A film by           
Rosalind Nashashibi           

with                       Pauline Nashashibi
and                        Members of the crew

Director of Photography     Suzie Lavelle
1st Assistant Director        Jerome Franc
2nd Assistant Director       Matt Randle
1st Assistant Camera         Xavi Amoros
2nd Assistant Camera        David Rafei
Camera Trainee                 Angel Vandenakker
Grip                                   Anthony Benjamin
Grip                                   Luke Franklin
Gaffer                                Shaun Mone
Electrician                          Ricky Collins
Electrician                          Tom Guy
Generator Operator            Luis Santos
Sound Recordist                  Chris Sheedy
Stills                                   Will Martin
Driver                                 Josh Topp
Driver                                 Jeni Baines
Production  Assistant           David Weider
Production  Assistant           Jonathan Clark
Sound design                      Doug Haywood
Editors                                Rosalind Nashashibi
                                           Lucy Harris

Cameras                               Arri Media
                                            Ice Film
Lights                                   Panalux
Labatory                               Soho Film Lab
                       
Many thanks to:           
Romano Pena Samboy, Peter Bryant, Emma Dalesman, Emma Davie           
Eddie Dias, Sally Inman, Dick Knapman, Isla Leaver-Yap, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Francesco Manacorda, Pauline Nashashibi, Deirdre O Toole, Steve Saltwell, Lucy Skaer, Mark Sladen, Len Thornton, David Waddington           

Producer                        Tom Dingle

For the Paulines           

A commission by Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Bergen Kunsthall           
with support from the Henry Moore Foundation           
                       
            (Logos: Arri media, Kodak, Panalux, Ice Film)           
                       
© Rosalind Nashashibi 2009          

JACK STRAW'S CASTLE
Rosalind Nashashibi
2009

16mm film with sound

Jack Straw's Castle, has been specially commissioned by the ICA and Bergen Kunsthall. Using footage shot in and around a public park in London, Nashashibi interlaces shots from real life-including sequences shot in a cruising area - with staged scenarios involving a cast of non-actors. The real life sequences are mainly from the daytime, whereas the dramatised elements take place at night.

The key protagonist in the staged sequences is played by the artist's mother, Pauline Nashashibi. Walking through the park at dusk, she is brought into a clearing in the woods occupied by a film crew, becoming an observer of - and participant in - their transformation of the forest into a highly artificial site.

Jack Straw's Castle articulates the dream space of cinema, in which camera and desire conspire to bring about a metamorphosis. As Nashashibi has said about her filmic work, "The shoot is the magical part; it is a performance and a ritual during which i am attempting to connect with where i am and with what happens... an extra dimension that goes beyond recording truth happens through filming. The camera is a magical instrument rather than a truth-recording device."