November 16, 2022True Sound Façade by Laura Nasir-Tamara projected onto 5 The Boulevard, Crawley.
Call for film & video submissions by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers
Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place in January and February 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Crawley, UK. Films will be curated from work submitted to us. Submissions will be accepted by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally.
Submissions can be artists’ film & video, experimental film, Machinima, short film, animation, or digital works, and must be 5 minutes or less in length.
Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub, with support from Crawley LGBTQU+. Delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley as part of their Enliven programme funded by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District. Supported by Arts Council England.
SUBMISSION DETAILS AND INFORMATION
Night Watch screening date
Submission deadline
Outcome date
Thu, 26 Jan 2023
20 Dec 2022
20 Jan 2023
Thu, 23 Feb 2023
15 Jan 2022
20 Feb 2023
Criteria for screening submissions:
– Between 2 and 5 minutes in length.
– Be engaging for viewers who may be passing in the street or watching throughout the programme, for example be visually stimulating, humorous, narrative, spectacular, fun, surprising and accessible.
– Be appropriate for public / outdoor exhibition (must be suitable for children and adults in public space).
– Work must be in digital format and be high enough in resolution to show at scale (1080p / HD).
Fee:
– A screening fee of £50 GBP will be paid to the filmmaker if work is shown in the programme.
– Fee will be paid via direct bank payment following receipt of an invoice. Successful artists/filmmakers will be sent details.
Requirements:
– If the language of the film is not English, the film must have English subtitles.
– Only one work per submission (add additional submissions to a new form).
– Entrants may submit an unlimited number of works.
– Work must be digitally available.
– Entrants declare that the film submitted is their own and that its public screening rights have not been transferred to third parties.
If you have relevant queries regarding the film event, the entry process or require assistance navigating the entry form, please email: info@videoclub.org.uk
All artists/filmmakers will be informed of the decision to screen in advance of public announcements.
– Applications not using the application form will not be accepted.
Night Watch is delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley. Supported by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District and Arts Council England.
See Crawley in a new way as part of an outdoor film trail
On Saturday 19th November, watch short films projected onto the streets of Crawley as part of videoclub’s Night Watch film trail. Five films by British and international artists will be shown above shops and on buildings, taking place for one evening only.
Follow the film trail as the mobile cinema moves around central Crawley, with opportunities to stop and watch, and then follow the trail to the next location. Viewers can follow the trail or just watch one film. videoclub will be walking films through the streets using a portable cinema.
Meet in Queen’s Square outside Metro Bank at either 5pm or 6:30pm to start the tour. The trail will be repeated at those times. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.
*Both trails are the same, so you only need to attend one unless you’d like to repeat your experience.
Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.
The event is free to attend and you can just turn up. Spaces are limited though, so to guarantee your place please reserve your FREE ticket.
FILM PROGRAMME
Memory Theatre by Thomas Lock, 2012
“Memory Theatre takes as its starting point a personal reflection on my memory of cartoons, films, online videos and music. The material used in the work ranges from reflections on my childhood in the 80’s through to the present day. Collage and cut up techniques run throughout the editing creating confusing and psychedelic relationships within the visual and sonic content. Video is broken down through pixelation whilst layers of imagery, sound and live action are merged together.” – Thomas Lock
Reverse Wormhole by Sarah Ann Banks, 2020
In Reverse Wormhole a cosmic creature, with a random matter-generating portal for a head, expels distorted life forms into existence.
Cool 3D World (Brian Tessler and Jon Baker), Bicycle, 2019
Five green people on a tandem bicycle ride through the streets of New York City. The group effortlessly pedals around road signs, traffic and even up a tall building to escape the wrath of a street cart vendor. The bicyclists eventually wind up at a roof party where they sadly lose their front wheel. Luckily there are several purple unicyclists nearby to help.
Dynasty Handbag, Vat Do You Vahnt For Bwekfas?, 2016
Vat Do You Vahnt For Bwekfas? is a response to privilege, environmental collapse and the horror of American grocery stores. This work features a robot version of Dynasty Handbag refusing choice, being disdainful of choice, questioning choice and fighting choice. How are the choices we make in our life today preparing ourselves for having zero choices in the future? Doesn’t look good!
