Geoffrey Cox and filmmaker Keith Marley presented a new documentary film, ‘a part of a greater whole: a film about Nice’(2010), at the Documentary Now! conference at Burbeck College, London on 15th January 2010. The film is in part a homage to the City Symphonist filmmakers of the 1920s and especially Jean Vigo’s, ‘A Propos de Nice’ and Dziga Vertov’s, ‘Man with a Movie Camera’. It explores the importance and creative treatment of diegetic sound as well as the use of real-time video and audio software to manipulate the filmic materials. It is a prototype of a planned longer version.
As part of the University of Huddersfield’s GEMdays Festival of electronic and mixed media music, Geoffrey Cox had a Portrait concert on 27th January 2010. The works featured covered the last 10 years and comprised fixed media ‘tape’ pieces: ‘Foggy Road 2000′ and ‘I’m Not Elvis’; multimedia works made in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Keith Marley, ‘Introducing: wc lowry’, ‘Cider Makers’ and ‘a part of a greater whole: a film about Nice’, and the premiere of ‘No Escape’ (2009), a 25 minute piece for live pianist (Philip Thomas) and film.
