A Wall is a Screen – SICK!

In collaboration with The Basement videoclub has invited A Wall is a Screen to create a SICK! moving image tour of Brighton’s streets, using the city’s walls as cinema screens.

Created especially for SICK! A Wall Is A Screen will lead an audience of festival-goers and passers-by on a unique, cinematic journey through the streets of Brighton. This free event will incorporate a host of SICK!-themed short films in a guerrilla-style intervention, transforming the architectural fabric of the city.

During the daytime, the streets are filled with life, fuelled by the businesses and work places. After business hours certain parts of the city become deserted. These are the places that A Wall Is A Screen seeks out and reanimates. It is a combination of a guided city tour and a film night. Armed with a mobile projector, sound system and energy supply A Wall Is A Screen makes unexpected connections between film and the city landscape: the location and passers-by seem to interact with the film, become part of it. Street noises seem to have an impact on the action of the plot. Thoughts and places that remain otherwise hidden are made visible.

Join us in Jubilee Square and see where the trail will take us, then after the tour, why not roll on to The Basement for Supper Club, a packed night of performance, video, installations and music.

Start of the tour

A Wall is a Screen tour will start at Jubilee Square, Brighton with the first film at 6:30pm, be there on time to join the tour

 

A Wall is a Screen – SICK! is supported by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.

Coming to America – touring artists’ film in the US

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didn’t expect organising this tour of Selected round the States to be as manageable as it has been. Not that it was simple, and a lot of time and effort had to be put in doing research, and talking to contacts – a big thanks to filmmaker Ben Russell, Heather Corcoran at Rhizome, and Clinton McClung at SIFF – but it was surprisingly less complicated than I’d expected. Being determined and tenacious probably helped. 

An excellent tip I had forwarded on to me from Ben Russell was the 16mm Directory, which has a comprehensive list of exhibitors (and distributors and tech) across the US. A really handy resource.

The next stage was just getting in touch with people. Sending some professional looking info about the programme, along with programme notes, and film content, and a link to the programme when it toured in the UK. I think having had the programme tour already really helped. Also, highlighting recognisable venues that the tour had previously been to, like the Whitechapel, gave the programme some kudos, and linking out to artists’ work that have good profile. I also gave venues links to all the films online (via Vimeo – either public or private (with passwords), as artists had sent to me) so they could see content.

My plan had always been to do five venues, to keep it manageable for a first time activity like this. I ended up with 10. Then reduced this down to eight as I negotiated how I was going to manage the logistics, sadly this meant cutting out Chicago and Iowa City, but meant I could do Phoenix, Tucson and LA, and comfortably fit in NY and DC.

It’s a bit of a bonkers trip, but an enormous joy to undertake. I feel like I’ve learned a lot just from setting up the tour. Hopefully what I’ve learnt will unravel here as I write during this journey.

To Portland.

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Selected II

Sludge Manifesto – Benedict Drew

“If you thought the Jarman Award was where you’d find the next big thing in British film art, you’re one step behind.”The Guardian

Various screening dates

(full details at the bottom)

  • 30 May 2012 : Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
  • 06 June 2012 : FACT, Liverpool
  • 07 June 2012 : Nottingham Contemporary
  • 10 June 2012 : Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton
  • 14 June 2012 : CCA, Glasgow
  • 21 June 2012 : Whitechapel Gallery, London

Nominated by the artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2011, Selected brings together some of the best emerging film and video artists from the UK in a dazzling, diverse programme of new artists’ moving image.

Shortlisted artists for the 2011 Film London Jarman Award – Ed Atkins; Clio Barnard; Claire Hooper; Anja Kirschner & David Panos; Hilary Koob-Sassen; Torsten Lauschmann; Elizabeth Price; Laure Prouvost; Imogen Stidworthy; and Corin Sworn – have selected work by up-and-coming, fresh filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new programme of work.

Throughout May and June Selected will be touring to six venues in England and Scotland, and will include appearances by filmmakers giving introductions to their films, followed by conversation with the audience.

Artists in the Selected prgramme are: Anonymous Bosch, Benedict Drew, Nicholas Keogh, Una Knox, Andy Lacey, Alexis Milne, Charlotte Prodger, Markus Soukup, Francis Summers and Daniel Swan.

Selected has been produced in partnership by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), with the aim of showcasing and celebrating some of the most innovative emerging talent in artists’ moving image.

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. The Jarman Award honours the legacy of avant-garde film-maker Derek Jarman. It recognises and rewards the exceptional creativity of today’s UK artist film-makers whose work, like Jarman’s, resists conventional definition.

