Gavin FridayDocumentary – Topic – Gavin Friday – Official Site http://gavinfriday.com Official Site Wed, 09 May 2012 19:19:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Artists for Kosovo http://gavinfriday.com/archive/events/artists-for-kosovo/ http://gavinfriday.com/archive/events/artists-for-kosovo/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:45:31 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/?page_id=4899

In 1999, Gavin Friday travelled to Kosovo on behalf of the charity Concern, to film a documentary highlighting the plight of Kosovan refugees. The 30-minute video documentary ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’ was completed and shown on RTE television on December 17th, 1999.

Gavin: “Why? I don’t really know, it’s all too convoluted and to tell the truth, the `why?’ is not that important. Like most things in my life, I make it up as I go along. A planned accident. Over a few pints in May of this year, myself and a couple of friends, Anne-Louise Kelly and Sheila Roche, decided to do something constructive to help the plight of the refugees in Kosovo.”

Exhibition: Artists for Kosovo

Anne-Louise Kelly approached Concern and offered to help fundraise. There were lots of ideas, one of which was an art exhibition: “Artists For Kosovo”. Laura Magahy and Aileen Corkery of Temple Bar Properties jumped on board.

“Artists for Kosovo”, a slide-show of work by renowned Irish artists and the children of St Audeon’s Nationa School set to Friday/Seezer music, was shown in Meeting Place Square in Dublin’s Temple Bar from 27th July to 30th August 1999. It aimed to create awareness, and stimulate reaction to the inhumane situation in Kosovo. The 34 artists who contributed included Guggi, Perry Ogden, Maria Pizzuti, Claire Carpenter, Sibylle Ungers, Tom Matthews, Laurent Mellet and Rachel Ballagh.

Documentary: Three Wishes for Kosovo

Three weeks after the Nato ceasefire, on Concern’s request, Gavin and a film crew went to Kosovo to shoot a short film, as hundreds of thousands of Kosovar refugees returned to their homeland. Nothing could have prepared him for what he experienced over the few days in Kosovo:

Gavin: “From the moment we crossed the border at Macedonia, the tension and fear was enough to make one vomit. I was frightened, the film crew were frightened, everywhere looked and felt like hell on earth. Every village, town and city we went to was flattened to the ground. Everywhere we went, people asked us “do you want to film the dead bodies?”

On the last day of filming, the team spent an afternoon with a group of refugee children. They played party games and painted pictures and Gavin tried his hand at balloon magic.

Gavin: “I was crap. So much for my crash course with Joe the Magic Man. It was in this context that one could finally feel some sense of optimism. I asked the children if they had three wishes for Kosovo, what they would be. Nearly every child had the same wishes to have peace in Kosovo, to have a new house, to have things the way they used to be.”

Múc the Flying Pig

The third part of the project revolved around a 12ft high, 8ft long and 5ft wide metal pig with wings. ‘Múc’ enabled the public, but in particular children, who are excluded from the normal credit card appeals, to ‘feed the pig’ with donations towards the Kosovo Appeal.

Read more about Múc the Flying Pig.

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/archive/events/artists-for-kosovo/feed/ 0 Artists for Kosovo logo Gavin Friday composes music for Anton Corbijn documentary http://gavinfriday.com/2012/03/16/gavin-friday-composes-music-for-anton-corbijn-documentary/ http://gavinfriday.com/2012/03/16/gavin-friday-composes-music-for-anton-corbijn-documentary/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:29:00 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/?p=4637 Gavin Friday has composed music for a new documentary about Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn by director Klaartje Quirijns.

“Anton Corbijn Inside Out” is an intimate and revealing portrait of an influential artist and the result of almost four years of filming by Quirijns. The documentary features appearances by many of the artists Corbijn has worked with including Lou Reed, George Clooney, U2, Metallica and Depeche Mode.

Quirijns calls Corbijn “the kingmaker of the modern gods, the way he has defined the image of the likes of U2 and Depeche Mode and has given them the face that the public has come to know.”

The score for “Anton Corbijn Inside Out” was composed by by Gavin Friday, with Jolyon Vaughan Thomas and additional composition by Herbie Macken. Quirijns and Corbijn had approached Gavin when he played at the Crossing Border festival in The Hague late 2011 to request his involvement:

Gavin Friday: “Corbijn’s work first hit me in the head via the infamous Joy Division NME cover in the late ’70′s. His photographs and his masterful expressionistic videos were for me as poignant and as important as the music and the bands and artists he worked with.

“I first met Anton in the early 1980′s and immediately bonded with the ‘Long Man from the Lowlands’. He became a very good friend. Earlier this year we composed the score for Klaartje Quirijns’ intimate ‘fly on the wall’ documentary “Inside Out”.

“It’s a beautiful and honest film showing Anton as he is rarely seen: at work, alone and with his family, a very quietly poignant and moving portrait. Hopefully we captured some of the essence of this great man in our music.”

The 80-minute documentary premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012 and is on general release in The Netherlands from March 22.

