Selected VII – Southeast Asia Tour

Various screening dates for Selected VII

(Full venue dates and details below the programme)

  • 20 June, The Reading Room, Bangkok
  • 23 June, Hanoi DocLab & Six Space 
  • 05 July, Lost Frames, Quezon City
  • 06 July, 1335MABINI, Manila

Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the Southeast Asia in June-July 2017, taking place at some of the leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video in the region.

Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2016, 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.

Shortlisted artists for the 2016 Film London Jarman Award – Cécile B. Evans, Heather Phillipson, Mikhail Karikis, Rachel Maclean, Shona Illingworth and Sophia Al Maria – have nominated work by up-and-coming filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new programme of work.

Artists in the programme include: Evan Ifekoya, Hannah Black, Rosie Carr, Ginte Regina, Phoebe Boswell, Adham Faramawy, Sarah Abu Abdallah and Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger.

Programme:

  • Disco Breakdown, Evan Ifekoya, 2014, 3:14 mins
  • My Bodies, Hannah Black, 2014, 3:30 mins
  • The Fall and the British Museum, Rosie Carr, 2017, 3:36 mins
  • Runaway, Ginte Regina, 2017, 15 mins
  • Prologue, Phoebe Boswell, 2015, 6 mins
  • Janus Collapse, Adham Faramawy, 2016, 9:51 mins
  • The Turbulence of Sea and Blood, Sarah Abu Abdallah, 2015, 4:50 mins
  • Ship, Sea, Woman, What else, Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger, 2017, 9 mins

Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by 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.

Venue and screening details:

The Reading Room, Bangkok

Date and time: Tuesday, 20 June at 8pm.
Price: FREE
Address: 19 Si Lom, Khwaeng Silom, Khet Bang Rak, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10500, Thailand
Web / contact: www.readingroombkk.org /+66 2 635 3674
วันอังคารที่ 20 มิถุนายน เวลา 20:00-21:00น.
ที่ The Reading Room สีลม 19

Hanoi DocLab & Six Space

Date and time: Friday, 23 June at 7:30pm.
Donation: ₫50,000 /₫30,000 (students and DocLab members)
Address: Six Space. 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Ha Noi
Web / contact / contact: www.hanoidoclab.org /(+84) 04 3734 2252 / ext. 39

Thời gian: 7 giờ tối, thứ Sáu ngày 23/ 06/ 2017
Địa điểm: Six Space, 94B Trần Hưng Đạo, Hoàn Kiếm (tầng 6)

Đóng góp (tại cửa): 50,000 / 30,000 (học sinh, sinh viên và thành viên DocLab)

Lost Frames, Quezon City

Date and time: Wednesday, 05 July at 6pm.
Price: FREE
Address: 70 18th Ave, Cubao, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Web / contact / contact: Lost-Frames

1335MABINI, Manila

Date and time: Thursday, 06 July at 3pm.
Price: FREE
Address: Casa Tesoro, 1335 A. Mabini Street, Ermita, Manila 1000, Philippines
Web / contact: www.1335mabini.com /+63 2 254 8498

 

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A Wall is a Screen: Brighton feat. JBXDR

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Feat. musician JBXDR (Jörn Bielfeldt) 
DATE: 18 May 2017
START PLACE:  Palace Pier east side on the beach (left side as you face the pier)
TIMES: 9pm: JBXDR live // 9:30pm: A Wall is a Screen tour begins)

We are extremely happy and excited to welcome back the Hamburg-based group A Wall is a Screen to Brighton. For the third time they have scouted Brighton for those special walls to project short films onto. Both a guided city tour and outdoor short film screening, A Wall is a Screen creates a new context for film and takes over neglected spaces, familiar buildings and commercial facades for ten minutes of lovingly curated short film before moving on to the next location – the ultimate pop-up cinema!

This temporary symbiosis between film, music and architecture will create new perspectives and compose a transient soundtrack for the city. Let’s shed a different light onto the city’s architecture and transform night-time Brighton into a special one time venue.

