AV Festival 10: Recycled Film Symposium

10.02.10
Rick Prelinger, Pile of Orphan Films, from Industrial Marketing, October 1950 Dates: 11 – 12 March | Location: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle This national symposium brings together leading film organisations, filmmakers, artists and archivists to discuss online access to film archives and the creative use of this material in the digital age. Film is a crucial part of our heritage, however, online access to archives is limited especially ...
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Diary of a Madman at Jackson Lane

10.02.10
Diary of a Madman by Gogol, adapted by Tim Lenkiewicz Dates: 12 & 13 February, 8pm | Location: Jackson Lane Theatre, London Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman had been adapted by Tim Lenkiewicz giving a contemporary twist to a classic tale. Poprishchin, the anti-hero is still utterly bizarre and delusional trying to scratch his way through a world that makes no sense to him nor offers ...
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Steven Eastwood – The Hiss of the Blow

10.02.10
Steven Eastwood - The Hiss of the Blow. Photos courtesy of Magnus Arrevad Here is an extract from The Hiss of The Blow by Steven Eastwood. A twin-screen installation, The Hiss of the Blow presents visceral invocations of boxing, focusing on Marianne Marston and Angel Mckenzie. The two protagonists skip, hit punch bags and shadow box in front of the camera, while at one point the pace ...
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010

10.02.10
Wednesday Morning Two A.M. by Lewis Klahr Rotterdam: “audience..industry..with space for ideas and reflection” APEngine loves the inspirational International Film Festival Rotterdam. More than any other of the big film festivals, by a long chalk, it embraces the breadth of contemporary film practice, and it does so with consideration and in depth. Certainly, a lot of business goes on – Cinemart participants pitch all day in seclusion. But ...
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Steven Eastwood

10.02.10
Steven Eastwood APEngine spoke to filmmaker Steven Eastwood during his Jerwood Visual Arts Laboratory in August 2009. You can see an extract of the resultant film here in our Showcase. How did you start making film work? I started using Super 8 when I was a kid. I asked for a really crappy Eumig.  It looked like an old water flask from cowboy films and it had a ...
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The YouTube Screening Room

10.02.10
The YouTube Screening Room ‘The YouTube Screening Room is a platform for top films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve’. The site makes viewing independent films accessible to all, most being screened at film festivals but some never been seen before. The site is updated every Friday providing a weekly treat, and all films are in high quality. Filmmakers and distributors are ...
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Julie Ruin: Aerobicide by Sadie Benning

08.02.10
Julie Ruin: Aerobicide by Sadie Benning Here’s a cynical swipe at those corporate America advertising types, selling their wares to young female consumers. The video was shot by experimental filmmaker Sadie Benning for Julie Ruin – one of the many musical projects of Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna, which in time morphed into punk/dance band Le Tigre, (featuring none other than Sadie Benning herself). If you, like ...
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