Doing Things Differently: Cinema Regained at Oberhausen Short Film Festival by George Clark

24.08.10
She Had Her Gun All Ready, Vivienne Dick, courtesy of Oberhausen Short Film Festival “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”[1] Given its relative youth, there is a remarkable amount hidden in or obscured by the various histories of cinema. The Oberhausen Short Film Festival plays a unique role in helping to excavate and bring to light former manifestations of cinema. Taking a ...
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In the Thick of It by Ajay RS Hothi

17.08.10
Craneway Event, Tacita Dean Space, concludes Frederic Raphael in his memoir of the period of time spent as scribe to Stanley Kubrick, is limited strictly by the rigid frame of the cinema screen. Writing specifically on why he felt it was that a great many filmmakers were unable to effectively replicate the true form and intangibility of dreams (and dream-space) on screen, it was, he felt, ...
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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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How regionalisation led to homogenisation: Adam Pugh reflects on the State of Things
03.08.10
Art is seen, increasingly, as but another means of realising capital, or something that can be traded for capital. ‘Culture’ has been industrialised and the word itself become shorthand for one of many guises of the mighty ‘Leisure Industry’. It follows that new cultural projects have come to be regarded as ‘quick-win’ vehicles to realise ‘economic regeneration’, citing the successes of existing projects that have ...
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Competition: Institute Benjamenta DVDs

27.07.10
Institute Benjamenta, The Quay Brothers Institute Benjamenta: Or This Dream People Call Human Life is the striking first live-action feature from master animators, the Quay Brothers. The film stars Mark Rylance, currently performing in West End play La Bete, and Alice Krige, soon to be seen in Disney’s summer blockbuster The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Jakob (Mark Rylance) wants to be of service. Admitted to a peculiar school ...
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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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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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