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ESTRELLA SONORA – TOM SKIPP – FILM WORKS

LATEST NEWS:

Summer 2010
• Tom Skipp will film a new project "Caravan" in Turkey and Syria
• "Stormwater" is to be screened at PAM Festival, Italy, 2010.
• "Something Old" will be screened at Optica Festival.

Spring 2010
• Tom Skipp will show some of his works at:
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, March 2010.
ESCA Galerie, Nîmes, April 2010.
OFF LOOP, Club Maumau, Barcelona, May 2010.

Winter 2009/2010
• "Stormwater" is to be screened at the Director's Lounge Urban Research Festival 2010 in Berlin. Friday, 19th of February at 18.00. Link: http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/tagged/19th%20Feb%202010

 

 

 

 

 

• "Something Old" was screened and awarded a "palmares" in Catania, Italy at the Festival d'Images Artistiques Vidéo, 2009. Link: http://www.galerie-esca.com/video_fiav09.html


Autumn/fall 2009
• Tom Skipp will show some of his video works in a solo exhibition called "Emergent Occasions" at Demolden Video Project, Calle Sol, 12, Santander (Until 10th December).

June 2009
Shooting with singers has just wrapped at the underground Storm Water Deposit at Arroyofresno in Madrid. Now begins the job of editing and postproduction: Stormwater

May 2009
New page for "Krapp's Last Tape" on IMDB. link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424354/maindetails

February-June 2009
Tom Skipp will present some of his recent filmworks in the group exhibition "SIXTEEN", curated by Berta Jayo. The touring exhibition will be on at Edge Zones (Miami) and the City Arts Centre in Salamanca City (Mexico), other venues to be announced.

2008
• Tom Skipp has been awarded a grant by the Matadero Madrid contemporary art centre to make his next short film "Stormwater"
 • The work print of "Something Old", a new short film, is now available for viewing.

 2007
•"Interpreting Space" is the name of the workshop that artist Jaume Plensa and filmmaker Tom Skipp will be giving at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid. Tom Skipp will film a short on location at the Museum. If you would like to participate in the workshop follow the link below.
Download PDF (in Spanish): Workshop PDF
 •New screenshots of "Devotions"

2006
• Tom Skipp's film of 'Krapp's Last Tape' will be screened in its entirety in the theatre section of the exhibition about Samuel Beckett to be held at the Centre Pompidou in March 2007. The other films featured in this section are Oh les beaux jours , with Madeleine Renaud and La Dernière bande (the French version of 'Krapp's Last Tape' with Marcel Bluwal).
• Tom Skipp has written an article about his experience of directing "Krapp's Last Tape" on film for the November issue of the Spanish art magazine "Exit Express".
• The Spanish national daily newspaper "La Razón" has published an article about Tom Skipp's film of 'Krapp's Last Tape'.

 

 

 

 STORMS
STORMWATER, Filmed inside the underground storm water deposit in Arroyofresno, Madrid. Awarded a prize by Matadero Madrid Art Centre. Featuring 3 singers and La Trova Choir. This piece is currently being edited.

 

 

Krapp's Last Tape

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, New screen version of 'Krapp's Last Tape' approved by the Samuel Beckett Estate. 'The actor is perfect' according to Beckett's Literary executor. This film was selected to be shown at the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, in the Beckett exhibition (2007).

DOGS

DOGS, Filmed inside the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Tom Skipp

TOM SKIPP, British videoartist lives in Madrid, Spain. Began working as a theatre actor and director before switching to film in 2000. He has also organized a number of art exhibitions including "The Theatre of Memory" at Telefonica. His work has been shown at film festivals and art institutions around the world.

 

Downloading

DOWNLOADING, A detective investigates the disappearance of a twelve year-old boy. Following traces left on the boy's computer, he embarks upon an unexpected journey to the places of the mind.

Devotions

SOMETHING OLD, A mysterious woman sits waiting. Machinery grinds into movement. She performs a kind of trick... her long hair seems to have a life of its own. The action moves inexorably forward to the strange rhythm of an accordion playing a slow tango..

DevotionsDEVOTIONS (In production), "Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man! this minute I was well, and am ill, this minute. I am surprised with a sudden change, and alteration to worse, and can impute it to no cause, nor call it by any name". John Donne "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions".

 

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