Neuf in action!
Neuf experimental film collective took up residency for 6 weeks in Unit 7, Grafton Centre, Cambridge in May 2014.
It was an exciting opportunity to play with materials and ideas and gave us a suspended length of the time together to both reflect on how we could contribute to the experimental collaborative process itself and how we could then transfer these ideas into the vast empty space. Each of us brought our unique interpretation which touched on ideas of movement and reflection, the history and transience of Cambridge and the politics of the space. The Unit had been a H&M for many years but the bankers greed hit this area of City Centre the hardest.
We shared the venue with other artists; some locals from Cambridge School of Art and others from farther afield in the States. The residency culminated in a group show of film installations, performance, painting, drawing and music which reflected the social body of Cambridge at that time.
Trisha McCrae screened her film “Cambridge 20/5/14”. She worked with performance artist Pea Ramshaw making a site specific film in the streets around the shopping centre. Trisha’s stylish cinematography and the incredible abstracted Cambridge soundtrack by the very talented Nick May give the wealthy Cambridge High street a poignant, eerie feeling.