Martin RM Clark

MC4LP

by Lucy Pawlak & Martin Clark
9m 50s (2m extract)
2007

The film is a romance in which Clark and Pawlak direct one another and perform the lead roles. Both the content of the film itself and the working relationship formed during the making of it deal with control and loss of control. Pawlak and Clark have a shared interest in the nature that opens itself to the camera. “We lived together at Madame Lillie’s Corset Shop in Stoke Newington and slept in neighboring rooms with our beds against the same wall. Martin suggested we collaborate on a film because we tread similar boards - an interest in the 'acting-out' or 'performance of' particular roles features in both our practices.” People say the experience of watching a film might be a little like a fling, “I pick you up, whirl you around and drop you down”. Each shot within the romantic montage lasts 5 seconds, there is no beginning to the story, it only revolves seamlessly in a never-ending cycle of meeting and parting. Where are the dream factories? Are they in the park or at the bus stop? What is our relationship to a scene from a blockbuster, a clip from a music video, a snatch of a song, a picture of a sunset or a girl on a swing? Lucy Pawlak 2007 click here to watch