Just show up at the east side of Brighton Pier (left side as you face the pier), get into the flow and come along!

Special guest will be the Berlin drum-artist JBXDR who will start the tour with a special set.

The tour lasts about 90 minutes and will take place in any weather (bring an umbrella if it’s raining). No tickets are required to take part. It’s all free.

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Produced in cooperation with videoclub.

A Wall is a Screen: Brighton is part of the Übermut Project #ubermut presented by visit Berlin and Hamburg Marketing GmbH.

Selected VII

Various screening dates for Selected VII

(Full venue dates and details below the programme)

  • 04 May, Fabrica, Brighton
  • 16 May, CCA Glasgow
  • 18 May, Whitechapel Gallery, London
  • 25 May, Nottingham Contemporary
  • 01 June, Plymouth Arts Centre
  • 14 June, Exeter Phoenix

Selected is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in May-June 2017, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video.

Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2016, 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.

Shortlisted artists for the 2016 Film London Jarman Award – Cécile B. Evans, Heather Phillipson, Mikhail Karikis, Rachel Maclean, Shona Illingworth and Sophia Al Maria – have nominated work by up-and-coming filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new programme of work.

Artists in the programme include: Evan Ifekoya, Hannah Black, Rosie Carr, Ginte Regina, Phoebe Boswell, Adham Faramawy, Sarah Abu Abdallah and Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger.

Programme:

  • Disco Breakdown, Evan Ifekoya, 2014, 3:14 mins
  • My Bodies, Hannah Black, 2014, 3:30 mins
  • The Fall and the British Museum, Rosie Carr, 2017, 3:36 mins
  • Runaway, Ginte Regina, 2017, 15 mins
  • Prologue, Phoebe Boswell, 2015, 6 mins
  • Janus Collapse, Adham Faramawy, 2016, 9:51 mins
  • The Turbulence of Sea and Blood, Sarah Abu Abdallah, 2015, 4:50 mins
  • Ship, Sea, Woman, What else, Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger, 2017, 9 mins

Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by 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.

Venue and screening details:

Fabrica

Date and time: Thursday, 4 May – doors and bar 7pm, event starts 7:30pm.
Price: £3
Address: Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG
Web / contact: www.fabrica.org.uk / 01273 778646 / BOOK TICKETS

CCA Glasgow

Date and time: Tuesday, 16 May, 7pm.
Price: FREE
Address: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
To book tickets (tickets also on door): www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900 / BOOK TICKETS

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: Thursday, 18 May, 7pm.
Price: £9.50 full / £7.50 concessions
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Web / tickets / contact: www.whitechapelgallery.org / 020 7522 78889 / BOOK TICKETS

Nottingham Contemporary

Date and time: Thursday, 25 May, 6:30pm.
Price: FREE
Address: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
Web / contact: www.nottinghamcontemporary.org / 0115 948 9750 / NO BOOKING NEEDED

Plymouth Arts Centre

Date and time: Thursday, 1 June, 6pm.
Price: £3 / free for PAC Home members.
Address: Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth PL4 0EB
Web / contact: www.plymouthartscentre.org / 01752 206114 / BOOK TICKETS

Exeter Phoenix

Date and time: Wednesday, 14 June at 7:30pm.
Price: £3
Address: Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS
Web / contact / tickets: www.exeterphoenix.org.uk / 01392 667080 / BOOK TICKETS

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Before Chaos: A decade of videoclub

videoclub and Light Club present: BEFORE CHAOS

A celebration of artists’ film, video and sound featuring:

Anthony McCall / Heather Phillipson / Rachel Maclean / Semiconductor / Larry Achiampong / David Blandy / Megan Broadmeadow / Sebastian Buerkner / Jennifer Chan / Anita Delaney / Robert Fox / Thomas Lock / Michael Robinson / Ben Russell / Richard Sides / Daniel Swan / Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (BEEF) / Storm Bugs / Sculpture plus more

UK Premieres by: Choi Sai Ho / Wong Ping / Lu Yang / Shi Zheng

See the full programme (PDF): BEFORE CHAOS PROGRAMME

FREE ENTRYRESERVE YOUR TICKET
St John’s Church, Waterloo
Drawing on film workshop: 4:30 – 6:30pm
Programme: 7- 9pm – including live performances, installation and screenings
DJ: 9 -10pm
Pay bar

Celebrating a decade of videoclub and Light Club’s 5th anniversay.

