videoclub & MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS (Hangzhou) present a series of short films by UK artist filmmakers in Beijing on 15-16 December.
The selected works are inspired by and created using technologies commonly employed in videogame development, such as game engines and 3D rendering. From delving into cyborg ontology to exploring queerness in science fiction, we invite you to join us on a journey into the boundless world of the digital age through these hyperrealistic films.
The event is held at The Groundless Factory in Beijing and is the finale event of Dreamy Place in 2023.
The films in the programme include:
Clifford Sage, Where’s My Stick?, 2017, 4:20 mins
Ben Dawson, I express myself best in silence, 2022, 6:08 mins
Jean Baptiste Castel, Camera.1, 2019, 8:21 mins
Megan Watson, The Air in Cyberspace, 2022, 3:20 mins
P1nk Poodle, Queer Theory Saved My Life, 2023, 4:20 mins
April Lin 林森, TR333, 2021, 10 mins
The Groundless Factory, Beijing
Date and time: 8pm on Friday, 15 December to 6am on Saturday, 16 December 2023 (looped screening) Address: The Groundless Factory, 5 Zuigongfen, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Post Code: 100025 / 莫须有工厂, 中国北京市朝阳区醉公坟5号, 邮政编码: 100025
Curated and produced by videoclub and MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS. Supported by British Council Connections Through Culture Grant Programme 2023 and Arts Council England.
November 16, 2023Thomas Buckley and GUAN, Only a Few Find the Way, 2023 – photo credit: Rosie Powell
videoclub is searching for an Artist-Curator to work with us on the next Dreamy Place Festival, to co-curate and deliver the festival with us.
We are inviting expressions of interest to be Artist-Curator for Dreamy Place Festival in 2024. The selected Artist-Curator will work closely with the core Dreamy Place team to develop the festival vision and programme with communities and partners.
Dreamy Place embraces new ideas, experimentation and alternative presentations of work. We are planning to deliver Dreamy Place Festival in two locations in 2024 – with one part in Crawley (early October) and the second part in Brighton & Hove (end of October). The Artist-Curator will collaborate with us to develop the programme, working with the team and local partners to deliver exhibitions, workshops, events and activities. The programme will range from local creative talent and practitioners to international artists.
Dreamy Place is a festival of art, creative technology and digital culture – it builds upon the 12-year legacy of Brighton Digital Festival, which it is an iteration and evolution of. We are planning to focus on AI and creativity for the 2024 edition – this is open for discussion and development with the Artist-Curator.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION AND DEADLINE
See the full artist brief for expressions of interest by clicking here. Please read the brief before applying, as the brief has a description of the role, which we ask you to respond to in the application form.
If you are interested in being considered for Artist-Curator for Dreamy Place in 2024, please submit a short expression of interest (500 words maximum, plus your CV and weblinks to your work) by clicking here and completing the Google Form.
Deadline for submissions: 12pm, Monday, 18 Dec 2023
November 15, 2023Credit: Annis Joslin (photograph from The Wonder Club)
videoclub and Corridor invite expressions of interest from artists wanting to work with us on Days of Wonder through labs, exhibitions, commissions and workshops.
Days of Wonder is a three-year programme exploring the filmmaking heritage of Brighton & Hove and Shoreham using contemporary art, filmmaking, research, and exhibition.
Days of Wonder offers several opportunities for artists to be involved, including via:
Workshops – both as guests and leaders
Exhibitions, interventions and commissions
Residencies and labs
We want to hear from artists interested in one or more ways of being involved in the above. And to hear about your experience, and to know how you would like to engage with the opportunity to work with us and the history of filmmaking in Brighton & Hove and Shoreham.
To find out more click here to read the full artist brief and for the link to the expression of interest form. Deadline for submissions: 12pm, Monday, 18 Dec 2023.
Days of Wonder celebrates the magic of early cinema and filmmaking and its spirit of creativity and innovation. Days of Wonder is produced by Corridor and videoclub in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East with support from Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund.
A new creative programme for young people interested in experimental filmmaking and visual arts starting this November.
Explore early filmmaking and try out experimental moving image processes with artist Chahine Fellahi. Fuse analogue and digital and rekindle the spirit of discovery, enchantment and innovation that marked the early days of filmmaking.
Develop new arts skills, learn more about Hove Museum’s film and media collection and discover the innovations of the Hove film pioneers.
This is an exciting opportunity to experiment with techniques that led to contemporary filmmaking and contribute to exhibitions and events that will be taking place for the wider programme called Days of Wonder.
