Polytechnic at Raven Row

14.08.10
Lenny's Documentary, Ian Bourn, 1978 Dates: 9 September – 7 November | Location: Raven Row, London Polytechnic is an exhibition of video, installation and tape/slide works made between the mid seventies and early eighties by a number of artists in the UK who were developing new relationships between ‘experimental’ media and ideas of narrative. The complex and hybrid works in the exhibition talk about autobiography, television, diaries, ...
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Brad Butler and Karen Mirza on no.w.here

10.08.10
Non Places, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, 1999 no.w.here is a unique space in London combining film production alongside critical dialogue about contemporary image making. As an artist run organisation no.w.here has supported the production of hundreds of artist works, run multiple workshops and critical discussions and actively curated performances, screenings, residencies, publications, events and exhibitions. You work as artists, as curators, but also as creative cultural ...
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In the Darkness of the Wardrobe by Samantha Moore

10.08.10
Last Island, Sibyl Montague, (2009), courtesy of the Oriel Davies Art Gallery Samantha Moore visits RE:animate, the Oriel Davies Open Exhibition 2010, running until 18 August 2010 at Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales. “At the editing table, when I run the trip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood: in the darkness of the wardrobe, I slowly wind ...
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London International Animation Festival

08.08.10
Rabbit, Run Wrake, 2005 Get ready to strap yourselves in for a ten-day blast of animation from around the world at the 7th London International Animation Festival. Running from 27 August – 5 September across four venues, highlights this year include the International Programmes competition, a selection of animated documentaries, a techniques focus on “Scratch” Film and – last but by no means least – the AnimateTV retrospective. Coinciding ...
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MeetMarket 2010
07.08.10
The call for applications for the 2010 MeetMarket at Sheffield Doc/Fest is now open online until Wednesday 1 September. MeetMarket is Doc/Fest’s pitching initiative designed to match documentary, factual and cross-platform makers’ most innovative project ideas with UK and international buyers. This year, they will select approximately 60 projects to pitch, all of whom will have one-to-one meeting with key funders and decision-makers match-made and scheduled. Projects can ...
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Alex Boyd talks to Samantha Moore

04.08.10
48 hours in Moscow, Duncan McKellar, (2008-9), courtesy of the Oriel Davies Art Gallery Alex Boyd, curator of RE:animate, the Oriel Davies Open Exhibition 2010, spoke to Animator Samantha Moore about the ideas behind the themed Open. RE:animate has 39 artists screening and showing work to do with animation, through installation, photography, projection and drawing. Oriel Davies Curator Alex Boyd wanted the exhibition to challenge and play ...
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Tell No One

03.08.10
Seaweed, Tell No One A beautiful, twisty piece of filmmaking from the London-based duo Tell No One, aka Luke White and Remi Weekes. Visit their blog to view more snippets of experimental and lo-fi works-in-progress, but remember to keep schtum – it’s a secret!
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