FLAMIN
Film London Artists’
Moving Image Network
Film London Artists' Moving Image Network Bulletin - 16 October 2007
Date posted: 16.10.2007
- LAFVA 2008 – Call for Applications *
- LAFVA Information Sessions – Book Your Place Now *
- Deadline at Maureen Paley
- Clio Barnard - Exhibition
- Artists' Film and Video at the London Film Festival
- British Animation Awards 2008 – Call for Entries
- Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund – Open For Applications
- Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song
- Reminder: The A to Z of Clearing Rights – Book Your Place Now *
- Reminder: CAPTURE Bursary
- Reminder: Mark Lewis at BFI Southbank
- Reminder: The Face of Another – Georgina Starr in New York
- Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
- LAFVA 2008 – Call for Applications *
FLAMIN is pleased to announce the return of London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA).
The LAFVA scheme, now in its eighth year, is one of the largest publicly funded award programmes for artists in the UK. Awards are available to London-based artists working in the context of contemporary moving image practice.
Film London is offering awards up to a maximum of £20,000. This year the total fund will be £160,000.
Last year's fund of £160,000 financed twelve innovative projects from a wide range of artists including Marine Hugonnier, Ben Rivers, Anna Lucas and Anja Kirschner. The full list of last year's awardees can be found on the History of LAFVA pages.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Thursday 22 November 2007.
The LAFVA 2008 Application Pack is now available online.
- LAFVA Information Sessions – Book Your Place Now *
A series of LAFVA information sessions will be taking place at the Film London offices during October and November. These events will provide information on the LAFVA fund and application process, general advice on funding opportunities for artist film-makers', tips on putting together applications and will screen previous LAFVA funded work.
The sessions will include a presentation from CAPTURE, the national agency for dance and the moving image, on its current commissioning fund and resources that it provides for moving image artists.
Wednesday 17 October, 4pm - 6pm: FULLY BOOKED
Saturday 3 November, 10am - 12noon: PLACES AVAILABLE
Monday 12 November, 5pm - 7pm: PLACES AVAILABLE
There is no charge for these sessions. Please see the LAFVA page for booking details.
- Deadline at Maureen Paley
Saskia Olde Wolbers' 2007 LAFVA-funded work, Deadline, will be showing at Maureen Paley from 6 October until 11 November in what will be the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery.
In her new video work, the camera traces colourfully patterned snake-like bodies moving across an abstract landscape inspired by African modernist architecture. The narrator recalls an assembly of overheard stories of local legends from a small fishing community in The Gambia.
The Maureen Paley gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday (11am – 6pm) and by appointment. For further information visit the Maureen Paley website.
- Clio Barnard Exhibition
A new solo exhibition of work by Clio Barnard presents recent film and video works, including her 2003 LAFVA-funded Road Race, which explores the transitory nature of semi-legal horse races on motorways. The exhibition, at the Herbert Read Gallery in Canterbury runs from 8 October until 17 November.
Barnard examines the relationship between fiction and documentary, between the imagined and the real, by constructing fictional images around verbatim audio and vica versa, questioning the aspiration of documentary to collapse the distance between reality and representation.
For further information visit the Herbert Read Gallery website.
- Artists' Film and Video at the London Film Festival
The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival's (17 October – 1 November) programme includes a host of artists' film and video work, including a number of FLAMIN supported works.
On Saturday 27 October (4pm, NFT3) Jayne Parker's 2005 LAFVA-funded Catalogue of Birds: Book 3 will be screening as part of Past Imperfect and Patrick Beveridge's LAFVA-funded The Ivalo River Delta will screen on Sunday 28 October (2pm, NFT3). Emily Wardill's Bristol Mean Time project, Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck, will be screened as part of The Anagogic Chamber on Sunday 28 October (9pm, NFT3).
Other festival highlights include James Benning's Casting a Glance, a 30-year history of Robert Smithson's monumental Spiral Jetty and Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic.
On Thursday 18 October and Friday 19 October Trafalgar Square will play host to London Thrills Me, a free Film London-supported event celebrating London as captured on archive films. Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail will be screened with Blue Bottles on the first night, whilst Capital Tales on the second evening will offer a whistle-stop tour across more than 100 years of London on film from 1896 onwards.
For more information visit the LFF website.
