Big Screen at the Latitude Festival

LATITUDE FESTVAL 2015 (17th-19th July)

AL DOYLE (HOT CHIP) with films by JIM HOBBS. Also PHIL HARTNOLL (ORBITAL), DON LETTS and resident DJ HARRY K.

DEAR SERGE of the De La Warr Pavilion presents performances and installations by: BARTOSZ DYLEWSKI & CALEB MADDEN, CIECIURA & DE SOUSA, CHRISTIANA YEO- CLAREY, GRAHAM DUNNING and SPEAK GALACTIC.

Screenings include work by ELIZABETH PRICE, MARTIN CREED, MATTHEW NOEL TOD and IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD.

NEW MOVES showcases the best video work by students from colleges across the UK. This year’s prize went to BENJAMIN REDGROVE from the University of Brighton’s BA Hons Illustration course. 

This year we will introduce an 'in conversation' with Louise Colbourne meeting:

Viv Albertine, Claudia Barton and Christiana Yeo-Clarey.

Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-female punk band, the Slits. More recently her book Clothes, Music, Boys has won much acclaim for its frank and intimate account of her life.

Christiana Yeo-Clarey is a performance artist who weaves together notions of motherhood, feminine identity and the wilderness within her part performance/part discussion installations.

Claudia Barton is a torch singer and lyricist and is an associate artist with the performance duo Curious who conduct edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics.

An intimate discussion between these three influential female artists will be based on the ideas that inform their work, the effect of motherhood on their creative output and future projects…

The actions, performances and writings of these three artists, although often intimate in nature, all move towards activism and protest. Their voice, in very different ways, expresses an honest account with a female sensibility that looks towards revolution.

100 foot at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

A great selection  of 16mm short films by Jim Hobbs at the Jerwood Gallery last night!

http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/whatson/events/139/one-hundred-foot-iii

35mm Pop Up Cinema at Lo & Behold Gallery

Brighton Illustration Student's Experimental Film

A project in experimental film for the students studying on the BA Hons Illustration course at the University of Brighton.
Some great work and a pleasure to teach:

http://brightonfilms.blogspot.co.uk/

Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo

SATURDAY 14^th SEPTEMBER 2013, 7pm- performance starts at 8pm

Electro Studios Project Space
Seaside Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0AL.

Curated by Louise Colbourne.

For details of this and other events in the series:

http://motioninform.tumblr.com/

Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo have been collaborating with expanded cinema since 2005. Their works often explore sounds made from light, using either light-sensitive microphones (that capture the fluctuations of light in the projector beam) or hand-made or photographed ‘optical’ sounds.

The work creates a clear distinction from the smooth predictability of DV projection and embraces film as material and projection as process - with all the glitchy sounds that film produces - the rough edges, the mechanical irregularities, the flare outs.
For Motion in Form the artists will create an improvisational performance of their films to include: CYCLES, VOWELS, AUTUMN FOG, MUSICAL STAIRS and BAY BRIDGE FROM EMBARCADERO.

The Origins of Rocks

Some stills from found 16mm footage

Gymnosperms

Some stills from found 16mm footage

Osmosis

Some more stills from found 16mm footage

Mechanisms of the Eye

Stills from found 16mm footage

Motion in Form event

At some point later in the year as part of the Motion in Form series(date tbc):
Louise Colbourne will present a 16mm film montage with additional sound track by Paul Burgess.

http://motioninform.tumblr.com/

Stills from 1960's educational film 'Radiation of Heat'

Motion in Form

Part 3 of Motion in Form presents

Zoe Brown

Friday May 31st is an installation combining a 16mm film, mono prints and film props to formulate her representation of a period of time in one edition of a local newspaper the Hastings Observer.  Zoë has used the weekly collection of haphazard tales and news items as an opportunity to explore character, plot, intrigue, redemption, ideas, and location. She has weaved these separate moments into a fictional narrative, creating a single story from the cacophony.

The narrative has become the story of a young boy who imagines creating a fantastical time machine. He encounters difficulties along the way but miraculous happenings and spiritual beings help him to realize his dream.

The film has been shot on various locations in the Hastings and St Leonard’s area on black and white 16mm film. This medium lends the film a romantic, nostalgic feel, which acts as a homage to early silent movies sequences as well as the simple charming redemptive storyline.

Electro Studios Project Space, Seaside Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0AL

Preview: Saturday 17^th of August 6pm-8pm

Opening times: Saturday 17^th 2pm-6pm, Sunday 18^th 1pm-4pm

Big Screen and Film Gallery at Latitude 2013

                                                                Phil Hartnoll (Orbital)

                                                          The Big Screen ( Matt Page)

                                                            The Big Screen (Don Letts)

Don Letts

                                         Unconcious Archives (Greg Pope and Lee Patterson)

Motion in Form

The first in the series:

MOTION IN FORM  

EΛIONI

Oliver Bancroft presents an installation of multi-screen film projections and photography entitled EΛIONI.

