FILMS BY MARK NELSON
A Place About 50 Miles West of Nowhere
A Place About 50 Miles West of Nowhere is an abstract documentary made in modern day New York. It is a film inspired by the abstract expressionist and surrealist movements around the mid 20th century.
The approach on location was to improvise on the spot invoking the past masters of photography and film. All of the multiple exposure effects were created in camera with no additional manipulation other than the occasional emphasis of colour or extra black and white tonal silver effects
The Garden of Alaya
In Arabic the word 'alaya' means sublime and this film represents nature's innate beauty. However, nature can be often unseen and often unheard thereby creating a worldwide catastrophe.
Filmed in Coney island Brooklyn, Bermuda and Kew Gardens London we move from paradise to uncertain scenarios where mankind and nature stumble along together on a crooked road toward a burned out desert.
At the very last moment we remind ourselves that choices are still within the palms of our hands.
Future Surrealism Beyond Space and Form
Inspired by surreal film genres and further by Lewis Carrolls ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’. This 15 minute film can be viewed as an ambient abstract meditation, as your imagination drifts across the universe as well as touching on scientific insight that all form is empty and can be seen as interconnected molecules of change moving through the universe.
As a colourful interior design piece this film can also be seen as a surreal viewpoint of magical space forms, where strange bodies and places exist in emptiness and then disappear, to return in new forms in space before the whole universe becomes empty once again.