ABOUT

 

hijack film production based in South Pembrokeshire, Wales, works with moving image and sound within a variety of media and contexts. hijack specializes in arts and science documentary film and media installation for galleries, museums and theatrical release. The co-directors, Gilly Booth and Dr Chris Horrocks, both trained in Fine Art, their ethos housed in collaboration, research and technological innovation.
 
Gilly Booth is an artist film maker. Her art practise re-interprets archives and investigates how the lost function of architecture can persist in cultural memory. She uses documentary techniques to record lived encounters between reality and fiction and translates them across geographical locations and linguistic boundaries. The films/installations re-visit abandoned sites, images, archives, interviews and text, which are then re-mediated within a cinematic or installation context. 

Selected films/installations have been exhibited within international film festivals and galleries: ICA London, Pompidou Centre/Paris, Museum of Modern Art /Tokyo, MOMA/New York, The Museum of the Forgotten/Zurich and Venice Architecture Art Biennale/Italy. 

She has received commissions and awards from: Lottery Arts Council Wales, Arts Humanities Research Council, Paolozzi Foundation, International Development Arts Council Fund, NESTA, Sasakawa Foundation, and Ffilm Cymru. 

Chris Horrocks is a writer and academic. He has published widely in the field of cultural theory, art and technology. His work has appeared in academic and popular books, radio, press and television. His publications include: Introducing Foucault, Baudrillard and the Millennium, Introducing Marshall Mcluhan, Cultures of Colour, The Joy of Sets, The films of Gilbert & George and Marshal Mcluhan, Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of New Media. He is currently writing a book on J G Ballard.

Collaborators: Paul Plowman (moving Image & motion graphics designer), Anthony Burrill (graphic artist, print maker & designer), Jack Mealing (director of photography), Louis Mealing (script & editor ), Harmonic Kinetic/Domonic Robson (interactive design, technology & sound design), Mike Silver (sound composer), Ab Rogers Design (interior & architectural design), Silvia Sacco (executive producer), Jonny Trunk (resonance FM sound composer/archive sound).