Still waiting for Silbersalz…. here’s a field

It doesn’t really look like it but this shot was taken on a beautiful day. The light was incredible and I took a camera along with me thinking hat it was the last of the colour fuji film I had with me but it turned out to be the last two frames of Tri-X. The lens was a 5cm 2.0 on a Leica M3. I’m still working out how to shoot this camera. I like a very contrasty image . I’m going to try some Pan F plus 50. At the moment I’m getting about one to two decent images per 36. It seems that this lens needs a lot of light. I’m really doubting my move to film. Digital is so easy and It seems to get better results.

Some people think that pictures of trams are boring…..

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As a Filmmaker, Actor, Artist and Cultural Lightning Rod , Stuart faces many challenges. This, the final part of “Le Trilogy de l’isolement”, is a powerful examination of the cultural maze we negotiate in daily life. Stuart’s struggles with His French “self” (“soi”) and his English knowledge of his French self, (also “soi” )not withstanding assimilating into his new found Czech psyche (“ja”), are the garage forecourt briquettes, if you will, that ignite into what we see and hear on screen. “It is not only a question of shouting louder to be understood”, “It is a question of what we need to understand and why it is to be understoodly” he wrote.

At the beginning of the year Stuart, finding himself lost and isolated in Prague, turned to the medium of Film and The French Nouvelle Vague tradition and turned it on its head by filtering his theme through the oblique prism of The City of Prague. Prague is the second character in the trilogy and creates some of the drama and the conflict. More so recently after the closure of the local Launderette, due to ever tightening Government restrictions.

“Beaucoup de Jamais. Jamais de Beaucoup”, the final Film, takes place amid the restrictions. Indeed restriction is one of the themes of the latest film..

Stuart’s films are often difficult to watch, challenging to understand and rarely easy to remember.

Beaucoup de Jamais. Jamais de Beaucoup