FLAMIN website: www.filmlondon.org.uk/flamin

Venue and screening details:

Star and Shadow Cinema

Date and time: Wednesday, 30 May 2012, 7:30pm
Price: £5 full / £3.50 concessions. Star and Shadow membership is required for entry; £1 for a year, available on the door.
Address: Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP
Web / contact: www.starandshadow.org.uk / 0191 261 0066

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

Date and time: Wednesday, 06 June 2012, 6.30pm
Price: FREE – Booking required. Please book at: www.fact.co.uk or in person at box office.
Address: The Box, FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Web / box office: www.fact.co.uk / 0871 704 2063
Selected forms part of FACT’s Artist Cine Club programme.

Nottingham Contemporary

Date and time: Thursday, 07 June 2012, 7pm
Price: £4 full / £2 concessions
Address: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
Web / contact: www.nottinghamcontemporary.org / 0115 948 9750

Duke of York’s Cinema with Cinecity

Date and time: Sunday, 10 June 2012, 1pm
Price: FREE – just turn up – tickets at the door
Address: Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Circus Brighton BN1 4NA
For information about the cinema: Duke of York’s Cinema / 01273 709709

CCA Glasgow

Date and time: Thursday, 14 June 2012, 7pm
Price: £5 full / £3 concessions
Address: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
To book tickets (tickets also on door): www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: Thursday, 21 June 2012, 7pm
Price: £6 full / £4 concessions
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Web / tickets / contact: www.whitechapelgallery.org / 020 7522 78889


Supported by Arts Council England and Film London

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Jukebox Fury – Films

Call for artists’ films

videoclub has joined forces with The Basement to present new artists’ film and video as part of a new music and film evening The Basement is presenting entitled Jukebox Fury. This brand new monthly night will showcase new music and films and celebrate the marriage of sound and vision.

The night will sit somewhere between a pop-up gig and a secret guerrilla cinema, with each night curated by a guest musical collective, with films selected by videoclub. We want to encourage cross-pollination between film and music audiences, showing films that work within the context of live music.

There are three contexts within which we are looking for work to show:

  • MICRO-CINEMA: We will be setting up some micro cinemas in secret corners of the venue, to showcase short films in timed screenings. These will be subject to ambient noise from live music playing, so please be aware that they should not rely heavily on their own audio or dialogue. Films should be ten minutes or less.
  • PUBLIC SPACES: We are looking for films for public spaces, to be looped throughout the evening in either the bar area or alongside the musicians in the main space. These pieces should be at least ten minutes long but will not be played with any audio. We are looking for films that are not reliant on sound, or are silent, and that would present well in public spaces.
  • LIVE SOUNDTRACKING: Thirdly, there will be a live soundtrack project taking place in The Pit (The Basement’s auditorium space), where two or three musicians will interpret their own soundtrack to short pieces of film. Submissions should be in the region of five to ten minutes in length.

More information about Jukebox Fury events can be found on The Basement’s What’s On page.

Deadlines:

There will be a monthly deadline for film submissions – films may however be considered for future events and may not be programmed into the month submitted for. Go to the How to submit page for submission form and terms and conditions.

  • March deadline: 22 March 2012
  • April deadline: 15 April 2012
  • June deadline: 15 May 2012

Artists will receive two free tickets to the event they are screening at.

Events:

Jukebox Fury is a monthly event – dates are:

  • 30 March 2012, 7:30pm till late, £6 / £4 – to buy tickets: The Basement’s What’s On page.
  • 27 April 2012, 7:30pm till late, £6 / £4 – to buy tickets: The Basement’s What’s On page.
  • 01 June 2012, 7:30pm till late, £6 / £4 – to buy tickets: The Basement’s What’s On page.

Jukebox Fury will take place at The Basement, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ

Beyond Surveillance

Various screening dates

(full details at the bottom)

Beyond Surveillance is a collection of art works developed in response to and in counteraction against surveillance technologies, with a panel of speakers discussing the consequences of and alternatives to surveillance in our daily life.

What are the consequences of surveillance on our daily lives? Is surveillance provoking a climate of self-censorship? Is a society without a paternalising infrastructure of control, such as surveillance and censorship, possible?

As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous – from CCTV to data-mining on websites to mobile phones to Google streetcar – does it not become ever more important to consider the implications and to develop creative, radical responses, counteracting and reversing acts of surveillance?

Artist and curator Manu Luksch has selected several works which explore differing aspects of re-activism to surveillance technologies; selected artists include: David Valentine, Caspar Below, The Bureau of Inverse Technology and Michelle Teran.

Manu Luksch is highly celebrated for her work investigating the use of surveillance technologies in artistic practice: Ambient TV In particular her work ‘Faceless’ has been internationally recognised and celebrated for its approach in exploring CCTV / surveillance technology in society.

