How do we experience and live in the Everyday spaces and events of urban space and how can these experiences be interpreted and transformed into moving image practice which is itself, grounded in the film and video art practices of the avant-gardes. Can creative cinema practice also join into the asking of questions which are more traditionally thought of as being asked by those such as urban theorists, philosophers, ethnographers, architects, anthropologists, economists and novelists? How would a practice based in moving images begin to ask this question? What can a creative version of reality begin to tell us about how we live in the everyday? What kinds of knowledge and meaning can be gained from asking such a question through a non-linguistic model of representation and practice?

In this seminar I would like to illustrate how some key film and video artist’s can be understood to have gone about asking these questions through their work and in turn illustrate how I have undertaken these questions through my own practice as part of an ongoing practice-led PhD in video art entitled: “Interpreting time, urban space and the everyday through video practice.”