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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Candice Breitz talks to Rosemary Heather

19.06.10
When forgotten, pop stars become like wallpaper in our daily lives. Once they become ensconced as icons, they take on an ulterior function. Probably only students listen to Bob Marley these days, but this doesn’t stop me from singing one of his songs, involuntarily, when walking down the street. This is one of the subjects of Candice Breitz‘s work. By recording a popular song as ...
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Edwin Carels talks to George Clark

15.06.10
Break Even Concept Store, IFFR 2010 To explore some of these issues I raised in my look at how Rotterdam International Film Festival has changed, and to look at how festivals can operate now and respond to the current climate, I talked with the curator Edwin Carels who has contributed innovative programmes and exhibitions to the Rotterdam over the years. Coming from the visual arts, his ...
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