Common Ground: Aurora 2009

04.11.09
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, ...
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Artists working in Scotland: new opportunity

28.09.09
The Harrachov Exchange, Matt Hulse, image by Al Crow The Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen present a major new opportunity for Scotland’s artists working with the moving image. Two awards of £20,000 each will be made to artists proposing major new pieces of moving image work that are ambitious, fresh and experimental. Representing a significant step in their careers, there will be an emphasis on artists’ ...
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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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