Toby Dye’s The Corridor is a love letter to the work of Stanley Kubrick. The origins of the idea came from the seemingly never-ending camera zooms of Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. Dye wanted to create a film installation in which the audience felt part of the film, immersed within a camera zoom that never ends. That concept grew into something that was hugely ambitious and highly technical to produce, ironically making it very much in the tradition of the man who inspired it. The installation is viewed from inside a square room in which all four walls are filled with the same never-ending tracking shot, travelling down the same identical corridor, but on each wall we see a different character journeying along their own, never-ending narrative. Their stories bleed into one another, with characters criss-crossing into each other’s corridors as their stories weave together to form a disorientating, hypnotic, Kubrickian tale of control, violence and the doomed cycle of power.

Shaping a Space for Artists’ Film, at the Future Now Symposium, highlights the connections between distribution, production and curation of artists’ film and moving image, recognising the fluidity of the genre. What is the crossover between contemporary fine art practice and mainstream cinema? James Boaden (University of York) and Sarah Perks (Home) look at the way the medium is exhibited and how this can challenge perceptions, as well as noting the current platforms available in terms of distribution. An important question is asked: What is the key difference between being an artist and a filmmaker?

The session runs 26 May, York St John University. For more information: www.aestheticamagazine.com/art-prize/symposium-2017

The Corridor has been shortlisted for the 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize. A new Virtual Reality version of the work can be seen at York Art Gallery as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition from 26 May. For more information: www.aestheticamagazine.com/art-prize/exhibition

Credits:
1. Trailer for The Corridor. Courtesy of Toby Dye and Vimeo.