Kim Knowles

18.10.10
Point Line Plane, Simon Payne APEngine talks to Kim Knowles, about how she first got interested in the avant-garde, her Diversions project, and her programming for Edinburgh Film Festival’s Black Box. How did your film education start? My early film education was quite shocking. Those people that go, “Oh yes, my parents took me to the cinema when I was six and the first film I saw ...
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Polytechnic at Raven Row

14.08.10
Lenny's Documentary, Ian Bourn, 1978 Dates: 9 September – 7 November | Location: Raven Row, London Polytechnic is an exhibition of video, installation and tape/slide works made between the mid seventies and early eighties by a number of artists in the UK who were developing new relationships between ‘experimental’ media and ideas of narrative. The complex and hybrid works in the exhibition talk about autobiography, television, diaries, ...
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Call for Proposals: Rough Machine Commissions
08.07.10
Animate Projects is looking to commission three experimental works that explore the theme of the rough machine for its online magazine, APEngine.org and for iTunes. In the spirit of APEngine, we’re looking for crafty provocations – antidotes to digital perfection. We invite ideas from UK-based artists, animators and filmmakers who can craft an inventive, arresting and engagingly provocative work. We’re not looking for narrative, live action films ...
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Making of OffOn by Scott Bartlett

29.03.10
OffOn by Scott Bartlett Scott Bartlett made this documentary in 1980 of a recreation of OffOn that he created with a class at UCLA to use as a teaching tool. It is a wonderful insight into how the methods we take for granted today, were constructed with low-fi methods, along with snippets of what led him down the experimental video path. OffOn is a film by ...
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Jeff Keen – Instant Cinema

18.12.09
Jeff Keen, Marvo Movie (1967). Image courtesy of the BFI Daniel Fawcett on the great artist filmmaker, Jeff Keen. I met experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen this week; he is now 86 and sadly ill with cancer. I went to his house and met him and his wife Jackie. We talked for several hours about art, Brighton, their life together and of course his films. They have found themselves ...
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Peter Burr on Cartune Xprez

20.11.09
Hooliganship at Cartune Xprez APEngine talks to Peter Burr about the Cartune Xprez roadshow. What is Cartune Xprez? We’re an experimental animation project from Portland, Oregon. We organise screenings, exhibitions, publications, performance events and whatever combinations we can weave together around a youthful cartoon spirit. It started about four years ago in Pittsburgh with me, Christopher Doulgeris, and Cassandra C Jones. We were collaborating on a cartoon performance ...
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