CCA: GSSF Info

By admin | March 17, 2016

Visual art, performance, film, music, Gaelic culture, literature and more… Hello! Trees are blooming, frogs are spawning and the huntsman Orion is giving way in the night sky to the crouching lion of Leo. It is perhaps of no coincidence that this celestial ballet of motion and light intersects so perfectly with the calendar of cinema and, specifically, with the arrival at…

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ICA Film Open – Archive page

By admin | March 17, 2016

Artists’ Film Club: Film Open 11 Nov 2015 Film Open, a new screening programme of artist films, featuring twenty recent works selected from an open call to Associate members or studio holders of Spike Island, Bristol; Extra Special People, Birmingham; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and S1 Artspace, Sheffield. The programme launched at Spike Island in May 2015 as part…

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ARI5 @ UoCIoA

By admin | March 14, 2016

Thank you all who came to ARI5, and helped me with my film Screen Used. Particular thanks to Nick, James, Dave, Grace, Robert and Mark for your questions and observations. Super presentations from James Issitt and Grace Bridgewater (Performing Miracles: the real magic behind the performance and Baal – a adaptation of Brecht) and Keynote…

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Boxwatch Live On the Red Button (2016)

By admin | March 13, 2016

This is a reworking of the live performance A 13 Point Script for a YouTube Unboxing Video (2016) I gave at Research Practice Practice Research, a NAFAE Conference, University of Cumbria, 2016. The performance mixed up unboxing with a tote bag from Turin and living post-apocalypse. It was a bit confused, maybe there were three…

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Hitchcock/Truffaut

By admin | March 6, 2016

Into the GFT on Friday for this Hitch love-in. Kent Jones’ documentary is a neat reminder that Hitchcock was considered a light entertainer until the lads from Cahiers du cinéma built a new narrative. Truffaut dead at 52, just two years after Hitch.

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