3 August 2012
Lying and Liars on Film
6pm
Lying and Liars on Film brings together a range of short experimental film works that mix reflexive and experimental forms as ways of investigating the inadequacies of language. The inspiration for this programme is the work of British novelist and filmmaker B.S. Johnson.
Artist Mick Peter and writer and curator Steven Cairns programmed this screening, which coincides with Peter’s new exhibition at Collective Gallery that also features Johnsons 1969 film Paradigm.
The programme will include:
B.S.Johnson, Fat Man on a Beach, 1973
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, The Adventure of a Good Citizen, 1937
Tony Steyger and Steve Hawley, Language Lessons, 1994
Peter Greenaway, H is for House, 1976
Nathaniel Mellors, Seven Ages of Britain trailer
Tickets are £5 and can be booked from Filmhouse. Alternatively, if you purchase a Collective Summer School ticket, this screening event is included.
8 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Calvin Laing
9pm–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting curated screenings artists' films, accompanied by performances and introductions from the artists involved.
For this edition of the Rose Street Film Club, artist Calvin Laing presents new work.
Through his highly intriguing works, Laing explores the potential of objects and situations by making interventions into a given environment. Whilst engaged with performance art as a way to preserve the liveliness and immediacy of his ideas, Laing’s films challenge our perceptions of how live performances are altered and re-performed through the act of being filmed. Laing graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 and has exhibited in Estonia, Iceland, and Florence.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
15 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Embassy/Alexis Milne
9pm–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting premieres of new films by emerging artists, accompanied by performances and introductions from the artists involved.
For this event, Artist Alexis Milne curates an evening of artist films in a programme he calls Bunker Mentality.
Milne is a London based artist concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest and the recuperation of counter culture. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Necrospective at Danielle Arnaud and Selected part 2 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Bunker Mentality refers to a defensive state of mind, needed in order to resist and compete with the pervasive media spectacle of advertising, television and film. Video art has been responding to this assault since the 1980’s through subverting found footage in the spirit of Situationist détournement. The aspirations and promises played into living rooms via video cassettes and television could suddenly be re-appropriated, re-sequenced and jump edited to represent a counter-cultural voice and explore new aesthetic relations.
Artists such as The Duvet Brothers and Gorilla Tapes have greatly influenced the next generation of video artists who were growing up in the Thatcherite 80’s and the Blairite ‘90s. This programme attests that video detournement is still a relevant tool in the current conservative climate. Further, these techniques gain new ground in the current decade, as these artists grapple with subjects such as subcultural uprising and neoliberal downsizing.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.
22 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Rhubaba Gallery & Studios
9–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting screenings of films, curated by artists, in Rose Street's oldest public house.
For this edition of The Rose Street Film Club, Rhubaba Gallery & Studios present: A Lecture on Everything.
A selection of films from Rhubaba's Members' Archive, featuring work by:
29 August 2012
Rose Street Film Club: this edition curated by Deborah Jackson & Neu Reekie
9–11pm
Every Wednesday evening during the festival, we’ll be hosting special evening screenings of films by emerging artists, accompanied by performances.
For this edition, curator Deborah Jackson and Neu! Reekie! present six spoken word, musical and mixed arts retorts/reactions/ruptures, each sparked by the six artists films on show, which include Tim Taylor’s, Emily Speed’s Human Castle and Anthony Schrag’s Stairs.
Neu! Reekie! are Scotland's foremost avant-garde noise-makers. Co-chief, circus master, poet and playwright Michael Pedersen will be joined by two of Neu! Reekie!’s favourite rabble-rousers: Davy Henderson, frontman of The Sexual Objects and Jesus, Baby; and Craig Finnie, psychedelic guitarist behind Callel, Emelle and Moscow Madhouse.
Prepare for the literal, the lucid and luscious // the spiritual, the sanguine and the surreal.
Free to attend, but booking is essential.