Gavin has also recently been involved with Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s film “This Must Be The Place” (starring Sean Penn, Frances McDormand and Eve Hewson). The soundtrack of the movie features Gavin Friday’s song “Lord I’m Coming”. “This Must Be The Place” is released in Ireland on March 23 and April 6 in the UK.

Watch the trailer for “Anton Corbijn Inside Out”:

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/2012/03/16/gavin-friday-composes-music-for-anton-corbijn-documentary/feed/ 2 Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn http://gavinfriday.com/2009/09/03/shadow-play-the-making-of-anton-corbijn/ http://gavinfriday.com/2009/09/03/shadow-play-the-making-of-anton-corbijn/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:54:18 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/?p=965 Anton Corbijn Shadow Play

Gavin Friday, Guggi, Bono, Michael Stipe, Brandon Flowers, Dave Gahan and others tell the story of Anton Corbijn, “the ultimate insider who now finds himself outside the Hollywood system” in Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn, a documentary by Josh Whiteman now making the rounds on the festival circuit.

Anton has photographed Gavin many times over the years, but will be best known to Friday-fans for his iconic work on the Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves album sleeve artwork.

Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves sleeve

Anton Corbijn is currently working on his second feature film, a thrilller starring George Clooney based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman. He is also making a new photo/lyrics book with Tom Waits.

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/2009/09/03/shadow-play-the-making-of-anton-corbijn/feed/ 0 Anton Corbijn Shadow Play Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves sleeve Documentary: New York Tumble – Gary Jermyn – Made in Manhattan http://gavinfriday.com/2008/05/05/documentary-new-york-tumble-gary-jermyn-made-in-manhattan/ http://gavinfriday.com/2008/05/05/documentary-new-york-tumble-gary-jermyn-made-in-manhattan/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 12:50:28 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/2008/05/05/new-york-tumble-made-in-manhattan/ ‘The Man who saved With or Without You’. That’s how Bono describes Gavin in “New York Tumble” a new documentary to be aired on RTE TV in Ireland. Film maker Gary Jermyn filmed Bono, Gavin and Guggi in New York in 2001, talking about their friendship. It features interviews with celebrities such as The Edge, Jim Sheridan and Michael Stipe. Gavin takes the film crew to his favourite place in New York… a meeting with Hal Willner in the Chelsea Hotel.

The documentary was renamed ‘Made in Manhattan’ after the events of September 11, 2001.

Synopsis:
Presented by Gary Jermyn and featuring Bono, The Edge, Christy Turlington and Ed Burns, ‘Made in Manhattan’ drops in on two events which have gathered together international celebrities from the worlds of Rock, Fashion, Film and Art. The two events are U2 playing at Madison Square Garden, as well as Bono’s long time friend, artist Guggi, who is opening a major exhibition of his work in one of New York’s most prestigious Art Galleries. In the downtime between these two events, Gary Jermyn spends time with Bono, The Edge, Guggi, Christy Turlington, Gavin Friday and the actor and fiancee of Christy Turlington, Ed Burns, as they bring him to their favourite places in New York to discuss Creativity, Fame, Faith and Friendship.

Gary visits John Lennon’s memorial with Bono; goes on a guitar pilgrimage with The Edge to some of New York’s most famous music stores; does yoga with Christy Turlington and visits her secret favourite place in New York; plays chess with actor Ed Burns; and travels to The Chelsea Hotel with Gavin Friday to meet a very special person. All the action of the week culminates in The Tony Shafrazi Gallery where Bono introduces Guggi’s infamous tumble.

A Graph Films production for RTÉ

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/2008/05/05/documentary-new-york-tumble-gary-jermyn-made-in-manhattan/feed/ 0 Gavin Friday contributes to Scott Walker tribute film http://gavinfriday.com/2007/01/19/gavin-friday-contributes-scott-walker-tribute-film/ http://gavinfriday.com/2007/01/19/gavin-friday-contributes-scott-walker-tribute-film/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:13:41 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/?p=1475 Verve pictures are releasing Stephen Kijak’s ‘Scott Walker – 30 Century Man’ in April of this year, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Walker’s latest album ‘The Drift’, as well as interviews with friends, collaborators, and fans including, among others:

David Bowie, Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, Neil Hannon, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting, Dot Allison, Simon Raymonde, Richard Hawley, Rob Ellis, Johnny Marr, Gavin Friday, Lulu, Peter Olliff, Angela Morley, Ute Lemper, Ed Bicknell, Evan Parker, Benjamin Biolay, Hector Zazou, Mo Foster, Phil Sheppard, Pete Walsh, and more.

‘Scott Walker – 30 Century Man’, executive-produced by David Bowie, has been invited to the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.

Read more about the film and watch the trailer.