True Sound Façade by Laura Nasir-Tamara, 2020
Commissioned by Barbican x The Smalls for their “Inside out” short film series, “True Sound Facade” is a poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self. The film takes its inspiration from the japanese notions of “honne” the true sound, one’s innermost feelings, and “tatemae”, the façade we put up to live in society. It stars Kino McHugh, dancing with and against a colourful animated environment born out of her movements.
ABOUT NIGHT WATCH
Night Watch is part of a season celebrating 75 years of Crawley new town. Crawley Borough Council will light up and enliven Crawley town centre from 18th to 20th November with lanterns and light installations in Memorial Gardens, plus a ‘Tales of Crawley’ promenade performance on the High Street, bandstand entertainment, and street performances. The festive weekend will end with the annual Christmas tree lights switch-on in Queens Square on Sunday, 20th November.
Creative Crawley are delivering a free Give it a Go: Projection workshop from 12 – 3pm on the same day as the Night Watch film trail. If you would like to do some experimenting with projection and 3D mapping you can join for free – find out more information by clicking here.
Night Watch is delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley. Supported by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District and Arts Council England.
September 20, 2022Hamza Mohammed Beg, mark of my departure (MOMD), 2022 (courtesy of the artist)
For our August 22 Vital Capacities residency we invited four artists – Amaqhawekazi Emafini Malamlela, Hamza Mohammed Beg, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley and Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC) – to explore and develop new work, supported by partnerships with East Street Arts (Leeds), Institute for Creative Arts (Cape Town) and Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge).
Over the course of the month the artists did research, tested ideas and created new work, working with our partners, web designer and digital inclusion specialist. Appearance is an exhibition of new work resulting from August 22’s residency. See the exhibition from 22 September 11 am on Vital capacities website.
With thanks to East Street Arts, Institute for Creative Arts and Wysing Arts Centre for their partnership and collaboration. Thank you to Arts Council England for their support.
Vital Capacities is an accessible, purpose-built digital residency space, that supports artists’ practice while engaging audiences with their work.
Vital Capacities has been created by videoclub in consultation with artists, digital inclusion specialist Sarah Pickthall and website designer Oli Pyle.
Turntable Zoetrope Animations – made during workshops led by Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee
One Minute Wonders: made during workshops led by Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee
Thaumatropes – made by Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee
Turntable Zoetrope Animations made by Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee
sound in between – created by Seo Hye Lee using archive footage from Screen Archive South East
Exquisite Archive – made by Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee utilising heritage film footage from Screen Archive South East
The above films were created as part of Days of Wonder, a programme exploring the Film & Media Collections of Brighton & Hove, including at Hove Museum & Art Gallery and Screen Archive South East.
The top three films were made as part of workshops during the Days of Wonder workshops and exhibition during 17-19 February 2022. Artist-filmmakers Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee worked with participants, looking at heritage footage and optical toys, creating new films that combine archive film and newly filmed footage. The bottom row of three films were created by Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee.
Days of Wonder was produced byvideoclub and Corridorin partnership with Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust and Screen Archive South East with support from Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Film Hub South East and The Arts Society East Sussex.
August 22, 2022Still from ‘Icarus’ by Jessy Jetpacks, 2020.
Selected 12 is a new collection of eight artists’ films touring the UK in 2022, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video.
Shortlisted artists for the 2021 Film London Jarman Award – Adham Faramawy and Guy Oliver, FLAMIN and videoclub have curated a stimulating film programme celebrating diverse filmmaking talent. Artists in the programme include: Sarah Gonnet, Sophie Hoyle, Jessy Jetpacks, Seo Hye Lee, April Lin, Laura Lulika, Jennifer Mehigan and Ker Wallwork.
Selected brings together some of the best work from early career film and video artists from the UK in a vibrant programme of recent artists’ moving image. Screenings will be followed by an in conversation with artists.
