Films & Videos

Schumann’s Last Procession

Commissioned and played by Duo Attema | Haring.

Miguel Fiol Duran as Schumann.
Concept, camera and direction – James Murray

Composer Martijn Padding :

‘Schumann walked every week to the statue of Beethoven in the centre of Bonn to talk to the statue, with one of his nurses following (he was in a mental institution). The nurse said Schumann walked so slowly it looked like he was walking backwards.
I used that idea to base the piece on the harmonic schedule of a Schumann song, slowed it down significantly and used the schedule in its retrograde.’

Shot And Mounted

Excerpt from a 15 minute on-the-road travelogue for the Calexico DVD World Drifts In, 2004.
Commissioned by Christof Ellinghaus at City Slang.

Little Transistor
Low-res promo clip for the 2004 Ninginkata 7” release Little Transistor.

Enjoy The Spectacle

From Tim Knol’s 2013 album Soldier On.

Edit from found footage of 1948 Tokyo.

Omnicosm
Music – Martin Fondse
Film – James Murray / Mike Rosecope
Biotope
Music – Diamanda La Berge Dramm / James Murray
Film – Murray / La Berge Dramm
Als ik de bomen zie

Part 1 in a series of three with music by Isang Yun, flutes by Rieneke Brink & Janneke Groesz

It was just water

Part 2 in the series of three with music by Isang Yun, flutes by Rieneke Brink & Janneke Groesz

Triller

Part 3 in the series of three with music by Isang Yun, flutes by Rieneke Brink & Janneke Groesz

Thurston Moore Group, OCCI Amsterdam 2023