Kingston Cine Film

Unedited Nostalgia

Whilst trawling through some of my older Vimeo uploads I found this - a couple of reels of unedited cine film footage that I set (unedited) to the song Leave the Earth Behind You and Take a Walk Into the Sunshine by the Scottish band Ball Boy - one of my favourite bands from the time just after I graduated from Kingston university.

Here's a comment posted on my Facebook ‘wall’ many years ago by my friend Michael Jenkins,

'I like the way with cine you just take footage of the stuff that matters, and make it matter, whereas with digital you just record everything and make everything not matter. I like the film, you can't beat cine for nostalgia, though it did not make me feel nostalgic. Why didn't someone tell me that my hair looked kind of like four triangles stuck to each side of my head? You look thinner. I suppose that's what living on stress hormones, cider and hot-dogs does to you (assuming you don't still live on these). Have you got time to put any of the other films on there? That would be nice. I sold all my sketchbooks the other day, to a girl who was on foundation when we were in Kingston. I got a whopping £16. They're full of shit anyway. Gonna make some T-shirts soon. Want any? Like "I am not lying on my front" or "If you pretend you didn't see me, I'll pretend I didn't see you..."?'