Roderick Buchanan: Film, Video and 18th-Century Politics
23 September 2005 - 13 November 2005
Roderick Buchanan (b. 1965, Glasgow) is an explorer of people, places, forgotten histories and the political implications of the everyday.
Using 35mm film, video and installation, his work embraces the colourful life of a renegade Scottish exile (Thomas Muir Help Desk, 2003); a football Club's European Winners Cup run charted by newspaper coverage (83/03,2003) and the relationship of one nation's history to another implied in his most recent film of soldiers from different infantry regiments (History Painting, 2004). Buchanan favours 35mm film to pinpoint and linger on detail that could otherwise disappear on video or pass unnoticed in real life.
Roderick Buchanan (b. 1965, Glasgow) is an explorer of people, places, forgotten histories and the political implications of the everyday.
Using 35mm film, video and installation, his work embraces the colourful life of a renegade Scottish exile (Thomas Muir Help Desk, 2003); a football Club's European Winners Cup run charted by newspaper coverage (83/03,2003) and the relationship of one nation's history to another implied in his most recent film of soldiers from different infantry regiments (History Painting, 2004). Buchanan favours 35mm film to pinpoint and linger on detail that could otherwise disappear on video or pass unnoticed in real life.