Paul Windridge

Works in moving image and sound
For many years being an artist, to me, meant painting, but over the last few years art has evolved into moving image and audio as well as the still image. This has opened up alternative possibilities to explore what we perceive to be reality and to have the ability to present it as something completely different.
After graduating from Art College I became a full-time freelance artist, held many one-man exhibitions and took part in several high-profile group shows - selling both oil and watercolour paintings worldwide. But, after discovering the Apple Mac and digital software I swapped canvas for computer to create both still, moving image and sound.
I have since written, produced and co-directed several narrative shorts including the poetic “Spellbound” trilogy. More recently I have been involved in creating and developing multi-layered atmospherics and kaleidoscopic split-screen.
A series of road trips up and down the hills of San Francisco have resulted in time-altered, mirrored voyages which turn reality on it’s head and motivate us to view it in a completely different way. These films are augmented by my own whimsical soundscape.
“Metroscopic” followed in 2009 and has so far been shown at film festivals in London, Berlin, Paris, Dublin, Siena and Zurich. It combines a narrative with quadroscopic vision and my own soundtrack.
At the same time I have been employing similar techniques to produce a series of multi-layered, works to compliment the music of Satsangi and their new album “No Shoes in Satsang Hall”.
I have worked with the two founder members for a number of years as a film maker and co-composer, but for this on-going project I have concentrated solely on moving image and a DVD called “NO IMITATORS”. This comprises a series of distorted, exotic, voyages; illusiory displacements of time and place both harmonious and fractious; symmetrical and chaotic.
My latest music (‘these are my bananas’ + ‘and still my bananas’) along with accompanying DVDs, are a diverse mix of pulsating dance tracks alongside flowing, ambient sound pictures.
Powerfully rhythmic, layered beats mixed with original sound morsels recorded from the everyday. Dance trip to intense journeys of hybrid synthetic sound. Drift on the electronic seas of atmospheric chill-out soundscapes. Uplifting, mood-enhancing tranquility that ebbs and flows in neo-psychedelic space.
“Confrontation and chaos mixed with calm and cerebral. Weird and wonderful. Late night or early morning - ‘these are my bananas’ inhabits a space between two worlds of light and dark - a schizophrenic adventure reverberating through an
alternative world”. Says my uncle Gordon

Filmography

Narrative short films 2005 - 08:
“Forgive” l “Realtime” l “Out of Shadows - the journey” l “Spellbound” l “Dreaming” & “Awakening” written, produced, directed, co-edited, music & sound
Music videos 2005 - 2010:
“See Through Pain” produced, co-directed, co-edited, composed music
“Compassion” for Bombay Dub Orchestra, produced, co-directed, co-edited
“iodine” for Satsangi, produced, co-directed, co-edited
“The First Time” and “Jai Jai” for Satsangi, produced, directed, edited
“Jaya” and “MPL” for TRIKON, produced, directed, edited, co-composed music
Quadroscopic split-screens 2007 - 09:
“UP AND DOWN TOWN” l “UNDER OVER” l “UP AROUND AND DOWN”
“DOWNTOWN TOO” l “metroscopic” & “seascoping” l “surf’s up” l “surfaced” & “seascopic” produced, directed, edited, music & sound
Films for “No Shoes in Satsang Hall” by Satsangi 2009 - 10:
“Babel” l “Jai Jai” l “Joli Shanti” l “Down Down” l “B-Groove” l
“Power and the Glory” & “Always on my Mind” produced, directed, edited
Films for “these are my bananas” by DJ 00 Newchair 2010:
“hullabalulu” l “space and time” l “iceity” l “walkabout” l “subvertigo” l “ringing in the rain” & “kickin lickin” produced, directed, edited & music
Example Festival screenings:
New York Film Festival
St Petersburg Festival of Arts
Britspotting Berlin, Zurich & Stuttgart
Biarritz Film Festival
Paris Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
Brussels Film Festival
International Short Film Festival Sofia, Bulgaria
Cinem@tic Film Festival, IMAX, Birmingham
Tenderpixel Gallery and Rushes Soho Shorts, London
Visionaria, Siena, Italy
Pixelstorm, Switzerland
Darklight, Dublin
British Shorts, Berlin
Wreck Beach Film Festival, Ontario
Other screenings:
Tate Britain
BBC Big Screens nationwide
MTV
BBC Electric Proms
Talent Circle Super Shorts
Big Chill Festival