current work details
Roles:
Artist, documentary maker, stills photographer, video camera person, editor, director
Company:
Nineteenth World
Website:
http://www.julian-richards.co.uk
Where I work:
I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills:
Final Cut Pro; cameras: Beta SP, TRV900, Z1
Availability:
Neither, I am too busy
training
Video production at Connections Communications, London, BA Fine Art at Central St Martin's, London.
personal info
Films I wish I had made:
Mirror (not to mention Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris and Stalker), 2001: A Space Odyssey, La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, Wise Blood, Apocalypse Now, The Dead, The Shining, Breaking the Waves, Dark Star, Don't Look Now, Lawrence of Arabia, Aguirre: Wrath of God, The Truman Show, All About My Mother, Close-Up, Spiritual Voices, Rostov-Luanda, Koyaaniqatsi, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, Daratt, The Seeds
(Nasiona) by
Wojciech Kasperski.
I cried watching:
Ma vie en rose, All About My Mother, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (and occasionally The Archers).
I left the cinema during:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Directors I love:
Andrei Tarkovsky, Nicolas Roeg, Stanley Kubrick, Pedro Almodovar, Federico Fellini, Abbas Kiarostami, Abderrahmane Sissako, David Lynch.
My desert island discs:
Eight Line Poem (from Hunky Dory by David Bowie), any sonata or partita for solo violin by J.S. Bach, chorale prelude in F minor for organ by J.S. Bach (title music for Solaris), Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus (from Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messaien), The Boy With the Thorn In His Side (from The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths), Ocean Rain by Echo and The Bunnymen, A Pair of Brown Eyes (from Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by The Pogues), Moonage Daydream (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie).
Books I have given my friends:
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down To Size by Tor Norretranders, Plain Pleasures and other stories by Jane Bowles, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Climbers and Light by M. John Harrison
My death row meal:
I'll pass.
The best thing I own:
Whatever camera I'm using at the moment.
More:
I was born in the suburbs, but the suburbs were not born in me.
