Aura Satz

06.11.09
Aura Satz APEngine talks Spiritualism, technology fetishism and bones with Aura Satz, whose film Sound Seam is nearing completion and will premiere at Newcastle’s AV Festival in March next year – take a look at our showcase for a preview of the film. Aura Satz is an artist and writer who has taught at the Slade, Central Saint Martin’s, and the History of Art Department of UCL. ...
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Oliver Harrison

02.11.09
Oliver Harrison APEngine talks to Oliver Harrison about his debut feature Badinage and the difficulties of making the leap from advertising to full-length film. Oliver Harrison’s first short, Amore Baciami, was the first kinetic typography film. Used by the Royal Mail in a Valentine’s commercial, it bagged him a Gold Lion at Cannes. From these auspicious beginnings Oliver has gone on to produce ads for the ...
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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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Duane Hopkins

26.10.09
Duane Hopkins, Sunday. Image courtesy of the artist Duane Hopkins, director of the acclaimed feature Better Things, talks to APEngine about Sunday, a new series of installation works drawing on material from a short film he made seven years ago. Sunday has been shown at Baltic, Gateshead, the Open Eye Galley in Liverpool as part of the AND Festival.  It shows at Cream International Festival for Arts ...
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AL and AL get off at Edge Hill

22.10.09
XXX: Get Off at Edge Hill APEngine talks to artists AL and AL, winners of the Liverpool Art Prize 2009, about XXX: Get Off at Edge Hill, a show they’ve curated to open Metal’s new space at Liverpool’s Edge Hill Station. I want to ask you about your work as curators, but the background to that you’ve been collaborating as artists for a long time, and I ...
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Sarah Turner on Perestroika

16.10.09
Sarah Turner APEngine talks to Sarah Turner, about her new experimental feature, Perestroika, which premieres at the London Film Festival. Why did you start making films? Oh god, I wasn’t really expecting a question like that! I went to art school because basically I was useless. Like everyone who goes to art school. There’s a quote – something like “People who go to art school don’t know what to ...
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Helen De Witt on the London Film Festival

16.10.09
Helen De Witt With the London Film Festival just about in full swing, we talk to Helen De Witt, the Festival’s Producer. Hi Helen. Now, you’re the producer of the London Film Festival… Yes, and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. How many festivals are there? The two that I produce and two that are run by the BFI. Which are the other two? No, just these two. I wanted to first ...
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