 

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation

20Hz – Semiconductor (2011)

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation

Spotlight Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Saturday 22 October 2016 to Sunday 4 June 2017

A new display at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery will tell the story of experimental filmmaking in Brighton & Hove, from 1896 to the present day. The exhibition has been curated by Suzie Plumb, Royal Pavilion & Museum’s (RPM) Curator of Film, Media and Toys, and Jamie Wyld, Director of videoclub.

Unknown to many, both Brighton and Hove have played a rich and important part in international film history. Early filmmaking pioneers including George Albert Smith and James Williamson, who became known as the Brighton School and worked in Brighton at the turn of the 20th century, while Modern and contemporary filmmakers and moving image artists – like Jeff Keen, Ben Wheatley and Ben Rivers – have cemented the city’s status as a hotbed of experimental film.

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation will explore Brighton & Hove’s success as a place for experimental film-making, and its significance nationally and internationally.

The display is part of RPM’s John Ellerman Foundation-funded project ‘Film Pioneers’, which aims to develop curatorial skills by enabling staff at the museum to research, display and document the city’s Film & Media collections.

Highlights of Experimental Motion will include:

Rare objects from the history of filmmaking in Brighton & Hove, such as ground-breaking cameras made in the city.

Work by artists and filmmakers, including Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Blast Theory, Ian HelliwellJeff Keen, Tula Parker & Anna Weatherston, Ben Rivers, Semiconductor, and Ben Wheatley.

A new commission by Hong Kong-based artist Choi Sai Ho, Brighton is Our Playground, made by Choi while in residence at Phoenix Brighton during August 2016. The film was produced using archival footage from Screen Archive South East, blended with a contemporary soundtrack, composed by Choi. The residency and commission are part of Both Sides Now 3: Final Frontiers, a collaboration between videoclub and Videotage (Hong Kong).

Work made in Brighton by amateur filmmakers and held within the collections of Screen Archive South East, which highlight the city as an inspiration for filmmaking.

A selection of films, drawn from a call out for filmmakers in the city to contribute, will be screened during Cinecity in November 2016 (date TBC), and shown online.

RPM’s Museum Collective, a group of young people working with filmmaker Lindsey Smith, are developing new creative contributions inspired by Jeff Keen’s work that respond to the theme of experimental filmmaking.

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation has been made possible due to the support of the John Ellerman Foundation, and Arts Council England. It has been created in partnership with videoclub, Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton, Lighthouse, Cinecity, and the British Library.

  • Address: Royal Pavilion Garden, Brighton BN1 1EE, UK
  • Opening hours: Tues-Sun: 10am-5pm (closed Mon [except Bank Hols: 10am-5pm], 24 [from 2.30pm], 25 and 26 Dec, 1 Jan)

For full details – including ticketing and access – visit the Experimental Motion page on Brighton Museum & Art Galleries site.

Buenos Caos

Under the Lion Crotch – Wong Ping

Música y videoarte noche: Afterparty no oficial de Caos en el Museo

Domingo/Sunday 20/11/16: 19:30 – 23:00  (Hora feliz hasta las 23:00/Happy hour till 11pm. Bar abierto hasta las 02:00/Bar till 2am)

Lugar de encuentro / Venue: ATOM, Bolivar 933, C1066AAS CABA, Buenos Aires.

Buenos Caos is a celebration of some superb artists’ film and video, collected together from across the globe, including artists’ work from Argentina, USA, China, Hong Kong and the UK. Combined with some expert DJ-ing provided by ATOM bar, Buenos Caos provides a unique moment to enjoy culture and have a drink or two following Chaos at the Museum in Buenos Aires.