Venue and screening details:

Aspex Gallery

Date: Thursday, 10 March 2011

Time: 6pm

Cost: FREE

Address: Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth PO1 3BF

Web / contact: www.aspex.org.uk / 02392 778080

Electric Palace Cinema

Date: Wednesday, 09 February 2011

Time: 7:15pm doors, 8pm screening

Cost: £5 / £4 concessions

Address: 39A High Street, Old Town, Hastings TN34 3ER

Box office / web: www.electricpalacecinema.com / 01424 720393

South Hill Park Arts Centre

Date: Saturday, 19 March 2011

Time: 4:30pm

Cost: FREE

Address: Ringmead, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 7PA

Web / contact: www.southhillpark.org.uk / www.digitalmediacentre.org / 01344 484123

Funded by Arts Council England.

Digital Rules and Regs

Image credit: Mouse move map of research area (online neighbourhood: area covered 21032011:1924-2004hrs), 2011 – Marianne Holm Hansen

Participating Artists:

The Rules:

  • Love thy neighbour.
  • Honour the original.
  • Obey the market.

Throughout Digital Rules and Regs (DR&R), links to any interactive work or work-in-progress will be posted here.

The artists will also be posting about their experiences on the DR&R blog: http://digitalrulesandregs.wordpress.com

The Programme:

Participating artists will develop new work over a nine-week period in early 2011. After artists have agreed to participate, rules will be devised in response to their practices and announced at the beginning of the development period. Both artists will work to the same set of rules and must create new work in response to these rules.

DR&R will take place online, using the web as a creative platform and tool. The final outcome of the project will be web-based final artworks or works in progress, and will be accessible to the public to experience / see / interact with through a website / online means.

DR&R is primarily a development opportunity for making new work, rather than an exhibition or showcase; the primary goal is to explore artistic practice. During the development period artists will be supported by videoclub curator Jamie Wyld.

DR&R with videoclub is the pilot online implementation of the Rules and Regs development model. Public access to the artists’ creative processes will be highlighted, with artists asked to keep public blogs and post work-in-progress.

DR&R is a collaboration between Rules and Regs and videoclub. For more information on Rules and Regs, please visit: http://www.rulesandregs.org

Selected

I Believe I Can Imagine A Colour I Have Never Seen Before (extract) – Piotr Krzymowski

“If you thought the Jarman Award was where you’d find the next big thing in British film art, you’re one step behind.”The Guardian

Various screening dates

(full details at the bottom)

  • 17 May 2011 : Brighton Festival
  • 26 May 2011 : Picture This, Bristol
  • 02 June 2011 : Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
  • 08 June 2011 : Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
  • 23 June 2011 : CCA, Glasgow
  • 30 June 2011 : Whitechapel Gallery, London

Curated by four of the UK’s foremost artists working in moving image, Selected brings together some of the best new emerging artists’ film and video to audiences. Shortlisted artists for the 2010 Film London Jarman Award – Ben Rivers, Emily Wardill, Zineb Sedira and Spartacus Chetwynd – have selected work by up-and-coming, fresh filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new programme of work.

Throughout May and June Selected will be touring to six venues in England and Scotland, and will include talks by filmmakers giving introductions to their work, and the process of making new film and video.

Artists in the programme include: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt; Zoe Brown; Sebastian Buerkner; Joel Furness; Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow; Piotr Krzymowski; Asta Lynge; Chooc Ly Tan; Michael Robinson; Ben Russell; and Tilly Shiner.

Selected has been produced in partnership with videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), with the aim of showcasing and celebrating some of the most innovative emerging talent in artists’ moving image.

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. The Jarman Award honours the legacy of avant-garde film-maker Derek Jarman. It recognises and rewards the exceptional creativity of today’s UK artist film-makers whose work, like Jarman’s, resists conventional definition.

FLAMIN website: www.filmlondon.org.uk/flamin

Venue and screening details:

Brighton Festival and CineCity present Pop-Up Cinema at The Basement

Date and time: Tuesday, 17 May 2011 at 8pm
Price: £7 full / £6 concessions and Duke of York’s members
Address: The Basement, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
To book tickets (tickets also on door): Brighton Festival / 01273 709709

Picture This

Date and time: Thursday, 26 May 2011, 6.30pm
Price: Suggested donation £2 – pay on the door
Address: Picture This, Mardyke Ferry Road, Spike Island, Bristol BS1 6UU
Web / contact: www.picture-this.org.uk / 0117 925 7010

Showroom Cinema

Date and time: Thursday, 02 June 2011, 8:30pm
Price: £7.60 full / £5.10 concessions / £4.00 student
Address: Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
Box office / contact: www.showroomworkstation.org.uk / 0114 275 7727

Star and Shadow Cinema

Date and time: Wednesday, 08 June 2011, 7:30pm
Price: £5 full / £3.50 concessions. Star and Shadow membership is required for entry; £1 for a year, available on the door.
Address: Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP
Web / contact: www.starandshadow.org.uk / 0191 261 0066

CCA Glasgow

Date and time: Thursday, 23 June 2011, 7pm
Price: £5 full / £3 concessions
Address: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
To book tickets (tickets also on door): www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900

Whitechapel Gallery

Date and time: Thursday, 30 June 2011, 7pm
Price: £6 full / £4 concessions
Address: Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Web / tickets / contact: www.whitechapelgallery.org / 020 7522 78889


Supported by Arts Council England and Film London

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An Imagined Country

An Imagined Country can be followed throughout September 2011

Follow online here: An Imagined Country (no longer online)

An Imagined Country – is a film that’s not yet been made. It’s a story that has yet to be told.

