Movement House

29/08/2022

Check out our new video, directed by Travis Lee Ratcliff and filmed by Brody Carmichael for Darkbird, an incredible gem of a band.

29/08/2022

19/08/2021

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky

16/07/2021

"When a man is born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky

15/07/2021

Discovering these slow motion close-ups of the marble hammering and filing was a real treat on location. One of the driving dynamics of the film was the tension between the seemingly violent process of sculpting and the aspiration within it to create something beautiful.

10/07/2021

One of the surprising joys of the trip was filming in the Natural History Museum of Ireland while it was closed to the public. The museum is like stepping backwards in time. It was established in the 1880s and has remained entirely intact since then. In many ways, it is a museum of a museum. Old victorian hunting trophies populate the walls in every direction. In Dublin it’s often known by its nickname: “the dead zoo.” We are alone here, with the sculptor, who for many years has come here and studied the anatomy of the animals when the museum is closed to the public.

08/07/2021

Over a few days we filmed Dony turning a lump of clay into a stunning likeness of a person. There were, however, moments in the early hours of our work with the sculpture yet unfinished where we would find ourselves filming an uncanny golem, a half made man. We found ourselves filming images both mysterious and frightening as the humanity of the sculpture revealed itself more clearly each hour.

07/07/2021

"History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul." -Andrei Tarkovsky

06/07/2021

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire." -Jorge Luis Borges

05/07/2021

“For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time. We know less about time than about anything else.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky

03/07/2021

On our last day of filming in Ireland we spent a few hours in the van traveling to an isolated beach. The beach was on private property and very secluded. Gale force winds were blowing in as a terrible storm headed directly our way. I remember walking the long path in the rain feeling literally knocked around by the piercing wind. The tides were rolling in as we began to film. It felt like we might only have minutes before either the storm or the tides trapped us on this tiny beach.

16/05/2021

Few spaces have felt so genuinely enchanted as this patch of forest in Sally Gap.

15/05/2021

Light after an autumn storm.

14/05/2021

I remember asking myself how many lives had come and gone in the time that these trees have stood here. This lonely patch of forest appeared out of the fog. We’d been driving through sparse hillsides for about an hour. Here was this thick collection of trees, ancient in their appearance, isolated like an island in the void. Fires destroyed many of these patches of forest the summer after we filmed there. It’s strange to think that this place might be gone now.

13/05/2021

“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky

12/05/2021

In 2018, we were commissioned to create a portrait of the sculptor Dony Mac Manus in Ireland. Over the next ten days we would explore his life, his work, and try to find the right story that communicated his experience. Dony has rejected much of contemporary art and works with methods and tools used throughout the renaissance. He works in marble and clay as well as painting. To me what was most fascinating about Dony were a set of questions he seemed to pose about our experience of time and our sense of place in it. How do we navigate the past, tradition, and form our identity in the present in response to these forces? These were the ideas we wanted to explore in this film.

11/05/2021

Around the time we finished filming at Glendalough we received word that we had special permission to film in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin for a few hours, but only if we could make it there that evening. We piled into the the car and drove through the winding roads as rain storms headed our way. Like typical Americans, driving on the left side of the road was a bit of a challenge and as the road narrowed the car took a hit against the ditch on roadside. A few minutes later and the tire was flat. We changed the tire in the mud and rain and made it just before nightfall at Saint Patrick’s, where we had the cathedral to ourselves.