Welcome to Mark Parry Media

Output is across a number of areas in the arts and media including broadcast documentary, short film (drama, dance, experimental), digital media (installation and cross-art collaborations), theatre and dance (video and lighting design).

I work with light, film, digital video and photography both separately and in combination. These elements of my work can be found in the separate categories on the menu at the top of the page but they are all part of one approach which is driven by ideas, context and conveying meaning and emotion - finding the right combination of forms and detail within those forms, to create a seamless whole. The creative process encompasses the different disciplines, informed by each, whether it results in a film, lighting design or installation.

Video Lighting Design, water, suspended film and dancer

News:
I will be making a new projection installation on the theme of 'Artists at Work', commissioned by Somerset Art Works, The Brewhouse and Reveal, to be shown at The Brewhouse, Taunton 11 Sept - 9 Oct.
'TopShot' will be presented by Dance Digital at High Chelmer Shopping Centre, Chelmsford 20-26 Sept.
'Canon' a new collaborative work with Thomas Hall and commissioned by Sadler's Wells. Shown on 30th and 31st Jan as part of 'Sampled' event.
'TopShot' was presented as part of British Dance Edition 2010 at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham on 6th Feb.

Current Projects

Topshot

An interactive installation, in collaboration with Thomas Hall, where the viewers actively shape and become part of the work in a new take on the 'Busby Berkeley Topshot'. Each participant has a unique creative experience governed by their own interaction as they step onto the silver screen. Watch a video here. Supported by Swindon Dance.

Blackpool Art Commission

A large scale artwork inspired by the illuminated signs in B&B windows. I worked with residents of a number of streets to create their own personal messages to the world, in light from their windows. Some of these messages are now being exhibited at FYC Gallery and the Town Hall in Blackpool.

Project Notes 1

A Few Little Drops 1

In one part of the installation video was projected onto a semi-transparent wall. Performers emerged from the shadows in a room beyond the screen to integrate their live physical presence with the video imagery.

Augustine

Ideas from a period of research and development and collaboration included creating compositions and texture through use of a range of very minimal variations on white light, framing the space physically with lights, performers manipulating reflected light on stage.

Project Notes 2

More Curly

This collaboration with a choreographer created a room from multiple projections, viewed from the fourth wall and inhabited by dancers. It played with mass and perspective using travelling shots, surfaces and open landscapes. The majority of light came from the projections themselves.

One

The idea for this lighting design was to reflect, through light, the spiritual journey of the lead character alongside his physical journey. With minimal set and touring to a wide range of venue sizes, the lighting had to convey with a simple rig many different looks but an overarching logic.

Project Notes 3

A Few Little Drops 2

One of the projections, on the wall of a derelict house, showed a rising water level and submerged furniture, filling the entire wall in order to be part of the fabric of the house and its history. The lighting was ‘makeshift’, blending rather than competing with the images. Dim emergency fluorescents and work lights were used.

Seascape

This solo project was set up in a disused indoor market, visible through a series of windows on 2 sides, using computer controlled projection and light to appear to trap a series of slowly shifting and changing seascapes within a room on dry land. The cycles were programmed to run remotely only at night for 3 weeks.