Artist filmmaker Denis Doran is journeying across America, with life historian Teresa Cairns, meeting and interviewing, collecting stories of contemporary recession-hit United States. He follows in the footsteps of his father, who travelled across the U.S. during the 1930’s depression, retracing memories that are now more fiction than reality.

The outcome will be a film, but the journey will be documented, commented upon and published on An Imaged Country – follow the journey here: An Imagined Country

As part of CineCity (Brighton Film Festival), Doran and Cairns will present excerpts from the new film, and discuss their journey across America. They will talk about the process of making, recording and writing, as well as about the people they met on their journey.

A date and venue for the talk and screening will be announced shortly. For more details on Brighton Film Festival: CineCity

Supported by Arts Council England and videoclub.

2010 Programme

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videoclub and Index on Censorship present

BEYOND SURVEILLANCE

curated by Manu Luksch

28 April 10 – doors and bar 6pm, screening at 7pm

A screening of art works developed in response to and in counteraction against surveillance technologies, with a panel of speakers discussing the consequences of and alternatives to surveillance in our daily life.

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What are the consequences of surveillance on our daily lives? Is surveillance provoking a climate of self-censorship? Is a society without a paternalising infrastructure of control, such as surveillance and censorship, possible?

As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous – from CCTV to data-mining on websites to mobile phones to Google streetcar – does it not become ever more important to consider the implications and to develop creative, radical responses, counteracting and reversing acts of surveillance?

Artist and curator Manu Luksch has selected several works which explore differing aspects of re-activism to surveillance technologies; selected artists include: David Valentine, Caspar Below, The Bureau of Inverse Technology and Michelle Teran.

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Panel of speakers:

  • Caspar Below – artist
  • Julia Farrington – Head of Arts at Index on Censorship
  • Manu Luksch – ambientTV.NET / artist
  • David Valentine – artist

Manu Luksch is highly celebrated for her work investigating the use of surveillance technologies in artistic practice: Ambient TV In particular her work ‘Faceless’ has been internationally recognised and celebrated for its approach in exploring CCTV / surveillance technology in society.

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ // 01273 647197

Directions to Lighthouse: Map to Lighthouse

Lighthouse website

Funded by Arts Council England and Brighton and Hove City Council. Supported by Lighthouse.


VIDEOCLUB presents BRIGHT ON! for WHITE NIGHT 2010

Saturday, 30 October 10

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First game at 6pm and then every 15 minutes after, last game at 10pm
Free to take part

Stop the dark matter when it matters! For goodness sake, commit yourself to the sake of goodness! Don’t take the night off: enter BRIGHT ON!

BRIGHT ON! is a fun outdoor game event. Participants will perform good will tasks in order to repel Astro Tsunami, a negative energy wave from space that threatens to destroy Earth.

Join us in a lively street game: play with friends or make new friends while playing and get a new, playful view of Brighton’s streets and spaces.

You will need to sign up for a game in Jubilee Square (see map below) – sign up early for a time to avoid missing out. Please arrive ten minutes before the start of your game to collect electronic playing cards from the White Night booth in Jubilee Square, games start every 15 minutes. The first game is at 6pm. Following games start at: 6:15pm, 6:30pm, 6:45pm etc…
The last game is at 10pm. You can sign up for a game at any time, you just need to get back to Jubilee Square ten minutes before your game starts to get your game instructions.

BRIGHT ON! has been co-commissioned by videoclub and White Night especially for playing on the streets of Brighton. It has been created by Serbian writers and designers Bogdan Spanjevic and Mirko Stojkovic of the ApsArt Centre in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the artists’ third game, previous games have been made for Belgrade Fortress in Serbia and the Southbank Centre in London.

White Night Brighton and Hove 2010 website

Funded by White Night Brighton & Hove and Arts Council England. Created by Bogdan Spanjevic and Mirko Stojkovic.

2009 Programme

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VIDEOCLUB presents Mobile Movie Trail for WHITE NIGHT 2009

24 October 09 – 6pm – 12am (Saturday) – Free to take part

Mobile Movie Trail is a selection of minute long films that you can download to your phone. Films are ‘hidden’ invisibly along a trail throughout Brighton, from Jubilee Square to the seafront.

