'Near Real Time' (2014) Single-screen version, 4K Digital Video, Standard Definition Analogue Video and Archive Footage; Colour and Black & White; Sync Sound. Duration: 24min

In 'Near Real Time', Gail Pickering draws from her research into a pioneering social experiment in community television which took place in France in the 1970s. Participants of the project disputed the image they had once collectively made culminating in a climate of widespread distrust about its political objectives.

The last remaining recordings of their live broadcasts provide a space for Pickering to address the subjectivity of the televisual image itself, fictionalising the literal cuts of the historical material. Using montage to mimic the episodic and fragmentary character of both television and the video tape recordings as well as incorporating historical as well as new material.

All the on-screen characters instinctively mouth a shared monologue, a collective voice that shifts between being a story-teller, a conversationalist and an interrogator, each addressing the choreography of images that we see. The artist uses dubbing and lip-synching to produce a narrative that explores the physicality of the projected image and the space in which the community found itself.

The work was commissioned by FLAMIN Productions through Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network with funding from Arts Council England, the Elephant Trust and Goldsmiths University of London.

The single-screen version was premiered in the 58th BFI London Film Festival on October 17, 2014.

• Pickering, Gail. 2014. Near Real Time [three-channel video installation]. [Art Object]
• Pickering, Gail. 2014. Mirror Speech [Solo Exhibition]. In: "Gail Pickering Solo Exhibition Mirror Speech", BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom, 31 October 2014 - 11 January 2015. [Show/Exhibition]
• Pickering, Gail. 2015. The Jarman Award 2015. In: "Film London Jarman Award 2015", Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 29 September to 22 November 2015. [Show/Exhibition]

Crew:
Camera: Bernd Behr
Editor: Gail Pickering
Colourist: Jason R Moffat
Visual Effects: Anne Haaning
Sound Design: Gail Pickering
Sound Mixer: Tom Sedgwick

Cast:
Jessica-Lee Hopkins
Chloe Antonia Perry
Layla Shirley
Sarah Morley
Léa Tirabasso
Rose Terry
Luana Duvoisin Zanchi

Shooting format:

4K ProRes HQ, Analogue Vintage Camera Standard Def

Screening format:

1080p High Definition ProRes HQ Quicktime
http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/near_real_time

Related URLs:

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/near_real_time

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=materialevidenceamajorminorhistory

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24847