- British Animation Awards 2008 – Call for Entries
Held every two years, The British Animation Awards (BAA) covers all aspects of the UK animation scene, from student work to commercials, children's entertainment, short and experimental art films, music videos, new technologies, script-writing and craftsmanship.
Deadline for entries is 30 November 2007. For more information visit the BAA website.
- 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 will take place on a monthly basis, the next is 19 October.
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.
- Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song
Michael Curran's 2007 LAFVA-funded Look What They've Done to My Song will be showing at Matt's Gallery from 19 September until 18 November in what will be Curran's first solo exhibition in London.
Look What They've Done to My Song is a site-specific installation exploring filmed spectacle, performance and the dynamic that is created between a sculptural composition and video projection.
Three songs; 'The Devil is Afraid of Music'; 'Look What They Done to My Song' and 'How does it Feel to Feel?' were performed and filmed in the exhibition space of Matt's Gallery making it into an open recording session and film set for a three-day period.
For more information visit the Matt's Gallery website.
- Reminder: The A to Z of Clearing Rights – Book Your Place Now *
On Wednesday 14 November (6pm – 9pm) FLAMIN and Own It will present a free seminar outlining issues surrounding rights clearance for artists working within the moving image.
What are the implications if you don't clear pieces of archive or music? Can you still submit to film festivals? What happens if you get cinema distribution or a broadcaster wants to buy your film? Or can you protect your film content from other people stealing your ideas?
This event for artist film-makers will explain the process of clearing rights such as: archive, music, individuals, licences as well as the organisations you will have to approach. We'll cut through the jargon and have case studies who've been through the process to answer your questions.
For more information and book visit the Own It website.
- Reminder: CAPTURE Bursary
CAPTURE is the national strategic agency for dance and the moving image. As part of CAPTURE's sector support programme, it is offering a bursary of up to £500 to an artist, producer or curator working in dance and the moving image, toward the costs of attending one of the following three upcoming events:
> Dance screen The Hague 2007, the 11th international festival and competition for dance films and videos (15 - 18 November 2007)
> The second international Opensource: {Videodance} symposium, Findhorn, Scotland (20 - 24 November 2007)
> South East Dance's Dance for Camera Festival 2007 (30 November - 2 December 2007)
The deadline for applications is 19 October. For details of how to apply email: admin@capturenet.org.uk
- Reminder: Mark Lewis at BFI Southbank
Mark Lewis' first solo show in London opened at BFI Southbank's new gallery space on 14 September and includes Lewis' 2005 LAFVA-funded work Rear Projection (Molly Parker).
The exhibition includes three recent films shot on 35mm and transferred to High Definition. Other works on show will include Downtown: Tilt, Zoom, Pan (2005) and Isosceles (2007), a work recently shot in Smithfield, London and premiering at BFI Southbank.
Rear Projection (Molly Parker) investigates the idea of portraiture in film in relation to landscape images. Shot in Lewis' lush, pictorial style, the footage of a desolate Canadian landscape is combined with a filmed 'portrait' of the actress Molly Parker by using the traditional method of rear projection, a technique commonly used in films up to the 70s to shoot live action against a backdrop of seemingly moving images.
The exhibition runs until 11 November.
For more information visit the BFI Southbank website.
- Reminder: The Face of Another – Georgina Starr in New York
Georgina Starr's 2006 LAFVA-funded Theda will be showing at Tracy Williams Ltd. in New York as part of Starr's new solo exhibition, The Face of Another (14 September - 27 October).
In this exhibition, Starr focuses on the nature of performing and performance in the public and private arena. After spending a year revisiting the lost film performances of silent screen actress Theda Bara, Starr began to reflect on her own performances in her work, in her 'real' life, and also those of her mother which absorbed her as a child growing up.
Using Kobo Abe's 1960's novel 'The Face of Another' as a guide, her exhibition like Abe's book is divided into chapters, The Grey Room, The White Room and The Black Room.
For further information on The Face of Another visit the Tracy Williams Ltd. 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…
Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
To celebrate the launch of Duncan Reekie's new book Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema, the Horse Hospital is hosting a night of film and video from the London underground cinema club scene. The event, which takes place on Thursday 18 October (7.30pm till late), will feature optic gems from the NO-BILITY of the NO-WAVE, rare documentary footage of the birth of the movement, live performance, kaleidoscopic visuals and mystery guests.
For more information on the event visit the Horse Hospital website.
* Event supported or directly run by the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network.
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