Unravel @ Peripherique | Henry Moore Institute | Wednesday 22 February 2012

This Wednesday, Jo will be joining Unravel founder Chris Paul Daniels to give a presentation on the Unravel project so far, as part of the Henry Moore Institute's Peripherique artist-led event series:

As well as screening some of the raw 16mm hand-painted footage and a section of the digitised 16 hour film (with edited soundtrack), Chris and Jo will be talking about the project in relation to their own filmmaking practice and ideas relevant to the project, including collaboration, participation and a discussion around using film in a contemporary context.

The talk will run from 6-8pm on Wednesday 22nd February in the HMI Seminar Room. Free, no booking necessary.  Hope to see you there!

This Sunday - Olsen at the Hyde Park Picture House

A little something for the weekend...

OLSEN

Programmed by Will Rose & Sarah Handley

Sunday 19 February 2012
Food from 12pm, films from 12.30pm

Hyde Park Picture House
Leeds, LS6 1JD

Homemade food (cake, stew and bread-veg/vegan) for small donation
Entry: £5/4

Olsen presents a two-part screening of recent artists’ film and video, including work by Lewis Klahr, Emily Wardill, Mark Aerial Waller and Anna Lucas, alongside the UK premiere of Ken Jacobs’ award winning ‘Seeking The Monkey King’ (2011, 40min)

Still from Ken Jacobs'  Seeking The Monkey King [image: Village Voice]

Described by film critic Jim Hoberman as “beautiful, terrifying, and determined to storm the doors of perception,” ‘Seeking The Monkey King’ is a furious beatnik analysis of the state of America, and a sensory rage against the horrors of capitalism.

Supported in part by Leeds City Council

OKO @ M1 > Dark Heart, PSL [9 February 2012]

Take Me Higher: an expanded cinema experience inc. OKO > M1 > Dark Heart.

OKO created and performed "Leeds 78", an expanded 16mm/ 35mm slide piece for M1 > Dark Heart, an event series programmed by Derek Horton & Chris Bloor for Glamourie. Glamourie, curated by David Steans, is currently on show until 31st March at Project Space Leeds.

The performance appropriates and re-works Leeds 78, a film produced in 1972 to support Leeds’ bid for the Commonwealth Games in 1978.

Mark came across a 16mm print of the film in 2010. The film remains a bit of a mystery – there is no online documentation or discussion about it that we could find. This is perhaps unsurprising, as Leeds was unsuccessful in the bid.

The film contains some beautiful shots of Leeds International Pool (now demolished) and Leeds Kirkgate Market (currently under threat from outside developers). There is also a section devoted to the construction of a Commonwealth Olympic Village, shown as an architectural model, which was never built.

Repeated viewings of the film led us to reflect on the ways in which Leeds is seen from the outside, and from the inside-out, about how cities evolve and change, about a struggle for a sense of identity, about what is lost to history, and what is found, or discovered, or re-discovered.

The stories that we uncovered through our research drew us to compile a playful but critical slide commentary that accompanies the film. The commentary was inspired in part by Anthony McCall & Andrew Tyndall’s Argument (1978) and consists of 78 35mm slides, which are projected alongside the film. Each time the film is performed, the slides are evaluated and re-edited so that they remain current.

Many thanks to Derek Horton for the documentary photographs above of Leeds 78 at M1 > Dark Heart, Project Space Leeds, February 2012.

This Saturday - 16mm direct film loop workshop at Leeds Art Gallery

Jo's been busy running film workshops for Artforms, and this Saturday she will be running a 16mm direct film workshop at Leeds Art Gallery as part of SatArtDay.

Taking as a starting point the large scale, abstract paintings of Northern Art Prize nominee James Hugonin, participants will be invited to create film loops using similar compositional techniques.

Binary Rhythm I by James Hugonin (image from northernartprize.org.uk)

This accessible introduction to structural-material film practice is suitable for all ages and abilities, and is FREE and open access.

