MALCOLM BROWN  OUT OF SEQUENCE

PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHEMATA
DIVERGING RAYS
LINEAR TIME


INSTITUTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer within cultural heritage
research collections 2004 - ONGOING.
THE MEMORY CORPORATION



The film above doesn't make sense without the audio. Malcolm Brown dancing to the track Displacement from Operations Brutal in a hyper-expressive way. The point of the film arrives when a sample from “The Stepford Wives” attempts to explain what is happening visually.

Chris Duncan and I spent one week in the early 80s filming content for an open call industrial video project being released. We were unsuccessful but the people managing the project commented on this piece having some merit.
This filmed performance has its origin in the somnambulist from Robert Wiene’s the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.

“German Expressionism was an artistic movement in the early 20th century that emphasized the artist's inner emotions rather than attempting to replicate reality.German Expressionist films rejected cinematic realism and used visual distortions and hyper-expressive performances to reflect inner conflicts.”