If you missed yesterday’s fascinating tribute to Murray Martin at the Side Cinema and Gallery, the last film he made is currently being completed by Ellin Hare, his wife and lifelong collaborator. The clip above is from Shooting Magpies, made in 2005.
Pursuit of Happiness is full of clips that anyone who knows the north east will recognise as scenes once familiar, but now long gone. Gathering seacoal, racing gigs at Appleby, familiar and not forgotten. The launch of ships from the Walker shipyards and from the Wear were magnificent sights: the whole community would gather on the riverbanks to see the result of many months of gruelling labour, and Amber was there.
The ITV documentary Captured in Amber about the collective and its work is being repeated on Thursday 4th September at 11pm. Set your video contraptions, alarm clocks, stopwatches for that.
And this post is in part to remind Graeme Rigby and me to get in touch with each other, and so we will!
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