You'll be able to project your film loop in the gallery and take it home with you afterwards.

The workshop will take place in Artspace at Leeds Art Gallery, alongside art workshops run by the Education team, and by artist Robert Sharples, who will be staging a interactive and performative workshop in the Henry Moore Lecture Theatre.  All workshops will run 10am-3pm.

Hope to see you there!

This Spring - Workshops at Nowhere Lab, London

No.w.here Lab in London are running lots of film workshops this February, from introductions to super 8 and 16mm to more advanced filmmaking processes, including optical printing and direct super 8 with one of our favourite super 8 filmmakers Ian Helliwell (who also designs and builds his own electronic music machines).

See below for details. To book please email: james.holcombe|at|no-w-here.org.uk or telephone: 0207 729 4494.

no.w.here: Courses and Workshops | February 2012 and beyond

1. Optical Printing
Friday 10th February, 10.30am – 6pm. £55 members / £85 non members. Four places are available.
For more information please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=125

2. Direct Super 8. A workshop with Ian Helliwell
Saturday 11th February, 10:30 - 4:30pm. no.w.here members £60, non-members £80. Ten spaces are available. For more information please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=303

3. Super 8 shooting and colour hand processing.
Saturday 18th February 2012| 10.30am – 6.00pm, £75 members / £105 non-members. There are 6 spaces for this workshop. For more information please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=190

4. Bolex 16mm camera workshop and hand processing, Saturday 25th February 2012 10.30am - 6pm.
Cost: £100 no.w.here members, £130 non-members. There are four spaces available for this workshop. For more information please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=127

5. MARCH 2012: Cinematography and the Artists Film. March 16th, 17th, 18th and 30th. Cost: no.w.here members £300, non - members £550. There are 15 spaces available for this workshop. For more information please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=277

6. APRIL 2012: no.w.here presents: Develop, bleach, fix, wash - Applying photographic chemistry with a brush at Aspex Gallery Portsmouth. Saturday April 28th 10:30 - 5pm. Special Aspex rate: £60. For more information please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=293

6. MAY 2012: Expanded Cinema & Optical Sound: A workshop with Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo. Cost: £130 members, £180 non-members, 4th and 5th May 2012, 10:30 - 5pm. For more information please see:http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=304


All courses and workshops in February are held at:

no.w.here
316-318 Bethnal Green Road
London
E2 0AG

OKO at Enjoy Artspace!

Happy New Year, Happy new space!

After moving in over December 2011, OKO is now resident at Enjoy Artspace, Mabgate, Leeds, together with our former EXP24 collaborator Dave Lynch. Together we've formed a projector performance collective, as yet to find a name... which we're all very excited about.

Our plans include messing about with projectors, fixing stuff, helping Enjoy founders Kayleigh and Ryan build a darkroom (to potentially run more filmmaking workshops) and putting on some film events/happenings.

OLSEN | Sunday 4th December 2011 | Hyde Park Picture House

We're looking forward to OLSEN this week!

Sunday 4 December 2011
Food from 12pm, films/music from 12.30 – 2pm

Hyde Park Picture House
Leeds, LS6 1JD

Programmed by … ANDREW LAMPERT
Videos by … GEORGE KUCHAR
Live music by … MICHAEL FLOWER

And … homemade food (cake, stew and bread-veg/vegan) for small donation

Entry … £4/5

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After a short hiatus, Olsen returns to the Hyde Park Picture House with a more regular series of Sunday afternoon screenings. For our next run, we've invited different artists and curators to guest programme part or all of each event, thereby continually offering fresh outlooks on the field of artists' film and video.

For this event, ANDREW LAMPERT (New York artist and film archivist at Anthology Film Archives) has selected some rarely screened videos from the 80s and 90s by the legendary GEORGE KUCHAR, who passed away in early September. The videos will be interspersed with live music performances by MICHAEL FLOWER (of Flower/Corsano Duo).

