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Altered Landscapes
I am thrilled to share that on Friday 1 April a new installation by artist Juan delGado will premiere at Watermans arts centre in West London. I have been working with Juan to develop and finance this project for more than a year, and am so pleased that we were able to produce the work…
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Silent Signal
I am delighted to share that after seven months of R&D and 18 months of production, Silent Signal is now live! Silent Signal is an interdisciplinary arts project that I have been producing at Animate. It brings together six artists and six scientists to create animated artworks that explore cell biology, genetics, immunology and epidemiology.…
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Underwire Festival – call for submissions
It’s that time of the year again when we open submissions for Underwire Festival. Underwire is not just a feminist festival, its mission is to support female talent and showcase the very best creativity across the filmmaking crafts. I am always blown away by the talent we screen at the festival each year and the successes…
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Making noise about Silent Signal
I am delighted to share that Silent Signal, an interdisciplinary project that I began developing at Animate with Gary Thomas and with my scientific chum Bentley Crudgington back in November 2012, has been funded and is now in production. The process was quite a labour of love, but with the support of the Advisors at…
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The Flickering Darkness (Revisited)
Today Unlimited Festival launched at the Southbank Centre. The only visual arts piece to receive a Major Project award from Unlimited that you can experience at the festival is The Flickering Darkness (Revisited). I have been working with its creator Juan delGado and an amazing production team to produce a new version of a work first made…
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Presenting Changing nature
Here is the film programme that I presented at the Austrian Culture Forum on 30 January 2014. The films were selected from the previous Ars Electronica Animation Festival programme, and explore our relationship with natural forms and the natural world using the possibilities of digital technology to manipulate, deconstruct and abstract familiar organisms and environments.…
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The Miners’ Hymns UK Tour
For the past six months I have been working with interdisciplinary arts agency Forma on touring The Miners’ Hymns, a film by American artist Bill Morrison with an original score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The work is composed of archival footage of the Durham coalfield over the past 100 years, assembled with recent footage…
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Presenting God’s special envoys online
Earlier this month I produced a film programme for the University of Iowa’s Exuberant Politics season, which screened at Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids on 2 December, then at the University the next night. For everyone who isn’t based in Iowa, here’s an online exhibition of the screening programme. Introduction The selection highlights the horrors…
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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”.
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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.
