A Movie is a new initiative to show artists' film works in a traditional cinema context; an intervention into an increasingly commercialised and sanitised experience.

Rather than assuming that all artists' films suit a cinema environment just because they use the same medium as feature films, A Movie has commissioned works that consciously respond to, comment on, interrupt or reflect the cinematic context.

New work by Jimmy Robert, Mark Leckey, Mika Taanila, Imogen Stidworthy, Daria Martin, and Yang Fudong will be shown as pre-feature shorts to new releases like Brokeback Mountain and London-shot Mrs Henderson Presents.

The works will be shown in 20 cinemas in 18 cities around the UK, starting at the Glasgow Film Theatre, on 6 January 2006, followed by Poole Art Centre and FACT Liverpool in February.

The films were commissioned by South West Screen and Film London and produced by LUX and Spacex.

Find out more about A Movie.