Artists’ film programme & DJ between 7:30pm and 11pm, plus happy hour till 11pm. ATOM open until 2am. Entry is free.

Curated by Karen Antorveza, Moritz Cheung, Adriel Luis and Jamie Wyld.

Programme of works:

Under the Lion Crotch – Wong Ping 4’45” (2011)

“Under the Lion Crotch”
Here comes the end
Our land is brutally torn apart by conglomerates
Redevelopment swept across the city
Their thriving business had left us homeless
Rotten city, rotten crowd
Luxury clothing won’t conceal the stench
Top yourself and throw a curse
Fill the streets with our merry hearses
Is the world going to end
as we’ve been longing for?
Destroy us all together with the chaos
Set us free like
the ashes in the wind

200 Nanowebbers – Semiconductor  2’40” (2005)

For ‘200 Nanowebbers’, Semiconductor have created a molecular web that is generated by Double Adaptor’s live soundtrack. Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rhythms spawn a nano scale environment that shifts and contorts to the audio resonance. Layers of energetic hand drawn animations, play over the simplest of vector shapes that form atomic scale associations. As the landscape flickers into existence by the light of trapped electron particles, substructures begin to take shape and resemble crystalline substances.

Memory Theatre – Tom Lock 4’44” (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.

A Corruption of Mass – Megan Broadmeadow 2’42” (2015)

Bismuth, when ingested can cure an upset stomach.

It can kill too, having now replaced lead in bullet manufacture.

More curiously, it has uniquely strong diamagnetic properties, and is a valued shamanic tool offering insight into other realms.

It was also discovered at Roswell, and might possibly provide the answer to unlocking the mystery of alien space travel.

In A Corruption of Mass, Broadmeadow has choreographed movements for a female dancer in response to Bismuth’s uniquely complex fractalesque characteristics. The core of the film alludes to the other worldliness this element evokes, whilst simultaneously tracing its chemical journey from ingot to crystal.

Locoemotive Lounge – Robert Fox 6’06” (2014)

The Locoemotive Lounge is the waiting room occupied prior to one’s destiny, that sets the precedent. The Lobby of limbo in our high-rise hotel of aspiration. A self-sufficient service that must be welcomed and mastered, in order to make the graceful transition, into one’s prospective saloon.

Chew Chew – Tom Goddard 2’55” (2015)

Connecting with the production of a well-known chewing gum in Plymouth, Chew Chew presents a selection of chewing gum adverts, reclassified and arranged within Roger Manvell’s abbreviated version of the Hollywood’s Hay’s Code, creating a short film with a sexually charged perspective, hinting to our obsession with restriction and biased gender views on promiscuity

Private Theatre – Liberty Antonia Sadler 3’56” (2015)

She Didn’t Know Any Better.

A Feminist Romp about sex and ignorance.

Exploring female stereotypes through character and humour, this short performative film features three personas: The Feminazi, The Tampon Tiara Princess & The Little Girl Dom. Together these characters play with the concepts of infantilisation objectification and ‘man-hating’, with hints of traditional fairytales and biblical references. The film combines gender performativity, hand drawn animation and fetishised objects to create a humorous poem of femininity.

A Rat Biting Another Rat – Anita Delaney 4’16” (2015)

A Rat Biting Another Rat is an affective collage. Comprised of rapidly edited actors, objects, text and sound, the work swings between the violent and dripping, the sweet and risible. The work is exemplary of the interest in aesthetics and affect at the core of Delaney’s practice which looks at fictions and strategies for how to live as a weakling. A Rat Biting Another Rat seeks a personal relationship with the viewer through text and speech. The work wants to be intimate with its audience and insinuate a partnership.

Offset – Shi Zheng 7’52” (2014)

Virtual Terrain has been in composition since 2012. It is created successively after “Flâneur in a Virtual Landscape” which is a series of digital prints. Like Flâneur, Offset is also an audio-visual work generated by digital images generating program.

When I use computer as my environment for artistic creation, the software and the operating system constitute an interesting world full of symbols to me.

