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Tate: Remixed - Francesca Beard: Rothko
Francesca Beard’s poem was inspired by the Seagram Murals, a commission originally intended for New York’s exclusive Four Season’s Restaurant.
26.09.2008
Francesca Beard’s poem was inspired by the Seagram Murals, a commission originally intended for New York’s exclusive Four Season’s Restaurant. Rothko says he ‘accepted this assignment as a challenge, with strictly malicious intentions. I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch that eats in that room.’ But when Rothko visited the restaurant with his wife, he pulled out of the deal. ‘Anybody who will eat that kind of food for those kind of prices will never look at a painting of mine.’ Francesca imagined an alternate universe, where Rothko’s murals did not go to the Tate Modern, but to the Four Seasons as planned.
Production Team
Nick Parish - Director
Nick Parish is a London based filmmaker.He is a co-director of the creative studio Milkwood. His short films include The Lonely Cowboy and Sentinel which have been shown in festivals across the UK and internationally, such as LA Shorts, Oberhausen Film Festival and the ICA Digital Shorts Festival. His work has also been shortlisted for Coming Up 2008 and has been represented by The British Council. Prior to starting Milkwood he was a creative director for MTV’s Flux Channel and has collaborated on a number of projects with Channel 4, Tomato, Nike, Nokia and the United Nations. His films are known for their sculptural, in camera elements, which are informed by his background in sculpture and graphic design. In addition to several short projects, he currently has several features in development.
Andrew Hinton – Producer
Andrew Hinton is a creative producer who has worked closely with the band Saint Etienne on their film projects for the past 5 years. He was an artist in residence with them at Southbank Centre and continues to maintain a beehive on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall which featured in the most recent London Festival of Architecture. Recent projects include a series of short collaborations between composers and filmmakers for
Channel 4.
Marc Boothe – Exec Producer
Marc is the Managing Director of B3 Media – an award winning media arts agency, which has produced a broad slate of innovative projects across film, internet, mobile phone and visual arts. He produced the highly acclaimed feature film Bullet Boy directed by Saul Dibb, for which he was nominated Best British Producer by the London Film Critics Circle.
He is also currently developing his next feature film project, The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass with writer-director Robert Samuels for Film Four. The is the first project to be developed in the B3 FeatureLab: a development lab produced in collaboration with Film4, Binger Filmlab and Skillset.
Marc is also the recipient of a NESTA Fellowship award (National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts).
Tate: Remixed is developed and produced by Marc Boothe for Tate.
B3 Media
B3 Media is an awarding winning media arts agency which helps artists and film-makers develop, produce and distribute their work, taking them from the spark of an idea through to the first showing and beyond.
