George Barber
Director
Movies7
- MovieComedy
The inside story of the long-running Hovis TV advertisement as Barber’s voice-over highlights the psychological emptiness of the narratives delivered daily by consumer culture.
Hovis Ad
1994
MovieDocumentaryJim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental.
MovieComedyThirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.
Schweppes Ad
1995
- MovieComedy
On the left side of this video diptych sequences of a typical Hollywood movie of the genre "airplane catastrophy" are showing, while on the right side a man liying in a bath tub talks about how he gradually came to terms with the actual trauma of such a catastrophy and his fear of water. Not only by the contrast of documentary interview and fictional processing of the same topic, but by the redundancies of sound and images between both "panels", telling itself and being told has come to the point.
Passing Ship
1994
- Movie
A humorous rooftop monologue: George Barber explains how he sees the year developing, while waiting for the ever unreliable Dave.
Waiting for Dave
1994
- Movie
A comic monologue, I Was Once In A Shit Show is a recollection of an imaginary art event that tallies with what most artists experience when they are involved in putting on an unfunded group show.
- Movie
"Walking Off Court concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time that a motorway was built right outside his house. He spent a lot of time aimlessly walking in circles around new roads and road works. I contacted him and even ended up playing tennis with him. The video is loosely the story around his experience and his changing relationship to his normal circumstances." - George Barber