Lumen Eclipse

24.02.10
lumeneclipse.com Lumen Eclipse is an online gallery space for artists who work with the moving image, where the works are both exhibited online and are shown on video screens in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In their archive, you can find over 250 films that they’ve featured since 2005, such as solo shows by artists including Nagi Noda, Barry Doupé and Bill Domonkos and group shows ...
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AV Festival 10: Recycled Film Symposium

10.02.10
Rick Prelinger, Pile of Orphan Films, from Industrial Marketing, October 1950 Dates: 11 – 12 March | Location: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle This national symposium brings together leading film organisations, filmmakers, artists and archivists to discuss online access to film archives and the creative use of this material in the digital age. Film is a crucial part of our heritage, however, online access to archives is limited especially ...
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Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas on Collapse

28.10.09
B.Abbas and R.Abou-Rahme, Collapse (video still), single channel DV (2009), image courtesy of the artists Palestinian artists Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas spoke to APEngine about their sound and video installation, Collapse, which was exhibited at The Delfina Foundation, London, earlier this year as a work-in-progress. Can you explain what Collapse is for someone who hasn’t seen the piece? Collapse is a sound and video installation, which uses ...
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Bill Domonkos

07.10.09
bdom.com Bill Domonkos is an American artist who experiments with computer animation, archival footage and live action. On the site you can watch a selection of Domonkos’s works, including excerpts from music videos Domonkos created for the avant-garde music/art group The Residents. The works are exquisitely ethereal, summoning sinister new worlds out of images of the past.
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Laurie Hill

15.09.09
Laurie Hill APEngine spoke with Laurie Hill about his moving image work, including his award-winning film Photograph of Jesus, which explores the archive of Getty Images. Laurie Hill is a London-based artist. He studied Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and Animation at the Royal College of Art, London. Laurie was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2007. In 2008, he was a Finalist ...
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Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill

15.09.09
Photograph of Jesus, image courtesy of Getty Images Photograph of Jesus is Laurie Hill’s response to a challenge set by Getty Images, who invited filmmakers to create a piece utilising images from their Hulton Archive. Rather than set a rigid brief, the challenge offered key words and phrases as prompters to guide the filmmakers’ creativity. Examples of these prompters included ‘discover our past,’ ‘images that shape ...
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Duncan Campbell

10.09.09
Bernadette, Duncan Campbell, image courtesy of LUX Duncan Campbell’s films are documentaries, but documentaries that test the boundaries of the form, acknowledging, in Campbell’s words, that ‘documentary is a peculiar form of fiction.’  Using archival material – images of bygone youth culture and urban decay in Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2004) and footage of dissident and Activist Bernadette Devlin in Bernadette (2008) – Campbell attempts to ...
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