Programme of work:
Sarah Gonnet, Womb, 2018, 2:17 mins
Sophie Hoyle, Hyperacusis (Part 1), 2021, 7 mins
Jessy Jetpacks, Icarus, 2020, 3:57 mins
Seo Hye Lee, [sound of subtitles], 2021, 1:37 mins
April Lin 林森, TR333, 2021, 10 mins
Laura Lulika, A leak, a draft, a mold, a flame, 2022, 9 mins
Jennifer Mehigan, Honeysuckle Joyride, 2021, 12:37 mins
Ker Wallwork, small wet mouth, 2019, 12 mins
Screening dates and venues:
CCA Glasgow
Date and time: Thursday, 8 Sept 22 – 7:30pm
Price: Pay what you can
Address: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Web / contact: www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900 / BOOK TICKETS
Date and time: Thursday, 20 October 22 – 6pm
Price: FREE
Address: G39, Oxford St, Cardiff CF24 3DT
Web / contact / tickets: No booking needed / www.g39.org / 029 2047 3633
John Hansard Gallery / Southampton Film Week
Date and time: Wednesday, 16 November 22 – 6pm
Price: FREE
Address: John Hansard Gallery, 142-144 Above Bar St, Southampton SO14 7DU
Web / contact / tickets: https://jhg.art / 023 8059 2158 / BOOK FREE TICKETS
Screening at John Hansard Gallery followed by an in-conversation with artist Seo Hye Lee and Sarah Hayden (Associate Professor in Literature & Visual Culture at University of Southampton).
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Selected 12 is produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supports London-based artists working in moving image, working in partnership to deliver a comprehensive programme including production award schemes, regular screenings, talks and events, as well as the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award.
Artists from upper left image clockwise: Amaqhawekazi Emafini Malamlela, Hamza Mohammed Beg, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley and Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC).
For the seventh Vital Capacities‘ residency, we partner with East Street Arts (Leeds), Institute for Creative Arts (Cape Town) and Wysing Art Centre(Cambridge) to work with artists from both South Africa and the UK. From 1 August, artists Amaqhawekazi Emafini Malamlela, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, Hamza Mohammed Beg and Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC) will join Vital Capacities, to undertake research and develop new work. Working with our partners, they will explore and exchange new ideas using their studio spaces, and create new work throughout the residency.
The artists for August 2022’s residency are:
Amaqhawekazi Emafini Miza (SA) is a Ghanaian-South African multidisciplinary artist. They create artwork that provokes the standards of identity, sexuality and spirituality. Their work centres on getting to grips with what is “present”. They engage Space-Time through multidisciplinary art making. Kofi advocates for under-represented groups through their art. They founded Pyramidkofi: An art-house committed to collaborative art-making in Africa.
Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley (UK) – I CREATE WORK THAT SEEKS TO ARCHIVE BLACK TRANS EXPERIENCE. I USE TECHNOLOGY TO IMAGINE OUR LIVES IN ENVIRONMENTS THAT CENTRE OUR BODIES… THOSE LIVING, THOSE THAT HAVE PASSED AND THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN
Hamza Mohammed Beg (UK) is a London-born Muslim artist, activist and researcher. Over the years his work has employed performance, sound design, video collage, digital design and poetry. Between performances in galleries and museums, bars and cafes; his artistic work and life traverses both high cultural institutions and highly localised artist run collectives. Hamza is a brown, able-bodied, male-conditioned, postcolonial body with roots in Pakistan, Mauritius, India, Britain and Germany. He is a mediocre but enthusiastic football player.
Kin (Cultura Plasmic INC) (UK) is a multi-pseudonymous artist and essayist from Newcastle upon Tyne. Often working with moving image, sound, installation, digital technologies and sensors, she critiques the monopolising forces of big tech and the relationship between surveillance and communication technologies. Her work often draws upon ecological imagery and metaphor to explore power dynamics within the digital landscape.
Residencies will launch on 1 August – to follow what the artists are up to join the mailing list and follow them on: vitalcapacities.com
August’s residency programme is delivered in partnership with East Street Arts, Institute for Creative Arts and Wysing Art Centre, with support from Arts Council England.
Vital Capacities is an accessible, purpose-built digital residency space, that supports artists’ practice while engaging audiences with their work.
Vital Capacities has been created by videoclub in consultation with artists, digital inclusion specialist Sarah Pickthall and website designer Oli Pyle.
