Sunday 26th - Wednesday 29th August 2007
Films will be shown on a loop from 12-7pm everyday
Closing Event: 5 – 7pm 29th August
Four days of artist’s film ranging from 6 seconds to 10 minutes, including found footage, animation, documentaries and performative works. With moving images from artists such as Bob Levene, Esther Johnson, Josh Whitaker, and Andy Abbott there will be something for every attention span and interest.
Kulture Cine Club Show reel: 5 – 6pm every evening
As part of this exhibition kultur Cine club will be presenting some of their favourite shorts. Kultur Cine Club is a film exhibition and audience development organisation set up in Oct 2006. They deliver their own events and offer programming and consultancy services for arts and cultural events, film festivals and cinemas in the UK and worldwide. To find out more please visit www.kulturcineclub.co.uk.
Artist’s Film Showcase Info
Steven Albutt: All that man makes, he eventually destroys. This video is the closing chapter in a work where remains of the destruction caused during the Battle of Verdun were formed in to large-scale bullets. The bullets were then destroyed utilising hand-crafted baseball bats so the rubble of the battlefield once again returned to its demolished state. The piece explores the cyclical nature of man; the destruction of the work becoming its own completion.
Bryony Pritchard and Yvonne Carmichael: Bus Dancing by Numbers was a collaborative performance enacted at various bus stops around Leeds. Bryony and Yvonne had developed a series of dance-moves corresponding to the numbers that indicate the bus routes and chose a few sunny days to put them into practice in public. This video documentation also operates as a family-friendly party game.
Josh Whitaker: A series of famous and lesser-known clips taken from film and television are edited together, creating a surreal amalgamation that gradually appears to take one particular direction. In this film Josh demonstrates how the stuff of our image-saturated everyday lives can be altered and find meaning in new contexts.
Victoria Lucas: Through metaphorical representations, the medium of video is used to present the transitory nature of life and notions of mortality. Objects, places, and moments that celebrate life are examined, reinforcing the ephemeral nature of existence against the passage of time.
Andy Abbott: ‘The Canal-Church of Ratty’ is Andy’s exercise in the dual détournement of the serene glow felt at the end of a regular bike-ride along the Leeds-Liverpool canal towpath and the Zen undertones of Wind in The Willows. Footage shot near Silsden by Andy and an audio book of Grahame’s children’s slacker classic have been processed to convey what a jolly life it is to live by the river and to work indoors at a computer for most of the day.
Rachel Jesse: Documentation of the destruction of Rachel Jesse’s installation, Graph Paper Ruined my Mind (2007) which was exhibited at 42 New Briggate Gallery in July 2007. After laboriously removing the negative space from 18 sheets of graph-paper with a scalpel Rachel sanctioned curators Yvonne and Vicky’s destruction of these skeletal sheets, thus reversing hours worth of time and patience employed by the artist during the making of the work.
Rose Butler: Butler creates films that form relationships between the context of the moving image and sound to the actual framing and manipulation of film itself. Box represents the movement of birds heard throughout the film, through edited flickering motions.
Esther Johnson: Tune In follows the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, better known as HAMS. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication, this portrait blends documentary and abstract audio to reflect the world of HAM radio and the use of DIY equipment in an ever-changing modern world.
Joe Gilmore and Paul Emery: Clut is a collaboration documenting a series of experiments using an analogue and digital feedback system. The system consists of a digital 3D model displayed on a monitor which is in turn being captured by a video camera whose input is then textured back onto the surface of the 3D model.
Your Arms!: This film documents the ‘Bring us Your Arms Bradford’ participatory event which happened as part of 2007’s STIR festival. The Your Arms! project intends to link communities affected by present changes in industry and production through the exchange of picture-books made by groups and individuals. In this instance passers-by contributed to a collaborative ‘Book of Bradford’. Further info about the project can be found at www.yorkshirebiella.blogspot.com
Greg Kurcewitz: Three-dimensional imagery is created through the manipulation of the moving image captured on film. The distortion of film creates a seemingly living organism, the sounds of birds creating a suspension of disbelieve within the viewer that enables them to be part of the illusion depicted.
Thanks to Lumen for their support.
Macunicate is an independent enterprise based in Leeds (UK), specialising in film marketing and promotion, exhibition and audience development.
Kultur Cine Club is the film exhibition and audience development arm set up in Oct 2006, delivering its own events and offering programming and consultancy services for arts and cultural events, film festivals and cinemas in the UK and worldwide.
Macunicate offers marketing, PR and consultancy services for independent film production, sales and distribution companies, willing to reach new markets, taking an unique approach to each project and working to create effective marketing campaigns, develop effective release strategies and facilitate entry in international markets. To find out more please visit www.kulturcineclub.co.uk and www.macunicate.com.
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