Triple Vision & Videomakers
1982 - 1985
1982 - 1985
Works Created in this period:
1982 A Slice of the Cake 1982 Going Local 1982 Bad Neighbours 1982 Circumstantial Evidence 1982 A Slice of the Cake (with Joel Cayford) 1982 Bad Neighbours 1983 And Then There Was Once 1983 The Gap 1983 Eurythmics 1983/1984 Prisoners 1983 Making News 1983/1984 Health Emergency |
1982 brought a move from teaching (I was briefly Head of Television at the London International Film School) and picking up work wherever I could to becoming an editor at Green Man Productions (for whom I'd shot things like the Grace Jones One Man Show) and Green Man became VideoMakers when several of the original people had moved on. So we joined up with Kez Cary and formed Triple Vision and then someone approached us with the journals of a vegetarian, atheist piano tuner they'd found in their attic and we applied for a grant and got another 1200 to shoot Circumstantial Evidence which was to be Gina McKee's first screen appearance (Gina later won best actor in the BAFTA's) and indeed this project won as an ITVA award fro innovation as we'd managed to create a drama made of constant dissolves (at a time when dissolves were almost impossible we set off a live mix with three machines an a vision mixer with the source tapes set up as best as possible, ready for the next dissolve - if you messed up around 15 minutes in - you simply started the entire edit again until you got everything right. On the night of the premier at the South Bank we started a last edit perhaps one hour before the screening and just got through in time to race across the river to a waiting audience. Anthony from Vida then rejoined us on his return from South America and we wanted to tie down what we did and distinguish ourselves from the general film production companies of Soho at that time. We soon got work from America as we had proven once or twice that we could shoot under english lighting (which often flickered due to it's flashing 50 times per second when captured at 29.97 frames). We became European Stringers for MTV and did many of the early cable productions setting the look and the feel. Through MTV we worked with the Stones, Who, Grace Joands, Joan Armatrading - the Tourists who became the Eurythmics - and also Universal International who were responsible for one thiord of the world's music. We were the safe pair of hands. Quite a lot of deep learning was to come this way - hard on the job where you couldn't make mistakes. Anthony become available again and to make the business more secure we did casting sessions and because of our lighting prowess we had Ridley Scott Associated visit often. The two brothers were visiting the Film Co-Op and we used to joke that the avant garde was the research and development department for straight commercials - albeit the ideas which would express themselves at the film co-op sometimes through hours, and these 'steals' would flash by in a commercial in a second. Being politically motivated we worked for Race today and Bogle l'overture Publications as well as the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (on one production with around ten trade unions which was a nightmare in the editing process) and we also found ourselves working with Jeanette Mirchell the Health Consultant for the GLC which lead to making a programme called Health Emergency which was the first project we sold to Channel 4.
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Latest Retrospective - Bath 2023: Terry Flaxton: A Life in Video Art
Roseberry Road Studios From 6th October through to 5th November 2023 28 Roseberry Rd, Bath BA2 3DX |
Upcoming Exhibitions in 2024
- UK RWA Open Bristol September - December
- Australia, Adelaide July, A Life in Video Art, Retrospective, July
- Sedition International, Online Release, Un Tempo Una Volta, April
- Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & Palazzo Bembo, Exhibition titled Visions, Venice, March
Between 2008 and 2023 Terry exhibited work in the China, USA, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Korea, Portugal, Iran, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, France, Norway, Malta, Madeira and the UK - some of these countries many times. A complete list of Exhibitions between 2008 and 2023 follows beneath the section on exhibitions beneath 1978 and 2007.
- UK RWA Open Bristol September - December
- Australia, Adelaide July, A Life in Video Art, Retrospective, July
- Sedition International, Online Release, Un Tempo Una Volta, April
- Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & Palazzo Bembo, Exhibition titled Visions, Venice, March
Between 2008 and 2023 Terry exhibited work in the China, USA, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Korea, Portugal, Iran, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, France, Norway, Malta, Madeira and the UK - some of these countries many times. A complete list of Exhibitions between 2008 and 2023 follows beneath the section on exhibitions beneath 1978 and 2007.