David Peoples

Hero -- Trailer

Hero -- Trailer

Back in May of 2009 I was commissioned by Cynnal Cymru to make a film about Sustainability in Wales. I was to accompany Photographer Daniel Green on a journey around Wales. Dan was going to photograph 20 people/groups who were on the Cynnal Cymru Green list. My task was to capture what they had to say about their contribution to a sustainable Wales. The Wales Green List celebrates individuals making Wales a better and more sustainable place to live. It s the first list of its kind in Wales, bringing together the different elements of sustainable development environmental, economic and social in one award. We had very little time to accomplish this huge task ahead. A little over four weeks was our filming schedule! and we also had to navigate our way around other peoples plans. A logistical nightmare was unfolding. To top it all off the plan Widelode had for the film wasn't as straight forward as collecting the piece to camera and covering it with B roll(footage that adds meaning to a sequence), we wanted to create a Audio Visual sound scape running through the film using only organic sounds recorded on my journey as well as having the bridging sections between people talking to be pure AV. Now that takes a little time. I have been interested in AV remixing for many years inspired by the likes of Cold Cut and Hexstatic. Over the years we (Simon Clode, Marc Heatley and David O'Connell) created quite a few videos and performances along this vain and our first being Convoy vs the Bandit http://www.widelode.com/convoy-vs-the-bandit. We learnt a lot from the early Av videos and developed our technique and started creating more complex pieces like Worldy Music http://www.widelode.com/worldy-music, and Cardiff Characters http://www.widelode.com/cardiffcharacters, we had always wanted to look at a much larger project that was driven by the AV but hadn't found the right one till now. There just seemed a natural synergy between a project that was champi

The Mexican mural movement goes back to the Mexican Revolutionary past. After the Revolution ended in 1917 the new Mexican government established commissions for public buildings, churches, hospitals, museums, and administrative buildings were painted with various murals to depict Mexican history. Sometimes the murals portray the Mexican peasant, armed insurrections and the history of Mexico. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Sigerios represented this early movement of peoples art. The notion of the artists was that art should be accessible to everybody not just the elite. Many of these murals are still displayed and well-known by the Mexican people.