As you journey along the trail, following a printed movie treasure map (available from White Night info point in Jubilee Square) you will come across ‘X’s on the floor that mark the location of downloadable videos using the Bluetooth function on your phone.

Videos will be shareable once collected, allowing you to share the films you have collected with family and friends for as long as you have them.

There will be a ‘Bluetooth Angel’ at the beginning of the tour who will show you how to access the Bluetooth function on your phone. The angel will be situated at the White Night info point in Jubilee Square. Maps of the trail will also be available from the White Night info point.

Films have been made by international artists, including Armen Antranikian, Yasuko Tadokoro, George Barber, Anna Weatherston & Tula Parker, and Hetain Patel.

White Night Brighton and Hove 2009 website

Funded by White Night Brighton & Hove and Arts Council England. Made possible with technological and project management support from Blink.

THE TRAIL

1. Jubilee Square – White Night information point
2. Outside Theatre Royal, New Road
3. Outside Fabrica Gallery, 40 Duke Street
4. Outside Moore House, 13 Black Lion Street
5. White Night Penny Arcade, Fishing Museum on the beach

THE FILMS

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One-Minute Study of Beats – Hetain Patel

The rhythms usually performed by hands on the tabla drums, are translated into full body movements as the torso is marked with Kanku (the red pigment traditionally used in Hindu ceremonies to mark a dot on the forehead). The chanting and clapping form part of an ancient percussive language, which in this instance, shapes the 10 beats called Jhaptaal.  Commissioned by motiroti

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Le Fil Rouge – Yasuko Tadokoro

Everyone has someone somewhere in the world, they are connected to you by an unseen red thread – will you ever find them?

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Automotive Action Painting – George Barber

Observed from an overhead camera, a man stops by the roadside one morning and empties the contents of a number of large cans of paint over the tarmac. As the light rises, along with the level of traffic, the cars spread the paint along the surface of the road, creating an abstract smear of vibrant colour.

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One-Minute Guide to Planet Earth – Armen Antranikian

An attempt to summarise modern life on planet earth in sixty seconds. The short film received a Jury Commendation at Filminute 2007, the international one-minute film festival. The jury said: “How refreshing to find such a delightfully off-beat guide to a place we could all use a bit more perspective on!”

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Beach Jam Beach Jam – Tula Parker and Anna Weatherston

A sample-heavy funk track provides the revving and screeching sound effects for a toy car as it is ‘driven’ along a stretch of sea wall, from the ‘metropolis’ of a snow-shaker past a ‘Weekend’ tail-back of traffic before arriving, in the wheel tracks of Thelma and Louise, in Brighton.

2008 Programme

29 April 08 – 7.30pm (Tuesday) – Free entry

VIDEOCLUB in collaboration with protoPLAY presents : The YouTube Thing

The YouTube Thing is a curated screening of videos from YouTube, selected in collaboration with Nadege Derderian and Orion Maxted from protoPLAY. A screening of touching, angering, curious, visceral and ever-so voyeuristic pieces, taken from the mass contemporary ‘archive’ of YouTube.

Watch the playlist: Playlist from The YouTube Thing

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
www.lighthouse.co.uk

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18 May 08 (Sunday) – 1:30pm at Duke of York’s Cinema – £3

(arrive early to get your free tea and cake!)

VIDEOCLUB presents : Olsen

Olsen Olsen is a DIY collective that, for the last three years, has been intermittently screening avant-garde cinema with tea and cake at Leeds’ Hyde Park Picture House. For this one-off event organised by videoclub, Olsen will present an afternoon programme of new moving image works by established and little known international artists – served with tea and homemade cake (vegan too). Expect lyrical, personal and abstract experimental cinema from people who care.

A limited edition recipe/film booklet will also be made for the event. For further information about films and Olsen go to: www.olsenorsen.org

Duke of York’s Cinema, Preston Circus, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4NA, United Kingdom
Tel: 0870 755 1228

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21 Aug 08 (Thurs) 6-9pm

VIDEOCLUB : remembered/forgotten

The Chair, Grace Schwindt A selection of international work from videoclub’s most recent call for artists’ moving image. All the works selected focus upon auto/semi/biographical content that has been made by filmmakers who are using artists’ moving image to approach their subject matter, rather than straight documentary format. Fleeting glimpses, broken narratives and the use of image over language reveals the structure of memory and recall, as a fragmented, and re-narrated/imagined phenomenon, as opposed to a simple narrative line.

Artists showing work are: Juliette Buss, Yin-Ju Chen, Aikaterini Gegisian, Ana Husman, Esther Johnson, Gazelle Samizay and Grace Schwindt

HOLD & FREIGHT, 7 Apple Tree Yard, Bradwell Street, Lognor Estate, London E1

Select ‘contact’ on the Hold & Freight website for a map to the gallery.


