BIg Screen, 15th July

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard

‘Do you love me like I love you’ we shall screen one of the 14 new short films commissioned by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to accompany the comprehensive re-issue of the band’s influential catalogue. 2009-11

The films feature current and former Bad Seeds including Kid Congo Powers, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos, Rowland S. Howard, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey, Hugo Race, Barry Adamson, Martyn Casey, James Johnston, Thomas Wydler. Other participants include the producer Flood, film director John Hillcoat, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, photographers Bleddyn Butcher and Polly Borland, Suicide’s Alan Vega, writer Simon Reynolds, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s guitarist Nick Zinner, Dave Gahan and Martin Gore from Depeche Mode, journalist Matt Snow, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, artist Martin Creed, Mute’s Daniel Miller, Mick Turner from Dirty Three and actor Noah Taylor, alongside many others.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard met and began working collaboratively at Goldsmiths, graduating together in 1995. They are perhaps best known for their recreations of cultural and art historical events and documents. 

Christian Odzuck Superleggera Fountains Of Fear 2011  The young artist works at the intersection between art and architecture. His works often provide space for unrelated uses, with which he defines his sculptural sets as open platform within specific contexts.

The performance was part of the art in public space project "Grid the city! The play called Boxmeer". Out of the documentation material a new autonomous work emerged.

Jayne Parker Stationary Music 2001  Stationary Music takes its name from the first movement of Stefan Wolpe's 'Sonata 1' composed in 1925. It is introduced and performed by his daughter, pianist Katharina Wolpe. Stationary Music - music that doesn't develop/music that stands still.

Jayne Parker has taught at the Slade School of Fine Art since 1989. Her work has been shown at art venues, on television and in film festivals internationally.

Graham Dolphin Star Spangled Banner Recurring, is a single screen digital projection based on footage taken of the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix playing his version of the American national anthem Star Spangled Banner. The short extract of virtuoso playing is taken from the seminal Woodstock concert of 1969 and is shown repeated across a grid of twelve panels with each panel starting half a second after the other.

Zoë Brown is a London-based artist and film-maker. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (Sculpture) in 2005 and has shown her work extensively in the UK and Internationally.

Dad is a silent 16 mm film shot by Zoe of her own father. Dad 2007

Matt Hulse Sine Die 1994  Shot on Kodak Tri-X B&W reversal film using a Canon 814xl Super 8 camera. Being both cameraman and performer the shots were made with the help of a tripod and an ugly but much-loved intervalometer (automatic time lapse device). Matt Hulse is an artist best known for his films although he has produced a diversity of works, some cross-disciplinary, including animation, audio art, installation, web projects, sound design, music, printed textiles & performance. He is also active as a curator.

Squint- Music videos in focus: Music videos have long been test beds for new thoughts and ideas in commercial film-making, a space where pioneering artistic visions meet the demands of clients, agents, publicists and commissioners. SQUINT is a showcase of music video work from around the world that brings the art form into focus by placing these films in a cinematic environment, giving audiences the chance to see the artistry at work in the next generation of moving image makers. 

Jaye Ho has exhibited widely in London and internationally. She was awarded an artist residency in Sydney by Artquest and Parramatta Artist Studios (2008/9). Notable shows include ‘The Nesst 2’ at Zellig for Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham (2011), ‘The Hidden’ at Fabryka, Krakow (2010), ‘Concrete and Wax’ at Parramatta Artist Studios Gallery, Sydney (2009) and ‘Sound Waves’ at the Kinetica Museum, London (2007). Sound By Mordant Music. 24 Million Or Sell Neverland 2011

Luke Losey directed many music videos in the late 1990s and 2000s, including work for William Orbit (directing the video for his 1999 version of Adagio for Strings)[5] and Mercury Rev.[7] After a period directing TV adverts, live shows for bands, including The Libertines, Turin Brakes, The Verve,[8] and more recently Magazine and Mott the Hoople. In 2009 he shot the video for the cover of Gang Of Four’s Damaged Goods by Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey’s side project The Hotrats.[7] In July 2010 he joined Shameless, the new music video division of production company Park Village. The Box 1996

 

Tracey Emin has been recognized as one of the leading figures of the YBA (Young British Artists) in the 1990s. She was awarded an MA in painting by the Royal College of Art in 1989. Tracey Emin also studied modern philosophy and was on the short list for the Turner Prize in 1999. She has exhibited extensively internationally, and represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2007.

Riding for a fall 1998 is from a series of films, including Why I never became a dancer (1995) which are funny and self-deprecating, Emin sharply dissects gender stereotypes, even as the sometimes tragic story of her teenage life unfolds. 

Paul Burgess is the author of the book 'Satellite: Sex Pistols Graphic Design and Memorabilia' (Abstract Sounds Publishing 1999) and has contributed regularly to various music and design publications. He has worked with the Sex Pistols on numerous occasions as a photographer and graphic designer. In 1994 Burgess started a six year photography project with Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, to photograph and document live gigs, video shoots, artwork, etc. 

Screening of some of Burgess’ film archive footage  of Punk featuring rare footage of the Clash.