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Ones to watch: girls making films

Having see some incredible shorts at Underwire Festival over the past few days, and spoken with some ambitious and intelligent women about their work, I thought I would just mention a few of the films that made me feel proud of the work being produced by talented females in the UK. Look out for these…

24/11/2013

God’s special envoys in Iowa

I’m thrilled to have curated a film programme for the University of Iowa’s Exuberant Politics season. If you happen to be in the neighbourhood it screens on Tuesday 3 December at 8pm at the University’s Pappajohn Business Building. God’s special envoys highlights the horrors of conflict in a collective call to peace. Presenting images of the…

11/11/2013

Underwire Festival 2013

It’s almost time for the fourth Underwire Film Festival, showcasing the best new female talent in the UK film industry. As someone lucky enough to be on the advisory board for the festival, I’m thrilled to see so many inspiring discussions and remarkable short films that the festival has to offer. Here are my highlight…

06/11/2013

Secret Monsters discovered

I’m delighted to be able share the ten beastly films that I curated and produced for Animate Projects for Channel 4’s Random Acts series: they are now all up online for all to see. These Secret Monsters are a diverse array of films from a fantastic selection of contemporary artists working with animation. During the…

01/11/2013

Self Portrait with Fried Eggs © Sarah Lucas

London galleries celebrating female talent

I’ve recently visited three exhibitions that put women artists at the centre stage and present challenging ideas about what it is to be female. Sarah Lucas at the Whitechapel Truly one of the most important artists of her generation. Why she never rose to the prominence of her peers Damian Hirst and Tracey Emin is…

27/10/2013

Animation Sketchbooks

Published earlier this year, Animation Sketchbooks is a welcome anthology for anyone who is curious about the painstaking process that goes in to producing animations. It’s a lavish, weighty tome, with 320 pages, which are for the most part elaborately illustrated by the 52 animation artists that grace its pages. It’s as fantastically visual as…

04/08/2013

A Short Film About War, Thomson & Craighead

My exuberant, political programme

I am excited to announce that in December the University of Iowa will be screening a film programme that I have curated for their Exuberant Politics programme – a year long initiative that celebrates “recent intersections of art and activism in the US”.

15/07/2013

CAMP Films

I am delighted to share the new website that I have produced for Cannon and Morley Productions (CAMP). If you visit campfilms.co.uk you can discover CAMP’s catalogue of fantastic and somewhat anarchic films made by Carol Morley and Cairo Cannon, which includes Dreams of a Life, The Madness of the Dance and The Alcohol Years.

20/06/2013

Of Monsters and Men: Little Talks, directed by WeWereMonkeys

Transformations from Ars Electronica

Earlier this year I was lucky to be invited by the Austrian Culture Forum London to select and present a programme of films from the Ars Electronica 2012 festival programme. Ars Electronica is one of the top festivals for animation with a focus on how art, technology and society intersect, is based in Linz in…

15/06/2013

Sun City by Rob Carter, single channel HD video, 2013

LOOP Barcelona 2013: My selected 5

I’m back from a few sun-filled days spent looking at artists’ moving image at LOOP Barcelona. It was my first visit to LOOP and I imagine that it won’t be my last. From the 44 international galleries that participated this year, here are five works that I felt stood out from the gamut of experimental,…

30/05/2013

The best online videos in 2012

Sight & Sound have once again posted online the year’s best online videos, as selected by 16 ‘international correspondents’ (including yours truly) from various regions of the film world (critics, programmers, producers). It’s terrific that Sight & Sound publish this list every year, as there are always videos and interactive sites that have slipped under…

01/04/2013

Electrifying animated work and the making of…

This month I’m taking part in two events where I’ll be talking about great contemporary animation and profiling the work and careers of young animation professionals. Living your life at 25 frames per second panel discussion First up, I’ll be at the BFI Future Film Festival on Sunday 17 February. The FFF is a festival…

09/02/2013

Nightmares: three films

Cold and gloomy January is a fitting month to focus on bad dreams. As paranoid classic Rosemary’s Baby plays at the BFI Southbank and the delightfully morbid exhibition Death: A Self Portrait shows at the Wellcome Collection, my mind turns to some recent work I’ve seen. Beluga, Shin Hashimoto, 2012 A dark retelling of the Little…

21/01/2013

The curse of the demon creature

I recently had the pleasure of organising a writing workshop for Animate. One of the perks of producing the event was that I too was invited to take part and have a crack at penning something. Using Billy Burrough’s cut up technique, and pages from my favourite copyright free novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a recent news item about…

17/12/2012

Don’t kill your babies

Underwire Festival has taken on the mantle of championing female talent. As a festival it’s young, self-assured and more renegade than those who have come before it. It gives firm support: sharing careers advice in forums across the country, keeping the community updated about the careers of previous festival winners on the website, and running an…

09/12/2012

Liz Green: Displacement Song © Kate Anderson

Giving Life to Stills

I am delighted to be presenting a panel celebrating animated shorts made by women with several lovely lady animators at Underwire Festival, at the Ritzy in Brixton on Saturday 24 November at 12.30pm. I’ve assembled a great panel of awe-inspiring animators who work across animated documentary, fine art film, music videos, art education and kids tv…

20/11/2012

Three games to test your metal

The past month I’ve been spending a lot of my time travelling about in South Korea and the South West of England, giving me ample opportunity to play games on various devices. So in true Mashable style here are my current Top 3 good looking games for the casual gamer: 1. Limbo Platforms: Mac, PC,…

01/10/2012

All Eyes on the East

As next week I’ll be heading off to Gwangju, South Korea to participate in emergent art fair art:gwangju:12 and to take a peek at the host of delights featuring in this year’s Gwangju Biennale it seems apt to pen a few thoughts about Korean art. Between Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation A couple of months ago…

28/08/2012

Filling the country with alternative cinema

On Thursday, Scala Forever launched its new season dubbed Scala Beyond at the Roxy in Borough with the call to arms to ‘fill the land with cinemas’. Once again harnessing the industry of the purveyors of independent cinema into one six week season, Scala Forever showcases a spectrum of the good (Bird with Crystal Plumage),…

31/07/2012

The Outsiders and the Outlaws

In the last couple of weeks I’ve found myself at two exhibitions that explore the issues and abuses faced by Roma communities. Firstly, at Roma-Sinti-Kale-Manush at Rivington Place in London, and then The Bucaneers at the Stade Hall in Hastings, East Sussex. With the recent controversy stirred up in the media by Channel 4’s offensive…

10/06/2012

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