APEngine » Beatrice Gibson http://www.apengine.org Moving image transmission: driving debate and ideas around the moving image, film, art, animation and everything else. Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest of Us http://www.apengine.org/2010/07/the-future%e2%80%99s-getting-old-like-the-rest-of-us/ http://www.apengine.org/2010/07/the-future%e2%80%99s-getting-old-like-the-rest-of-us/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:03:38 +0000 abigail http://www.apengine.org/?p=5821 Date: 23 July, 8.30pm | Location: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London

The premiere screening of The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest of Us, a 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV Play and set in an older people’s care home. Part documentary, part fiction, the script, a collaboration with APEngine contributor George Clark, was constructed from verbatim transcripts of a discussion group held over a period of five months with the residents of four of Camden’s Care Homes.

Taking B.S. Johnson’s 1971 experimental novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure point and employing the structural logic of a score, the script is edited into a vertical structure, in which 8 voices or monologues occur simultaneously.

The film is one of five commissions that have taken place as part of the Serpentine Gallery’s Skills Exchange Project. For tickets and associated events visit the Serpentine’s site.

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Aurora 2009

Dates: 5-15 November | Location: Norwich

Aurora is a unique festival based in Norwich which focuses on artists’ moving image in the most diffuse sense. Under the theme Common Ground, this year’s festival spans ten days, with a Festival Week (5 – 12 November) of films, live music, workshops and talks; and the unique Festival Weekend (13 – 15 November), an antidote to the ever-bigger, ever-faster policy forced upon moving image festivals and attempt to create a temporary community, in which divisions between guest artists and audience are dismantled.

Highlights of the Festival Weekend include programmes of work by artists Jem Cohen (New York), Milena Gierke (Berlin) and Jon Bang Carlsen, introduced by the artists; discussion sessions about the moving image as social project with Beatrice Gibson, Shezad Dawood, Mark Wilsher and Graeme Hogg; and about the moving image and the social network with Jamie King, Richard Wright, Andrew Kotting and Gareth Evans.

The Festival Week features a packed programme of workshops with Alex Mackenzie, Milena Gierke, Richard Wright’s Video Sniffin’ and others, plus live music and film.

For more information about tickets, accommodation deals and online booking, visit aurora.org.uk.

Look out for our upcoming interviews with Festival Director Adam Pugh and artist Richard Wright.

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