"I, An Actress" (1977) George Kuchar [image: forthedishwasher.blogspot.com]

George Kuchar was a leading star of the American underground cinema ever since he first picked up an 8mm camera as a teenager in the 1950s. Working with his twin brother, Mike, and later on his own, George produced hundreds of films and videos that are as inventive as they are insane. One of the forefathers of camp, and an early inspiration for John Waters among many others, Kuchar is perhaps best known for his 1966 film, 'Hold Me While I'm Naked.'

"Hold Me While I'm Naked" (1966) George Kuchar [image: themovienotwatched.blogspot.com]

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Further details soon, at: http://www.olsenorsen.org

Partly supported by Leeds City Council

The Illuminated Room: THOM ANDERSON & REDMOND ENTWISTLE | Thursday 1 December 2011 | 5pm

The Illuminated Room
FILMS BY THOM ANDERSON & REDMOND ENTWISTLE

Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street Lecture Theatre, LS2 8PH
Thursday 1 December 2011, at 5pm
FREE and open to all

The Illuminated Room is a series of free screenings that survey the field of artists’ film and video. Contemporary moving image work is screened alongside films and videos from the histories of experimental/avant-garde film, video art and underground cinema.
. . .

The two films in this screening employ different strategies to navigate and comment upon the urban and suburban landscape of North America.

In Thom Anderson's GET OUT OF THE CAR, Los Angeles is portrayed through static shots of neglected advertising signs, building facades, murals and the undeclared sites of vanished cultural landmarks. The images are activated by a soundtrack of street conversations and indigenous music – ranging from '50s jazz to '90s corrodes.

Get out of the Car [2010] Thom Anderson (image credit: filmmakermagazine.com)

In Redmond Entwistle's MONUMENTS, conceptual artists Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark are revived from the dead and ejected from their makeshift mausoleums in New York by the forces of redevelopment. Led through New Jersey by a young Dan Graham, they debate their artistic positions with the non-actors they encounter at the former sites of their work.

Monuments [2010] Redmond Entwistle (image credit: sheshark.blogspot.com)

Films:
GET OUT OF THE CAR, Thom Anderson, 2010, 34min, 16mm
MONUMENTS, Redmond Entwistle, 2010, 30min, 16mm
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Programmed by Will Rose

Unravel Documentary!

A great documentary about the story of Unravel so far, featuring Maria talking about the project, plus photos and video clips of workshops at most of the places we've visited over the past year!  Thanks to the filmmaker, Rat Commander, who made this documentary for www.delete-tv.com.

Enjoy!...

Unravel at the Chisenhale Gallery [London], this weekend!

UNRAVEL: Screening of edited highlights at the Chisenhale Gallery on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th November...

Unravel are thrilled to be able to invite you all to a special weekend this Saturday and Sunday at the Chisenhale Gallery in East London to screen some of the edited interviews and films from our workshops so far.

Come at any time between 1-6pm to find out what some of our participants have offered in their perspectives on the places where they live, whilst enjoying the filmic results generated at the respective workshops.

The Chisenhale is located in Mile End, East London near Victoria Park - a map of the location can be found by following the link below:

http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/visit.php

In December 2010, Chisenhale Gallery hosted one of the 75 workshops facilitated by Unravel – the longest hand painted film in Britain. Participants were invited to paint, scratch and directly manipulate 16mm film, and talk about their experiences of living in their home town/city.

One frame of the completed film represents one metre in the 874 mile distance between Land’s End and John O’Groats.  Sound recordings, interviews and perspectives on each location have been collected and compiled– mapping a metaphorical journey through collective memory and identity. These collaged autobiographical accounts speak of individual experience(s) in different locations, times and spaces to offer a non-linear, psycho-geographical exploration of the country made for and by the people of Britain.

Check out the Unravel blog for more info and documentation of the workshop and screening tour!