Teeth at FILM OPEN 2015

Teeth, Screen Shot, 2014

Teeth (2:19 mins, 2014) has been selected for FILM OPEN. It’ll be screened in Spike Open (1-4 May 2105). The programme will then travel on to Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Transmission, Glasgow, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, S1 Artspace, Sheffield and ICA London.

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31st Hamburg Short Film Festival June 2015

Peter (Screen Shot) Digital film 29:55, 2014, Jane Topping.

Peter has been selected for the No Budget Competition of the 31st Hamburg Short Film Festival. I’ll be introducing 2 screenings on the 10th and the 12th June 2015. Here’s a little bit about the festival: HAMBURG INTERNATIONALE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL No other form of cinematic art is as open, experimental, fast, courageous, abstract, hard,…

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Pieter Bruegel, a low level obsession continues

Detail from In Spain there was Guernica, They Are the We of Me, GoMA, 2005

I’ve long used Bruegel in my work and been fascinated by the uses others make of his imagery. Tarkovsky as a way to search for a memory of humanity (Solaris, 1972), Von Trier as a pessimistic nod to Tarkovsky (Melancholia, 2011) and Roeg more simply to connect Rip Torn to Our David while their characters…

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Further Rigour Urgently Required

Thought you might enjoy this scathing review of my GoMA show in 2005 that I’ve just found online. I used to know who wrote it, but I don’t expect it matters. In summary: Local journalist is outraged by artist’s interest in process, her expectations of her audience and the anti-didactic black abyss that is work…

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