2 August 2013
Film Screening and Artist Talk: Ute Aurand
3pm
Free admission
Introduced by film historian Dr Sarah Neely, artist Ute Aurand will talk about Film Portraits, her acclaimed film series depicting family, friends, memory and personality. Followed by a Q + A.
Ute Aurand, FILME was initiated by The Modern Edinburgh Film School for presentation at Stills.
Stills, Scotland's Centre for Photography
23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP
0131 622 6200
3 August 2013
Geological Home Movies
3–4:30 pm
Free admission
Offering further context to her exhibition at the museum and insights into her artistic concerns, Ilana Halperin selects and introduces a special screening of films in which artists interact with geological processes, play with the laws of physics and embrace nature’s capacity to create and destroy. Includes films by Joan Jonas, Seth Kelly, Allan McCollum, Takehito Shiina and a new work by Ilana Halperin.
6 August 2013
The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act)
7–10pm
Free admission. Book tickets.
To accompany their presentation of newly commissioned work by Lucy Pawlak, Rhubaba Gallery and Studios will also be presenting a one-off screening at New Media Scotland of the artist's 2011 feature length film, The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act).
In Pawlak's film, a prodigal son returns to his family home, a strange ingrown world deep inside the forest. He intends to train his relations to become actors according to his method. As the program unfolds his obfuscation of the line between fantasy and reality rises alongside his obsession with the “Hero’s Quest”, Hollywood's standard narrative arc.
The structural principles of this monomyth are chewed up and regurgitated in this blackly comic look at roles and patterns within the family and society. The film employs various forms of improvisation around frameworks and reflects upon the potential for autonomy within structure. Masks are worn for the duration allowing for performers to switch between roles.
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Lucy Pawlak and guests.
The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act) features The Samsonov Film and Theatre Co-Operative: Joaquin Del Paso, Catriona James, Adrian Gillott, Almira Bekkulova, Francis Moore, Tato Kotetishvili, Susan Pawlak, Gabriela Kite, Fredrik Olssen, Lucy Pawlak, Irek Grzyb and Maria Czechowska. Duration: 90 minutes.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
6 August 2013
Gavin Evans: Diving
7pm
To book tickets, please contact Summerhall box office.
A world premiere of cinematic movements by Gavin Evans, composed and performed live by virtuoso violinist Richard Moore and sonic artist Tom Hull. Uncompromising photographer and film-maker Evans has created a body of work that shines a torch on the darkest recesses of the human condition. In Diving the film is the lyric, the violin the voice. Themes of hurt, impulse and desire are exposed in Summerhall's Dissection Room with the precision of the surgeons scalpel. Harrowing and explosively beautiful Diving explores and reveals suppressed commonalities. Diving demands the audience to look deep within.
This event will be held in the Dissection Room.
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
This week’s EAF Film Club evening is curated by Elizabeth Murphy and Emily Speed from The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
The Royal Standard is an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace. It was established in 2006 by four Liverpool-based artists as a space for emerging contemporary artists that would operate somewhere in between the city’s grass-roots DIY initiatives and the more established arts institutions. This multi-purpose project space offers a testing ground for artists to push their ideas in new directions, and a setting for more spontaneous events and activity.
This film night looks at notions of melodrama, dance, hysteria and glamour. Special entertainment and services will be available during intermissions. Selected artists include Catherine Payton, Andrew Gannon, Serena Korda, Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry, Romany Dear, NOW NOW Collective and Ursula Mayer.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
7 August 2013
Gavin Evans: Diving
7pm
To book tickets, please contact Summerhall box office.
A world premiere of cinematic movements by Gavin Evans, composed and performed live by virtuoso violinist Richard Moore and sonic artist Tom Hull. Uncompromising photographer and film-maker Evans has created a body of work that shines a torch on the darkest recesses of the human condition. In Diving the film is the lyric, the violin the voice. Themes of hurt, impulse and desire are exposed in Summerhall's Dissection Room with the precision of the surgeons scalpel. Harrowing and explosively beautiful Diving explores and reveals suppressed commonalities. Diving demands the audience to look deep within.
This event will be held in the Dissection Room.
Continuum is an immersive, visceral experience featuring work by visual artist Catherine Street, poet JL Williams and composer improvisers Martin Parker and Owen Green.