July 21, 2022Aileen Ye, Spirited Away, 2022 (courtesy of the artist)
For our June 22 Vital Capacities residency we invited four artists – Saverio Cantoni, Estabrak, Ellis Lewis-Dragstra and Aileen Ye – to explore and develop new work, supported by partnerships with East Street Arts (Leeds), Coven Berlin, University of Atypical (Belfast) and Phoenix (Leicester).
Over the course of the month the artists did research, tested ideas and created new work, working with our partners, web designer and digital inclusion specialist. Residual Echoes is an exhibition of new work resulting from June 22’s residency. See the exhibition now on Vital capacities website.
With thanks to East Street Arts, Coven Berlin, University of Atypical and Phoenix for their partnership and collaboration. Thank you to Arts Council England for their support.
Presented as part of SHE’S CURIOUS, a programme of events and activities celebrating the imagination, creativity and private worlds of women through film taking place in July 2022 in Brighton & Hove and Lewes in partnership with Fabrica Gallery.
Take a trip down the rabbit hole…
SHE’S CURIOUS: ONE BUM CINEMA CLUB
videoclub is a contributing curator for a season of screenings delivered by One Bum Cinema Club, a free drop-in cinema experience for just one bum at a time!
The One Bum Cinema Club have curated a selection of short animated films which will be available for all ages to view at random in the One Bum Cinema Club booth in three different venues from 6th – 22nd July 2022.
Short films have been contributed by the following Sussex-based film organisations: Oska Bright Film Festival, Platform Asia, videoclub, Short Circuit, Women Over 50 Film Festival and One Bum Cinema Club themselves.
You can find One Bum Cinema Club in the following venues on the following dates, during venue open hours:
One Bum Cinema Club is the brainchild of artist Anna Vartiainen and brought to life by Paulie Musselwhite and Matthew Simkins. It began in an under stairs cupboard and is now on the road. Their little cinema aims to make you leave with a nice fuzzy feeling inside: the only rule is one butt at a time! So, take your seat and enjoy a selection of hand picked animations from artists based around the world.
With thanks to our amazing contributing organisations.
SHE’S CURIOUS meanders through the lives and experiences of women of all ages and abilities, shining a light on female narratives, secret places and private desires.
Curated and delivered in partnership by Screenshot, a network of alternative and independent film programmers in Brighton & beyond, SHE’S CURIOUS presents a selection of unique and unforgettable film experiences that showcase complex and intriguing female protagonists, as well as films that are led by female creators behind the screen.
Plus: Try out the One Bum Cinema Club booth and see an unexpected short animated film, chosen at random for you. This free, drop-in personal cinema experience will tour to ACCA, Depot and The Old Market from 6 – 21 July 2022.
SHE’S CURIOUS is part of Film Feels Curious, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk.
June 14, 2022Wayne Lucas, Wet Places, 2022 (Courtesy of the artist)
The Portals Project, showing at Bermondsey Project Space, 183 – 185 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW
Dates: Tues 5 – Sat 23 July, 11-6pm
Bermondsey Project Space is the host site for Part One: El Umbral – The Threshold, the first exhibition and events of The Portals Project. In this context, the installed paintings, drawings, works in embroidery thread, and video artworks establish a scene in which the fictional characters of the pieces begin to exist, and where worlds are formed. These works are thresholds that visitors may enter: unbounded spaces, fantastic holes, precarious caves – sites of uncertainty, displacement and risk.
The four artists are Helena Goldwater, Lucía Imaz King, Wayne Lucas and Simon Vincenzi use different, but interconnected tactics to present portals where each lead to a turning point.
Thresholds, whether in fiction or in architecture, invite us to leave a space behind in order to enter another; to decide to cross into a different world, one that may initially seem impenetrable but that opens up in time. The invitation to pass through these portals offers choices that are intentionally unsettling.
The Portals Project is curated by the exhibiting artists.
Supported by University of Brighton, Inclusion and Diversity Fund
STATE and Bermondsey Project Space.
videoclub is partnering with The Portals Project to host the event LGBTQIA+ Art Curating and Collaboration (see below), in which our director, Jamie Wyld will join the panel of speakers.
