Aurora Borealis, northern Norway (2013)
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Aurora Borealis, northern Norway 2013 from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
Excerpts from Arctic Circle aurora borealis shoot, February 2013
Return (2013)
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Return from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
Shot in northern Norway and England, Return explores impermanence and transformation. The music is the piece ‘Breath’ from the Mesmer album.
The Mesmer vignettes (2012)
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The Mesmer vignettes from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
1) Nostalgia 2) Erasure 3) Escape 4) Seduction 5) Decay 6) New growth
A series of film vignettes to pieces from the Mesmer album. These journeys explore unusual perspectives in natural and urban environments.
Sigur Rós – Fjögur Píanó. Directed by Philip Clemo (2012)
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Sigur Rós – Fjögur Píanó. Directed by Philip Clemo from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
As part of the Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Film Experiment
Enter the Earth – become trapped in the endless cycles of life and death, creation and destruction. Then look upwards and transcend – rising to the sun as everything turns to dust below. Then the cycle begins again. Philip Clemo’s film explores intimate macro terrains in a dialogue with the contractions and expansions in Sigur Rós Fjögur Píanó.
Excerpts from ‘The Air Holds Still On My Breath’ (Iceland)
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Excerpts from ‘The Air Holds Still On My Breath’ from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
Shot in Iceland for Philip Clemo’s film ‘The Air Holds Still On My Breath’ this material became the inspiration for his Breath project. This excerpt has been cut to illustrate the ambition and potential of the Breath feature film which is currently in development.
Breath, the movie:
Can you imagine what it would be like to experience the world around you without words? Our analytical brain likes to name and organise what we take in but there is another, much more expansive, way to experience the world. Breath moves beyond traditional narrative and uses music, sound design and extraordinary imagery from unusual perspectives to tell its stories.
This film takes us on a mesmerising cinematic trip through the human journey from forceps to the grave, while in parallel we look at a wider evolution: that of planet Earth. These intertwined journeys are explored as multi-dimensional ‘landscapes’ giving the viewer a bold, unique and emotional understanding of how very different environments can affect, mimic and support each other: how one might be the very essence of the other. We see how our planet evolves and adapts and how our own evolution can play a profound part in this: we can have a symbiotic relationship or potentially harm each other.
The dramas of human and planetary life are illustrated through the metaphors of an ever changing ecology: an aerial camera travels a dry desert and it’s dark deep cracks give way to an intense close up of the brittle hand of an older woman: humanity becomes a mirror of the land. We explore the effect of very different human dimensions on a specially developed ‘energy field’ camera and delve into micro worlds through a cutting-edge light microscopic to explore other-worldly dynamics, eco systems and terrains.
The choices made in a film soundtrack enable us to see the accompanying images very differently. Music and sound design are at the heart of this film – the breath that breathes life into the other elements. The boundaries between abstract sound and composition will constantly be blurred and the dynamics will range from achingly beautiful atmospherics to shocking sonic intensity.
Breath is a very different kind of environmental film: one that helps us to awaken to what is around us. It is an audio-visual sensation: a visual feast, of earth and sky, skin and soul, ice and fire, wrapped together with a powerful and transformative soundtrack. This is a visceral film: it stimulates and challenges the senses, leaving us never quite seeing the world the same way again.
Melt (2009)
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Melt from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
A short film to the second track from the Soundzero album (a musical collaboration with composer and violinist Ysanne Spevack). The film was produced, edited and directed by Philip Clemo and shot on full HD on location in Iceland, mainly from the air using a gyro-stabilised camera mounted on a helicopter.
Shown at the Reykjavik International Film Festival in 2009 and the London Short Film Festival in 2010.
Separated by Shadows Tour 2005/06
Separated by Shadows live tour 2005/6 from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
A compilation of clips from the 2005/06 Separated by Shadows tour. The London Jazz Festival concert was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Nov 2005, with an interview with Philip Clemo.
Philip Clemo (guitar, laptop), Clive Bell (reeds), Tom Chant (sax, clarinet), Kevin Pollard (keyboards), Simon Wagland (cello), John Edwards (bass), Pete Lockett (percussion), Orphy Robinson (percussion) and Mark Sanders (drums, percussion).
Separated by Shadows film (2005)
A one hour film made for the Separated by Shadows tour 2005/06. Shot on location in Iceland, South East Asia and Australasia, using high speed and time-lapse filming techniques, the film explores ideas around the abstraction of nature through the distortion of scale and time.
Live at Cargo, London, 2001
Live at Cargo, London, 2001 from Philip Clemo on Vimeo.
Philip Clemo, Ysanne Spevack, John Edwards and Mark Sanders, live at Cargo in London.
Metal On Water (1999)
Short film made to accompany the opening track of Inhale the Colours. Moves between rich washes of colour and aqueous movement to a furiously paced flickering of abstract light reflections.
Directed by Philip Clemo. Music composed by Philip Clemo and Ysanne Spevack.
An Altered Perspective
(Journeys in the East) (1995)
Interpretations of a journey through Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia and Western New Guinea in 1993/94. Images of landscape, water, exploration, work, ritual, with a multi-layered soundscape of birdcalls, market sellers and street sounds.
Directed by Philip Clemo. Music composed by Philip Clemo.
Objects And Observations (1993)
A vivid, evocative collection of images from Croatia, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom, linked with studio footage.
Directed by Philip Clemo and Colin Gray. Music composed by Philip Clemo.
From The Morning On (1990)
A travelogue based around the passing of a day in India and Nepal, shot on location over six weeks. Shown at the Leicester Independent Film Festival in 1990.
Directed by Philip Clemo and Colin Gray. Music composed by Philip Clemo.
Box In the Sun (1990)
An abstract, richly visual story about the journeys and dreams of a disoriented map reader, with a narration from ‘Under A Glass Bell’ by Anais Nin. Shown at the Leicester Independent Film Festival in 1990.
Directed by Philip Clemo and Colin Gray. Music composed by Philip Clemo.