Live recording documentation of film performance Cipher Screen at in Bergen Fengsle (Prison), Norway 4/6/2011 by Greg Pope and John Hegre. 
Cipher Screen is a live art piece using 2 prepared 16mm film projectors with black film loops and a live sound feed. This work harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema; the projector, the film material, the darkened room and synchronized sound - creating a live score and a visual and sonic interaction.
The constant, reductive physical process applied to the surface of the film loops results in a slow transformation on the screen surface; out of aural and visual darkness builds a cacophonous crescendo of sound and image.


Cipher Screen 4/6/2011 Bergen

I just found a cassette tape, recorded by Ollie Sagar of an Obelisk show. As I recall this was an outside gig in Brighton (backyard of a pub??)probably towards the end of our existence, '86 or '87, with Graham Duff, Peta Taylor, Pol Wjinberg, Greg Pope and on keys etc Julian Phillips. Quality not amazing and cuts off in the middle of our Shopping section...however....

Theatre Of The Bleeding Obelisk

After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded Brighton-based Super 8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986 and afterwards Loophole Cinema (London, 1989). Using 16mm, Super 8 and video, Loophole Cinema were self-styled shadow engineers performing numerous events around Europe. They produced The International Symposium of Shadows in London in 1996.

Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art pieces and single screen film works since 1996. Recent works include live cinema performance pieces Light Trap and Cipher Screenas well as 35mm film productions Shadow Trap and Shot Film.  He currently lives in Norway and is active teaching, projecting, programming and making film.

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