The creative multi talented Scott Antony, was always more than an actor. An individual with a broad variety of the arts interests be it the performing arts , visual arts exhibitions , photography , film and creative literature.
In the last decade his interests in travel photography been expressed through extensive travel to countries such as Vietnam , the Andes , Peru and Machu Puchu, the Canadian Rockies , Vancouver Island , Salspring Island , Alaska , Central Italy and Italian art and cultural sites , Spains Iconic arts and cultural venues, Malta, and the Western Islands of Scotland.
Composed in photographic short film travelogues with music as a narrative , they express an accute sense of observation with a rich appreciation of natural lights to compose the pictures. The sequence of stills paradoxically create a moving journey illustrated significantly by his five minute film of Condors in the Andes. Their flight is captured in a series of frames that ascend and descent against the changing natural lights of the mountains. While his short of Machu Puchu is a journey top and tailed by train jtravel at dawns arrival and a departure at dusk. In between the size, scale and altitude of the settlement is explored against the sense of time cast by shadows which illustrate the progressing hours. Against this the colours of the mountain hues change as the sun gradually descends.
His film of Vancouver Island expresses a feeling of isolation on a bleak rainy day for a small settlement of wooden houses with no apparent .activity But as a frame by frame shot moves towards a window , a picture clears to show an observer gazing back, Another engaging series of shots pictures show colourful wild birds flying around colourful caged birds on a wooden porch.
A journey through Central Italy illustrates a travelogue sequence of shots like an unfolding journey within this short film. The cultural icons are ilustrated as living environments with streets reflecting the colour of washing and flowerboxes. His artistic interests are also colourfully illustrated in the way the films travel through moasics and paintings not as static features but as part of a creative journey.
To date Scott Antony has created 18 short travelogue films , which are appreciated where ever they are seen, He says of his work ' My aim is to try and capture the sense of place as I found it , not as a record of what was seen , but to share the experience felt. And for me a still image lets the moment linger longer more profoundly , all the more so when steeped in sound. I'd like to think that the things we learn to love and appreciate in life each other and the World around us are pretty universal , some of which I've tried to conjure ' .
Scott Antony will once again be at London's Portobello Film Festival , this September to personally present three of his most recent shorts , the first a five minute lyrical piece of poetic photography illustrating a colourful rose garden in Spain, the second a composite picture of Malta inspired by the landing of St Paul and subsequent foundation of iconic Churches, and third film his most appreciated ten minute travelogue of Machu Puchu.
Thanks to festival sponsors admission is free of charge to the screenings at the Westbourne Studios, 242 Ackland Road, Nottinghill, London ( Tube Ladbroke Grove ) on Thursday September 13th 2012 doors open 630pm for 7 pm screening