May 7, 2014Cohesion by Daniel Shanken on screen at Space 55 with No Festival Required
Cloudy LA skies are welcome today following the brilliant, burning desert skies of Phoenix and Tucson for the past week. I even, perversely, imagined British winter chill for a moment in the deep heating sun. Just for a moment.
Model audiences. If you want model artists’ film audiences go to Tucson’s Exploded View Gallery and also arrange a screening with No Festival Required in Phoenix. My enormous thanks to Rebecca and David at Exploded View and to Steve Weiss of No Festival Required (who got me totally drunk in a Tiki bar in Phoenix, so drunk I woke up sideways on the hotel bed with my clothes and shoes still on).
Phoenix, with its mixture of sparkly new cultural venues (Phoenix Art Museum is well worth a visit, a mixture of permanent and temporary, contemporary and historic exhibits in a very nice building) and more raw, established and experimental spaces (Modified/Arts being a classic example), has a rich seam of art and culture running through it. The screening of Selected 3 takes place at one of the latter type of venues, an exciting performing arts space entitled Space 55; its delightful bar space with old couches and memorabilia beckons drinking.
The screening goes well, and the audience receives the work with pleasure; lots of discussion follows, with much interest in Sophie Beresford’s work, Making Adidas Mermaid, which fascinates, and with Nicholas Brook’s Arrastre. I’m deeply appreciative of Steve Weiss’s gathering of such model AMI fans. Other suggested organisations to consider from Steve include: Arizona State University, which has an excellent Intermedia programme; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (where No Festival Required has a regular programme); and, as mentioned, Modified/Arts.
I’m going to update on Tucson in a second post to follow…
April 29, 2014Making Adidas Mermaid – Sophie Beresford on screen at ATA, San Francisco
Artists’ Television Access – or ATA is it’s better known – is based in the Mission District of San Francisco, a popular area that is seeing a lot of regeneration and gentrification. The development of the area, the increase in new bars, and the loss of the old neighbourhood comes up frequently in conversations with ATA staff and visitors. ATA’s programmer, Fara Akrami, mentions the change in the area several times, saying much of the character and culture has gone, with rising rents, techies and posh shops taking their place.
It comes as no surprise that ATA is seen as a bastion of cultural hope; it sits on Valencia St, now surrounded by bars and stores that you obviously need cash to visit. ATA sparkles with bright artists’ video on screens in its window, filtered orange, they crackle onto the street. ATA is volunteer run, much like Star and Shadow in Newcastle, or The Cube in Bristol; it is obviously run with passion and love for the alternative culture it nurtures.
The ATA audience is lively, talkative and engaging; most of the audience is made up of volunteers for the space; Fara insists this is the most volunteers that have attended a screening. It seems to go well, there’s a mixed response at the end, some cool responses, but some positive ones. I did get a great question asking if all films like this in the UK are of such great quality, and was told it’s not often that the whole of a film programme is of such a high standard for all the films.
Fara and I talked before the screening, he had several recommendations to check out in San Francisco: San Francisco Cinematheque, which has a prolific programme, including an experimental programme called Crossroads; Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley shows lots of international film programmes and themed programmes of artists’ film and other cinema; Other Cinema programme, which takes place at ATA, curated by Craig Baldwin; SF Exploratorium has a screening room showing expanded cinema and docs; Black Hole Cinematheque in City of Oakland; and Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, showing a monthly programme of expanded cinema.
April 25, 2014Miracle Methods by Frances Scott on screen at SIFF
Sophie Beresford stretches half-naked on screen to seemingly consider the next act in her film ‘Making Adidas Mermaid’, one of over 50 similar films she made in one day. Adding to the soundtrack is a deep sigh from the back of the theatre, along with a few chuckles. I’m in the company of a traditional film audience, it feels tense and awkward, especially having convinced several of the people waiting outside the cinema to join in watching the films.
At the end of the screening I talk to a couple of the people who came and they ask me why I decided to show the films in a cinema rather than a gallery. Not the first time I’ve been asked this; I don’t believe artists’ film should sit only in a gallery, I think the showing of a film, especially something as rich and heart-suspending as Naheed Raza’s ‘Silk’, should take place in a cinema, where it can exist gloriously. And artists’ film is not just a gallery experience, artists’ films are to be experienced, from beginning to end, rather than walked past and glimpsed at, which often happens in a(n) (unsympathetic) gallery setting. The Seattle audience (for this screening) is small and conservative, and I had suspected that might be the case, but it’s still a bash at my / videoclub‘s confidence. Especially when I know this programme is so excellent.
