THE SOCIAL SCRIPT
THURSDAY 2 MARCH: 2.30pm – 3.25pm
FRIDAY 3 MARCH: 3.50pm – 4.45pm
SATURDAY 4 MARCH: 12.20pm – 1.15pm
SUNDAY 5 MARCH: 2.40pm – 3.35pm
Tickets: £5 or free if you can present a ticket for another screening on the day, or a festival pass.
SCREENING ROOM, HEART OF HAWICK – TOWER MILL
Lying Women
Deborah Kelly / 00:03:56 / 2016 / Australia / European Premiere
Lying Women imagine art history’s most famous reclining nudes’ daring escape from centuries of servitude to colonial heteropatriarchy. The work proposes a revolution, a collective will to a new future.
Biography/Filmography:
Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown around Australia, and in the Singapore, Sydney, Thessaloniki, TarraWarra and Venice Biennales. Her projects across media are concerned with lineages of representation, politics and history in public exchange. Her collage based still and moving works have been shown around the world.
http://www.wagnercontemporary.com.au/artists/deborah-kelly
www.facebook.com/artistdeborahkelly
Catalogue Vol.2
Dana Berman Duff / 00:08:44 / 2015 / United States / European Premiere
“Catalogue” is a suite of films and videos that looks at objects in a catalogue photographed in staged rooms imitating the style of film noir movies.
Biography/Filmography:
Dana Berman Duff works in small format film and video. Her work has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Geneva), Edinburgh International Film Festival, South London Gallery, EXiS Festival, Antimatter, Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago), LaborBerlin microcinema (Berlin), Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, and others. Duff is a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
http://www.danaduff.com/project/4/
Catalogue Vol.3
Dana Berman Duff / 00:02:00 / 2016 / USA & Germany / European Premiere
The third in the “Catalogue” series of films and videos that look at a catalogue of knock-off furniture photographed in staged rooms imitating the style of film noir movies.
Biography/Filmography:
Dana Berman Duff works in small format film and video. Her work has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Geneva), Edinburgh International Film Festival, South London Gallery, EXiS Festival, Antimatter, Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago), LaborBerlin microcinema (Berlin), Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, and others. Duff is a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Catalogue Vol.4
Dana Berman Duff / 00:04:30 / 2016 / USA & Germany / European Premiere
The fourth in the “Catalogue” series of films and videos that look at a catalogue of knock-off furniture photographed in staged rooms imitating the style of film noir movies.
Biography/Filmography:
Dana Berman Duff works in small format film and video. Her work has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Geneva), Edinburgh International Film Festival, South London Gallery, EXiS Festival, Antimatter, Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago), LaborBerlin microcinema (Berlin), Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, and others. Duff is a professor at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
http://www.danaduff.com/project/4/
Available Light
William Raban / 00:09:00 / 2016 / United Kingdom / Scottish Premiere
Filmed over 6 days, the time-lapse technique compresses a classic text (Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”) into a 9 minute experience, raising questions as to how film might transcend verbal language. The picture is offset by David Cunningham’s score which is composed solely from the two words of the book’s title.
Biography/Filmography:
Born 1948, Fakenham. BA painting, Saint Martins School of Art 1971; MA (Fine Art) Reading University 1974. Manager of London Filmmakers Co-Op Workshop 1972-6. Published bi-monthly “Filmmakers’ Europe” 1977-81. Part-time senior lecturer in Film at Saint Martin’s School of Art 1976-89. Reader in Film at University of the Arts, London. Member of editorial board “Vertigo” film magazine.
Rope
Katja Pratschke, Gusztáv Hámos / 00:27:19 / 2016 / Germany / UK Premiere
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into a creek thirty feet below. His hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope tightly encircled his neck, attached in turn to a cross-timber of the bridge. Rope – A Reconstruction of Ambrose Bierce short story. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Biography/Filmography:
Katja Pratschke, born 1967 in Frankfurt am Main, is a media artist, curator and since 2006 has organised photofilm seasons with Gusztáv Hámos with whom she has collaborated since 1998. Her films and installations have been shown at Ludwig Muzeum Budapest, SFMOMA, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Tate Modern London and the 63th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia. She has received various awards and grants: German Short Film Award, travel grant of the Hessische Kulturstiftung, Artist-in-Residence Istanbul and Venice.
Gusztáv Hámos is an artist, curator, author and publisher. His artistic work includes film, video, photography and installations and has been exhibited at Documenta, Venice Biennale, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, Ludwig Múzeum Budapest. His films and videos have been shown among others at Tate Modern London, ZKM Karlsruhe, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Madrid / Berlin, Triennale of Photography Hamburg, 63 Mostra Internazionale d’arte cinematografica di Venezia, SFMOMA, YBCA San Francisco. His work is included in the collections of MOMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, NBK Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Collection NRW, Ludwig Múzeum Budapest, C3 Budapest, Saint Gervai SIV Genève.
