Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: Does your contemplation of the situation fuck with the flow of circulation, eastsideprojects, Ikon Eastside, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, roger shannon, The Last Few Mosquitoes, Vivid, Xu Zhen
This one’s crept up on me – seems there’s another Digbeth art crawl this evening, which starts with a drinks reception to launch the start of Participation at VIVID.
Participation is an exhibition and archive project centred on the emergence of new film forms, politics and practices in the 1980s. Presented in two parts, the works react to and document the rise of Thatcherism and the social and cultural events the period from 1979 engendered: inner city disturbances, the miners strike, and increasing social disparity.
Doors open at 6pm and the evening includes a special screening of works by Birmingham Film & Video Workshop introduced by Roger Shannon. VIVID are starting a Saturday film screenings programme from this Saturday 4th July at 2pm.
Eastside Projects bring us delightfully titled Does your contemplation of the situation fuck with the flow of circulation, a solo show by Glasgow based artists Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan. Doors open at 7pm.
From 8pm there’s Another Bloody Party to mark the end of Xu Zhen’s The Last Few Mosquitoes at Ikon Eastside. The fun goes on until midnight and there’ll be live band and Bloody Marys all round.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, October 17th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: cat bray, Chris Unitt, danny smith, film dash, hello digital, matthew stanton, maverick tv, michael balcon, Millennium Point, Pete Ashton, rachel marchant, roger shannon, stefan lewandowski, stickleback productions
This evening saw the exciting launch of the 48-hour Film Dash in the Custard Factory theatre. Teams of all types are taking part, including employees of Maverick TV, Stickleback Productions, two eight year-old children and one-man team Stefan Lewandowski, who I suspect may offer us a taste of the dark side.
All teams have until Sunday evening to film, edit and submit to organiser Chris Unitt a 1-5 minute film, which must contain a reference to the named Michael Balcon film and one line of dialogue from Whisky Galore! that has been specifically assigned to them.
The films will be judged by Matthew Stanton, Balcon expert Roger Shannon and Cat Bray. The winning entry will be screened at the Michael Balcon: Into The Light event at the Odeon Cinema on New Street as part of Hello Digital. All the completed films will be shown on a loop in the atrium at Millennium Point for the period of the Hello Digital festival, which was bad news for those wanting to include non family friendly content. There was also talk of organising a special screening event of all entries and Chris is open to suggestions of suitable venues for this.
Chris was at pains to stress it was creativity and original ideas Film Dash is after, rather than great cameras or technical excellence. This was great news for Pete Ashton, Rachel Marchant and Danny Smith’s TTV team, which is using a seriously DIY device on their camera. The resulting effect is interesting.
There are plans for this to be the first of many Film Dashes. I’m determined not to miss out on the next one.
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