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
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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.

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

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.

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

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
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26 April – 7.30pm (Thursday)

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.

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
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21 June – 7.30pm (Thursday)

VIDEOCLUB : His Life is Full of Miracles.

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
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27 September – 7:30pm (Thursday)

VIDEOCLUB : Reclaiming the Real

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.

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

VIDEOCLUB : Society and Open Phoenix Video Festival

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
www.phoenixarts.org

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29 November – 7.30pm (Thursday)

The 2007 Finale

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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