100 Years
Film (33:48)
2023
'100 years' is the story of people living in North East Lincolnshire. Every person filmed was asked one simple question: What do you want people to know about Grimsby 100 years from now?
This moving short film provides a record of a cross section of Grimsby, what matters to them, and what they want people to remember, capturing a commitment to our future heritage and a digital asset for the community in the year 2123.
100 Years was commissioned by Our Big Picture and Grimsby Creates.
Release Date: 15 September 2023.
A STEELWORKER'S STORY
Film (15:49)
2022
A Steelworker’s Story is an intimate, affectionate, and deeply human history of the life of a steelworker from Scunthorpe. From school to retirement, the subject of this moving short film returns to the steelworks for the first time in 22 years, generously sharing his lived experience of work, family life and friendships; galvanised by steel.
Release Date: 22 April 2022.
Commissioned for ‘Art That Made Us Festival’ by the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre and North Lincolnshire Museum, A Steelworker’s Story is a thoughtful and reflective journey through the time of one person’s life in Scunthorpe making steel for 36 years. Set to original music composed by Ian Matthews, the film was made by the steelworker’s son and was shot over 4 days in March 2022.
A Steelworker's Story was aquired by North Lincolnshire Museum in 2022 and forms part of their permanent Steel Town exhibition.
artown
Film (32:10)
2021
A digital artwork commissioned for the Festival of Creativity North Lincolnshire by North Lincolnshire Cultural Education Partnership and The Ropewalk.
Release Date: 3 July 2021.
'artown' is a short film that tells the story of a town whose entire population are creative people. Using archive footage, newspaper headlines, photography, film and augmented reality drawing; audiences are asked to imagine living through a creative industrial revolution! Could you live in a place like that?
The film was launched online and short clips are available via QR code at a number of festival locations by footpath.
NICK CLEGG'S YELLOW
Film (13:43)
2011
A film made by combining all of the different hues of yellow backgrounds that framed Nick Clegg's rise to some semblance of power in a coalition government in 2010.
These slow moving images were set the song 'An Ending (Ascent)' by Brian Eno, which featured in a party political message by the Liberal Democrats where Nick Clegg stated that stated that their had been too many broken promises. This film was first shown at Superhybrid! in Leeds, 2011.
VIEW OF DELFT, WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY
Film (4:40)
2009
RICK ROLLING is an Internet MEME involving the 1987 Rick Astley song NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP. ‘RICKROLLING’ has extended beyond the bait and switch of Internet web links, to disrupting other situations from public places to protests. At the time of making, it was estimated that at least 18 million American Adults had been ‘RICK ROLLED’.
Michael combined a selection of this music video with Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft, a work said to be so beautiful it could kill you.
First exhibited at The New Obsolete, curated by Peter Lewis, Redchurch Street, London, 2009.