ARTIST Murray Smith
WHERE Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 (and TV screens across campus)
WHEN Sunday 15.30-17.30
Surf to the nearest available music video channel, and you’ll probably find yourself watching some pretty familiar and predictable stuff – the same two or three basic visual ideas endlessly recycled. If you look hard enough, though, the history of music promos – and music sequences in feature films – reveals a much more diverse array of experiments in the fusion of music and film. A Secret History of Music Video, curated by Murray Smith, Professor of Film in the School of Arts, picks out one path through this neglected field of audio-visual exploration.
A Secret History of Music Video will run as a silent loop on various monitors around campus in the days leading up to the festival, arriving on the big screen, with big sound, on Sunday.
Screens can be found in College Receptions, Tanglewood Reception, Park Wood Reception, Keynes Atrium, K-Bar, Rutherford at the top of the stairs to dining hall, Sports Café, Origins, Darwin Atrium and Hut 8.