Wimbledon College of Art
As an Artist and as a Tutor
it is both a pleasure and a privilege to work closely with people while they are developing their ideas into films, sound works, texts, performances, art: whatever and then into even more ideas.I don’t care so much about the outcome and the results within education. Grades are meaningless. The main thing is to push yourself beyond what you thought you can do. And then push further than that with each new work/idea/project.
As Tom Waits said recently in an interview: "Who cares whether the story is true or not" all that matter is whether it is entertaining.
For me this is an essential truth of all art making. Truth is a cruel joke. It doesn’t exist. Once you can accept this it liberates you and allows you to celebrate: beauty and horror, ugliness and joy, the dark and the light.
These three short films are the best of the best on the undergraduate Fine Art course at Wimbledon College of Art. Potent, thoughtful and full of a yearning for something else – perhaps something that is no longer available within this culture. Are we without hope? These films, although filled with despair, are hopeful in their simple beauty. In their ability to make us feel. Short, sharp, jabs in the ribs remind us that we are alive. These jabs may be painful and at times annoying but they provoke us into a declaration, even if that declaration is a muted sigh.
Jordan Baseman
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