David Rimmer Evening II

Film Descriptions excerpted from loop, print, fade + flicker: David Rimmer’s Moving Images.

Digital Psyche (2008. 12 mins.)
"I think the boundaries are just getting blurred now. I mean, I don’t consider myself an avant-garde filmmaker anymore, I mean, I’m just a filmmaker. I mean, you can see, you know, you go on the Internet and you can see thousands of experimental films. Everybody’s making them, it’s very easy to do. So, I’m just a filmmaker now. Now I’m working in animation. I’ve done experimental; I’ve done dance film; I’ve done documentary; I’ve done portraits of artists; and now I’m moving onto my form of animation which involves hand painting, clear 35mm."

Jack Wise, Language of the Brush (1998. 45 mins.)
"JackWise is a painter [...] He was very interested in Eastern painting and calligraphic painting and Tibetan Mandala painting. And I first met him in the sixties when I was just beginning as a filmmaker and he was sort of beginning. And right from that point, really interested in particularly Tibetan ways of painting. And we talked about, you know, 'Why don’t we do a film together some day?'"

Beaubourg Boogie Woogie (1992. 5 mins.)

Al Neil: A Portrait (1979. 40 mins.)
It must have been on one of those all night, steady-on-up-to-the-bar occasions when he met Al Neil. A veteran prankster, Al belonged to another generation, more beat than hippie, playing an off-kilter bebop piano in a style no one had a name for.Maybe they recognized in each other the same kind of being alone and out of this recognition and friendship came David’smovie, Al Neil: A Portrait (1979).

Roadshow (1988, 20 mins.)