Exhibition
Ruaidhri Ryan, Belt Craft Studios
16 Jan 2016 – 27 Mar 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 133 Cumberland Road
- Bristol
- BS1 6UX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 506 via Temple Meads
- Bristol Temple Meads
Ruaidhri Ryan’s semi-staged documentary follows a crew of technicians setting up props in a film studio.
About
Ruaidhri Ryan’s semi-staged documentary follows a crew of technicians setting up props in a film studio. The camera casually observes the action, falling in and out of focus as the crew carefully construct the kind of tracking shots one might expect to find in an advertisement. Belt Craft Studios refers to the shoot location — a north London studio used in hundreds of commercials, promos and music videos, permanently furnished with vintage paraphernalia. The environment and the objects within it are used to simulate a seductive sense of authenticity.
Belt Craft Studios, like much of Ryan’s work, considers the fetish of a supposed authenticity, which has intensified in parallel with our technological capacity to revise, reshape and perfect almost everything.