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Film Study Day and Hinges Between Days Book Launch
Saturday, 13 March 2010
2pm - 6pm

For the closing event of Elin Jakobsdottir’s Hinges Between Days exhibition, we have invited curators, academics and artists to explore the intersection of the imaginative and the poetic in artists’ film. 


The increasing number of artists working with video, 16mm, Super 8 and now even 35mm film, make clear that the moving image has become a dominant medium in contemporary art.  As they draw from the historical lineages of cinema, documentary, video art and experimental film, these artists are dissolving the traditional distinctions between disciplines.   Speakers at the Film Study Day have been invited to examine the role of the imagination and the poetic in film with reference to their own particular areas of research.  From the exceptional Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait to current uses of 16mm film in the exhibition space, important historical antecedents will be framed next to current approaches. 

We are delighted to welcome Henriette Huldisch, Associate Curator in the Media Archive at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin, and co-curator of the 2008 Whitney Biennial.  Her paper ‘Love at Last Sight: Notes on the Use of Celluloid in Recent Moving Image Art’ will discuss contemporary artists’ film installations.

Sarah Neely, Lecturer in the department of Film, Media & Journalism at the University of Stirling, will explore the relationship between Margaret Tait’s filmmaking and writing practices.  Taking her affinity with Lorca’s phrase ‘stalking the image’ as a starting point, her paper ‘If you really look’: Margaret Tait and the ekphrastic in poetry and the moving image’ will consider the intense method of looking invoked in Tait’s written and filmic work within the context of the poetic term ekphrasis (crudely defined here as the ‘intense description of a thing’).

Like many experimental filmmakers, New American Cinema pioneer Maya Deren (1917-1961), was committed to writing about film in order to articulate her distinctive practice. Sarah Smith, Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Critical Studies at The Glasgow School of Art, will employ Deren’s concept of the vertical axis of cinépoetry (as distinct from the horizontal axis of narrative film) as a starting point to explore a variety of poetic filmmaking practices from the literary-influenced films of the post-war New York School to the lyrical works of contemporary UK artists Guy Sherwin, Luke Fowler and Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer.  Her paper is entitled ‘ That Vertical Feeling: Exploring Maya Deren’s Concept of Cinépoetry’

To mark the launch of her new book, Elín Jakobsdóttir will also be in conversation with the curator of the Hinges Between Days exhibition, Kirsten Lloyd.  Printed in full colour, this new Stills publication will be available to buy on the day for £5.
 
To book a place please call 0131 622 6200 or email info@stills.org

Presented with the support of the Goethe Institut Glasgow

 

Stills Film Study Day
Screen Bandita presents: 'Reels From Life Two Or: How We Learned to Love Postmodernism'
Thursday, 18 March 2010
7.30 PM

£2

Following on from the success of Reels From Life, Screen Bandita is pleased to present the second installment of our journey into the world of previously abandoned Super 8 film reels.
Our focus for this event is on films that typify some of the core elements of that most slippery of concepts, the so- called 'Postmodern condition'!
The programme is a celebration of visual spectacles and surreal moments, parades and performances as well as comedies and curiosities.
All these homemade treasures have been rediscovered by Screen Bandita and will be screened alongside a specially curated Gramophone soundtrack.

Bandita Strangelove
Stills f.ocus group
Thursday, 1 April 2010
6.30PM

The fith in a new series of photography events at Stills aiming to bring together photographers from all backgrounds to inspire each other through presentation of works and discussion. Stills f:ocus events are peer led evenings that will begin with informal discussion and project presentations, followed by the opportunity to discuss your own work and share experiences. 

Stills f:ocus events are FREE and open to everyone! So come along and get involved in a new network of local photographers! 

No booking necessary.

Theme / Brief ; Danger!

Theme / Brief ; Danger!

Create either a single stand-alone image or a body of work inspired by the word 'Danger'. You could interpret Danger in its purest sense and photograph something directly dangerous, or maybe subvert the theme, or perhaps take a humorous view?

In order to have some structure for this brief, and as next months brief will be completely open (self-initiated project), we are suggesting the following:

Images must be in colour.
Images must be printed at either 6"x 9" or 10"x 8".
Images can be shot on film or digital.
Images must not contain elements from previous work and must be shot between now and April.

Off the top of our heads, the artists we think seem dangerous, (or alternatively a bit "naughty") are:
James Natchwey, Andres Serrano, Nan Goldin, Araki, Larry Clark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Graham, Richard Misrach, Sally Mann

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Roundtable Discussion: Refiguring the Global City
Thursday, 22 April 2010
6PM

FREE
The 'global' city is shorthand for a set of complex and sometimes contradictory phenomena. But its difficulties have not prevented it becoming an object of fascination in the visual arts, from Blade Runner to Andreas Gursky, to Second LIfe. And it has, arguably, become in recent years an everyday, ubiquitous situation common to all cities, rather than a few, exceptionally globalised cases. This roundtable discussion brings together a range of eminent writers and academics in the visual arts whose work is particularly preoccupied with the global city and its representation. What the 'global' city means now is one key question; what it looks like, and how it is represented are among the others covered in this provocative and wide- ranging discussion. Chaired by Dr Angela Dimitrakaki (University of Edinburgh), the panel includes Prof. Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam), Dr Ruth Cruickshank (Royal Holloway), Dr Shirley Jordan (QMU), Dr Richard Williams (University of Edinburgh) and Prof. Stephen Cairns (ESALA, Edinburgh)

To book a place please call 0131 622 6200 or email info@stills.org

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