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Past Projects with videoclips:
If I Knew Now What I Knew Then • Unaccompanied Video Installation You've Chosen Numero Uno • Backward IF I KNEW NOW WHAT I KNEW THEN 2001/02 – solo performance & video, created as part of ‘Scotland’s Year of the Artist’. Residency/ collaboration with Stirling University’s Psychology Department (Face Perception Lab). UK & Irish tour The Scotsman (Joyce McMillan): “Words, music & film, stay in the mind like something strong & healing. The overall effect is beautiful & full of a kind of soul-saving gentleness. Rutherford’s vision is ultimately uplifting”.  [] view the video (duration 2:14 / 1.6MB) [] UNACCOMPANIED VIDEO INSTALLATION The project is an open invitation to non Brits of all ages living in Glasgow to come and sing direct to camera, popular or traditional songs from their own land, without music - hence "Unaccompanied". A serious document of international song involving over 60 people and 200 songs to date. The project started in Ghent, Belgium during April/ May 2003. The venue an empty shop in the city centre. The video installation (3 screens involving a live mix at certain times during the day). The sound will be broadcast onto the street, catching the attention of passers-by, encouraging people to stop and listen, or come in and enjoy the comfortable environment. People can stay for 5 minutes or longer during the two hour live mix sessions, enjoying free refreshments and a chance to chill-out and be transported by voices from all over the world.The idea is a simple one: that the people in the project are on their own, away from their own land - unaccompanied - without familiar reference points of landscape, language or shared history. Through the remembrance of the words and rhythm of popular or traditional songs, the viewer will see the person temporarily transported. While the viewer may not get the exact meaning of the words, they can recognise stories of love, loss, departure and life struggles. Audio connections from place to place can be recognised as certain notes, rhythms and styles repeat themselves.  [] view the video (duration 8:27 / 5.8MB) [] YOU'VE CHOSEN NUMERO UNO Extracts from short film Based around the ‘Blind Date’ television game show, three local residents of Banff describe an ideal date with themselves whilst discussing attraction and relationships. Developed from an earlier piece ‘If I Knew Now What I Knew Then’’, where I morph into a male version of myself, section entitled ‘I Fell In Love With My Doppelganger’ 2001 Spring - Thematic International Residency at Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, (Up Close and Personal)  [] view the video (duration 3:35 / 3.5MB) [] BACKWARD Large-scale new performance & video piece involving 11 performers aged 9 – 67. Writer/ Director. Research & Development stage funded by Scottish Arts Council.  [] view the video (duration 4:30 / 7.8MB) [] WHERE D'YE GET THOSE EYES Solo performance at Edinburgh’s Book Festival  [] view the video (duration 1:06 / 5.6MB) [] [] back to top [] |