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13:08/Joseph Beuys in Scotland

Film maker: McEwen, Rory · 1932-1982Artist: Maris, Susan · b. 1966Artist: Maris, Alexander · b. 1960

13:08/Joseph Beuys in Scotland

The work features two separate films on two screens, shown together on the one screen. The left screen shows the film by Rory McEwen, Joseph Beuys in…

The work features two separate films on two screens, shown together on the one screen. The left screen shows the film by Rory McEwen, Joseph Beuys in Scotland, which follows Joseph Beuys on his famous journey to Rannoch Moor with Richard Demarco in 1970, while the right screen shows 13:08; Alexander and Susan Maris’ 2007 contemporary retelling of the journey. The contemporary Maris journey is synced as close as possible to the 1970 McEwen journey and follows the same road and passes the same places, merely without the presence of Beuys. See acquisitions file for accompanying artists’ presentation folio.

13:08 is the first work to join the collections from the Morton Award for Lens Based Media.

RUNNING NOTES:

00.00-00.04 Black screen
00.05-00.10 Title screens
00.11-00.17 Black screen
00.18-01.19 Left and right screens begin playing. Both show a camera mounted in a vehicle travelling along a road. The left screen is focused on the car Beuys sits in, travelling in front, while the right screen shows a car travelling alone.The camera looks out the windscreen as both cars approach and cross the Forth Road Bridge.
01.20-01.22 Left screen shows Beuys in the back of the car. Right screen shows a Beuys style hat on the back seat.
01.23-02.47 Both screens revert to road travel seen through car windscreens. Windscreen wipers are on and it is raining. The rain continues on the left screen but ceases on the right. Both screens show passing countryside, road markings and traffic.
02.48-03.40 Both screens show the cars approaching a town. They enter and drive through the town.
03.41-04.38 Both screens show the cars leaving the town and re-entering countryside. Both screens show passing countryside, road markings and traffic. The left screen shows the cars encountering sheep blocking the road.
04.39-05.06 Both screens cut to a small jetty on a loch. The left screen shows Beuys and two children walking out to the end of it and returning. The right is empty of people.
05.07-06.49 Both screens return to show passing countryside, road markings and traffic (the left screen returns a few seconds before the right).
06.50-06.55 Left screen shows close up of Beuys’ head in back of car. Right screen blank.
06.56-09.47 Both screens pan out from a green hillside and return to showing passing countryside, road markings and traffic.
09.48-10.24 Both screens show cars have stopped. Left screen cuts to image of ring hanging down behind Beuys’ neck. Right screen shows empty Rannoch Moor. Left screen shows Beuys taking a bag of gelatin from his bag.
10.25-10.42 Both screens cut to pan right to left across Rannoch Moor
10.43-11.20 Left screen shows Beuys walking up the road away from the camera. Right screen shows the moor and then goes black.
11.21-13.05 Left screen pans up behind Beuys and then shows him carving a piece of yellow gelatin, which he then holds up and plays with in front of the camera. Right screen continues to focus on the moor behind where Beuys would have been standing.
13.06-13.18 Left screen cuts to the gelatin sitting on a rock. Right screen shows an aeroplane flying over the moor.
13.19-13.31 Both screens cut to black

The work features two separate films on two screens, shown together on the one screen. The left screen shows the film by Rory McEwen, Joseph Beuys in Scotland, which follows Joseph Beuys on his famous journey to Rannoch Moor with Richard Demarco in 1970, while the right screen shows 13:08; Alexander and Susan Maris’ 2007 contemporary retelling of the journey. The contemporary Maris journey is synced as close as possible to the 1970 McEwen journey and follows the same road and passes the same places, merely without the presence of Beuys. See acquisitions file for accompanying artists’ presentation folio.

13:08 is the first work to join the collections from the Morton Award for Lens Based Media.

RUNNING NOTES:

00.00-00.04 Black screen
00.05-00.10 Title screens
00.11-00.17 Black screen
00.18-01.19 Left and right screens begin playing. Both show a camera mounted in a vehicle travelling along a road. The left screen is focused on the car Beuys sits in, travelling in front, while the right screen shows a car travelling alone.The camera looks out the windscreen as both cars approach and cross the Forth Road Bridge.
01.20-01.22 Left screen shows Beuys in the back of the car. Right screen shows a Beuys style hat on the back seat.
01.23-02.47 Both screens revert to road travel seen through car windscreens. Windscreen wipers are on and it is raining. The rain continues on the left screen but ceases on the right. Both screens show passing countryside, road markings and traffic.
02.48-03.40 Both screens show the cars approaching a town. They enter and drive through the town.
03.41-04.38 Both screens show the cars leaving the town and re-entering countryside. Both screens show passing countryside, road markings and traffic. The left screen shows the cars encountering sheep blocking the road.
04.39-05.06 Both screens cut to a small jetty on a loch. The left screen shows Beuys and two children walking out to the end of it and returning. The right is empty of people.
05.07-06.49 Both screens return to show passing countryside, road markings and traffic (the left screen returns a few seconds before the right).
06.50-06.55 Left screen shows close up of Beuys’ head in back of car. Right screen blank.
06.56-09.47 Both screens pan out from a green hillside and return to showing passing countryside, road markings and traffic.
09.48-10.24 Both screens show cars have stopped. Left screen cuts to image of ring hanging down behind Beuys’ neck. Right screen shows empty Rannoch Moor. Left screen shows Beuys taking a bag of gelatin from his bag.
10.25-10.42 Both screens cut to pan right to left across Rannoch Moor
10.43-11.20 Left screen shows Beuys walking up the road away from the camera. Right screen shows the moor and then goes black.
11.21-13.05 Left screen pans up behind Beuys and then shows him carving a piece of yellow gelatin, which he then holds up and plays with in front of the camera. Right screen continues to focus on the moor behind where Beuys would have been standing.
13.06-13.18 Left screen cuts to the gelatin sitting on a rock. Right screen shows an aeroplane flying over the moor.
13.19-13.31 Both screens cut to black

The work features two separate films on two screens, shown together on the one screen. The left screen shows the film by Rory McEwen, Joseph Beuys in Scotland, which follows Joseph Beuys on his famous journey to Rannoch Moor with Richard Demarco in 1970, while the right screen shows 13:08; Alexander and Susan Maris’ 2007 contemporary retelling of the journey.

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