Next Zone 4th May

Taking place at the Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton, London.
Programme of films below.





































Programme of films


Kandinsky - Yellow, Red, Blue - Nicky Heinen, Flash animation, flute.


This is a work-in-progress abstract art animation film created in Flash, synthesizing animation film and solo flute improvisation.

YELLOW, RED, BLUE (also the name of a Kandinsky painting) is a blend of moving geometric shapes using the basic primary colours of yellow, red and blue interlaced with fragments of Kandinsky’s painting, Throughgoing Line.

Kandinsky was a synesthete seeing images and colour in music. He was devoted to creating music within his paintings, alongside his exploration and expression in paint of the inherent range of emotions in colours.

The aim of my film is to explore Kandinsky’s theory of colour and emotions expressed by him in his paintings; reflects these in music through my solo flute improvisations responding to the emotions generated by the 3 primary colours in my film.

Nicky Heinen – solo flute: aka Nicky Scott-Francis – abstract art animation



Small Worlds - Nicky Heinen, sculpted sound, 4’09”


Derek Shiel – sound sculptures
Sonja Grossner – sound sculptures
Nicky Heinen – flute and flute parts

The video film was created with the video feature of my small digital camera. I have always been intrigued by looking down the inside of my flute and seeing the kaleidoscope of silvery reflections.

On a beautiful sunny day by a lake, I decided to experiment with this kaleidoscope effect by pointing the lens of the camera down the foot joint of my flute and filming the sun’s sparkling, twinkling star like reflections on the water.  The effect of the lake’s reflections on the inside of the silver foot joint I thought were quite magical.  Co-incidentally, the SMALL WORLDS music synchronised very well with the video film.

Nicky Heinen – solo flute: aka Nicky Scott-Francis – video film

Remote Encounters - Alan Sondheim, 2013, animation, 3’48” www.alansondheim.org

The film came about through a collaboration at Remote Encounters two day on line international cyber conference.

“Pain dance / performance in OpenSim with Sandy Baldwin: textual materials would be presented in the form of chat and sound-over/voice-over. We would be working with distorted avatars and modeling from tissues, etc. [We'll perform in Second Life.] The text would deal with issues of death, sex, and pain in virtual worlds.”


Oserake and The River That Walks - Robert Robinson - film and music score.

‘Oserake’ is the First Nation name for the winter quarters which were set up by the river,
the origin of the city of Montreal. This music/film shows what happens to Montreal in winter, when the wilderness takes over.
Overwhelming forces try to return the modern city to the time before today’s streets and blocks existed, and phantoms invade the empty white streets.
Massive snowdrifts, huge icicles and icefalls appear. Everything is transformed beneath layers of snow, and we glimpse what was seen by those who founded the original settlement, by this great river they called ‘the river that walks’, swept with ice.
The music is scored for a large ensemble of cellos and violas.
The second half is scored for six church organs.

Like A Flower - Agnes Hay, 20’, animation.

The video is a meditation on death: 'He cometh up and is cut down like a flower' Job.

It was inspired by an Indian scroll depicting Buddhist monks meditating at corpses.

Making drawing itself is a sort of meditation for me. I tried to establish my relationship to my mortality.

The video is the documentation of this. It contains line drawings of corpses and other drawings I made in the same year I frequented the UCL mortuary.

The music was improvised by Kiku Day on Japanese Flute.

Formosa Series 1C - Robert Ross, 3', DV, 2013, UK.

A short, taut piece in his Formosa series by film maker, micro-tonal composer/ artist Robert Ross.

Slider - Simon Mclennan, 4’, HD video, 2013, UK.

Experimental dance film, with affected sound.


Brain Trip 2 - Mervyn Syna, DV.

Taken from an actual brain scan, with added elements.

People's Park Reverie - Chris Lynn, 4'45", DV, China.

Meditative shots are accompanied by the auditory flow of summer in People's Park. Location: Shanghai, China.

Chris H. Lynn's three short films, 'A Trilogy of Summer' (2010, 2012) were filmed in China: in Nanjing and in Shanghai. 'Morning Fisherman' is a quiet moment set by a lake. This film features the magic of the mists which are often shown in the Chinese landscape painting tradition. 'Afternoon Rain in Nanjing' is more urban: here the natural element is a monsoon rainstorm. The third film, 'People's Park Reverie', continues Lynn's theme of water, with its rhythmic reflections and musical colours, in an urban park in Shanghai.