As we near completion of our crowd funding campaign for This is Cinema with LiveTree, shooting continues with Sculptures of London, a short film that asks what the story is that the sculptures of London tell us – about the city and about life more generally.
William Brown and Tom Maine spent Monday 29 May shooting some more sculptures for the film – after a brief meeting with the organisers of the East End Film Festival ahead of the screening of Circle/Line with them on Saturday 3 June at 5pm at Old Spitalfields Market.
We started at Mile End, where we shot the statue of Catherine Booth, co-founder with her husband William of the Salvation Army.
Catherine’s hand is held low, William’s held high; where Catherine reads, William declaims; where William is made of bronze, Catherine is made of fibreglass.
We then proceeded to Three Mills Park, where we saw Thomas J Price’s Network, before heading down to Docklands to shoot Les Johnson’s Landed and Eduardo Paolozzi’s Vulcan.
A quick trip down to the Woolwich Arsenal allowed us to take in Assembly by Peter Burke and Nike by Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis.
And we ended the afternoon’s shoot with a quick trip to Canary Wharf via East India, where we filmed Maurice Bilk’s Renaissance, Kim Bennet’s Domino Players, Eilis O’Connell’s Sacrificial Anode, Richard Rome’s Pepper Rock, Giles Penny’s Two Men on a Bench, Jon Buck’s Returning to Embrace, Lynn Chadwick’s Couple on a Seat and Bob Allen’s It Takes Two. The last four in particular suggest a strong theme between couples of Canary Wharf…
We might be hard pressed to film all of the sculptures that we would like between now and the end of the shoot, but we are making gradual and definite progress!
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