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POP GOES HERITAGE (2012, DV, 7m 27s)
Directed & edited by Les Roberts. Camera by Les Roberts and Gurdeep Khabra. Produced by Les Roberts and the Institute of Popular Music at University of Liverpool.
© Liminoid Productions 2012.
Pop Goes Heritage is a documentary short that explores the various meanings and understandings attached to ideas of popular music heritage. Drawing on interviews with professionals working in the music and heritage industries, as well as archivists, historians and ‘DIY’ heritage practitioners, the film was produced as part of the UK research activities of POPID, a European collaborative project on popular music heritage and cultural memory funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (2010-13).
IN SEARCH OF PLEASURES PAST (2012, DV, 14m 25s)
Produced, directed & edited by Les Roberts and Ryan Shand.
© Liminoid Productions 2012.
This is a film about a film. It is also about a place, its decline and the poignancy of memory. Featuring interviews with members of amateur cine clubs on Merseyside and clips from films shot in New Brighton in the 1960s and 70s, In Search of Pleasures Past recounts the story of the making and the local reception of an award-winning 'mood film' made by Wirral-based filmmakers Swan Cine Club in 1974. The film draws from research conducted at the University of Liverpool in 2008-10 as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project 'Mapping the City in Film: a Geo-historical Analysis'. The film and supporting statement are published in Screenworks Vol. 4 (2013) and can be accessed here.
ANOTHER SPACE (2010, DV, 4m 50s)
Directed & edited by Les Roberts. Produced by Hazel Andrews and Les Roberts.
© Liminoid Productions 2010.
Another Space is a short ethnographic film about artist Antony Gormley's installation 'Another Place' at Crosby Beach north of Liverpool. The visuals, filmed in Easter 2009, are cut to a mosaic of voices drawn from interviews conducted with visitors to the beach by students at Liverpool John Moores University. The research project of which the film forms a part was coordinated by Dr Hazel Andrews from the Centre for Tourism, Events and Food Studies. Respondents are asked what the artwork means to them and what feelings and emotions it evokes. An article by Les Roberts written to accompany the video was published in the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice in 2012 and can be accessed here.
THE BULGER CASE: A SPATIAL STORY (2010, DV, 40m)
Directed by Les Roberts.
© Liminoid Productions 2010.
For parts 2-5 of the film click here
A single shot, real-time mapping of the locations and route (in Bootle and Walton in Merseyside) of the abduction of James Bulger that took place on 12 February 1993. The film was in part prompted by the publication of a map of the route in the Liverpool Echo newspaper and forms part of a wider research project into Liverpool's urban landscape and the moving image. See 'Film, Mobility and Urban Space: a Cinematic Geography of Liverpool' by Les Roberts (Liverpool University Press, 2012, pp. 37-40) and 'The Bulger Case: a Spatial Story', in The Cartographic Journal 51 (2): 141-151 (2014).
PROJECTING PLACE: LIVERPOOL ON FILM (2008-10, DV )
Camera by Ryan Shand and Les Roberts.
© University of Liverpool 2010
Projecting Place is a series of filmed interviews, talks and discussions that were held in the School of Architecture at University of Liverpool as part of the 'Mapping the City in Film' project activities. The interviews followed public screenings of archive films shot in Merseyside locations and featured filmmakers, community activists, producers, artists and others connected with the film(s) being shown. Videos of a selection of the interviews, along with keynote talks given at the 2010 Mapping, Memory and the City conference (by Iain Sinclair and Robert C. Allen), and Terence Davies in conversation can be viewed at the 'Mapping the City in Film' events page.
OAKS CROSS (2009, DV + Super 8mm, 30m)
Directed & edited by Les Roberts.
© Les Roberts 2009.
Following the death of the last remaining occupier of a council house in Stevenage, a family home for nearly half a century, each room in the house was videoed and photographed as a memorial to the lives of those who lived and visited there prior to its final clearance and transfer back to the council in 2009. A visual phenomenology of memory and absence, Oaks Cross is an intimate and personal portrait of a much loved mother, a house, and the material residue of familial dwelling.
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