Simon Pope – Memory Marathon

09.03.10
Simon Pope - Memory Marathon Dates: 5 – 14 March | Location: Dray Walk Gallery, Old Truman Brewery, London On Saturday 7 November 2009, artist Simon Pope completed a 26-mile walk through London’s five Olympic boroughs accompanied, on his 12-hour journey, by over a hundred local residents, each of whom walked a 400m section of the route, recalling their stand-out Olympic memories before passing the baton of ...
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Animation Deviation at UWE

09.03.10
Animation Deviation Animation Deviation is a one-day symposium at Watershed, Bristol on 13 July, organised by Vicky Smith at the University of West of England (UWE). Keynote speakers include including Alan Cholodwnko, Nicky Hamlyn and Ester Leslie. Contributions are invited from theorists, experimental filmmakers and animators. Workshops and Paper sessions will be convened to enable a mix of practice and presentation-based exploration. Deadline for proposals is 31 ...
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For The Sake of the Image – The Jerwood Encounters

06.03.10
Richard Beavan – no-title (sometimes ‘Notations’), 2008 Dates: 3 March – 1 April | Location: Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London For the Sake of the Image investigates the reciprocal relationship between moving image and sound, considering sound not merely as an accompaniment to the moving image but exploring how the force of one multiplies the power of the other. Featuring the work of emerging artists Asnat Austerlitz, ...
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila exhibition at Parasol unit

04.03.10
Elja-Liisa Ahtila - Where is Where? Dates: 26 Feb–25 Apr | Location: Parasol unit, London Parasol unit is delighted to present a major solo exhibition by the renowned Finnish film and video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. It will include three important moving image installations never before seen in England. There will be a symposium  ‘Considering the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’,  at Parasol unit on Saturday 13th March, between 2- ...
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Ideas Tap

02.03.10
Ideas Tap IdeasTap has launched Ideas Fund Shorts, £40,000-worth of funding to help young people realise their short film projects.  Eight awards of £5,000 are being offered to anyone aged between 16-25 to create a five minute short film. Recognising the lack of funding for young people within the arts, and the endless application forms and hassle to secure what funding there is, IdeasTap created the Ideas ...
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Carlos Amorales at The Cornerhouse

01.03.10
Carlos Amorales - Discarded Spider Dates: 6 – 28 March | Location: The Cornerhouse, Manchester To coincide with the 16th installment of the popular ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival (Fri 5 – Sat 27 March), Cornerhouse presents a solo show by Mexico’s leading contemporary artist Carlos Amorales. Gallery 1 will be flooded with a soundtrack from Psicofonias, 2008, a large-scale two-screen video installation Amorales created along ...
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Competition: Sergei Paradjanov at the BFI

22.02.10
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors, Sergei Paradjanov Dates: 1-15 March | Location: BFI Southbank, London The BFI introduce the nearest-to-complete survey yet of the work of the late Georgian/Armenian film director and artist Sergei Paradjanov (1929–1990), whose work makes him one of the most visionary directors of all time. In the influential Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964), Colour of Pomegranates (1968) and Ashik Kerib (1988), films ...
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