Events programme
Exhibition: Opening reception: Wednesday, 6 July 6-9pm
Bermondsey Project Space, 185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW
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Event 1. Sunday, 10 July 10-1pm
Threadbare: A participatory workshop at the gallery led by Wayne Lucas reflecting on drawing through sewing and memory. Using the needle and thread as a drawing implement.
Ticketed, £15. Early booking recommended. To book a place click here.
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Event 2. Tuesday, 12 July 4-6pm
LGBTQIA+ Arts Curation and Collaboration: An online event on this subject, chaired by Rachael House with the panel Andrew Etherington and Kia Matanky-Becker (Bermondsey Project Space), Jamie Wyld (videoclub), and the exhibiting artists. Public participation and feedback is welcome. Register for this event by clicking here.
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Event 3. Thursday, 14 July 7.30-9pm
Artists’ Talk chaired by Gill Addison. Meet The Portals Project artists in a discussion at the gallery about the exhibition, the project, and the works included, with Q&A. Ticketed, £5. Limited places. Early booking recommended. Book a place by clicking here.
Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured is a programme of 8 films by international artists, which shows how artists are creating and building new virtual worlds, and in those spaces how they are exploring environmentalism, new societies, post-apocalypse, the (virtual) body and the afterlife. The programme explores how artists are interpreting different forms of environment, from real to virtual to the spaces in between.
Through Both Sides Now 7, we examine how artists are disrupting, commenting upon, and engaging with virtual worlds, environmentalism, and the coming metaverse.
The programme is the seventh edition of a long-term project that proposes re-readings of artists’ moving image from China, the UK and beyond. In this new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together international artists from the fields of film & video with screenings in the UK and Hong Kong between May and June 2022.
The programme will be screened in Hong Kong and in the UK at various venues during May and June 2022.
Both Sides Now 7 will show at Fabrica Gallery in Brighton on 26 May and at Phoenix in Leicester on 16 June. Additional dates/venues to follow.
BRIGHTON
VENUE:Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG DATE AND TIME: Thursday, 26 May, 7pm PRICE FOR TICKET: £3 BOOK TICKET: Click here to book
HONG KONG
VENUE:HART Haus, 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong DATE AND TIME: 30 May, 7pm BOOK TICKET (FREE BUT BOOKING REQUIRED): Click here to book
LEICESTER
VENUE:Phoenix Cinema, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG DATE AND TIME: Thursday, 16 June, 8pm PRICE FOR TICKET: £5 BOOK TICKET: Click here to book
LONDON
VENUE: Royal College of Art, Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building, Riverside, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AN DATE AND TIME: Monday, 20 June, 6:30pm PRICE FOR TICKET: FREE BOOK TICKET: Tickets are free, but please book a place
FILM PROGRAMME
AL+AL, Hard Drive (A:), 8 mins, 2004
Astrid Feringa and Jean Baptiste Castel, This is not the Amazon, 4:56 mins, 2019
Danni Zheng, Mineral Wasteland, 6:18 mins, 2021
Alex May, A Kolkata, 6:36 mins, 2021
LIN Tzu-Huan, Online Funeral Service I – Tamara, 10 mins, 2015
JUAN Poyuan, It was just a virtual kiss, 10:05 mins, 2020
HU Rui, Soon It Will Be Deep Enough, 4:04 mins, 2019
Lawrence Lek, SoMA (Extract from AIDOL, 2019), 7:46 mins, 2019
Both Sides Now is a tactical programme partnership between Videotage (HK) and videoclub (UK). Which uses contemporary and historical film and video work to explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong, China, and the UK, and beyond.
For April 2022’s Vital Capacities residency, we invited three artists to join as part of our collaboration with Videotage (Hong Kong), Both Sides Now 7: DeNatured. The artists, Andrew Luk (Hong Kong), violet marchenkova (UK) and Jess Starns (UK), took part in Vital Capacities, while also participating in Videotage’s online residency, Leave Your Body, which enables artists to explore, build and create in a 3D version of Videotage’s space at the Cattle Depot in Hong Kong on Minecraft.
