Next up Johnnie Lawson with his Concept: Experiential Documentary Johnnie Lawson lives and works in the remote landscape of County Leitrim, Ireland. His interest in meditation, natural health awareness, art and the landscape began at an early age. While he is experienced in multiple art disciplines, he is currently working with video as his medium of choice, capturing the essence of the local landscape and a sense of place. Johnnie spends much of his time in nature, as a photographer, and video maker. He has also enjoyed roles as an avid amateur ornithologist, a venture scout leader, and as a guide leading groups hillwalking, both at home and abroad. Johnnie has always been interested in offering an opportunity through which people can improve their own lives and has worked both as a volunteer and in paid employment with diverse groups of people. He has traveled and photographed extensively throughout the world including Australia, Africa, north and south America, Asia, Europe and also to Antarctica on a National Geographic photographic expedition. His works have been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in public and private art galleries. Johnnie has completed a number of publicly funded art residencies, each culminating with a public solo exhibition. What? I propose to make a film documentary of 90 minutes duration, an experiential representation of the landscape of the northwest, depicting its meditative quality through video imagery, natural sounds and original music. This film will be accessible and inclusive, irrespective of ability, age, gender, language, nationality or creed.I will seek out locations within the landscape that one would consider silent or quiet places to record a linear timeline of several minutes, capturing the continuous, the incidental, the random and the fortuitous. I enjoy the element of chance and spontaneity that this method of videography offers. The shifting tension and harmony between these attributes relative to place, time and the forces of nature, alter and shape our memory of the landscape. Memory in turn informs how we perceive, relate to and interact with the landscape. My aim is for this film to have a positive influence on people’s well being, to attract visitors to the area, and to stimulate a genuine desire to protect the unique landscape of the northwest.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:06:11 +0000
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