In anticipation of the earliest sunset of this year, the students of the Goldsmiths MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image invite you to experience a collectively curated selection of moving image works from the LUX collection.
“Film theorist and composer Michel Chion said about Fellini’s films that the voices of the characters, not perfectly synced to their image, hover around their bodies like ghosts. This slippage between sound and image can be disorienting, as in seasickness, or apparitional, as in a daydream.
In the sound/image slip a ghostly body is engendered, a territory of ambiguity similar to that moment around dusk for which the French have a specific name: entre chien et loup – the time when you may mistake a dog for a wolf.
If things under light are discernable, they can be named and tamed, dusk begins a duration of time flooded by the unruly mass of shadows. The domesticated dog reveals itself in a flash as the wild wolf. What do we do with the suddenness of its apparition?
We are thinking about the structures of these moving image works, as bodies in themselves, ghostly bodies, with their own time logics, fluxes, heartbeats, rhythms of breath. Watching together we try to relate to these bodies as an audience. Maybe some of these bodies will possess you, sync your breath to their breath. The act, as all possessions, happens in the dark. Will you become the body of the film?”
The screening includes works by Tanya Syed, Vivienne Dick, Phillip Hoffman, Steve Reinke, Paul Clarke, Thomson & Craighead, Laure Prouvost, Cathy Sisler, George Barber, Seamus Harahan, William Raban and Stuart Marshall.
The MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image programme at Goldsmiths is a 12-month intensive practice-based Masters for artists working with moving image in all its forms. www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-artists-film-moving-image/
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Cento [1]
Fragile narratives immersed in a dream space
continuously fading and merging together [2]
towards a renewal of our embodiment with the Earth
as a response to a belief in invincibility,
a red moon is both a beacon, and a warning.[3]
Stepping out of the making-of,
he encounters unexpected dilemmas around filmmaking[4]
captured by the image of a young man and the snake[5]
in the hours where no one wants to be exposed[6]
as seen through the collective eyes[7]
in grandma’s dream[8]
she’s only a phantom, you know?[9]
Do you have any pen pals?[10] Reality,
everybody needs their five-a-day-dose.[11]
A man, no horse, no gun[12],
ahead the dark superstructure
of the Canary Wharf complex[13]
the meaning flops out altogether.[14]
Programme
Salamander, Tanya Syed, UK, 1994. 12 minutes, Colour, Sound
Red Moon Rising, Vivienne Dick, Ireland, 2015. 15 minutes, Colour, Stereo, 16:9
?0, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film), Phillip Hoffman, Canada, 1986. 23 minutes. B&W / Colour, sound
After Baudelaire, 16. Steve Reinke, USA, 1992. 1 minutes, 33 seconds, Colour, Stereo, 4:3
Black Magic, Paul Clark, Ann Course, UK, 2002. 3 minutes, B&W, sound
A Short Film About War, Jon & Alison Thomson & Craighead, UK, 2010. 10 minutes. Colour, Sound, 16:9
Grandma’s Dream, Laure Prouvost, 2013. 9 minutes, 1 second, Colour, Sound, 16:9
BREAK
The Better Me, Cathy Sisler, Canada, 1995. 20 minutes
Corey, Steve Reinke, USA, 1995. 2 minutes, 51 seconds, Colour, Stereo
Reality Check, George Barber, UK, 2012. 17min 30 seconds, Colour, Stereo
Il Mercenario, Seamus Harahan, UK, Ireland, 2001. 1 minutes, 32 seconds, Colour, Stereo, 4:3
A13, William Raban UK, 1994. 12 minutes, Colour, Sound
Arcanum, Stuart Marshall, UK, 1976. 7 minutes, B&W, mono
[1]Cento, Latin for ‘patchwork’, is a poetic form which borrows lines from other writers, here sourced from catalogue descriptions for each film in the proposed programme.
[2]Salamander, Tanya Syed, UK, 1994. 12 minutes, Colour, Sound, 16mm
[3]Red Moon Rising, Vivienne Dick, Ireland, 2015. 15 minutes, Colour, Stereo, 16:9
[4]?0, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film), Phillip Hoffman. Canada, 1986. 23 minutes. B&W / Colour, sound, 16mm
[5]After Baudelaire, 16, Steve Reinke, USA, 1992. 1 minutes, 33 seconds, Colour, Stereo, 4:3
[6]Black Magic, Paul Clark and Ann Course, UK, 2002. 3 minutes, B&W, sound
[7]A Short Film About War, Jon & Alison Thomson & Craighead. UK, 2010. 10 minutes. Colour, Sound, 16:9
[8]Grandma’s Dream, Laure Prouvost, 2013. 9 minutes, 1 seconds, Colour, Sound, 16:9
[9]The Better Me, Cathy Sisler, Canada, 1995. 20 minutes
[10]Corey, Steve Reinke, USA, 1995. 2 minutes, 51 seconds, Colour, Stereo
[11]Reality Check, George Barber, UK, 2012. 17 minutes, 30 seconds, Colour, Stereo
[12]Il Mercenario, Seamus Harahan, UK, Ireland, 2001. 1 minutes, 32 seconds, Colour, Stereo, 4:3
[13]A13, William Raban, UK, 1994. 12 minutes, Colour, Sound
[14]Arcanum, Stuart Marshall, UK, 1976. 7 minutes, B&W, mono
