CoachHouse 26 May

Programme of films for CoachHouse - 26 May - 8pm

La Dance Dissimulé - Miriam King (6’ DV, UK) 
A concealed and reflective undulating dance of naked ladies and pious women made by Miriam (mim) King at La Piscine Musée D'Art et Di'ndustrie, Roubaix, Northern France, 2009. Funded by Le Centre Choréraphique National Roubaix Nord pas-Da-Calais. 
Director: Miriam King. Camera: Miriam King Edit: Miriam King and Matt Page. 
Miriam King is an Artist/Choreographer/Dancer/Live Artist/Filmmaker born in London, living in Brighton, working internationally 

Caveo Vestri Mens - Beware Your Mind - Simon Mclennan (2012, 4’13” Super 8mm B&W, HDV, UK) 
As the media maintains a hegemony of representation, so by scratching a film we may seek to renovate that which is damaged and misrepresented by removing the exposed emulsion. Charlemagne required the clergy to adopt the repertory of Gregorian Chant on pain of death: another hegemony, despite the form’s intrinsic beauty. www.themouseescapes.co.uk http://vimeo.com/user5145527

Mam - Sean Reynard (1’18”, DV, UK) 
A nagging mother with a facial hair problem in her kitchen complaining and moaning about her bone idle son of hers. 
Sean Reynard considers himself neither Artist nor Filmmaker, he hovers menacingly somewhere in between. 
He made the transition from making sound installation/sculpture and improvised music, to concentrating solely on making short films. However, his sound-related background plays an important role in his film making. His intuitive approach gives the films a raw and spontaneous feel, allowing room to explore the dynamic tension between a variety of different characters. Dark undercurrents develop out of seemingly normal situations, bringing out the absurd in everyday life.  http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/71f0cb0ec7/bedridden

Bedridden - Sean Reynard (6’14” DV, UK) 
Short film by Sean Reynard. A man tortured by dreams from his past. Scenarios of intimidation and bullying carried out by his school friends Father build into a stifling cacophony of foreboding imagery. This man has haunted him to the present day. 


Treeology - VV (2012, 9', DV, UK)
Three films by dancer/film maker VV. 


Intraference / The Comet Suite - Barry Hale, Dan Powell (2011, 6’ DV, UK) 
Intraference harnesses the chaos of simple feedback loops or isolates the inherent noise within audio-visual equipment, amplifying and manipulating it to create a coherent signal. 
‘The sound is loosely based on 20 of the periodic comets. Although I can't pretend that any of the source material actually comes from the comets themselves, they were my inspiration for producing 20 1min 30s pieces using found sounds in my studio, broken musical instruments and heavily processed sine waves. All the audio was processed in Audiomulch on an ancient laptop.’ www.thresholdstudios.tv 

A Million Different People - Michael Szpakowski (2012, 4’41” DV, UK) 
'I’m going to enter a remix competition every month, from Aug 2011 to Aug 2012. I’m 54 years old and although I’m musically reasonably deft I know little about the culture in which I’m attempting to intervene... 
Constructed entirely of appropriated footage, quite a lot of it of Noh plays, subsequently heavily manipulated by me.” http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com

The Mouse Escapes - Simon Mclennan (2008, 11' 16 mm, UK) 
A 16mm film containing butoh dance sequences. A scientist working in quantum theory and genetics, questions his work and experiences strange visions. The dancer's costume was designed and made for the forest sequence. The soundtrack was specially written for the film by Simon Mclennan, and recorded by string quartet. 
Simon Mclennan is a film maker/musician/artist and has been making music and art since the late 1970s. www.themouseescapes.co.uk


Fire Lice - Alistair Strachan (2012, Super 8 mm, UK)
This project began with some rather dull and washed out footage of earwigs crawling up the inside of my tent, taken last year whilst camping at Supernormal festival. I ran the insects through a filter to enhance their blobbiness and was excited by the outcome. I then played around with some woodlice, fireworks and flowers, exploring how I could transform footage I had previously been nonplussed by. The footage used is a mixture of old Super 8 reels I shot over 20 years ago and recent videos of day trips and afternoons on the allotment. For the soundtrack I used my old Korg MS10 synth and other sounds I have collected over the years.