Oddball TV
72 Hour Film Challenge
Meet at Westbourne Studios for
your brief to make a short film
in 72 hours. Best film gets prize
at award ceremony on 18th.


7:30pm


Excavating Nicolas Roeg – An evening
with Michael Woodsincluding rare
screening of Sound
Michael Woods is a photographer and
artist, who lives and works in North Kensington,
London. His photographs and Surrealist assemblages
have been widely published and exhibited, and in
1991, he co-authored Paris and the Surrealists
(Thames& Hudson), with George Melly. His television
work includes Countdown to War, starring Ian
McKellen (Granada), The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells,
directed by Robert Young (Hallmark), and a variety
of contributions to productions such as The Clothes
Show (BBC 1), Home Front (BBC 2 ), George Melly’s
Last Stand (BBC 2-4), and Brother’s and Sister’s in
Love (ITV 1-3 ). He made special images for James
Grey’s Little Odessa, starring Tim Roth (Immigrant
Pictures NY), and following this, his friend, the film
director, Nicolas Roeg, invited Woods to work on Two
Deaths, starring Michael Gambon and Sonia Braga, for
which he constructed montage photographs utilized in
the title and credit sequence of the film. In 1999,
again with Nicolas Roeg, he was enlisted to work on
Sound, a celebration of Sound on Film, featuring
Claudia Schiffer, and for which he provided stills and
special photography, on-screen montages, special
effects, and second camera VFX, as well as designing
the final credit sequence (BBC/Sunreset). Sound was
screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, where
Woods exhibited his work from the film at St Andrea.
Puffball, Dan Weldon’s adaptation of Fay Weldon’s
seminal book, directed by Nicolas Roeg, is the last film
Woods worked on. Low budget but with a star studded
cast: Kelly Reilly, Rita Tushingham, Miranda
Richardson, and Donald Sutherland, Woods found
himself providing stills and special photography,
devising and constructing special effects, VFX and EPK
filming, and was even roped in to play a hospital
porter pushing a dying Rita Tushingham in her
wheelchair.
At the present time, Michael Woods is working on a
commission for the Royal Brompton Hospital, Arena of
Hearts, to be installed in December, and two books,
The Terminal Surrealist – Last Photographs of George
Melly 2006-7, and Portobello Memoir.





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