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Resident of Earth

Paul Tarragó

2005 00:15:01 United KingdomEnglishB&W and ColorStereo4:3DV video

Description

Domestic life in south London filtered through stories of weight (and waiting), local history, bad dreams and the ongoing colonisation of the moon.

Original music by Bruno De Angelis.

Side note: There’s a strand of ersatz autobiography in my work that began in Making things meaningful (2003) and then reappeared in ‘RoE’ a couple of years later. It’s since resurfaced several times over the years (most notably in The Riddle (ghost chair) (2014), The Popular Touch (2018), and Looking for Letine (2024)).

Each of these films is standalone (they’re not technically a series, probably more of a cycle), but there are occasional references and ‘call backs’ - formal, visual +/or narrative - which inform their internal logic.

About Paul Tarragó

Paul Tarragó is a filmmaker, using both video and celluloid, living in London. His work? A mix of underground experimentation and metafiction, tugging at the leash of film language but with narrative often held close at hand.

His work has shown widely on film festival and gallery circuits (International Film Festival Rotterdam, NYUFF, EMAF, National Review of Live Art, Triangle France, Kino der Kunst), and includes several award winning experimental narratives, video installation, a collaborative feature film, cinematic sketchbooks, moving image + live soundtrack performance work, etc.

A formative influence on his DIY approach comes from his experiences (from 1993-2006) as a core member and activist with the Exploding Cinema: a collective dedicated to originating alternative methods of exhibition for low-budget/artists' film and video and related performance.