The clip above is from a project called Decoywoman by Anna Falcini, which I shot and co-edited. Anna Falcini and I have been friends for many years. We set up a moving image event called Eye Candy in Herefordshire many years ago, when our children were still quite young. Eye Candy was a lot of work but good fun: it was a chance for local film-makers, VJs and artists to show off their work. The venues we used weren’t usual arts venues, places like The Imperial pub and the much-missed Doodies. You’d confront art installations in one room, wander into another to be confronted by a stack of old cathode ray TVs showing short films and visuals while our resident DJ Jus’ Jay spun a few discs. In the next room would be a programme of shorts, made by local filmmakers keen to show off their work. One time we had a screening at the Courtyard arts centre, which featured local short films alongside more renowned film-makers such as Stan Brakhage – a film-maker who really had an impact on me back in my student days, and had recently died. There was another event at the Ross International Arts festival, in which the tent got a severe battering from the weather. Some of the 15 people involved in Eye Candy split off to do their own thing as MASH cinema and Salt Road. Pretty much all of us have continued our creative work.
