FLAMIN
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Film London Artists' Moving Image Network Bulletin - 27 November 2007
Date posted: 27.11.2007
- Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund – Open For Applications *
- Sick Serena… at the ICA
- Guilty by Nature wins Carolina Herrera Award
- The Ivalo River Delta at Rational Rec
- Cinematic Realities – Group Show, Germany
- Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song Opens in Bristol
- Final Reminder: New Work UK - Call for Curatorial Proposals
- Reminder: UKFC Short Film Completion Fund 2008
- Reminder: 60 Seconds of Fame – Call for Submissions
- Reminder: The Wellcome Trust Arts Awards - Call for Submissions
- Reminder: Film and Video Umbrella – Call for Submissions
- SOS Presents The Soundtrack - August 2008
- Semiconductor's Brilliant Noise in Brighton
- Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund – Open for Applications *
The Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund (FFF) is now open for 2007/2008 applications. The fund aims to support the development of moving image artists' and film-makers' careers, by providing travel grants for attendance at a number of overseas festivals where films have been selected and are in competition.
Deadlines for the fund take place on a monthly basis, the next is 14 December.
For more information and the full list of up-coming deadlines please visit the FFF section of the Film London website or call 020 7613 7696.
- Sick Serena…at the ICA
Emily Wardill's Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supported Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck will be showing at the ICA from 5 December 2007 until 27 January 2008 (note Christmas closing times).
Emily Wardill's latest film takes audiences into dark allegorical scenes depicting religious iconography, outmoded superstition and slapstick comedy.
Sick Serena… is a FLAMIN and Picture This co-production, produced as part of the Bristol Mean Time residency, with support from The Elephant Trust out of the George Melhuish Bequest.
A specially commissioned essay by Ian White, independent curator and writer and Adjunct Film Curator for Whitechapel Gallery, London can also be found via the FLAMIN website.
Full details can be found via the ICA website.
- Guilty by Nature wins Carolina Herrera Award
Joseph Barnett's 2005 LAFVA-funded Guilty by Nature has been awarded the second Carolina Herrera Award for innovation in film. The winner was announced at a recent gala awards ceremony and screening in London attended by the five short listed finalists.
Set on a militant horticultural nursery and shot with extreme close-ups, varied frame rates and an exaggerated soundscape, Guilty by Nature follows the life cycle of a wild and vigorous shrub to explore themes of individuality and persecution.
Visit the FLAMIN website to find out more and read an interview with Joseph Barnett.
- The Ivalo River Delta at Rational Rec
Patrick Beveridge's 2005 LAFVA-funded film The Ivalo River Delta will be showing as part of Rational Rec at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on Tuesday 4 December.
Shot within the Arctic Circle in northern Lapland, the film documents the landscape and lively night sky of an icy wilderness. The Aurora Borealis and other extraordinary phenomena are captured through long exposures and stunning time-lapse photography.
Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion, incorporating sound, music, text, performance and film.
More info via the Rational Rec website.
- Cinematic Realities – Group Show, Germany
Cinematic Realities at Heidelberger Kunstverein in Germany (24 November - 10 February 2008) presents works by artists which focus on and question the narrative and functional structure of the cinema as an institution.
The ten artists participating in the exhibition include previous LAFVA awardees Mark Lewis and Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, as well as Marjolijn Dijkman, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
More information can be found via the Heidelberger Kunstverein website.
- Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song Opens in Bristol
Following his recent show at Matt's Gallery, Michael Curran's 2007 LAFVA-funded Look What They've Done to My Song will be showing at the Arnolfini in Bristol (until 6 January).
Featuring a number of musical performances played out against an improvised theatrical backdrop, the work investigates how music and songs become a means of defining our experiences as we use them to relax or inform our moods and emotions.
More information can be found via the Arnolfini website.
