An experimental adaptation of Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon: Or, Over the Range, Gavin Hipkins' film charts the narrator's journey from a Canterbury high country sheep farm to a fictional society where vegetarianism is law, and machines are banished for fear of their becoming conscious. This special screening will be introduced by the director, and will be followed by a short Q&A session.
New Zealand, Australia, India (2014) 92mins.
6 August 2014
Film Club: Or Gallery (Vancouver, Canada & Berlin, Germany)
7pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Una Knox, 4 and a half feet to the left, behind me, 2011, video still
This year's Edinburgh Art Festival Film Club considers the themes raised by our exhibition Where do I end and you begin. The programme will explore subjects including post – digital nomadism, non-materialism and the importance of virtual identities. We have invited four emerging artist-run spaces from across the Commonwealth: Or Gallery, Canada; Dog Park Art Projects Space, New Zealand; KHOJ International, India and Embassy Gallery, Scotland to prepare selections of moving image work by promising artists from their countries.
Or Gallery is pleased to present Vigne, a series of short videos by Vancouver-based artists including Aaron Carpenter, Una Knox and Dan Starling. Using the rhizomatic structure of vines as a departure point, the series explores the vignette as a form, but also tangentially considers themes of doubling, identity, and speculation.
Or Gallery is an artist-run space based in both Vancouver and Berlin exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Since its inception in 1983 the gallery has acted as a space for research, proposition making, conceptual experimentation and documentation.
13 August 2014
Film Club: Dog Park Art Project Space (Christchurch, New Zealand)
7pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Otara at Night (2011)
This year's Edinburgh Art Festival Film Club considers the themes raised by our exhibition Where do I end and you begin. The programme will explore subjects including post – digital nomadism, non-materialism and the importance of virtual identities. We have invited four emerging artist-run spaces from across the Commonwealth: Or Gallery, Canada; Dog Park Art Projects Space, New Zealand; KHOJ International, India and Embassy Gallery, Scotland to prepare selections of moving image work by promising artists from their countries.
Curated by local practitioners Sophie Davis and Sophie Bannan, our selection for Film Club brings together work by a small group of New Zealand artists who engage with international landscapes. We are interested in the way New Zealand film/art making methodologies function outside of our immediate context, approaching the internationally driven nature of NZ film and bringing together these films in an international setting. We have selected a series of short films by New Zealand artists Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Amy Howden-Chapman, Fitts & Holderness, Janet Lilo, Louise Menzies, Alex Monteith and Tahi Moore, followed by a feature film by Sean Grattan. These films operate within geographical, cultural, historical and political landscapes on the edge of - and beyond - New Zealand, navigating the space between where we end and you begin.
Founded in 2012 and based in Christchurch New Zealand, Dog Park Art project space seeks to present new and experimental work by local and international practitioners.
16 – 17 August 2014
GARAGE: Guest Curator Jennifer R. Wicks
12-4pm
Screenplay: A selection of films by Master of Letters students from Glasgow School of Art.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
16 – 17 August 2014
ECA Masters Show: Clips and Trailers
2-3pm
Free, no booking required
The Bandit and The Ram, Alberto Iordanov
The Sculpture Court will be housing a selection of clips and trailers from the years Animation and Film Directing students. The complete films will be on show, in full, upstairs in the main lecture theatre.
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
20 August 2014
Film Club: KHOJ International (New Delhi, India)
7pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Sahej Rahal, Khoj International Artists' Association and Chaterjee & Lal
This year's Edinburgh Art Festival Film Club considers the themes raised by our exhibition Where do I end and you begin. The programme will explore subjects including post – digital nomadism, non-materialism and the importance of virtual identities. We have invited four emerging artist-run spaces from across the Commonwealth: Or Gallery, Canada; Dog Park Art Projects Space, New Zealand; KHOJ International, India and Embassy Gallery, Scotland to prepare selections of moving image work by promising artists from their countries.
KHOJ International Artists’ Association is pleased to present Spaces In Between:The Truth about Fiction and the Fiction about Truth: Artists Films from India, curated by Gayatri Uppal. The artists films presented in this program are a meditation on inhabiting diverse mental and physical states of being, and their curious intersections. Addressing the broader theme of the festival, Where do I end and you begin, this selection of films is a journey into the external and internal mindscapes. It is an exploration of the thin line between the visible and the invisible, reality and fantasy, the credible and implausible. It will present works by Kartik Sood, Sahej Rahal, Pallavi Paul, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and Neha Choksi.
KHOJ began as a proposition: a space for artists, run by artists. From its modest beginnings in 1997 as an annual workshop, it has built an international reputation for outstanding alternative arts incubation. Though a variety of programmes including workshops, residencies, exhibitions, talks and community art projects, KHOJ has supported the experimentation of many leading Indian artists before their international acclaim. Over 200 Indian and 400 International Artists from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Uganda, Kenya, Turkey, Pakistan, Japan, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Korea, UK, Germany, France, Mexico and America have been through KHOJ.
27 August 2014
Film Club: Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh)
7pm
Free, but please book in advance. Book tickets.
Ash Reid, courtesy of the artist
This year's Edinburgh Art Festival Film Club considers the themes raised by our exhibition Where do I end and you begin. The programme will explore subjects including post – digital nomadism, non-materialism and the importance of virtual identities. We have invited four emerging artist-run spaces from across the Commonwealth: Or Gallery, Canada; Dog Park Art Projects Space, New Zealand; KHOJ International, India and Embassy Gallery, Scotland to prepare selections of moving image work by promising artists from their countries.
EMBASSY Gallery presents a screening that examines the economy of representation beyond fiscal transaction. Exploring ideas of exchange that are not tethered to economic imperatives, the selected artists address the affective implications of networked culture - where friendship is more like subscription and you is never singular.
Tell me everything <3 will address the complexities of ‘self performance’, where the intricate relationships between acting, sincerity and the disingenuous become amplified and assumed. Intimate exchanges appear supposedly candid yet carefully crafted, addressing an 'individual' who is at once everyone and no-one.
EMBASSY is a non-profit making artist-run gallery founded in 2004. The gallery holds a yearly programme of exhibitions and events and exhibits at off site projects. Each year we also co-ordinate the Annuale festival; a presentation of grassroots artistic activity in various venues throughout the city.