Artists were invited to freely explore ideas, with some emphasis on focusing upon natural and digital environments. The DeNatured exhibition shows some of the work resulting from the residencies on Vital Capacities and Leave Your Body.
Both Sides Now is a tactical programme partnership between Videotage (HK) and videoclub (UK). Which uses contemporary and historical film and video work to explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong, China, and the UK, and beyond.
Films have been made in Brighton & Hove since 1896. Dr FrankGray will guide you through these movies, all drawn from the collection of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. They reveal everyday scenes, the pleasures of the seafront, the work of pioneers around 1900, the King & Queen visiting the Indian Hospital, the opening of the SS Brighton (then the world’s largest in-door swimming pool), preparations for war in 1939, and John King’s portrait of the city in 1956.
Frank Gray runs Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. The archive collects, preserves and shares films made in Brighton & Hove and the South East. Visit the archive’s website to see the collection and contact it if you have a film that you think should be saved for the future.
This project is part of Days of Wonder, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor, delivered in partnership with Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust and Screen Archive South East. Supported by Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Film Hub South East and The Arts Society, East Sussex.
May 18, 2022George Albert-Smith & Laura Bailey, Two Clowns, 1906 (courtesy of Screen Archive South East)
Exploring early film in Hove, with Dr Frank Gray, Screen Archive South East
Free screening and talk by Dr Frank Gray (director, Screen Archive South East) at Hangleton & Knoll Project, St Richard’s Church, Egmont Rd, Hove BN3 7FP.
Time and date: 11am, 7 June 2022.
To book a place, email Katie Merrien: katie.merrien@hkproject.org.uk
At the start of the 20th Century, Hove was an important centre for a new technology – the cinematograph. G.A. Smith and his wife Laura Bayley are at the heart of this history. Together they made films at St Ann’s WellGardensinHove from 1897 to 1903. Their films began as one minute unedited scenes and then theytaught themselves how to combine shots and create film sequences. Dr FrankGray’s talk will introduce these first film-makers and their films and consider why Hove was so well suited to become a movie capital.
Frank Gray runs Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton. The archive collects, preserves and shares films made in Brighton & Hove and the South East. Visit the archive’s website to see the collection and contact it if you have a film that you think should be saved for the future.
This project is part of Days of Wonder, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor, delivered in partnership with Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust and Screen Archive South East. Supported by Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Film Hub South East and The Arts Society, East Sussex.
April 20, 2022Shih-Chieh Lin, A Short History of Decay, 2014 – courtesy of the artist.
Days of Wonder
Days of Wonder is a curated programme of artists’ film & video created using archival footage by international artists, and archive films by Brighton & Hove pioneer filmmakers from Screen Archive South East (SASE). Archive films will be accompanied by a live music performance.
Bringing together some of the earliest films made in Brighton & Hove (1897-1905) to recent work by UK and international artists, the programme celebrates the creativity of early film pioneers to recent techniques, which repurpose found footage in inventive ways.
Days of Wonder includes work by Leonardo Gracés, Annis Joslin, Seo Hye Lee, Shih-Chieh Lin, Michael Robinson, Alia Syed, and a collection of archive films from Screen Archive South East, including the work of James Williamson and George Albert Smith & Laura Bayley.
The programme is part of a recent project investigating how artists can bring to life the Film & Media Collections of Brighton & Hove, which resulted in an exhibition at Hove Museum & Art Gallery in February 2022.
SCREENING DETAILS
Days of Wonder will show at Fabrica Gallery on 28 April at 7pm.
VENUE: Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG DATE AND TIME: Thursday, 28 April 2022, 7pm PRICE: £3 BOOK TICKET:Click here to book on Eventbrite
This programme is screened with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
Annis Joslin & Seo Hye Lee, Exquisite Archive, 2:34 mins, 2022
Seo Hye Lee, [sound of subtitles], 4:35 mins, 2021
Shih-Chieh Lin, A Short History of Decay, 5:45 mins, 2014
Michael Robinson, The Dark, Krystle, 9:34 mins, 2013
Alia Syed, Points of Departure, 16 mins, 2014
Screen Archive South East, Early Filmmaking in Hove (1897-1905), 18:54 mins, 2022
Days of Wonder is produced by videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust with support from Arts Council England, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Film Hub South East, Screen Archive South East and The Arts Society East Sussex.