It consists of actual and virtual realities in the meantime. Being a creator and a loner in this parallel planet, I take position as a photographer and a rover, keeping filming these virtual scenes, making and adding granularized noises to this space I created. Through the process I would like to share with the viewers feelings of illusions in the nonphysical space as well as the unspeakable phenomenon filtered out in a medium alternating.

Splashy Phasings – Heather Phillipson 2’39 (2013)

Referencing the 3-min gap between programmes as the space of advertising, the length of a pop song, and the moment both before and after ‘information’, the video plunges into a post-news environment, built on tears, song and other voice and body outpourings.

Brighton is Our Playground – Choi Sai Ho 6’30” (2016)

Brighton Is Our Playground is a new art film work sampling 16 archive films from Screen Archive South East’s collection of SE England, re-editing and layering multiple images and newly composed music creating a new work. The historical films document the English life and culture of the early 20th century, as well as the gliding cityscapes on the highway, which are a reflection of the British lifestyle at that time, capturing past trends and historic memories.

The Dark, Krystle – Michael Robinson 9’30” (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.

Airy Me – Yoko Kuno 5’38” (2013)

Airy Me is inspired by Cuushe’s 2009 song of the same name. The animation also features her 2013 song “Steamy Mirror.”

Yoko Kuno created Airy Me from 3,000 still images drawn over almost two years. Images were drawn with colored pencils and crayon and edited with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. It received the Animation Division New Face Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Fireworks – Li Ming 5’07” (2008)

Cualidad de animales y pájaros – Violeta Gonzales 5’32” (2015)

CUALIDAD DE ANIMALES Y PÁJAROS es una instalación que mezcla video con otros dispositivos manipulables ubicados en el espacio llamados “Latencias”*. La instalación pretende generar una memoria de viaje a partir de las texturas, los sonidos, los momentos que pueden pasar desapercibidos. Los recuerdos que tenemos no son del todo confiables están siempre editándose en nuestro cerebro, y sobre esta poca fiabilidiad nace la libertad creativa y constructiva de la memoria.

QUALITY OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS is an installation that combines video with other manipulable devices located in space called “Latencies”. The facility aims to generate a memory trip from textures, sounds, and moments that go unnoticed. The memories we have are not entirely reliable are always being edited in our brain, and from this unreliability the freedom of memory is born.
The piece is a construction of a new past.

Destruccion – Guadalupe Moreno Campos 1’46” (2015)

King Fu Zombies VS Shaman Warrior 11’42” (2016)

With Hanuman as her spiritual guide, a young woman must battle zombies in the jungle, monsters that materialize from Buddhist texts, and her own personal demons in a post apocalyptic Laos. Kung Fu Zombies vs Shaman Warrior examines the perception of mental illness as demonic possession within the Lao community.

Fuego en el aire – Paula Herrera 5’14” (2013)

No sé alcanzar las estrellas.
Velocidad de Escape es una danza de unidades astronómicas.
Una bala de cañón salta sobre los resortes del espacio y del tiempo.
Dimensión que se dilata y corroe. El fuego y el aire.

How to reach the stars?
Escape Velocity is a dance of astronomical units.
A cannonball jumps over the levers of space and time.
Dimension that expands and corrodes. The fire and air.

//blahjj´ – Tatiana Cuoco 8’24” (2016)

 

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Seoul Mediacity, MMCA Film & Video, Doenjang-jjigae

Photograph of: João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiv, The Riddle of the Lobster, 2016

Seoul is an energetic, exciting city, with a lot going on; commercial galleries, large museums, and many private institutions, which are run as not-for-profit spaces. Artists’ moving image can be seen at most types of space, whether government funded or privately financed.

Our first stop was at Seoul Mediacity Biennale at Seoul Museum of Art, which included moving image, installation and photographic work. It’s a curiously curated show, fragmented and difficult to navigate, with artworks intruding on others – a moving sculpture occludes a collection of photographs – and sound bleeds, making some work unintelligible.

