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Silver
Allan Brown / Canada / 2015 / 01:01:00 / World premiere
FRIDAY 15 APRIL
2.30pm – 3.50pm
Allan Brown will be present for a Q&A at the screening.
A man from outer space sets out to free his father from a hospital. In the course of his journey, he becomes bathed in his own inner space of emotional closed circuits, alienation, rings, halos, loops, orbits, cycles, echoes and dream logic.
Biography/Filmography:
Allan was born in the highly industrial city of Shawinigan, Canada surrounded by chemical plants, pulp and paper mills, aluminum smelters and hydro electric plants. He has been making experimental short films for over 20 years. His films have won awards in such festivals as the Semana de cine experimental de Madrid, Fesancor Santiago, Chile, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Alternative Film Video Festival Belgrade, Bearded Child Film Festival, and flEXiff Australia as well as screening in dozens of festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, VideoEx, Kurzfilm Hamburg. He is a member of Volatile Works, a Montréal based media arts collective. Silver is his first feature film.
Tickets: £4
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White Ash
Leighton Pierce / United States / 2015 / 00:45:00 / UK premiere
FRIDAY 15 APRIL
7.15pm – 8.20pm
Leighton Pierce will be present for a Q&A at the screening.
White Ash is an inexorable dive into edges of consciousness. While grounded in recognisable images and sounds captured from reality, White Ash is designed to scrape through the patina of normal perception, leading to an embodied associational state—something “to the side” of narratives and perceptions.
Three additional short films will be screened to accompany White Ash (30m):
THE BACK STEPS
Leighton Pierce / United States / 2000 / 5m
A small moment from a children’s Halloween party is taken as material for an exploration of folded time. Two girls, dressed up for Halloween, sit on some steps then get up and run away. The action, originally shot at a slow frame rate on a digital video camera was slowed, fragmented and looped, then time-slipped and layered. Originally conceived as a cinematic projection, The Back Steps, has also been presented as a looped installation.
RETROGRADE PREMONITION
Leighton Pierce / United States / 2010 / 5m
Retrograde Premonition looks and sounds like floating mind—the vicissitudes of thought, feeling, and the senses. Not limited by the portrayal of actual events, this video works to encourage a roaming consciousness through images and sounds that may or may not be present. Shot with a handheld digital still camera at long exposures, each individual image bears the mark of time from motion blur—a blur that may in fact contradict the apparent motion of the frame.
SHARP EDGE BLUNT
Leighton Pierce / United States / 2010 / 90s / UK Premiere
A simple task executed with ambiguous intent.
Biography/Filmography:
Leighton Pierce is an experimental filmmaker working with film, video, sound, and installation. Pierce’s work has been exhibited in major art museums and film festivals throughout the world, including The Whitney Biennial, Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco, New York, Tribeca, Ann Arbor, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Exploratorium, Montreal Museé d’Art Contemporaine, and The Sheldon Art Museum. Retrospectives of his works have been presented at venues including The New Zealand Film Festival, Lincoln Center, The Cinémathèque Française, Festival Nemo, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and at The Lisbon Biennale. He is currently Dean at the CalArts School of Film/Video.
Tickets: £4
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Unseen: The Lives of Looking
Dryden Goodwin / United Kingdom / 2015 / 01:30:00 / Scottish Premiere
SATURDAY 16 APRIL
12.00pm – 1.45pm
Dryden Goodwin will be present for a Q&A at the screening.
Dryden Goodwin’s first feature-length essay film focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading human rights lawyer and the artist/filmmaker himself. Mixing Goodwin’s closely observed drawings, live action and intricately woven soundtrack, the film explores different scales, forms and reasons for looking, in a poetic and metaphysically charged journey.
Biography/Filmography:
Dryden Goodwin’s practice incorporates drawing, often in combination with photography and live action video; he creates gallery installations, films, projects in public space, etchings, works online and soundtracks. Goodwin’s work has been shown extensively nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, The National Portrait Gallery, London, the Venice Biennale and the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden. Screenings of ’Unseen: The Lives of Looking’, include CPH:DOX 2015, Copenhagen, nominated in the DOX:AWARD; International Film festival Rotterdam 2016 and Whitechapel Gallery, London. His work is in major collections including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Tate Collection and The National Portrait Gallery, London. His short films have been broadcast on Channel 4, MTV, RAI and SWR and shown in many international festivals since 1995.
Tickets: £4
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Jennifer
Nina Danino / United Kingdom / 2015 / 01:12:00 / UK premiere
SATURDAY 16 APRIL
5.00pm – 6.30pm
Nina Danino will be present for a Q&A at the screening.
The film unfolds the life of an enclosed monastery over the course of one day. It invites the audience into a world of enclosure which is rarely seen from the inside. It is a portrait of both the interiors of the building and of Jennifer, a Carmelite nun.
