Steve Bird’s Videos
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In the late 1980s I moved to live on a smallholding high in the Derbyshire Peak District. It was quite a shock for a townie like me to witness the sheer force of the extreme weather that is the norm…
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Beyond The Varnish: Turner (A Private View)
03:13It must be stressed that, as the subtitle suggests, this is a “private view” of Turner’s world. To have attempted some kind of literal depiction would have been pointless. There…
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I have always loved cafés. Sit me in a quiet room and I will probably fall asleep, but in a café, surrounded by strangers going about their lives, meeting with their friends, maybe their…
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11:41
We’ve all had those times in life when each day drags on in an endless, relentless sameness. Those times when the end of the tunnel is way out of sight. When the only way to survive is to…
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Hanley Friday April 27 2007 11a.m.
10:00Flâneur • noun• a man about town who strolls around and observes society. ORIGIN French, from flâner ‘saunter, lounge’. (The Compact Oxford English Dictionary) Maybe…
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11:38
The town of my birth, Stoke on Trent, is busily turning itself into a giant demolition site, under the auspices of what the City Council like to call "regeneration". Everywhere you turn…
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01:00
The inspiration for this video work comes from the numerous, extremely strange radio stations which broadcast at the high end of the shortwave band. Generally considered to be in some way associated…
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07:14
This video was one of my early works, before they became more narrative in content. It was made almost exclusively in "Artmatic" on a Mac using as its starting point three still photographs…
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14:59
Apart from death and taxes little in this life can be more certain than change. For better or worse, very little is constant, especially in the ever evolving entity that we call the city. As time…
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Here are all of the videos that Steve Bird has uploaded to Vimeo. Appearances are videos that Steve Bird has been credited in by others.