LUX Associate Artists Programme: call for applications
18.07.10
Applications are invited for the LUX Associate Artists Programme 2010/11 (AAP), a 12 month post-academic development course for artists working with the moving image starting in November 2010. The AAP is a course for artists working with the moving image, who have completed a graduate or post-graduate course in the past five years. It aims to provide an intensive development focused ...
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Maryam Jafri by Bridget Crone

17.07.10
Maryam Jafri, Death With Friends (work in progress), production still, image courtesy of the artist Maryam Jafri is an artist based in New York City and Copenhagen. Her work, Death With Friends was the subject of a lecture that the artist gave as part of the Media Art Bath programme, A theatre to address: a festival of textual form – concrete, material, scripted and performed, at ...
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Portobello Pop Up Cinema Opens 14 July
14.07.10
It’s always a treat to find underground film in unexpected places. Like the Westway underpass for instance… Portobello Pop Up Cinema is a newly established, non profit Microplex (as opposed to Multiplex) cinema and arts venue situated in the Westway underpass on the Portobello Road / Acklam Road junction – an area steeped in a long and iconic history of creative subculture. Admission to the cinema ...
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Light is Calling: Bill Morrison

12.07.10
Light is Calling, Bill Morrison, 2004 ‘Orphan Film’ is a term that American film archivists coined to describe what we’d call archive or found footage. It’s not just old stuff – the MGM back catalogue isn’t ‘orphaned’. And ‘orphan’ is a great, literal and poetic term for this stuff that has been lost, abandoned, or which, as described, a bit more prosaically by the Library of ...
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Pascal Baes: Topic II

12.07.10
Topic II, Pascal Baes Animate Projects and Portland Green Cultural Projects – APPGCP if you like – currently have a call out for proposals for animated dance projects – download guidelines here. Which reminds us that we’re very keen on Pascal Baes. There’s something unassuming but hypnotic about his work – and it’s an amazing alliance between animation and choreography. Topic II  is from 1990, but there’s more ...
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The Miners’ Hymns by Bill Morrison with live musical score

11.07.10
The Miners' Hymns, Bill Morrison, Image courtesy of Durham County Council Dates: 15 and 16 July, 9.30pm | Location: Durham Cathedral, UK Made with footage from national film archives, The Miners’ Hymns by Bill Morrison is to be premiered in Durham Cathedral for two nights only. Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson‘s original score for brass will be performed live by a specially selected ensemble of musicians, adding an ...
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Simon Pummell on Future Training

09.07.10
Simon Pummell What is the Piet Zwart Institute? It’s the post-graduate institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University. It’s an English language institution, very international, all the courses are taught in English. It recruits very much around the world and has an international student population. What department are you in? It’s a small, new department – we started in September 2009 – Lens-Based Digital Media. We’re ...
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