San Francisco is next. I have great faith in Artists’ Television Access and the San Francisco audience; Ruth Jarman from Semiconductor sang their praises so well when I mentioned I was going there. I’m also excited to hear what artists they’ll propose for the UK tour of StateLand, a programme of new work from the States videoclub will be curating and touring in the UK in October 14.
Clinton McClung from SIFF, who has been so super in helping making this tour happen, recommended a few filmmakers I should take a look at, including Karl Lind, Janice Findley and Kelly Sears, who Clinton described as an ‘Experimental Filmmaker and curator with great connections and taste.’
I would also recommend Northwest Film Forum for showing experimental work, and great for Capitol Hill and Seattle University audiences.
April 24, 2014Arrastre by Nicholas Brooks on screen at Northwest Film Centre, Portland
Portland was a joy. The guys at Northwest Film Center are such a wonderfully friendly and generous group of professionals. I really enjoyed the experience of working with them.
Before the screening I had coffee with Morgen Ruff, one of the Northwest Film Center team, and we spoke about the moving image infrastructure and artists in the city. There’s the Experimental Film Festival that takes place in Portland, which shows varied experimental works by artists and traditional filmmakers. Apparently both Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland State University have great programmes for film and interdisciplinary practice, a good place to promote to for audiences – as I keep getting told, spring break’s not a great time for showing films, watch out for the student holidays next time.
40 Frames in Portland is a great place to get any restoration / conservation work done for film. Also, the Cinema Project in Portland does a roving curated programme of films, taking place in various venues, another really good potential collaborator. Morgen also recommended I contact filmmaker Jessie Malmed to get a better idea of the infrastructure in Chicago.
Seeing the Selected 3 programme on a big screen in the States was truly happy making; I didn’t get a lot of feedback at the end of the screening, but the few people who engaged with me said they loved the programme. I’m going to make sure I promote the screening better through all my contacts over here, including using the Art House Convergence Google Group. (Apparently there is some essential etiquette for posting up on here, which I am hoping to learn about shortly, I will post up details in a later blogpost.)
“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)
29 May 2013 : Nottingham Contemporary
02 June 2013 : Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton
05 June 2013 : Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
13 June 2013 : CCA, Glasgow
18 June 2013 : FACT, Liverpool
20 June 2013 : Whitechapel Gallery, London
Selected 3 is a new collection of artists’ film and video touring the UK in May and June 2013, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film.
Chosen by the artists shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2012, Selected brings together some of the best emerging film and video artists from the UK in an excellent and diverse programme of new artists’ moving image.
Shortlisted artists for the 2012 Film London Jarman Award – Brad Butler & Karen Mirza; Aura Satz; Ben Rivers; Benedict Drew; James Richards; Shezad Dawood; Nathaniel Mellors; Matt Stokes; Marcus Coates and Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead. – have selected work by up-and-coming, fresh filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new programme of work.
Artists in the Selected 3 programme include: Emma Alonze, Sophie Beresford, Nicholas Brooks, Mat Fleming, Piotr Krzymowski, Naheed Raza, Frances Scott, Daniel Shanken, Cheryl Simmons and Edward Thomasson.
Selected will be touring to six venues in the UK, including: Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Duke of York’s Cinema, Brighton; FACT, Liverpool; Nottingham Contemporary; Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle; and Whitechapel Gallery, London.
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.
Date and time: Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 7pm
Price: FREE
Address: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
Web / contact: www.nottinghamcontemporary.org / 0115 948 9750
Duke’s at Komedia with Cinecity
Date and time: Sunday, 2 June, 1:30pm
Price: £3
Address: Duke’s at Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN
For information about the cinema and to book tickets (also on the door): www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Dukes_At_Komedia / 01273 709709
Star and Shadow Cinema
Date and time: Wednesday, 05 June 2013, 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, 13 June 2013, 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
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
Date and time: Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 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 902 5737
Selected forms part of FACT’s Artist Cine Club programme.
Whitechapel Gallery
Date and time: Thursday, 20 June 2013, 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
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.
I 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.
“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.
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
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
South Hill Park arts centre, Bracknell:Saturday, 19 March 2011, 4.30pm – FREE
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.
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
June 5, 2011I 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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!”
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.
