Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen is Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK, where he is currently the Head of The School of Media Music and Performance. He regularly conducts guest workshops at international film schools, such as the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba, where he was Head of Editing between 2001 and 2009. He was born in Ghana to a Danish father and Ghanaian mother in 1956. He grew up, and was primarily educated, in Denmark, with a few years of schooling in Britain. After a stint of Law studies at Århus University in Denmark, he then went on to study film production at York University in Toronto, Canada, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Specialist Honours in Film Production in 1983. He returned to Britain in 1984, where he has lived and worked since. He gained his PhD from the University of Salford, 2002.

this is an example of his still life photography.

This is a screen grab from one of his films 'Silent Accomplice', Set in rural and urban Britain, The Silent Accomplice is a story seen through the perspective of water that flows from a spring to the sea. This ever-present silent protagonist engages with people in often intimate moments in their lives, giving us an unusual and intimate snap shot of contemporary living. Episodic and peripatetic in construction, and poetically blending fiction and documentary, the narrative weaves its way in and out of specific people's lives to reveal a Britain with hidden and unspoken disparities and aspirations.

Fujifilm 2012 submit;

more ideas;

My ideas for this assignment are that i want to apply bright, bold, dramatic make up onto various models,  i was thinking of using elderly people to model this upon too as i think it would create an interesting texture and add depth to the photographs e.g. with wrinkly skin.

Ideas for Extreme Make Up;

MAC Cosmetics has been known for some fairly far-out collaborations, but this one's definitely the furthest-out collaboration the Canadian-born makeup brand has forged to date. MAC's fall collection, slated for Sept. 29th, is modeled by American artist Cindy Sherman, the art world's queen of reinvention and cosmetic disguise.

Known for putting herself into sometimes haunting, often disturbing images that she stages, styles and photographs, Sherman has been reinventing her image and pushing buttons long before Madonna and Lady Gaga (both previous MAC collaborators) thought to do the same.

With the help of props, makeup, prosthetics, wigs and sets, artist Cindy Sherman embodies this Power of Transformation—from off-kilter Hitchcock heroine to fresh corpse, Caravaggio Portrait to Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Maven—all elaborate exercises in trying on different personas. In the campaign we've longed forever to conceive, Cindy Sherman for M·A·C created three characters using three different colour stories. We're living in a time when people of all persuasions have become bolder than ever about the ways they choose to express themselves: with a colourful palette of possibilities, You are the Artist, You are your own Subject, and no matter how fearfully you begin, you become fearless in the process.

EXTREME

Definition of Extreme;

ex·treme  (k-strm) adj. 1. Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest: the extreme edge of the field. 2. Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense: extreme pleasure; extreme pain. 3. Extending far beyond the norm: an extreme conservative. See Synonyms at excessive. 4. Of the greatest severity; drastic: took extreme measures to conserve fuel. 5. Biology a. Characterized by severe, usually oxygen-poor environmental conditions. b. Having an affinity for such conditions: an extreme microorganism. 6. Sports a. Very dangerous or difficult: extreme rafting. b. Participating or tending to participate in a very dangerous or difficult sport: an extreme skier. 7. Archaic Final; last. n. 1. The greatest or utmost degree or point. 2. Either of the two things situated at opposite ends of a range: the extremes of boiling and freezing. 3. An extreme condition. 4. An immoderate, drastic expedient: resorted to extremes in the emergency. 5. Mathematics a. The first or last term of a ratio or a series. b. A maximum or minimum value of a function. 6. Logic The major or minor term of a syllogism.

Previous Winners

Above are last year winners and merit winners, i was lucky enough to be a merit winner.

Fuji Film 2012

Fuji Film 2012For this assignment we have to submit 5 images to fuji film to show the theme 'Extreme'.

This could be anything that comes across as being extreme.

IDEAS;

.Extreme Hair

.Extreme Make Up

.Extreme Piercings

.Extreme Tattoo's

.Extreme Clothing

.Extreme Weather

.Extreme Sports