Gill Eatherley
Directing
Biography
Gill Eatherley was born in 1950 and studied at Winchester School of Art (1969-1970), Saint Martins School of Art (1970-1973) and the Royal College of Art (1974). She began making films in 1971 as a member of the London Filmmaker's Co-operative. Her expanded cinema performances and film installations have been widely exhibited both in Britain and internationally. Screenings and exhibitions include The Institute for Contemporary Arts in London, The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool as part of Filmaktion (1973), Amsterdam, Cologne and most recently as part of 'Shoot Shoot Shoot', a major survey of British Avant-Garde Film from 1966-76. Since 1975 Eatherley has resided in France, where she has concentrated on drawing and painting, whilst teaching art and working as a documentary film-maker. She has recently returned to film-making with the on-going video series; Caraibe, Where Are You? and the one minute film, Ivan (2004).
Known For
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.
After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Home Movies 1971-81
During a voyage by boat to Finland, the camera records three minutes of black and white 8mm film of a woman sitting on a bridge. The preoccupation of the film is with the base and with the transformation of this material, which was first refilmed on a screen where it was projected by multiple projectors at different speeds and then secondly amplified with colour filters, using positive and negative elements and superimposition on the London Co-op’s optical printer.
Deck
Chair Film by Gill Eatherley is a three-screen presentation of an optically-printed filmic rumination on that mundane, brilliant invention, the chair.
Chair Film
Experimental animation, via multiple screens.
Hand Grenade
Lens and Mirror Film is part of the Light Occupations series, in which Gill Eatherley performs simple investigations of the filmic equipment, particularly the camera and the projector, in short films that are each three minutes in length – corresponding to the length of a 100-foot roll of film.
Lens and Mirror Film
"Pan Film is an extremely simple, short film in two and three screen versions, composed of a number of short, slow pans across a room, past a partially open window that gives only a glimpse of the trees outside."
Pan Film
Based on life in the Southern French countryside around the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Made as part of Malcolm Le Grice's video series Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy.
Like a Fox
Multi-screen film performance, with a broom sweeping against the projected images.
Aperture Sweep
Lens Hand Foot is part of the Light Occupations series, in which Gill Eatherley performs simple investigations of the filmic equipment, particularly the camera and the projector, in short films that are each three minutes in length – corresponding to the length of a 100-foot roll of film. In films like this one, she explores the relationship of her own body to the filmmaking apparatus, playfully attempting to overcome the unbridgeable distance between them.
Lens Hand Foot
“Two cameras are used to explore the view from a window and then within a room, the camera operators closeley follow and compliment each other even frequently observing each other directly. The film traces the two cameras’ attempts to imitate each other’s action – thus making some of the subjective responses of camera handling more explicit.” Malcolm Le Grice.