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/2007/01/19/gavin-friday-contributes-scott-walker-tribute-film/feed/ 0 Three Wishes on RTE http://gavinfriday.com/1999/11/18/three-wishes-on-rte/ http://gavinfriday.com/1999/11/18/three-wishes-on-rte/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 1999 22:09:14 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/1999/11/18/three-wishes-on-rte/ RTE (Irish television) will screen Gavin’s film ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’ on Friday, December 17th at 8.00pm on RTE 1

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/1999/11/18/three-wishes-on-rte/feed/ 0 Three Wishes for Kosovo http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo/ http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:34:14 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo/ By Gavin Friday
From: Irish Independent, September 26, 1999
“Taxi, Barry’s Balloon’s Phibsboro, then I’m off to Artane to see ‘Joe’ the magic man” ” What’s the story Bud?” “I’m just getting a crash course in balloon magic….” “What are you doing, starting up a circus?”
“No, I’m going to Kosovo” “Kosovo? Why? Are you alright in the head?”
I sat back in the taxi… lit up a cigarette and thought… “Jesus, maybe I’m losing it?”
Kosovo? Why? I don’t really know, it’s all too convoluted and to tell the truth the ‘why?’ is not that important. Like most things in my life, I make it up as I go along… a planned accident. In May of this year, over a few pints myself and a couple of friends, Anne-Louise Kelly and Sheila Roche decided to do something constructive to help the plight of the refugees in Kosovo. We approached ‘Concern’ and offered our services to help fundraise.
We had lots of ideas: one was an art exhibition…. ‘Artists For Kosovo’. Laura Magahy and Aileen Corkery of Temple Bar Properties immediately jumped on board and with their huge support, the Dublin artistic community and the children of St. Audeon’s Christchurch National School produced an incredible body of work.
Another mad idea was a giant flying piggybank. Once again Temple Bar Properties and a cast of thousands helped us out here, but it was the surreal genius of the sculptor Laurent Mellet that brought the idea truly to life: ‘Muc’ the flying piggy bank.
Then in July, three weeks after the N.A.T.O ceasefire, on Concern’s request, we went to Kosovo to shoot a short film, as hundreds of thousands of Kosovar refugees returned to their homeland.
Nothing could have prepared me for what I experienced in the few days I was in Kosovo. From the moment we crossed the border at Macedonia the tension and fear was enough to make one vomit. I was frightened, the film crew were frightened. Everywhere looked and felt like hell on earth. Every village, town, city, we went to was flattened to the ground, and everywhere we went people asked us: “Do you want to film the dead bodies?”
Hundreds of boobytrapped bodies lay decomposing in fields, streams, on roads. Limbs, skeletons, scattered all over the place. Fathers, sons, uncles, missing – presumed dead. Thousands were massacred, mostly men. Strangely my most vivid memory is the smell, something I can’t even begin to describe.
On our last day of filming, we spent an afternoon with a group of refugee children. We played party games, painted pictures, I even got to do a bit of balloon magic (I was crap, so much for my crash course with ‘Joe’ the magic man) it was in this context one could feel some sense of optimism.
I asked the children if they had ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’… what would they be. Nearly every child said the same wishes:
“To have peace in Kosovo”
“To have a new house”
“To have things the way they used to be”
I put the same question to Dominick McSorley (Head of Concern in Kosovo), and his response struck me deeply:
“I suppose if we could put Kosovo back in time… I think that would be my first wish, maybe to an extent there is a certain amount of guilt on our part, we probably should have seen some of this happening. The signs were there. This country was struggling, and for whatever reasons we didn’t notice it, unfortunately we noticed too late” “My second wish is for the children. That is the future, we have to accept that the adults have borne the brunt of this tragedy and they may never come to terms fully with what has happened – but if the children can be protected now, I think there is a future for this country. And I think that’s it… I haven’t got a third wish…..”
Today in Kosovo over one million refugees have returned to a devastated homeland. Most are homeless. What does the future hold for them longterm? I don’t know, but the immediate future holds one of the coldest and most vicious winters in all of Europe. Please Help.

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo/feed/ 0 Three wishes for Kosovo http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo-2/ http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo-2/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:59:24 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo-2/ Gavin has written a piece for this Sunday’s Independent (Irish newspaper) called ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’. Muc the flying piggy bank’s website should be online this weekend Sunday and will carry the text of the piece on it. The URL of the site will be www.mucoink.com.

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]]> http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/26/three-wishes-for-kosovo-2/feed/ 0 Artists for Kosovo documentary completed http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/09/artists-for-kosovo-documentary-completed/ http://gavinfriday.com/1999/09/09/artists-for-kosovo-documentary-completed/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:41:19 +0000 Caroline http://gavinfriday.com/wordpress/1999/09/09/artists-for-kosovo-documentary-completed/ The video documentary ‘Three Wishes For Kosovo’ has been completed. The footage was filmed by Gavin Friday & crew in Kosovo earlier this summer. It will be shown on Irish television later this year.
Muc the Flying Piggy Bank, part of the Artists for Kosovo project, will start his tour of Ireland in Cork, 28th September at the National Ploughing Championships.

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