Discover the innovations of the Hove film pioneers
Experiment with techniques that led to contemporary filmmaking
Develop new arts skills and contribute to Days of Wonder exhibitions and events
Dates and venues
Saturday 11 November (Booth Museum), 11am – 4pm Saturday 16 December (Brighton Museum & Art Gallery), 11am – 4pm Saturday 6 January (Hove Museum), 11am – 4pm Saturday 10 February (Hove Museum), 11am – 4pm Saturday 9 March (Hove Museum), 11am – 4pm
October 26, 2023Still from ‘Spicy Pink Tea’ by Aqsa Arif, 2022
Selected 13 brings a thought-provoking programme celebrating diverse filmmaking talent to your screens this autumn.
Selected 13 is a collection of diverse, surprising, and provocative new films by early career artists: Aqsa Arif, Ella Frost, Dan Guthrie, Hannan Jones, Hussina Raja, Evita Remy-Benn, Daisy Smith, and Mina Heydari-Waite. The eight artists were nominated by the artists shortlisted for the 2022 Film London Jarman Award: Jamie Crewe, Onyeka Igwe, Grace Ndiritu, Morgan Quaintance, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Alberta Whittle.
Screenings:
Royal College of Art, London
Date and time: 14 November 2023 at 6:30pm screening Price: FREE Address: Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building, Riverside, 1 Hester Rd, London SW11 4AN Tickets: FREE – book your tickets here
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Date and time: Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 6pm Price: FREE Address and info: John Hansard Gallery, 142-144 Above Bar St, Southampton SO14 7DU / https://jhg.art / 023 8059 2158 Tickets: FREE – CLICK HERE TO BOOK A FREE PLACE
CCA Glasgow
Date and time: 21 November 2023 at 6pm Price: Free Address and info: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD / www.cca-glasgow.com / 0141 352 4900 Tickets: Free entry – no need to book – info: cca-glasgow.com/programme/selected-13
Full details with ticket links to follow. Join our mailing list to get alerted of dates and ticket info release.
Programme of work:
Aqsa Arif, Spicy Pink Tea, 2022, 12:25 mins
Ella Frost, What You Love Too Much to Lose, 2021, 11 mins
Dan Guthrie, black strangers, 2022, 8:13 mins
Hannan Jones, Dear F…, 2023, 6:29 mins
Hussina Raja, Station, 2022, 7:39 mins
Evita Remy-Benn, SUGAR, 2023, 1:34 mins
Daisy Smith, (Dirt), 2020, 3:01 mins
Mina Heydari-Waite, 33 Seeds, 2022, 7:02 mins
Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.
videoclub is an artists’ moving image platform showing artists’ work across the UK and internationally. We support artists through curated programmes, engaging the public through screenings, exhibitions, talks, residencies, and commissions. www.videoclub.org.uk
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. www.filmlondon.org.uk/flamin
PRESENTS is a selection of video works that don’t require an abled or physically present body in order to be performative. Thirteen sick, disabled, d/Deaf, and care-giving artists come together to expand the idea of ‘performance’, presenting work that is embodied and immediate without forcing bodies to conform to ableist norms of art-making.
In addition to their video, each artist has created a score for you to perform alongside the work. The scores are instructions, prompts, invitations, or challenges from the artist to the audience. They create a sense of connection to an artist who isn’t physically there, but who speaks to us while we watch their video, and asks us to embody the performance of their artwork.
This second iteration of PRESENTS offers many tiny gifts from the artists, reaching out to us from far away, teleporting into our computer screens, homes, or theatres; at times sharp, soft-edged, slow, stratospheric, whipsmart, oblique, raging.
Available to watch online here
ACCESSIBILITY: All of the works, when necessary, are subtitled and audio described in English and German, as well as having versions in German and American sign language. All scores come in written and audio format in English and German. Some of the works play with performative and artistic aspects of these versions, not just making translations of information, but adding new artistic layers and interpretations to the works themselves. The website itself should be screen-reader friendly and keyboard navigable, please contact us if there are any issues at presents2023@gmail.com.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Upright Nationalism by Chloe Pascal Crawford contains repeated scenes of ableism, where wheelchair users are made to stand up by military exoskeleton technology. In the Belly of the Beast by Misra Walker thematises racist colonialism in the USA. Blue Light Hike by Laura Lulika + Hang Linton has a gory image of a fake chopped-off finger, and depicts anti-Black police racism.