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11 and 12 Oct 08 (Sat and Sun) 3-4pm both programmmes

VIDEOCLUB as part of VIDEOPHILE video art festival at Phoenix Brighton

11 Oct at 3pm – videoclub : remembered/forgotten

The Chair, Grace Schwindt A selection of international work from videoclub’s most recent call for artists’ moving image. All the works selected focus upon auto/semi/biographical content that has been made by filmmakers who are using artists’ moving image to approach their subject matter, rather than straight documentary format. Fleeting glimpses, broken narratives and the use of image over language reveals the structure of memory and recall, as a fragmented, and re-narrated/imagined phenomenon, as opposed to a simple narrative line.

Artists showing work are: Juliette Buss, Yin-Ju Chen, Aikaterini Gegisian, Ana Husman, Esther Johnson, Gazelle Samizay and Grace Schwindt

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12 Oct at 3pm – videoclub : Fragments

Guli Silberstein – REMAINS Fragments and distortions, filters and reappropriated imagery comprise this surprising collection of moving image works. Found footage and original recordings are dispersed with twisting narratives. Bare and latent concepts, and intertwining philosophies appear to comment on violence, consumerism, and other fragmented human actions. Broken repetitions in The Horror and Ozymandias are unsettling whilst poetic, whereas FIXC’s and Nilsson’s films provide us with octane-driven feasts that comment on consumerism and our fixation with popular culture.

Artists include: Sandra Lim, Dave Griffiths, Paul Gittins, Jonas Nilsson, Guli Silberstein, Anders Weberg and FIXC.

Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB, UK
www.phoenixbrighton.org.uk

For a map, and the full programme for VIDEOPHILE, see Phoenix gallery’s website above.


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25 October 08 – 8:00pm (Saturday) meet at Pump House pub, Market Street

A Wall is a Screen VIDEOCLUB presents : A Wall is a Screen

On the 25 October, A Wall is a Screen (Hamburg) will be making a moving image tour of Brighton, exploring the walls and screens of the city, re-imagining the city through film.

Hamburg-based A Wall is a Screen have created a moving image tour of Brighton, weaving through the city’s back streets and hidden walls, as well as open public spaces that are perfect for screening films. Follow the tour and see excellent, new short films in surprising spots around the city. You will probably want warm clothes and possibly an umbrella.

Meet outside The Pump House pub (46 Market Street, near Donatello’s, see map below) at 8:00pm, look for the A Wall is a Screen logo. The tour will last approximately an hour.

“The project A Wall is a Screen takes advantage of the nightly downtime in the vitality of the downtown area. It is a combination of a guided city tour and a film night. The group of participants walks through downtown and stops at bright walls where short films of various genres are shown. After the end of one film, the group continues on to the next wall and film”. – From A Wall is a Screen’s website.

This event is part of the Brighton WHITE NIGHT celebrations


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27 November 08 – 6:30pm doors and bar, 7:30pm screening

VIDEOCLUB SELECTION 08

Transactions, Yin-Ju Chen (2008) This outstanding selection of work by UK and international artists features contrasting and complementary images and narratives, many taking an artistic approach to documentary filmmaking. From the formal and atmospheric vistas of Annalisa Sonzogni’s landscapes, to the funny and touching chronicles of DJ Steve KRUSHER Joule’s life, sensitively filmed by Jordan Baseman, these works are thoughtful, engaging and beautiful, with the strength to resonate long after seeing them.

Featuring work from: Annalisa Sonzogni, Grace Schwindt, Jordan Baseman, Aikaterini Gegisian, Yin-Ju Chen and Esther Johnson

Selected from open submission, this excellent collection of film and video celebrates outstanding practice from UK and international artists working in moving image.

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
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04 December 08 – 6:30pm doors and bar, 7:30pm screening

VIDEOCLUB presents : Northwest Film Forum

NWFF Stories of Reach

Human beings tend to end up wanting something out of reach. This collection of stories offers some different insights into the situations that drive our passions. Among the stories: dancers have operatic visions of escape, criminals find their world spun upside down and a few women attempt a new relationship with a special someone in their life.

Filmmakers include: Nathan Williams, Allison Beda, Jennifer Halley, Kristian McKay, A J Eaton, Marly Reed and Curtis Taylor.

A selection of work by filmmakers from northwest USA and west coast Canada. Part of an exchange programme between Northwest Film Forum, Seattle and videoclub, Brighton.

“Founded in 1995 by filmmakers Jamie Hook and Deborah Girdwood, Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) is a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to becoming the nation’s leading center for film artists. Operating the region’s first and only non-profit center for the film arts, NWFF programs a true cinematheque, embracing film production as well as film exhibition, with two cinemas (46 and 120 seats), film production and post-production facilities and equipment, educational workshop space, filmmaker offices, a film vault containing over 1,000 titles, and a filmmaking library”. – Excerpt from NWFF’s website.

