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$Desktop Drama 16mm colour film digitally transfered, digital animation, transferred back to 16mm film, 10 mins 09 secs, 2017 Desktop Drama is a repository for the fractured detritus of the research undertaken to make a new film. The film examines both the space of a computer desktop as the dramatic location for auto-didactism and the studio desk itself as a stage for the sporadic artifacts of a frustrated and procrastinated studio practice. A choreographed performance of studio objects, facsimiles of web pages and videos that have been captured throughout the research process in various museums and libraries present themselves on screen as though clumsily rebuilt from a once cohesive narrative. An erratic composition of nuanced vocal ticks and audio clips from the cutting room floor of edited interviews soundtracks the film. A mixture of 16mm film and digital footage, desktop drama entangles two technologies together letting them fight it out like ideas born in the mind desperately validating themselves in the age of digital technologies. Breaths, ums, ars, tics, chortles and guffaws edited from interviews with Will Self, Timothy Morton, Matthew Beaumont and Diane Pennington who were interviewed for two other films END-TIME and Sunrise With Sea Monsters.$
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