The Videos
Featuring work from: April Lin 林森, Brothers Sick, Chloe Pascal Crawford, Hang Linton + Laura Lulika, Katrin Bittl + Saioa Alvarez Ruiz, Khairani Barokka, Misra Walker, RA Walden, Seo Hye Lee, Venesse Guy, and Zinzi Buchanan.
Some videos ask us to consider our performances online on social platforms, such as Traveling Solo ASL Story via Zodiac Signs which plays with online influencer Instagram culture, or OHYUNG: now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful which creates a virtual world where avatars of the living and dead reunite and are projected back onto the body.
Others invite us to the most morbid dance party of our lives, such as apocalypse core which asks us to scream-sing our favourite song as the world burns, or the music video where Hang Linton sings Blue Light Hike as they’re chased through a wage-labour nightmarescape by a violent police system embodied in a rapping pig.
Artists also grapple to represent the unrepresentably cruel systems of ableism and colonialism we live under: Upright Nationalism’s relentlessly parades military personnel being forced to stand up and serve their country, while In the Belly of the Beast creates an experimental horror film to depict the rot of colonisers like Christopher Columbus that lie at the heart of the American empire.
Artists perform with mythical beings who could be our downfalls, our or saving graces: we dance a perilous dance with the ancient baby God of love in Cupid’s Shuffle; and sculpt Golems for our and our community’s protection in Alchemy of the Ill.
Finally, our simple daily routines are elevated to performance: Dust Prayer shows the beauty of the rituals of ablutions, Cranes shows the power of solidarity of simply sharing a cigarette in silence, and Sound of Subtitles shows how the act of deep listening (not with our ears, but with our bodies) can be an act of creation.
PRESENTS 2023 is supported by Canada Council for the Arts. Delivered in collaboration with videoclub as part of Dreamy Place Festival online programme.
September 12, 2023Image: videoclub and Thomas Buckley
Dreamy Place, formerly Brighton Digital Festival, launches a new seven-day programme of art, creative tech and digital culture this October in Brighton & Hove and Crawley.
Produced by videoclub, the community-led festival showcases world-renowned artists and installations alongside local creative talent and interactive events. Dreamy Place is designed to engage people of all ages and backgrounds with the potential of creative technology.
The new name, Dreamy Place, aligns with videoclub’s vision to use the celebrated programme to encourage people to think about how new creative technologies can arouse curiosity, inspire creativity, and benefit mental and physical health. It has expanded outside of its original location across Brighton & Hove and explores how the festival can enable greater inclusion.
Dreamy Place takes place across two sites over two weekends: in Crawley from 12 to 14 October and in Brighton from 19 to 22 October.
Dreamy Place has been curated and produced by videoclub. The programme has been created in partnership with arts, culture, technology and community partners from across Brighton & Hove, Crawley, the UK and internationally.
Partners include Brighton & Hove Museums, Brighton Youth Centre, Carousel / Oska Bright Film Festival, Crawley Community Youth Service, Crawley LGBTQU+, Crawley Library, Crawley Museum, eott, Exploring Senses, Fabrica, Gallery Lock In, Lighthouse, Martin Goya Business, South East Dance and The Old Market.
The 2023 programme has been made possible thanks to funders, sponsors and supporters including Arts Council England, Brandwatch, British Council, CCiXR University of Portsmouth, Chalk Hill Trust, Crawley Borough Council, Creative Crawley, Govia Thameslink, HTC, Jubilee Square / Brighton Fringe, Plus Accounting and Visual Elements.
September 3, 2023True Sound Facade by Laura N-Tamara (2021)
videoclub has been working with LGBTQIA+ young people from ESTEEM Youth Charity to curate two new free films trails by UK and international artists and filmmakers for the streets of Shoreham.
On Thursday 21st Sept (8-9pm) and Thursday 28th Sept (8-9pm), watch short films projected onto the streets of Shoreham as part of videoclub’s Night Watch film trail. Five films by British and international artists will be shown above shops and on buildings around the town.
Follow the film trail as the mobile cinema moves around central Shoreham, with opportunities to stop and watch, and then follow the trail to the next location. Viewers can follow the trail or just watch one film. videoclub will be walking films through the streets using a portable cinema.
Details for Thursday 21st September’s film trail
Meet at the entrance of St Mary de Haura Church, Church St, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5DQ to start the tour at 8pm. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.
To get free tickets for the film trail on 21st September click here.
Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.
The event is free to attend and you can just turn up. Spaces are limited though, so to guarantee your place please reserve your FREE ticket.