- Final Reminder: New Work UK - Call for Curatorial Proposals
For the screening series New Work UK, LUX and Whitechapel have been inviting individual curators to present programmes of the best of new British work as part of Whitechapel's film programme. Now they are extending this invitation into an open call for curatorial proposals, one of which will be selected for presentation at Whitechapel on 28 February 2008.
Proposals are invited from anyone based in the UK – curators, artists, filmgoers – to develop a programme that will showcase new British artists' moving image work in distinctive and revealing ways.
The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 November.
For more information visit the LUX Calendar.
- Reminder: UKFC Short Film Completion Fund 2008
The UK Film Council 2008 Completion Fund has re-launched and has now been expanded to two calls per year, the first of which is currently open.
Individual film-makers and production companies are invited to apply with films that have been completed to a rough-cut stage or later but lack the funds to finish. The scheme is intended for films with a final running time of up to 10 minutes. Exceptional films of up to 15 minutes might be considered.
Maya Vision International is the managing company responsible for short-listing and selecting the films, in consultation with the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund.
The deadline for the current call is 14 December. A second call for submissions will open in March and close in April 2008.
Full guidelines, forms and more information can be found via the Maya Vision website.
- Reminder: 60 Seconds of Fame – Call for Submissions
60 Seconds of Fame, an innovative short film initiative from the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) in association with Orange, invites budding film-makers to submit a 60 second short film, based on the theme 'unite'.
BAFTA juries will select 15 regional winners, who will receive two tickets to the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 10 February, 2008. The overall winner will be chosen by a BAFTA jury and announced at the ceremony and the winning film will feature as part of the BBC One broadcast of the event.
The deadline for submissions is 4 January 2008.
Visit the 60 Seconds of Fame website for more information.
- Reminder: The Wellcome Trust Arts Awards - Call for Submissions
The Wellcome Trust supports the arts as an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts. All art forms are covered by the programme, including: visual arts, film, photography and digital media.
The Trust invites applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young people. Projects should involve the creation of new artistic work and should have some biomedical scientific input either through a scientist taking on an advisory role or through direct collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to investigate new methods of interdisciplinary working as well as new models of engagement in biomedical science. The next deadline for submissions is Friday 11 January 2008.
For further details, and smaller awards, visit the Wellcome Trust website.
- Reminder: Film and Video Umbrella – Call for Submissions
Film and Video Umbrella curates and produces film, video and new media projects by artists which are commissioned and presented in collaboration with galleries and venues across England.
Artists can submit two types of applications: firstly, Exhibition Proposals from artists who wish to be commissioned to make a new work in film, video or digital media, and secondly Development Proposals from artists wishing to develop ideas or proposals for film, video or digital media works. For this deadline they will consider proposals for the commissioning year 2009 (to be staged from winter 2008 onwards). The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 11 December.
For more information visit the Film and Video Umbrella website.
- Visit the Calls for Submissions page on the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network website for listings of forthcoming deadlines for a range of festivals, funds, residencies and other opportunities open to artists working in the moving image.
- And finally…
- SOS Presents… The Soundtrack - August 2008
The School of Sound proposes to run two practical workshops exploring the soundtrack in fiction film-making. The three-week courses will concentrate on the creation of a soundtrack for a short film, and music composition. The curricula combines the creative decision making that goes into producing a soundtrack with the technical and professional demands of contemporary screen production. Both workshops are hands-on courses aimed at directors, editors, sound editors/designers, composers, music supervisors/producers, artists and anyone who works with sound or music in the screen arts.
Visit the School of Sound website for full details.
- Semiconductor's Brilliant Noise in Brighton
After sifting through the data vaults of solar astronomy during a fellowship at NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley, Brighton based artists Semiconductor have brought together some of the suns finest unseen moments to create an immersive, eleven metre wide moving image installation entitled Brilliant Noise.
Brilliant Noise will be on show at Fabrica in Brighton from 1 December until 13 January 2008, alongside new works Magnetic Movie and Do You Think Science.
More information can be found via the gallery website.
*Event supported or directly run by the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network or Film London
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