St. Malo, Facsimile: an essay [January 2004; Cambridge University Moving Image Studio] is a digital video that examines the experience of the French city of St. Malo. Musicians Chris Weston and Eric White were asked to compose a soundtrack using an original poem ‘St. Malo, Facsimile’ as a loose script. The video derived from four-days spent filming inside the old city walls of St. Malo; the method used was adapted from the Situationiste Internationale’s practice of the derive to explore the city’s architectural routing and re-routing of pedestrians, and also included a simultaneous investigation — through written notes, which eventually became a second poem also titled 'St. Malo, Facsimile' — of the subjective and at times obstructive experience of interacting with the city via the camera lens.

Following, a rough cut was made of the footage, and then the final piece amalgamating music/images/text was negotiated with Weston and White.

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