For a few rupees more

Dawood, S. 2005. For a few rupees more.

TitleFor a few rupees more
CreatorsDawood, S.
Description

One of 3 winners of international competition for £6000 commission. The piece commissioned was a complex work looking at ideas of translation and deconstruction in cinema.

Taking as its starting point the Spaghetti Western, with its long takes, and locations in Almeria, Spain, shot by Italians recreating the Texas-Mexico border. And using this mutability as a point of entry.

Originally I had been working on developing a film/video work relocating the denouément of the Spaghetti Western to the desert in Pakistan. I had scouted locations, found non-professional actors (in true neo-realist style), story-boarded and was developing the soundtrack for the piece. Realising at this point that the soundtrack was in itself a complex work, I let go of the rest and focussed on this.

The soundtrack involved appropriating and re-arranging the various Morricone scores to the various Leone westerns, to fit my story-board and shot-list. I then commissioned a maestro sitar player to improvise, uninterrupted to my arrangement (a total duration of 40 minutes). Finally for Fribourg a cinema space was constructed, and while white light shone through a projector, the soundtrack was screened to a ticketed audience. Thus looking at the very bare bones of cinema as light and sound – the deconstructing of cinema being something I have returned to again and again, either as text, stills, story-boards etc.

The festival also produced a limited vinyl edition of the soundtrack. And am currently in discussion with David Grien, to show the piece as part of his cinema projx series at the Prince Charles cinema in London for 2006 (previous artists include Cerith Wyn Evans and Jemima Stehli).

Year2005
Output mediaFilm
Media typeVideo

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Reynolds, L. and Dawood, S. 2021. Shezad Dawood in conversation with Lucy Reynolds. The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). 10 (1-2), pp. 74-102. https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00064_7

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Kalimpong (A Lost Future: Shezad Dawood)
Dawood, S. 2018. Kalimpong (A Lost Future: Shezad Dawood) . The Rubin Museum of Art (NYC, USA) 23 Feb - 21 May 2018

Leviathan
Dawood, S. 2017. Leviathan.

Dances with Cryptids
Dawood, S. 2016. Dances with Cryptids. in: Palestra, C. (ed.) Kalimpong London Sternberg Press. pp. 54-62

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Towards the Possible Film
Dawood, S. 2014. Towards the Possible Film .

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Dawood, S. 2013. Black Sun Alchemy, Diaspora and Heterotopia. in: van Noord, G. (ed.) Black Sun London Ridinghouse. pp. pp 4-80

Piercing brightness
Dawood, S. 2012. Piercing brightness.

New dream machine project
Dawood, S. 2012. New dream machine project. Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art 5 December 2012 - 23 February 2013

Feature
Dawood, S. 2009. Feature. Tate, London 06 Feb - 26 Apr 2009

Artists' studio
Dawood, S. 2007. Artists' studio.

Artist's studio
Dawood, S. Perrot, C. (ed.) 2007. Artist's studio. London Culture Shock Media.

Paradise row
Dawood, S., Gino, T. and Hammond, C. 2005. Paradise row.

We Have Met the Enemy & He Is Us
Dawood, S., Ghazi, B., Hulusi, M., Araeen, R., Aramesh, R., Islam, R. and Seize, A. 2005. We Have Met the Enemy & He Is Us.

'Sister Kali's Soul Temple – the Goddess of Death and Aretha Franklin' and 'Lecture in Conversation - an improved dialogue between Albert Camus and Lord Krishna'
Dawood, S. 2005. 'Sister Kali's Soul Temple – the Goddess of Death and Aretha Franklin' and 'Lecture in Conversation - an improved dialogue between Albert Camus and Lord Krishna'. 6900 Bregenz, Bergmannstrasse 6, Austria. 16 Jul - 04 Sep 2005

London in six easy steps
Dawood, S. 2005. London in six easy steps.

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