Programme of films for 2nd March

Festival Of Money - Marc and Ruth Garrett (2011, 8‘7” DV, UK)
A dirty protest against the forces of neoliberalism in the incestuous worlds of 'high' art and mass media; featuring BBC coverage of Frieze Art Fair and The Guardian's promotion of Charles Saatchi. http://vimeo.com/34406536

Billow Your Pillow - Matt Page, Dave Stephens (2012, 3’ HDV, UK)
A film made in response to an experimental sound piece by Steve Beresford and Han Benninck. Brighton based sculptor Dave Stephens and film maker Matt Page made the piece as an exercise in making a film under strict time constraints (one day to shoot, edit and post online). The film was shot in Dave's studio (Phoenix Studios) and features some of his sculptures and working environment.
The film was shot with a Canon 7D and Dragon Stop Motion. Modul8 and Final Cut for the edit. http://www.davestephenssculptor.co.uk/ https://vimeo.com/pagematt

Glass Flesh Kiss - Simon Mclennan (2011, 2‘42” Super 8mm B+W, UK)
Composed of several hundred charcoal drawings animated using Super 8mm film stop motion, Glass Flesh Kiss attempts to create a liminal space. By juxtaposing found sound and edited voice recordings alongside apparently meaningless symbols, an attempt is made to re-constitute meaning.
http://vimeo.com/user5145527      www.themouseescapes.co.uk

Nightwalk - Andreas Wutz (2006, 14’ 16mm B+W, Czech Rep.)
Based on the early avant garde film Bezúčelná procházka (Aimless Walk) by the czech filmmaker Alexandr Hackenschmid the film describes a circle walk around the city of Prague at night time. The images of the paths through the outskirts of Prague are confronted with sound pieces of the commercial life at daytime in the centre. The walk through the night seems to be restless, interrupted by flickering images of sleeping animals in the zoo and fragments of a song by Bertold Brecht and Hanns Eisler. http://www.tortoisebox.org/andreaswutz 

Pression Paris - JCMAX - Silvia Pereira / Jakob Hartmann,  (2011, 5‘31” 16mm B+W, Germany)
As an exercise to retrieve the mechanics of the accident Pression Paris combines pictures of the futuristic social housing projects of Noissy-le-Grand and the animated structures of entertainment at EuroDisney Paris. Distinct realities merge into unexpected images in the frame. An outdated 16mm camera, an adapted archaic optical trick and improvised film developing take part in the process of enhancement of the accidental character of cinema, considered by the author to be vanishing in actuality…

Transparence - V.V, Helene Sophie (2012, 1‘ DV, UK)
“Even my body now lets the light through” - Using a quote from Virginia Woolf as a starting point this short film was to be constrained by one minute duration and finished in an afternoon. The immanence of light becoming body - body becoming light.

Big Moth - Simon Mclennan (2011, 3’14” Super 8mm, UK)
A spoken text about embodying a moth with layering of two super 8 films shot in London and Brighton. Found sound from Glasgow and Brighton.
http://vimeo.com/17198361

Tea Stains - Graham Mackeachan (2012, 14’ DV, UK)
Live improvised soundtrack interacting with projected images (as score) taken from tea bag markings on cardboard. http://archiveprojects.wordpress.com

Leeds ’71 - Paul Shearsmith (1971, 20’ 35mm photographic prints, DV, UK)
Graham Mackeachan - Bass, Paul Shearsmith - Trumpet, Keisuke Matsui - Guitar.
Live improvised soundtrack to animated sequence of photographs documenting Leeds in 1971.

The Visitors - Simon Mclennan, Paul Gardener (2012, 3’49” Super 8mm B+W, UK)
A super 8 film edited in camera. Spoken text is used as a counterpoint to the images. The music was composed on the iPad by Paul Gardener.
http://vimeo.com/38317946