Cinéma Corporel event: 10 February 2011

Cinéma Corporel

cinema of the body/the body of film

Thursday 10^th February 2011

7.30-10.30pm

Arch Z, Granary Wharf

FREE ENTRY

An evening of experimental film, expanded cinema and live performance...

Cinéma Corporel will bring together filmmakers, artists, and musicians in a unique location in the heart of Leeds to showcase explorative, experimental and playful approaches to performing with film and the moving image. 

/ super 8 / video / 16mm film / projector performance / (de)generative film / installation / found footage / multiple projection / live reading / cut ups / tape loops / interactive celluloid / slides / performance / intervention / noise /

Featuring work by: Maria Anastassiou / Kerry Baldry / Violaine Bergoin / Joanna Byrne / Chris Paul Daniels / Chris Hall / Ian Harker / Robin Kiteley / Mark Pickles / Kieron Piercy / Andrew Staveley / Samuel Stocks / Harry Wheeler / Unravel / plus more TBC

“The haunting of the image and its fragile traces: not memory, record or preservation, but the living object, aging skin and decaying body…

…ephemeral cinema is the flicker of the breathing moment.”
[Bradley Eros]

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Unravel in Hull! 15 January at the Museum of Club Culture

Our second date of 2011 on the Unravel tour was at Hull's Museum of Club Culture!  Run by artists Mark Wigan and Kerry Baldry, this unique space in Hull's Fruitmarket quarter was set up to chronicle and celebrate past and present night-club cultures and street styles from around the world through a programme of special projects, events and exhibitions.  Many thanks to Kerry and Mark for hosting us...



We really enjoyed the afternoon, and met some great people who had fun getting hands-on with film... the kids especially liked painting the film as it ran through the projector... The day also included an impromptu voice/16mm loop performance from local artist YOL - a link to his video will be posted soon!

Thanks to Kerry Baldry for the photos posted here.  You can see more at The Museum of Club Culture's Flickr page.

Also see This is Hull and East Riding for an interview and video about the day.

Unravel @ Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: 8 January 2011

To kick off 2011, Unravel travelled to Birmingham for an afternoon direct film session, alongside Ikon Gallery's current Len Lye exhibition.  The Body Electric, the first ever UK retrospective of Lye's work, is on until 13 February, and definitely well worth checking out.  Lye has been an inspiration to OKO and Unravel, and on the tour we've been experimenting with different direct film techniques first pioneered by Lye in the 1930s.

His films are beautifully presented in this exhibition, and the show includes Rainbow Dance, Free Radicals (one of OKO's favourite Lye films) and Trade Tattoo, amongst others... It was also great to see selected kinetic sculptures in action...

See more from the workshop HERE!

OKO at the Plaza Principle

A site-specific sculptural 16mm film loop installation, shot in the former TK Maxx space at Leeds Plaza Shopping Centre. The film was shot on Fomapan and Tri-X reversal 16mm stock, and subjected to different hand-manipulation techniques during processing and editing.

The two films were then installed as a double, looped projection using the architecture of the building. As the loops ran through the projectors, they gradually picked up dust and dirt from the surrounding environment. The films were shown for four days, until they disintegrated and the loops broke.

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Exploiting the scale and architectural qualities of the abandoned TK Maxx store, the Plaza Principle included a range of contemporary art practice, but with an emphasis on sculpture, film and audio-visual work. Located in the empty shell of a former shopping space, the project existed in the context of economic recession and attempts by local authorities, business and commercial developers to disguise economic decline, commercial inactivity and property blight with a facade of cultural activity.

The Plaza Principle was curated by Chris Bloor and Derek Horton.

For more info on the exhibition and contributing artists see The Plaza Principle.

Unravel in the North... Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds this weekend

Unravel has been travelling all over the UK... and this weekend we were back in the North!

Friday 12th @ Verve, Huddersfield

Saturday 13th @ National Media Museum, Bradford
(Bradford Animation Festival)

Sunday 14th @ 42 Gallery, New Briggate
(Cherry Kino, Leeds International Film Festival)

For more words and pictures please see the UNRAVEL blog.

Unravel 5/6 November 2010: Sheffield Docfest and BFI!

Unravel's busiest week yet....! As Maria and Chris caught the train back to London from their Scotland dates, OKO ran an Unravel session for Sheffield DocFest in the beautiful Town Hall.

Back in London, everyone involved in Unravel got together for the first time since AND Manchester to get hands-on with film at the BFI Southbank.

Screen Kiss [North by Northwest] @ Light Night

Screen Kiss (North by Northwest) 2010: photo courtesy Rick Harrison Photography

And back once again to the old TK Maxx space (our second home?)

For Light Night, Jo was invited to exhibit an expanded projector piece as part of Chris Bloor and Graham Hibbert's show - ‘Lecimy’ and other works.  Abstract film and video works created using both analogue and digital processes and minimalist sound composition were screened throughout the venue.

Screen Kiss (North by Northwest) transformed a minimal, hand-manipulated flicker loop into a fractured and pulsating expanded film through a suspended, spinning prism lens.

Thanks to Rick Harrison and Jon Davies for the photos. More to follow...

Screen Kiss (North by Northwest) 2010: photo courtesy Jon Davies

UNRAVEL at Abandon Normal Devices

It seems like we only just got back off the plane from NYC, but this autumn so far has turned out to be a busy one!

We've just joined Chris, Maria and Kelvin for our first workshop date(s) as part of UNRAVEL - an epic project that will create a hand painted film that correlates in length with the 874 miles between John O'Groats and Land's End - taking each metre between these two edges of mainland Britain as a ratio to equal one frame of 16mm film.


In collaboration with over twenty national and international film festivals across England, Scotland and Wales, this touring workshop aims to amass an epic sixteen hour film that will be created and manipulated by hand, by a diverse demographic of the people of Britain.

Abandon Normal Devices hosted UNRAVEL for a whole weekend of workshops at NoiseLab, a guerilla arts pop-up store in Manchester. 

Here's a video of the workshop, uploaded by AND:



For more info on how it went, photos and a list of future UK workshop dates, click here!

oko direct film workshop at Impressions Gallery [11 July 2010]

For the second day in our workshop weekend we facilitated a 16mm direct filmmaking workshop for Impressions Gallery, Bradford, as part of their Lazy Sunday programme.

It was great to run this alongside the Ben Rivers exhibition, which is on at the gallery until 5th September - if you have a chance, do check it out.

Everyone brought something different to the film - it was great to see so many different styles and techniques.  See below for some photos of the day...

oko super 8 workshop [10 July 2010]

We ran a super 8 workshop on Saturday at Red Eric studios.  A really good space, very relaxed - we definitely recommend!

See below for photos of the day...



And here's a link to one of the collaborative films made - telecined and uploaded  by Joe!


Super 8 workshop film. 10/7/2010 from joseph pratt on Vimeo.