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
www.lighthouse.org.uk

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2007 Programme

26 April – 7.30pm (Thursday)

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VIDEOCLUB presents : the unstable states of… featuring a range of work highlighting the instability of the recorded image, work that threatens to collapse and recombine, leading fragments to reveal new forms, states and spaces. These works revel in rupture and displacement, celebrating sensory slippage and confusion. Anxious narrators reveal hidden messages; poems are written in shop signs or found in discarded videos; preying wildlife and hysteric crowds roam the ruins; these works evoke and play upon the fraught relation between the senses.

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Featuring work by Ben Callaway, Duncan Campbell, Kieron Dennis, Dalia Neis and Laure Prouvost. The screening will be accompanied by a specially designed limited edition ‘zine by artist group Dirty Drawers (www.dirtydrawers.co.uk)

Lighthouse’s new home in the centre of the North Laines is videoclub’s new residence for 2007. George Clark, writer, curator and Artists’ Moving Image Development Officer at the Independent Cinema Office is the curator for the first videoclub of 2007, with work selected from international film festivals as well as UK artists.

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
www.lighthouse.co.uk

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21 June – 7.30pm (Thursday)

VIDEOCLUB : His Life is Full of Miracles.

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Theorist Walter Benjamin saw early animation as a radicalising of film, which offered a release from the constraints of the physical laws of time, space and technology. A chapter of an early version of his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction was originally titled ‘Mickey Mouse’, about whom he said: ‘His life is full of miracles – miracles that not only surpass the wonders of technology, but make fun of them.’

Perhaps it is these original radical and avant-garde possibilities of animation which still fascinate artists – ‘the anti-naturalist, utopian rebuttal of physical laws and “natural” constraint’ (Esther Leslie) which allows reinvestigation of the relationship between the still and moving image, the flatness of line and the illusion of depth and the digital manipulation of photographic ‘reality’.

This screening is a smaller selection from a larger curated project which was originally presented as a videotheque at Site Gallery, Sheffield. The films presented here seem to show two poles of animation: drawn animation – coming from a primal flick book impulse involving line figuration – and animation referencing, remixing and intervening within film – still one of the most sophisticated animation technologies available to us.

This videoclub has been curated by Jeanine Griffin, curator at the internationally renowned Site Gallery in Sheffield.

For further information on His Life is Full of Miracles as it appeared at Site Gallery click

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
www.lighthouse.co.uk

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27 September – 7:30pm (Thursday)

VIDEOCLUB : Reclaiming the Real

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An investigation into contemporary responses to ethnographic filmmaking – not only the study of humans, but also how the apparatus effects the process of observation. Starting with an archive film by Jean Rouch, one of the first ethnographic filmmakers to recognise that his presence with a camera had to be acknowledged, the programme will then concentrate on new artists’ works which explore the recording of human societies.

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Award-winning filmmaker Ben Rivers is the curator for September’s videoclub. Ben will be introducing the work selected at the event.

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
www.lighthouse.co.uk

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Sat 13 (1-5pm) and Sun 14 (1-4pm) October

VIDEOCLUB : Society and Open Phoenix Video Festival

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2 days of screenings curated by Victoria Melody combined with live performances, talks, and open studios. The Open Phoenix 2007 Video Art Festival is a showcase for artists working within the medium of moving image.

Victoria Melody will be curating a programme from selected works that respond to the themes of Humour in Art, Performance for Camera, Extremes and Brighton Bred. Selected artists include David Blandy, Pablo Perez and Graeme Walker.

Victoria Melody will be performing on Saturday 13th at 5:30pm

VIDEOCLUB : society is a selection of artists’ films exploring society and societal constructs. Each artist explores aspects of humanity and how humans have created structures, models of power and dependencies upon one another to conform.
Artists include: Raymond Taudin Chabot, Derek Lodge, Miranda Pennell, Jaan Toomik and Hard Shoulder. Curated by Jamie Wyld.
VIDEOCLUB : society will be screened 4-5pm on Saturday 13 Oct, 3-4pm Sunday 14 Oct.

protoPLAY presents The YouTube Thing
Videos from YouTube will be screened in the format of a video art presentation. YouTube has been approached as a gigantic reservoir for images and information, and the selection process as a linguistic act. www.protoPLAY.net

Phoenix Art Gallery, 10 – 14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB
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29 November – 7.30pm (Thursday)

The 2007 Finale

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The final videoclub event of 2007 is a showcase of work invited from artists who were selected for the finale of videoclub in 2006.

To increase and invest in our support to artists we have previously shown, we decided it would be a timely opportunity to show new work from those artists a year on.

