Terry Flaxton's work spans social documentary, single screen gallery pieces, television interventions and installation. However, as a director of photography and writer his work also includes low budget features, artists' film, and innumerable TV credits. As an activist he has continued to assist and support new directors and new artists through his network of collaborators across the globe. In a thirty year career he is one of the very few artists to have maintained a genuinely independent video practice working across genres and platforms, both inside and outside the media industry.
After Georgia O’Keeffe had lost her sight and could no longer paint, she took to pottery to continue creating… As she neared death she spoke of the creative act, how one must leap into the abyss and that fear itself would turn into wings. Wings, drawing it's inspiration from a phrase uttered by this artist, is an inventive and moving piece of filmmaking which uses text as imagery, with references to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Khalo. It sees Flaxton engaging with this latest 'new technology' but still looking for the flow of image, sound, and text that will inspire his audiences.

Dates:

9 - 13 November 2005

Venue:   Milan

Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

Information:

Invideo Festival, tel. 02 76115394