David Valentine
David Valentine
writer | director | filmmaker
David Valentine is a filmmaker who likes to explore and experiment with modern technologies, both developing and outdated, to find new ways of applying them to the content and meaning of film. Credited as one of the people to have advanced video sniffing to an art form and social tool, his experiments with CCTV have been exhibited and screened around the world, the most well known of which is shopping mall free-running short film The Duellists winner of the Audience 3rd Prize at the sidewalkCINEMA Festival and short listed for the Big Issue Film Festival Award.
David is also one of the founding members of MediaShed, a collective of artists interested in repurposing technology and the first free-media centre in the East of England. During his time there he began his experiments with surveillance technology as a way of making filmmaking more accessible to people on low incomes. This resulted in MediaShed’s collaboration with Eyebeam Gallery, New York to develop Gearbox, a website of free-media tools for making art and film.
Working with hard-to-reach young people and school students David has produced nationally distributed and award winning short films, developing a reputation for creating unusual video projects that both strongly engage client groups and also garner them recognition for their work. An earlier background in corporate video and print established a solid filmmaking foundation from which to explore more experimental approaches to both filmmaking and teaching.
Currently David continues to work in a variety of on set roles on a range of traditional and experimental film projects while developing his own projects: a large scale CCTV musical set across an entire town and a science-fiction stereoscopic 3D short. He also continues to work as video technologies journalist for Showreel magazine.
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