An installation by Marguerite Humeau, an ugly yellow room with incomprehensible singing, vexes and confuses, and does little to satisfy, even the deadly black mamba venom mixed into the paint on the walls fails to grip. Other works sit in odd positions, screens hidden or in cocoons. Though there are some great works throughout the biennial, it just needs a little time and space.

One work stood out for me, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiv’s installation of several 16mm projectors showing ordinary objects in glorious states; in one film, Chopping Fruits and Vegetables (2015), shows fruit and vegetables being thinly sliced, projected at speed, revealing the undeniable beauty of everyday food. Not perfectly installed, the fluttering of the 16mm projectors flew out to bleed over other work, but it pulsed beautifully on the lens.

Later that evening we went to the opening of MMCA’s Film & Video programme, opening with a film by Vincent Meessen, ‘One.Two.Three’, which crescendos inside a fiery rumba club after some slow-paced tension. MMCA’s deck overlooks the mountains, and we were treated to a blushing sunset. We met with Eunhee Kim, Assistant curator, MMCA Film and Video. Followed by dinner with Jangwook Lee, Director of EXiS Film Festival – a rich and comprehensive experimental film festival in Seoul – at his family’s restaurant for some traditional Korean food. Spicy bean soup (Doenjang-jjigae); the best.

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation

20Hz – Semiconductor (2011)

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation

Spotlight Gallery, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Saturday 22 October 2016 to Sunday 4 June 2017

A new display at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery will tell the story of experimental filmmaking in Brighton & Hove, from 1896 to the present day. The exhibition has been curated by Suzie Plumb, Royal Pavilion & Museum’s (RPM) Curator of Film, Media and Toys, and Jamie Wyld, Director of videoclub.

Unknown to many, both Brighton and Hove have played a rich and important part in international film history. Early filmmaking pioneers including George Albert Smith and James Williamson, who became known as the Brighton School and worked in Brighton at the turn of the 20th century, while Modern and contemporary filmmakers and moving image artists – like Jeff Keen, Ben Wheatley and Ben Rivers – have cemented the city’s status as a hotbed of experimental film.

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation will explore Brighton & Hove’s success as a place for experimental film-making, and its significance nationally and internationally.

The display is part of RPM’s John Ellerman Foundation-funded project ‘Film Pioneers’, which aims to develop curatorial skills by enabling staff at the museum to research, display and document the city’s Film & Media collections.

Highlights of Experimental Motion will include:

Rare objects from the history of filmmaking in Brighton & Hove, such as ground-breaking cameras made in the city.

Work by artists and filmmakers, including Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Blast Theory, Ian HelliwellJeff Keen, Tula Parker & Anna Weatherston, Ben Rivers, Semiconductor, and Ben Wheatley.

A new commission by Hong Kong-based artist Choi Sai Ho, Brighton is Our Playground, made by Choi while in residence at Phoenix Brighton during August 2016. The film was produced using archival footage from Screen Archive South East, blended with a contemporary soundtrack, composed by Choi. The residency and commission are part of Both Sides Now 3: Final Frontiers, a collaboration between videoclub and Videotage (Hong Kong).

Work made in Brighton by amateur filmmakers and held within the collections of Screen Archive South East, which highlight the city as an inspiration for filmmaking.

A selection of films, drawn from a call out for filmmakers in the city to contribute, will be screened during Cinecity in November 2016 (date TBC), and shown online.

RPM’s Museum Collective, a group of young people working with filmmaker Lindsey Smith, are developing new creative contributions inspired by Jeff Keen’s work that respond to the theme of experimental filmmaking.

 

Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation has been made possible due to the support of the John Ellerman Foundation, and Arts Council England. It has been created in partnership with videoclub, Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton, Lighthouse, Cinecity, and the British Library.

  • Address: Royal Pavilion Garden, Brighton BN1 1EE, UK
  • Opening hours: Tues-Sun: 10am-5pm (closed Mon [except Bank Hols: 10am-5pm], 24 [from 2.30pm], 25 and 26 Dec, 1 Jan)

For full details – including ticketing and access – visit the Experimental Motion page on Brighton Museum & Art Galleries site.