Anne Rees-Mogg

Real Time

Anne Rees-Mogg

Real Time is a reflexive documentary essay on time and a personal evocation of the filmmaker’s childhood and her feelings towards ageing and death. Conceived as patchwork of photographs, re-enacted memories and recorded conversations, the film is structured around a car journey from London to the Rees-Mogg family home in Temple Cloud, Somerset.

A Length of Time

Anne Rees-Mogg

Anthony Brueger

A Length of Time is a portrait of Anthony Bruegger, a young stock car racer. He is the filmmaker’s nephew and also appears in some of her other films. The film’s title refers to time in film, which can be measured in lengths of film material (100ft, 300ft, etc), and which Anne Rees-Mogg compares and contrasts here to lived time.

Nothing Is Something

Anne Rees-Mogg

The title is a quotation from Duchamp. The film is about the colours and structures of soap bubbles, oil on water etc.

Grandfather's Footsteps

Anne Rees-Mogg

My Mother found an old cigar box full of glass negatives, stereoscopic views, mostly of the Somerset countryside taken by my great grandfather Henry Stiles Savory, who was a country clergyman. Later some more boxes of his negatives turned up at a country house sale. I printed them and made enlargements from some of them, and a few years later the idea came to me to use them in a film. 'In Grandfather's Footsteps the film-maker re-evokes the presence of her great-grandfather, Henry Stiles Savory, a Victorian clergyman, photographer and scientist. It's not a costume drama, bringing in his writings, and his personal effects - books, machines, photographs - Anne Rees-Mogg emphasizes her own links with him and his preoccupations. She achieves a real sense of timelessness.' - Jo Comino

Living Memory

Anne Rees-Mogg

My intention was to explore the landscape where I spent my early life, and to some extent the people who helped me to inhabit it. So I started by flying over this landscape and was filmed while doing so. My new view of a place with which I am very familiar is an important aspect of the film.

Sentimental Journey

Anne Rees-Mogg

The first part of the film is in colour and consists of arguments about how to make films and what film to make. The film then changes to black and white and the argument continues about houses and planning, with shots of the destruction of a house, and shots from other films of the houses it used to be. The arguments are not conclusive and the film is about doubts rather than certainties. - A.R.

Muybridge Film

Anne Rees-Mogg

Time and motion study. Renny Croft turning a cartwheel, from fast to slow motion, also stopped and shuffled.

Macbeth a Tragedy

Anne Rees-Mogg

Experimental Shakespeare: prose and poetry, reading and performance, with filming mechanics laid bare.

Welcome/Adieu

Anne Rees-Mogg

A patriotic rendering of all the verses of God Save the Queen with some Victorian lantern slides.

Transmogrification

Anne Rees-Mogg

A short film about the assumption of roles. A voice-over offers a long list of synonyms for transformation: change, modulation, shift, turn, mutation… Two girls are transformed into 18th century young ladies by putting on dresses. A performer, Alexei Sayle, gets ready for and then goes into his routine. Made, like many of Anne Rees-Mogg’s films, in the Rees-Mogg family home in Somerset, Transmogrification features her nieces and nephews Charlotte, Emma, Thomas and Jacob.