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Details for Thursday 28th September’s film trail
Meet outside ESTEEM Youth Charity, The Old School House, Ham Rd, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 6PA to start the tour at 8pm. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.
To get free tickets for the film trail on 28th September click here.
Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.
The event is free to attend and you can just turn up. Spaces are limited though, so to guarantee your place please reserve your FREE ticket.
On the eve of Southampton Pride on 25th August 2023, the digital drag of Tentacular Spectacular’s queer cryptids is coming to the city!
Watch as they fester in alleys and spawn a series of short films, which will be projected onto surfaces in the city. Car parks are their canvas and every wall an opportunity to exhibit. Follow the mobile cinema as it moves around the city, featuring our favourite drag critters: Lasana Shabazz, Frogb0i, Shrek666, Bonnie Bakeneko, Jenkin van Zyl and WET MESS.
Meet outside John Hansard Gallery at 9pm to start the tour. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.
Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely.
The event is free to attend and you can just turn up.
PROGRAMME OF FILMS
PIGGY – Lasana Shabazz invites you to their queer fever dream of childhood nostalgia centring gay culture. Glitter, Rainbows and Shame.
Just passing through – a Trans-fi, Sci-fi, Horror from SHREK666 This short embraces Queer DIY approaches to filmmaking & animation, experimenting with practical, VFX, AI & physical sculpted material. Scenes from Glasgow Queer culture merge with generated visions in dreamlike sequences of making and unmaking.
I am the brute – a visual analysis of the subjective and objective experience of the brutality and beauty of life on earth by Bonnie Bakeneko.
Pop to the shops by WET MESS – a short film following the drag artist as they embark on an odyssey around London in one of their trademark fantasy flesh suits. Arms so big they can’t hold them up. Arms so muscular they drag on the floor. Steroided up and yet hollow on the inside.
FROGMORPHIA – an introspection on being and feeling like the ‘other’ in society by Frogb0i.
Curtain Call (2021) by Jenkin van Zyl. Filmed on an abandoned Viking film set on a frozen shore in Iceland and continuing their attraction to narratives that reside on the borderline between paradise and hellscape, the film freefalls through the terror, excitement, panic, and anticipation of the void of self-creation.
Commucracy NOW! Follow Oozing Gloop on this epic trip, where you’ll find psychoactive solutions for psychopathetic citizens trapped behind the very screens that are there to help them communicate! From the highest to the lowest, Gloop seeks to link the universal to the particular to revive the democratic impulse and pose the communist hypothesis.
😎 Tentacular Spectacular Creature Feature – a short film developed from a series of Creature Feature Zoom workshops with nine emerging drag artists facilitated by Gloop and guest mentors, edited by NewfrontEars. The film aims to re-create Hieronymus Bosch’s cursed masterpiece through the collective creation of cursed imagery, within the cursed confines of Zoo.
Commissioned by John Hansard Gallery as part of Co-Creating Public Space. Supported by Arts Council England, Southampton City Council, University of Southampton, GO! Southampton and in partnership with Southampton Pride and Breakout Youth. Produced by Artsadmin.
videoclub is seeking an experienced artist facilitator to lead The Wonder Club – a programme of engagement/workshops with young people aged 13 – 18 enabling them to engage with and participate in Days of Wonder.
Days of Wonder is a three-year programme delivered by arts organisations videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East. Developed with communities and cultural partners in Brighton & Hove and Shoreham in response to film & media heritage and collections.
Days of Wonder will engage communities local to the Film & Media Collection at Hove Museum resulting in new work being created and exhibited by artists & communities.
Deadline for applications: 10 am Monday 18 September 2023
August 16, 2023Projection of Laura N-Tamara’s True Sound Facade (2021)
videoclub & Oozing Gloop are presenting a film trail for Southampton Pride – paid stewards wanted…
On 25th August, Oozing Gloop and videoclub are teaming up to deliver a Queer film trail around Southampton’s streets, with films being projected onto buildings while audiences follow us on an alternative walk of Southampton.
videoclub uses a mobile cinema kit (speakers, projector) to project films above shops, bars, and buildings. Each film (approx 5 mins each) is played, then the cinema kit is packed away and moved to a new location, with audiences following the videoclub team as they move to each new location.
The timings will be 4 hours per evening between 7pm and 11pm, paid at £15 per hour (£60 altogether) plus payment of any travel expenses.
