UK Film Council and British Film Institute will become one

19.10.09
BFI: merging in 2010 [this post has been revised] We hear that the merging of UK Film Council and BFI  – ‘mooted’ by the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport in August – is going to happen, with the two organisations being told they’ll become one by April 2010. Officially, it’s not a done deal, and it’s certainly a tight schedule; it probably doesn’t make the ...
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Competition: win tickets to see Joanna Quinn at the Barbican

15.10.09
Joanna Quinn, Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (2006) Barbican Film celebrates International Animation Day with a special focus on the work of the multi-award-winning, internationally acclaimed British animator Joanna Quinn on 28 October. Joanna’s work explores the politics of gender and the eccentricities of the human body through brilliant characterisation, superb draughtsmanship and wonderful animation technique. The screening will include Joanna’s 1987 debut film Girls Night Out, ...
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Greg Kurcewicz on Adam Curtis

12.10.09
It Felt Like a Kiss, Adam Curtis Greg Kurcewicz writes on the music of It Felt Like a Kiss… and says it’s time Adam Curtis had a room at Tate Modern. Have you ever noticed that when you have a documentary on TV covering any issue to do with the 1960s – anything – could be about banning pesticides, moon landings, car production in the midlands, whatever ...
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Angela Kingston: Animation Breakdown – Jordan Baseman’s Nasty Piece of Stuff, and the mind ‘giving way’

09.10.09
Nasty Piece of Stuff, images courtesy of Jordan Baseman We’ve traditionally thought of animation in terms of drawings or models that, frame-by-frame, have been made to seem to move. However, animation now includes ‘normal’, real-time films that have been intensively worked with rapid edits and cuts, repeats and reversals, speedings-up and slowings-down, collage effects and digital manipulations. And also instances in which the frames of a ...
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Army of YouTube by Rosemary Heather

07.10.09
Still from Jib Kidder's Heavenhurst Prophet Posse Faced with the awe-inspiring popularity of web-monoliths like YouTube, contemporary art risks becoming nothing more than a quaint relic of the 20th century. It’s probably not fair to compare contemporary art practice with YouTube; yet there is evidence to suggest that somewhere in the ulterior of its collective brain, the art world does just this, and finds itself ...
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Rachel Baker blogs from AND Festival on the film/art debate

26.09.09
Still from the Primitive installation by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Rachel Baker shares her thoughts with APEngine on a masterclass with Apichatpong Weerasethakul prompts thoughts about film and art… Fresh from the previous night’s Jarman Award announcement at the Whitechapel Gallery, where the fraught topic of ‘cinema and art crossing over’  was the subject of some energetic ranting, I took myself and the rant to the AND Festival at ...
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The Jarman Award: Shortlist

22.09.09
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want, Stephen Sutcliffe Inspired by filmmaker Derek Jarman, The Jarman Award was launched in 2008 “to recognise artists working with the moving image whose work, like Jarman’s, resists conventional definition, encompassing innovation and excellence”. The 2009 shortlisted artists are Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Simon Martin, Lindsay Seers, and Stephen Sutcliffe. We asked them all some questions. The Jarman ...
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