Marine Court Rendezvous

By Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair
Photographed by Rob Petit at Milkwood, featuring Rebecca Marshall, sound by Susan Stenger

This video installation is a series of documentary-fictions shot in and around Marine Court, St Leonard’s on Sea – a 1930s crumbling modernist building in the style of a Cunard luxury liner. In essence, Marine Court Rendezvous is a film that was never made, containing within it numerous false starts, trial shots, one-off auditions in blind corridors.

There is even a travelogue about the performer’s walk through the town towards the set. Everything is definitively provisional. The score by Susan Stenger is constructed in another country around footage that has never been seen. The footage shot at Marine Court is intertwined with gothic hints and film quotations as diverse as The Shining, Rear Window and Le Mépris.

Marine Court Rendezvous, it becomes apparent, is a deleted feature inspired by its location.

Website: http://www.dlwp.com/WhatsOn/ExhibitionDetail.aspx?EventId=4890