At the heart of this performance, Street's film Continuum derives its intense sound and images from the exhausted body of the artist. Street is shown engaged in a sensual and bodily encounter, not only with the physical world but also with the conceptual world of mathematical ideas. She probes her physical limits and at the same moment gives voice to a text that seems to explore those limits in cool theoretical terms. Live readings by Street and Williams weave hallucinatory narratives that allude to the experiential world of human perception alongside a theoretical conception of time and space. William’s rich, emotive delivery is contrasted with Street’s precise voice. Taking cues from the intense audio of the film, Green and Parker’s live performances fill the space with sound that builds in intensity over time. On engaging with this sensory experience and the sometimes disturbing impressions evoked by the performances, the audience is liable to feel a strong emotional response, perhaps of unease, fascination or exhilaration.
The film Continuum was shot by filmmakers Ben Ewart-Dean and Daniel Warren, with sound by Owen Green and performance by Catherine Street and Dmitry Ser. Initially created as part of an artist commission for the Human Race exhibition, funded by Legacy Trust UK and Creative Scotland, Continuum was first presented with support from Generator Projects, Dundee.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
This week’s EAF Film Club evening is curated by GENERATOR Projects, Dundee.
GENERATOR Projects is a non-profit artist-run gallery and exhibition space, currently the only dedicated one of its kind in Dundee. Established in 1996, it is devoted to bringing the best possible artists to work within, and occasionally out with, the gallery space to enhance the cultural vibrancy of the city and its people. GENERATOR Projects also kindly sat on the selection panel for the open submissions to this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival.
Selected artists include Reluca Iancu, Jack Paton and Dorian Braun, Angel Zorn, Jack and Dorian, Sarah Lundy, Pawel Grzyb, Sam Spreckley, Bryan M. Ferguson, Maeve Brennan, Christopher McGinnis, Ben Skea, Adam Knight and Aaron McCarthy.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
The Telfer Gallery from Glasgow is presenting this week’s programme of film screenings which will include a live networking event during the interval.
The Telfer Gallery provides a space of production and presentation for creative practitioners. It is a platform for focused experimentation within a studio environment allowing time for a productive and critical dialogue to occur organically. Telfer’s programme provides wide-ranging opportunities including residencies and an events space used for hosting a variety of public and private gatherings.
For this Film Club evening The Telfer Gallery have invited a Nottingham based artist, Bruce Asbestos, to show another episode of his Social Media Takeaway, Special Episode: Networked. The Social Media Takeaway is Bruce Asbestos’ series of short, whirling and buoyant videos made for YouTube. Bruce will be producing a special episode for the Film Club.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
Every Wednesday evening during the festival we’ll be presenting emerging artists’ film, video and performance. Each EAF Film Club evening is curated by an artist-run organisation from outside of Edinburgh whom we’ve invited to select work around the theme of Interval As Integration.
This week’s EAF Film Club evening is curated by CIRCA Projects, Newcastle.
CIRCA Projects is a Newcastle based non-profit organisation with a curatorial position. CIRCA Projects’ work is mainly based in the presentation and production of new art works and projects. Run by three curators, it uses various sites and partnerships to realise its exhibition programme, in doing so it can address different audiences. Outputs take the form of exhibitions, events, commissioned artworks and publications.
Circa's film and video screening, titled Diamond Dust, looks at the augmented realities of the internet, computer games, image modelling. Including works by Steina and Woody Vasulka, Jerome LOL, John Rafman, Adham Faramawy, Zoe Williams, Craig Mulholland, Olivia Dunbar, Richard Whitby, Jaakko Pallasvuo.
EAF Film Club is supported by New Media Scotland and The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
New Media Scotland
Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
0131 650 2750
31 August 2013
Parley Discussion: Tae Think Again, Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland (curated by Rachel Maclean)
2–5pm
Free admission. Book tickets.
Responding to the upcoming 2014 referendum on Scottish Independence, this symposium curated by artist Rachel Maclean intends to delve deeper than a simple yes/no debate and look at the broader social, cultural and historical background to a discussion of contemporary Scottish national identity. The event will begin with a screening of the artist's recent work The Lion and the Unicorn.
This event is co-commissioned by Edinburgh Printmakers and Edinburgh Art Festival, and will be in Edinburgh College of Art's Sculpture Court.
Speakers include Craig Coulthard, David Cameron, David McCrone, Duncan Petrie and Denise Mina. The event is chaired by Jim Tough, introduction by Alastair Snow.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art