Who we’re looking for:
We’re looking for 4 stewards from Southampton to help with:
– Keeping people safe (e.g. making sure people are on pavements and not wandering/standing in the road)
– Carrying some equipment (speakers, speaker stands – not very heavy but need to be able to carry for short distances)
– Talking to people about the event / handing out maps/flyers
There will be an induction prior to the event, so you will be told all that you need to know before the event starts.
Timings of the test run and live events on 24th and 25th August:
There will be a test run of the trail on the evening of the 24th August 2023 (same timings for the actual trail on the 25th August as well):
7pm – arrival at John Hansard Gallery and register
7:15pm – talk through the programme, health and safety, roles and responsibilities
8:30pm – walk to first location and set up kit
9pm: play first film, then go to next 5 locations and play films (6 locations altogether, trail will last approx an hour)
10pm – return to John Hansard Gallery and help pack away kit
11pm – finish
The full film trail will take place on 25th August. Meet at John Hansard Gallery at 7pm – then details same as above – finish at 11pm.
About the audiences we’re expecting
About the audiences we are expecting: as the start time is 9pm (for the films to be shown), we’re expecting the audience will be young people and adults, 15+. As it’s summer we don’t expect lots of students. Target audience is LGBTQIA+ people and allies as the event is part of Pride.
Payment
Payment: 4 hours’ work x £15 per hour per evening – total of £60 per evening x 2 evenings = £120 for total of the two nights. Plus any expenses for travel. Payment will be made via invoicing videoclub. Details will be sent to you.
How to apply
If interested – please let Jamie Wyld, director of videoclub, know by emailing him at: jamie@videoclub.org.uk with a CV and confirmation that you can work on both 24th and 25th August between 7pm and 11pm. Deadline: 22/08/23 (applicants who apply earliest will be appointed earliest.)
July 23, 2023Image: True Sound Facade by Laura N-Tamara projected as part of Light Up Purfleet
Call for film & video submissions from LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers
Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place in September 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Shoreham, UK. Films will be curated from work submitted to us. Submissions will be accepted by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally.
We want to celebrate the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community, celebrating and platforming different viewpoints. However, films do not have to have LGBTQIA+ content. This is a platform to promote LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers who have varied and distinct perspectives.
Submissions can be artists’ film & video, experimental film, Machinima, short film, animation, or digital works, and must be 5 minutes or less in length.
Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub, with support from and in partnership with ESTEEM. Supported by Arts Council England.
SUBMISSION DETAILS AND INFORMATION
Night Watch screening dates
Submission deadline
Outcome date
21 and 28 September 2023
24 August 2023
05 September 2023
Criteria for screening submissions:
– Be between 2 and 5 minutes in length.
– Be engaging for viewers who may be passing in the street or watching throughout the programme, for example be visually stimulating, humorous, narrative, spectacular, fun, surprising and accessible.
– Be appropriate for public / outdoor exhibition (must be suitable for children and adults in public space).
– Work must be in digital format and be high enough in resolution to show at scale (1080p / HD).
Fee:
– A screening fee of £100 GBP will be paid to the filmmaker if work is shown in the programme.
– Fee will be paid via direct bank payment following receipt of an invoice. Successful artists/filmmakers will be sent details.
Requirements:
– If the language of the film is not English, the film must have English subtitles.
– Only one work per submission (add additional submissions to a new form).
– Entrants may submit an unlimited number of works.
– Work must be digitally available.
– Entrants declare that the film submitted is their own and that its public screening rights have not been transferred to third parties.
If you have relevant queries regarding the film event, the entry process or require assistance navigating the entry form, please email: info@videoclub.org.uk
All artists/filmmakers will be informed of the decision to screen in advance of public announcements.
June 29, 2023Sammy Paloma, The Flowering Milk of the Boghead, 2023 (screen shot from artwork)
New work by Vital Capacities resident artists from the May 2023 residency, including work by artists Shaima Ali, Bassam Issa, Sammy Paloma, and Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX.
In May 2023, four artists took part in residencies on Vital Capacities – Shaima Ali (Palestine), Bassam Issa (Ireland), Sammy Paloma (UK), and Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX (Taiwan) – to explore and develop new work, supported by partnerships with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Shubbak Festival, Videotage and Wysing Art Centre.
Throughout the month the artists did research, tested ideas and created new work, working with our partners, web designer and digital inclusion specialist. Gateways is an exhibition of new work resulting from May 2023’s residency.
With thanks to Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Shubbak Festival, Videotage, and Wysing Art Centre. Thank you to Arts Council England for their support.