Biography/Filmography:
Nina Danino’s experimental films include First Memory (1981), Stabat Mater (1990) and “Now I am yours” (1992). The feature film Temenos (1997) is a British Film Institute DVD. Communion (2010) was shown in “From Floor to Sky” Ambika P3, London and as a film installation with Arprojx (2013). Recent exhibitions are: “..and the fig trees in the Alameda gardens” (2013), Gibraltar Garrison Library (solo), Meteorologies was shown in The National Museum, Reykjavik, Terrace in the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Apparitions at the Magda Bellotti Gallery PhotoEspana Madrid 2014 (solo), Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara, video and multi channel sound installation was shown in Voices of the Sirens, Montagu Bastion, Gibraltar (2015). “Visionary Landscapes”, Black Dog (2005) is a monograph on her work, “…and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens”, Mousse Milan (2013) is an essay on her films. She lives and works in London.
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time / OUT OF JOINT
Caspar Stracke / USA & Germany / 2015 / 01:25:00 /
SATURDAY 16 APRIL
8.00pm – 9.40pm
Caspar Stracke will be present for a Q&A at the screening.
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time/OUT OF JOINT is part documentary, part science fiction, an experimental inquiry into the reversal of time, centred around a dialogue between a highly eclectic group of philosophers, scientists, and cultural producers who work with time reversal. Employing backwards-running moving images and sound, visual mirroring and inversions, the film traverses an astonishing array of themes: experimental sound and 70s rock music culture, time-reversed audio as X-ray imaging, talking to oneself 15 nanoseconds into the future, experiments in slowing light down to the speed of a bicycle rider. It introduces us to failed time machines, to occult practices of speech reversal and the paradoxical industry of “age reversal”, cryonics, gerontology and life extension. At once erudite, intense and playful, time/OUT OF JOINT teases at the boundaries between film, art and science.
Featuring philosophers Manuel DeLanda and Agnés Heller, filmmakers Narcisa Hirsch and Ladislav Galeta, particle physicist Mikhail Lukin, Michio Kaku, Aubrey de Grey, Michael West and others.
Biography/Filmography:
Caspar Stracke is an interdisciplinary artist filmmaker and curator. He is currently professor for Contemporary Art and Moving Image at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. He holds an MFA in Experimental Film and Photography from the Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany and lived in New York City for twenty years where he studied Film and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research (on a DAAD fellowship).
Stracke’s films, videos and installations formulate critical responses to cinema, architecture and urbanism and have been shown internationally in places such as MoMA, The Whitney Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ZKM among many others. He is an active member of The Thing, a center for art and net culture based in NYC. From 2005 until 2013 Stracke was the co-director of video_dumbo, an international moving image exhibition and festival in New York. In 2014 he he co-curated the 60th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar together with Gabriela Monroy. Caspar is currently editing GODARD / BOOMERANG, a book about contemporary artists engaged with Godard’s films, theories and aesthetics, to be published summer 2016.
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Ettrick
Jacques Perconte / France / 2015 / 00:57:00 /
SUNDAY 17 APRIL
4.45pm – 6.00pm
Jacques Perconte will be in conversation with the artist Helen Douglas after the screening, with an audience Q&A. Dr Helen Douglas has a practice in the Artist’s Book and established the Archive of Historical Textiles in School of Textiles at Heriot Watt University.
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Made over the course of several visits to the Scottish Borders by the French artist filmmaker Jacques Perconte, Ettrick interrogates a unique heritage: sheep farming, fabrics, the woollen mill tradition and unique landscapes are all rendered in an impressionistic arc of colour and movement. The path the film drives leads to the heart of the Ettrick Forest, a dive into a textile world. A land where people and machinery in nature deal with a complex relationship that draws their future. Slipping through poetry, between the brutality of matter and the sublime landscape. Ettrick is penetrating vision that embodies the stability of deep desire to live in peace. Spectators are aware of the impotence of our movements, and we know that nature will find its way.
Biography/Filmography:
Born in 1974 in Grenoble (France), Jacques Perconte lives and works in Paris. Since the mid-90s he has built an artistic practice related to digital tools. Since the end of the 90′s, in films, video installations, and live performances, Jacques Perconte has invented a unique pictorial digital language through which he questions space, colour, landscape and society. In 2013 Côté Court Festival dedicated a panorama section to his work with a 23 film program. The very exclusive and secret Parisian club by David Lynch, the Silencio offered 4 programs of ten films in April 2014, including a special talk with Nicole Brenez. After offering two Cartes Blanches in 2011, the Cinematheque Française focused on his work with a retrospective in their avant-garde cycle, from December 2014 to February 2015. He has collaborated with Leos Carax, Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Jeff Mills, Hélène Breschand, Julie Rousse, Michel Herreria, Didier Arnaudet, Marc Em, Hugo Verlinde, Jean-Jacques Birge, Vincent Segal, Antonin-Tri Huang and Eddie Ladoire.
http://www.jacquesperconte.com
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