A connection to history and narrative are recurring themes in Bancroft's work. His paintings enjoy and wrestle with the weight of art history, while his films engage with the passing moment to address what remains of the past. The subjects of his films are diverse; the travels of an island donkey, a carnivorous butterfly, a song and its singer, a physical encounter at a doctor's surgery. His enjoyment of analogue film has resulted in various forms of presenting film, from single-screen cinematic presentation to gallery and site-specific installations.

EΛIONI (El-ee-o-nee) is a body of work created through engaging with and responding to an olive grove on the Greek island of Aegina. This olive grove, said to be the oldest in Europe, is older than any archaeological remains found in Greek soil. An olive grove existence is completely dependent on people maintaining the trees for the cultivation of its fruit. Unlike the countries many ruins and remains it serves the same purpose now as it did then. The landscape has a 'biblical' presence, its monumental passage through time is present and at the same time incomprehensible. How can one relate to something so vast? The works are in attempts at making historic document, a topographical record of the Elioni olive grove.

FLOOD

‘The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,


The furrow followed free;


We were the first that ever burst


Into that silent sea.’

(The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798)

 The programme explores our physical and spiritual relationship with the sea, from gazing at the distant horizon to the bodily motion of swimming, it also takes a dip into the darker aspects of total submergence.


Selected by Louise Colbourne for the Jerwood Gallery June 2013

Analogue Recurring

BIG SCREEN & FILM GALLERY 2013

The Big Screen and Film Gallery offers the opportunity to experience an exciting selection of work by artists, film makers and musicians.This year’s line up focuses on the more radical movements within moving-image, sound and music. Including live performances of expanded cinema and newly commissioned, experimental art & music collaborations. 

Live acts include DJ’s with their own style of audio-visual anarchy, from dance music innovator Phil Hartnoll (Orbital) to the legendary ‘Rebel Dread’ Don Letts. Also performing an improvised mix of sound and moving image will be:DR Das of Asian Dub Foundation (TBC) and resident DJ Harry K. Plus Paul Burgess will be screening and playing selections from his Punk and Reggae archive.

We present the very best of innovating video artists, film makers and sound artists, to include a selection from Unconcious Archives: an audio-visual, expanded cinema collective that transverse noise core and vision spectacle by James Holcombe & Sally Fielding, featuring Greg Pope.

There will also be a performance to light up the woodland area by the internationally acclaimed artist Ruth Proctor.

The programme of screenings will include works by: Cathy Sisler, Henry Hills, James Richards & Steve Reinke, Jeff Keen, Dara Birnbaum, Ian Helliwell, Marcus Coates, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, The Otolith Group, Crass, Liz Rhodes, Joan Jonus, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Jim Hobbs amongst many others…
July 18-21st 2013

http://bigscreen-filmgallery.tumblr.com/

One Hundred Foot in New York

Jim Hobbs has another update for the ONE HUNDRED FOOT screenings - it will be shown in new york this friday, april 5th.  it will be presented by an arts/film organization called Mono No Aware, and he will be there to project the films and do a q & a after the event. 

http://mononoawarefilm.com/special-engagements/one-hundred-foot-2013/

ONE HUNDRED FOOT film screening was also held on March 28th at Milton Keynes Gallery.  

http://www.mkgallery.org/events/2013_03_28/One_hundred_foot/

I Know what You did Last Summer

Maxa Zoller returns from Cairo to host an evening of films made by the participants of last year's no.w.here summer school 'A Lecture From Behind the Screen'. 

Anthropological, game-based, collective & criminal filmmaking, and more information about the no.w.here summer school 2013: Forcible Frames awaits you at this free and informal event. 

Featuring works by: 

Mei Homma 
Ruth Proctor 
Andrey Shental Sigríður Tulinius 
Piotr Krzymowski 
Ariane Monier 
Matthias Kispert 
Louise Colbourne 
Grace Harrison 
Daniella Russo 

http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=1&subCat=docdetail&&id=356
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=1&subCat=docdetail&&id=346

Electro Studios Project Space Open

New artist-run project space in St Leonards on Sea

http://www.electrostudiosprojectspace.co.uk

Jarman Award

Hold Your Ground 2012 by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler was screened as part of the line-up at the Jarman Award day held at the Whitechapel gallery on the 3rd Nov. I didn't manage to see all that was on offer, as there two separate sites to the days talks and screening but was glad to catch Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's talk about there new film Deep State 2012.

I would like to have seen Benedict Drew talk about his work and thought the screening set-up didn't do his work justice.

Marcus Coates film Vision Quest - A Ritual for Elephant & Castle 2012 was one of the strangest films, I enjoyed the mix of tension, politics and humour but wondered if it were a little too much like an kind of extended Ali-G sketch!

James Richards video Disambiguation 2012 was a sensual over-load. The free association of random film and video clips with the addition of accompanying sound-tracks and music was cleverly done although it was a lot to take in one sitting. There were a few porn clips, to include at least 2 of male ejaculation which added an edgyness to the screening and made me ponder weather this young artist may win the award!...He did win the award but it would have been great to see the radical act of this award going to artists like Karen and Brad who's practice reaches far and wide beyond the final commodity of the artwork (as I'm sure Jarman himself would also of found attributable)