map films are artists Brian McClave and Gavin Peacock, based in Brighton, UK. This site is an archive of all the completed projects they have worked on together (sometimes with other artists and production companies). Please go to their individual sites (click on names in yellow below) for up to date information about current projects as well as their individual work.

Brian McClave began his artistic career in experimental photography, often building unusual cameras to perform specific tasks, before moving into the realm of digital imaging and video. For the past twelve years he has worked predominantly with the medium of digital, stereoscopic (3D) video and time-lapse photography. Using these extraordinary media he has made works that examine how technology effects the way we experience the world in which we live.

Many projects have pioneered new, experimental filming techniques, such 3D time-lapse, and often produce imagery that is a completely new way of looking at particular subjects. In 2001 he was the first film maker to successfully film the Aurora Borealis in 3D. He has shown work extensively in the UK, Australia and the United States.

McClave also runs the UK's busiest commercial time-lapse company Site-Eye, with his brother Gareth Evans-McClave. This company films many of the landmark buildings being built throughout the UK as well as producing extreme high-speed footage for television and media companies.

Gavin Peacock studied painting at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, but his work has included process-based sculpture, installation and participatory projects. Since 2006 he has worked predominantly in the field of digital video. Recent work has been concerned with the exploration of places and investigations into natural phenomena through the process of video production. The works often tap into the Romantic notion of the sublime referencing traditions and histories of painting and photography as well as film making.

He was a co-founder of finetuned, an artist-led curatorial agency established in 2005 which commissions and exhibits work by artists who engage with sound. He is also a co-founder and director of APEC, a studio complex in Hove. He has exhibited widely in the UK, and been actively involved in several artist-led exhibitions and projects, and instigated and participated in many international mail art projects.

McClave and Peacock have collaborated regularly since 2006, including commissions for the East End Film Festival, London (2009); Royal Philharmonic Society project Hear Here (2008); Shot by the Sea film festival, Hastings (2008); Place, Space and Identity in North Staffordshire (with Tom Wichelow, 2007-08); and Compton Skyline Project, Brighton (with David Smith, 2006). As well as these commissioned works they have made stereoscopic and multi-channel video works for video screenings and exhibitions.

Their work together falls into two categories, often over-lapping within the same projects, merging their individual interests; a mapping of space and time, and a Romantic interest in the natural world. They use techniques such as stereoscopy, time-lapse and multi-channel presentation to explore the world in ways beyond normal vision. Works are born from an curiosity in optics and technology in tandem with a fascination in the things they see around them, developing their own camera systems in order to manifest the ideas inside their heads.