The next in the series of Four Square Films, Threshold focused on Marco Crivello. During the process of the filming it became clear that it would need to centre around a main theme of "improvisation" as a creative process. This is a process fundamental to all creative disciplines and particularly so in Marco Crivello's work which we wanted to reflect in the film. A visual format is an ideal way of doing this rather than through written word. We are taken into the artist's studio, with revealing footage of the artists' improvised working methods. In an engaging interview, Crivello reflects frankly on his creative dialogue, it's challenges, and how ultimately he believes a surrender to process, with its letting go of expectations and preciousness, is always a threshold to new possibilities. As a backdrop to the film the electric cellist, Bela Emerson was asked to improvise music to the images of the film and to paintings she had viewed. New music was therefore created and one of Bela's recordings can be heard and viewed on her section of the new website. The film was released in the Summer of 2009 in broadcast quality on DVD.

This blog documents the process of making films about the artists that we represent. To date we have completed two films and are in the process of completing the third with film-makers Last Bus. The first in the series featured Ellen Bell and is entitled Hard Words. In the film, Ellen talks about the new body of work exhibited in her solo exhibition, Hard Words, which took place in the Autumn of 2008 at the Air Gallery in central London. Being a radical departure from her previous garment-based works we felt that a visual interview in which Ellen described her interest in using text and the changing definitions of words over the years would be of interest to existing followers of her work as well as helping her to develop a new and wider audience. The title, Hard Words, was taken from the term used for the earliest English-language dictionaries and the majority of the exhibition included artworks made using a variety of 'found' dictionaries such as Sheridan’s Dictionary of the English Language, published by Charles Murray et al, London, 1866 and even the intriguing, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Eric Partridge, published by Routledge, Kegan & Paul in 1963. Ellen specialises in using found ephemera in her work and the use of the various dictionaries from previous eras continue to be fertile ground for her intelligent, sensitive and often darkly humorous narrative.