Invited artists include: Kagami Shinohara, Ulf Kristiansen, Kirk Palmer, Semiconductor, Lucy Pawlak, Oliver Mezger and Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez

Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
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2006 Programme

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videoclub: 1 // 28 March 2006 – The Hanbury Ballroom

The videoclub launch was a great success, with a ballroom-filling turn out, and some great films to start out with. Victoria Melody, Zoe Tissandier and Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez all came to talk about their work with guest speaker (writer and editor) Metin Alsanjak – who wrote a review of the work for videoclub – click here to read more.

Programme of films

Victoria Melody, Hill Screams, 2005
Simon Woolham, The Source, 2005
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Flash, 2006
Martin Blazicek, Image Description, 2003
Zoe Tissandier, Talent Show Auditions, 2005

Photos from the first event at Hanbury Ballroom, March 2006, courtesy of Rupert Noble

videoclub : 2 // May 2006 – The Hanbury Ballroom

videoclub : 2 provided us with a few surprises, this screening of excellent films was only 14 minutes long, which had great contrasts and similes, particularly with their relationship to sound and image. George Barker, Nick Hornby and Hannah Ellul came to talk about their work, with guest facilitator (artist, writer and curator) Monica Ross, who explored and highlighted some thought-provoking links between the artists’ work.

Programme of films

Patrick Gould & George Barker, For the Love of God, 2006
Rosalind Peter, She Falls, 2005
Nick Hornby, Psycho Saw, 2005
Hannah Ellul & J Allett, I have dodged through the parking lots, 2006

Miranda Whall, Ladybirds, 2006 (film still) – courtesy of the artist

videoclub : 3 // July 2006 – Brighton Fringe Basement

The Basement provided a great space for screening work, and the films worked brilliantly together – we had some stunning films submitted for this screening. Artists Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt) and Sara Preibsch discussed their work with writer, curator and filmmaker, George Clark, who also put together notes on the event – click here to read more. The panel discussion was highly engaging and illuminating, revealing artists’ intentions and inspirations for their work.

Programme of films

Miranda Whall, Ladybirds, 2005
Esther Johnson, Tune In, 2006
Jake Thomas, Sunday Morning, 2004
Semiconductor, Acousticity, 2006
Yoshino Shigihara, Niji Dura, 2006
Sara Preibsch, Shoreham Works, 2005
Jessica Brouder, Peeling Onions, 2005
Semiconductor, 200 Nanowebbers, 2005

July 2006 event at The Basement, photos courtesy of Rupert Noble

videoclub : 4 // 28 Sept 2006 – Phoenix Gallery

Could we have squeezed more people into the Red Room at Phoenix? videoclub : 4 had a great turn out, and the work was due a good audience. As with all the screenings, videoclub : 4 had an eclectic mix, from computer game to hand-drawn animation, Super 8 and 16mm, and DV – demonstrating the multiplicity of film and video-making media along with high quality practice. Esther Harris, Minou Norouzi and Kagami Shinohara spoke insightfully and with engaging generosity about their work, with perceptive questions from panel leader, Mick Hartney. To see the notes about the programme click here to read more.

Programme of films

Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Future for Less, 2006
Minou Norouzi, Imago, 2006
Oliver Mezger, High Possil, 2006
Ulf Kristiansen, The Art Reception, 2006
Kagami Shinohara, Super Kagao Brothers, 2006
Esther Harris, Tourists, 2006

Sept 2006 event at Phoenix Brighton, photos courtesy of Rupert Noble

videoclub : 5 // 23 Oct 2006 – Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex

We held the fifth videoclub open call event at Gardner Arts Centre – now the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at University of Sussex. You can read the programme notes here: videoclub 5 running order and notes.

Programme of films

Sheena Macrae, Drink, 2004
Becca Albee, Compulsory Figures, 2005
Steven Eastwood, Come As You Are, 2005
Lucy Pawlak, Revenge of the Insides, 2006
Kirk Palmer, Murmur, 2006
Nicky Hamlyn, Panni, 2005

Oli Mezger, High Possil, 2006 (film still) – image courtesy of the artist

videoclub : 6 // 23 November 2006 – Fabrica Gallery

For the final event of 2006, we curated a programme of what we considered some of the best films from the 2006 open call programme, which represented different styles of practice, content and interest. For more details about films, see the programme notes: videoclub 6 the finale running order and notes.

Programme of films

Patrick Gould and George Barker, For the Love of God, 2006
Oliver Mezger, High Possil, 2006
Lucy Pawlak, Revenge of the Insides, 2006
Kirk Palmer, Murmur, 2006
Martin Blazicek, Image Description, 2003
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Flash, 2006
Ulf Kristiansen, The Art Reception, 2006
Semiconductor, 200 Nanowebbers, 2005
Kagami Shinohara, Super Kagao Brothers, 2006

 

Supported by Arts Council England and Lighthouse.