Dismantle the gaze, analyze the fragments, choose, rebuild, generate a new direction: this is the mechanism that for me involves the appropriation of found files. The bodies become gears that merge with a productive objective, while speeches are heard with words that encourage effort and work. Everything is assembled and overlapped to form a dense and rarefied sense machine.
LIN Shih-Chieh, A Short History of Decay, 5:45 mins, 2014
History is the interpretation of linear signs and symbols. By decontextualizing the signs, the images are liberated. To fight against this illusion, let there be glitches. This video is sampled from Assignment Taiwan, a propaganda film made by the US army in the 70s, introducing the colonised history and the establishment of the US military in Taiwan after the Second World War.
Annis Joslin & Seo Hye Lee, Exquisite Archive, 2:34 mins, 2022
Exquisite Archive was made by artists Annis Joslin and Seo Hye Lee when they were commissioned to develop workshops, videos and objects inspired by the Film & Media Collections of Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust and Screen Archive South East.
Annis and Seo Hye are based on opposite sides of the UK, and their collaboration began during the uncertain times of Covid-19, when they began to find ways to test out ideas remotely by exchanging a series of videos via WhatsApp.
Inspired by the inventiveness and playfulness of the Hove’s early film pioneers, Exquisite Archive is based on both the game of consequences and exquisite corpse, but using video — starting with an early silent film clip prompt, one makes a response then sends only the last second to the other via WhatsApp who then repeats the process and vice versa (with a new silent film clip prompt at different points).
Seo Hye Lee, [sound of subtitles], 4:35 mins, 2021
[sound of subtitles] is silent throughout, allowing the audience to travel through the transition of videos and texts and encouraging viewers to conjure their own interpretation of sound and event. Regardless of hearing ability, one can explore their own unique soundscape and reimagine the meaning of listening.
Michael Robinson, The Dark, Krystle, 9:34 mins, 2013
The cabin is on fire! Krystle can’t stop crying, Alexis won’t stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.
Alia Syed, Points of Departure, 16 mins,2014
The objects and places we cannot leave behind create the tapestry that is Points of Departure.
Exploring themes of personal and collective memory through Syed’s relationship to the city of Glasgow, a voice over describes a tablecloth the artist retrieved whilst clearing her elderly father’s house.
The film attempts to unravel the threads of memory held within this mundane item and to find an image within the BBC archive that relates to Syed’s memories of growing up in Glasgow.
Syed’s father’s unrehearsed attempts to translate an Urdu Ghazal, discovered in the archive, a poetic expression of the beauty of love and the pain of loss exposes a process of translation that becomes the key allowing a path through the labyrinth of both my own memory and the BBC archive.
Screen Archive South East, Early Filmmaking in Hove (1897-1905), 18:54 mins, 2022
G.A. Smith and his wife Laura Bayley made films together at St Ann’s Well Gardens in Hove from 1897 to 1903. Their films began as one-minute unedited scenes and then they taught themselves how to combine shots and create film sequences. This introduced the basic elements of film language. James Williamson was inspired by their work, and made multi-shot comedies, trick films and dramas in Hove from 1899 to 1909.
Train Entering Hove Station
George Albert Smith, 1897
The Miller and the Sweep
G.A. Smith and Laura Bayley, 1897
Hanging Out the Clothes; or, Master, Mistress and Maid
G.A Smith and Laura Bayley, 1897
The Kiss in the Tunnel
G.A. Smith and Laura Bayley, 1899
As Seen Through a Telescope
G.A. Smith and Laura Bayley, 1900
Grandma’s Reading Glass
G.A. Smith and Laura Bayley, 1900
Let Me Dream Again
G.A. Smith and Laura Bayley, 1900
A Big Swallow
James Williamson, 1901
The Magic Extinguisher
James Williamson, 1901
Our New Errand Boy
James Williamson, 1905
Original 35mm prints from the BFI.
Screen Archive South Eastis part of the University of Brighton, and it collects, preserves and promotes the region’s screen heritage.
