point of Unst, part of the Shetland Islands. If you head due north you reach no more land before the North Pole.

Lumiere - Castlerigg stone circle 3 August 2004 17:04


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is a view of Castlerigg, a popular stone circle in Cumbira, England. In the rain.

Lumiere - Blakeley Rise stone circle 3rd August 2004 19:08


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is Blakeley Rise stone circle, near Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. The view is from the passenger window of my old Ford Escort.

Lumiere - View from Hardknott Pass, Cumbria 3 August 2004 21:11


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the view West towards the sea from the Roman fort atop the Hardknot Pass (wikipedia), one of the steepest roads in England.

Lumiere - Westbury White Horse 28 June 2004 17:48


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This is the White Horse on Westbury Hill in Wiltshire, England.

Lumiere - Ring of Kerry, Ireland 22 July 2004 19:05


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. We shot this perched on rocks overlooking the Ring of Kerry in South West Ireland.

Lumiere - Poulnabrone Dolmen, Ireland 22 July 2004 19:05


A Lumiere is a silent film of sixty seconds or less. This one's of Ireland's Poulnabrone Dolmen, on the stark limestone landscape of the Burren.

Lumiere - View from Loughcrew 22 July 2004


This is the view from Loughcrew cairn in Ireland.

Lumieres - gone there in sixty seconds

I'd been wondering what to do with the static camera footage I'd shot over the last few years - landscapes, stone circles, clouds, sunsets, people. Then on Saturday night I saw this post on Pete Ashton's blog about Lumieres - sixty second silent movies with a single static camera angle. Time to dive into the archive...

Here's the Lumiere Manifesto. My efforts to follow.