June 24, 2023WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Passion 激情, 2017 (still image from film)
Both Sides Now 8 film programme was available to watch between 25/06/23 and 02/07/23.
Both Sides Now 8 explores both real and virtual Queer spaces, with moving image works by international artists and filmmakers, including Kit Griffiths, Bassam Issa, Liao Jiaming 廖家明, P1nk Poodle, SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Megan Watson, Robert Yang.
Curated by videoclub and Videotage, Both Sides Now 8 brings together a collection of films that explore queerness from international perspectives, which resonate between the fantastical, material, theoretical and playful. Where artists are exploring real and virtual spaces, creating and queering reality and virtuality. Using videogames, CGI, post-digital performance, and film, artists have made work exploring desire, death, cyberspace, passion and exorcism.
PROGRAMME
Megan Watson, The Air in Cyberspace, 2022, 3:20 mins
Bassam Issa, A Paradise Out of a Common Field, 2020, 5:32 mins
Robert Yang, Zugzwang, 2022, 3 mins
P1nk Poodle, Queer Theory Saved My Life, 2023, 4:20 mins
SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, The Glamorous Boys of Tang (1985, Chui Kang-Chien) 唐朝綺麗男（邱剛健，1985), 2018, 17 mins
WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Passion 激情, 2017, 13:10 mins
Kit Griffiths, Dic Pic, 2019, 11:43 mins
Liao Jiaming 廖家明, Repetition Maximum 最大重複次數, 2021, 5 mins
關於彼岸觀自在 About Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now is a tactical programme partnership between Videotage (HK) and videoclub (UK). Which uses contemporary and historical film and video work to explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong, China, the UK, and beyond.
April 30, 2023Image: Robert Yang, Zugzwang, 2022 (image still from videogame)
Both Sides Now 8 explores both real and virtual Queer spaces, with moving image works by international artists and filmmakers, including Kit Griffiths, Bassam Issa, Liao Jiaming 廖家明, P1nk Poodle, SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Megan Watson, Robert Yang.
Curated by videoclub and Videotage, Both Sides Now 8 brings together a collection of films that explore queerness from international perspectives, which resonate between the fantastical, material, theoretical and playful. Where artists are exploring real and virtual spaces, creating and queering reality and virtuality. Using videogames, CGI, post-digital performance, and film, artists have made work exploring desire, death, cyberspace, passion and exorcism.
SCREENINGS
THE HORSE HOSPITAL, LONDON Date and time: 22 May, doors and bar at 7pm, screening at 7:30pm Address: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD Tickets: £3 // Book tickets by clicking here Access: Films are subtitled. The Horse Hospital is an accessible space for wheelchair users. Travel:Nearest underground: Russell Square (Piccadilly line) / Bus: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
FABRICA GALLERY, BRIGHTON Date and time: 23 May, 6pm doors and bar, 6:30pm screening Address: 40 Duke St, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1AG Tickets: £3 // Book tickets by clicking here Access: Films are subtitled. Fabrica is an accessible space for wheelchair users.
EATON, HONG KONG Date and time: 17 June, 2pm (Hong Kong time) Address: 1/F Kino, Eaton Hong Kong, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tickets: Free to attend, please click here to reserve a place Access: Films are subtitled. Eaton is an accessible space for wheelchair users.
ESEA CONTEMPORARY, MANCHESTER Date and time: 21 June, 6:30pm Address: 13 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU Tickets: £5 // Book tickets by clicking here Access: Films are subtitled. esea contemporary is an accessible space for wheelchair users.
PROGRAMME
Megan Watson, The Air in Cyberspace, 2022, 3:20 mins
Bassam Issa, A Paradise Out of a Common Field, 2020, 5:32 mins
Robert Yang, Zugzwang, 2022, 3 mins
P1nk Poodle, Queer Theory Saved My Life, 2023, 4:20 mins
SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, The Glamorous Boys of Tang (1985, Chui Kang-Chien) 唐朝綺麗男（邱剛健，1985), 2018, 17 mins
WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Passion 激情, 2017, 13:10 mins
Kit Griffiths, Dic Pic, 2019, 11:43 mins
Liao Jiaming 廖家明, Repetition Maximum 最大重複次數, 2021, 5 mins
關於彼岸觀自在 About Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now is a tactical programme partnership between Videotage (HK) and videoclub (UK). Which uses contemporary and historical film and video work to explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong, China, the UK, and beyond.
