Gavin Hodge:
Artist. One of the founders of Gorilla Tapes and a pioneer
video
artist to work with Britain's Channel 4 in the 80's. Hodge relocated to
Berlin
in 1989 and works as a freelance writer, director and online editor. Current
projects include: Director for Dr Mag - short pieces for a youth magazine
show
for ZDF TV; Director of Potsdamer Platz - two documentaries for Sony Berlin;
and Art Director on several Virtual Reality & Promo films for ART + COM e..V.
The work chosen here, ZYGOSIS, was produced by the British Film Institute and
Channel 4, and was originally screened on Channel 4 in 1991. He is now a
permanent resident in Berlin. His film was chosen here as it provides an
historical context for the political use of imagery, and yet reflects a kind
of critical stance lacking in ethnically produced German works on the
subject.
ZYGOSIS was transmitted twice this year in Germany. |