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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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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The Quay Brothers

27.07.10
Institute Benjamenta, The Quay Brothers The brothers talk to Gary Thomas about their work, collaboration, Europe and the Baroque. Institute Benjamenta (1995), their first feature, is available now in a Dual Format Edition package from the BFI. It includes a new documentary, with interviews with the Quays, Mark Rylance, Alice Krige and other principle cast and crew, as well as three short films and a booklet of ...
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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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Sarah Cox on Tate Movie

04.07.10
Tate Movie promotional video We talk to Sarah Cox about Tate Movie,  a collaboration with Aardman and Fallon, and first project of its kind – an animation film made by and for children across the UK – supported by Legacy Trust UK, a charity established to support innovative cultural activities which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. What is Tate Movie? It’s a huge project! The ...
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The State of Things: Skillset’s Saint John Walker

27.06.10
Saint John Walker, image courtesy of Saint John Walker Skillset is currently “building up the most comprehensive profile of working life in the UK’s creative industries”, gathering evidence to submit to Government about the animation industry’s skills issues and training priorities. We talked to their man with a mission, Saint John Walker. Well Saint, what is Skillset and what’s your job? We’re the Sector Skills Council for ...
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Ronnie Close

23.06.10
Night Time Room, Ronnie Close Ronnie Close talks to Gary Thomas about his project Night Time Room. The film is showing as part of the group exhibition Based on a True Story at ArtSway in the New Forest, 3 July – 30 August. Night Time Room was commissioned for a South West Screen/Picture This collaboration, Scripted Notion, offering artists an opportunity to make work that engaged with ...
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