DOUBLETHINK is a video installation housed inside two shipping containers. It features George MacKay, written by Stuart Evers and scored by Warren Ellis. Commissioned by Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Different Trains 1947
Different Trains 1947 is an audiovisual project commissioned by Metal. It premiered at the Barbican Centre in London on 1st October 2017.
Paradise Lost?
Paradise Lost? is a 9 minute single channel video work by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, featuring Florence Pugh, Toby Sebastian, Sean Harris and Henry Rollines. It was shot within the confine
EDIT
EDIT is a unique collaboration between musician Joe McAlinden, artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, writer Martin McCardie and arts producer Katie Nicoll.
Jumpers
Jumpers (What must I do to be saved) is a large-format video installation that takes inspiration from the religious practice of ‘jumping’ as a form of worship.
First Kiss
First Kiss is an impossible re-enactment. Forsyth & Pollard cast two young actors as themselves to reconstruct a moment that never happened – their first teenage kiss.
PERFORMER. AUDIENCE. FUCK OFF.
Forsyth & Pollard’s film of Performer. Audience. Fuck Off. documents a live performance work they presented at Site Gallery, Sheffield, with Iain Lee.
Run For Me
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard were the recipients of the 2008 Great North Run Moving Image Commission. Run For Me, charts the course of the run, aiming to embody what it means to the runners
Walking Over Acconci
Building on their series of videos reworking video art of the late sixties and early seventies, the piece reworks Vito Acconci’s 1970 performance Learning Piece. Re-Learning Piece was orig
Make Me Yours Again
In June 2007, Forsyth & Pollard were invited to Auckland to make a new exhibition at the Moving Image Centre Toi Rerehiko in Auckland. They created 'Make me yours again', an unscripted portr
Kiss My Nauman
Commissioned by Jarvis Cocker for the Meltdown Festival, Kiss My Nauman is a four channel video installation that references Art Make-Up, by American video artist Bruce Nauman.
Walk With Nauman
Walk With Nauman (Re-Performance Corridor) references Bruce Nauman’s Performance Corridor and his related video, Walk with Contrapposto (both 1968). Forsyth & Pollard re-worked the video c
Walking After Acconci
The first in Iain & Jane's series of re-workings of seminal videos from the late sixties and seventies. Using the language of urban music video, they take Acconci's Walk-Over and cast Plan B
Anyone else isn’t you
Anyone else isn’t you is an unscripted portrait of fourteen young people talking directly to the camera about love and loss. Forsyth & Pollard use the premise of the home-made mixtape as a
File under Sacred Music
File under Sacred Music takes as it’s starting point an infamous bootleg video documenting a live performance by The Cramps for the patients at Napa State Mental Institute. Forsyth & Polla
Fucked up lover
For Fucked up lover, Forsyth & Pollard invited 12 friends to compile an audio mixtape for their lovers. Each participant was then filmed discussing their tape, the music selected and the per
Damaged
Damaged was originally produced as a limited edition of 100 VHS video cassettes labelled with a sticker marked ‘Damaged’. On the cassette is a video shot on a cheap domestic camcorder fe
Chain Smoker, Tap Dancer
Chain Smoker, Tap Dancer was Forsyth & Pollard’s first video work, an early experiment in self-portraiture.
