A number of LAFVA-funded works are currently on show in exhibitions across London and beyond, including new and recently completed films by Sakia Olde Wolblers (until 11 Nov), Mark Lewis (until 11 Nov), Michael Curran (until 18 Nov) and Clio Barnard (until 17 Nov).

• 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, Deadline, 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.
  
  …So here I am in a vacuum-sealed air-conditioned airport. In front of a smiling stranger that yet looks so familiar. Do I see rightly under his arm a book, with on the cover a photograph of father’s bush-taxi? And the title; Deadline, by Lamin the first Bojang. Underneath in smaller italic letters a quote I think.  “Do we all have journeys mapped out in our central nervous systems like migrating birds? It seems the only way to account for our insane restlessness.”
  
  And in even smaller letters, “The remarkable story of an epic voyage undertaken by a man in his desire to travel away from the everyday squalor of his region, that sees him drive a bush taxi from his native Gambia to an airport in Nigeria in a failed attempt to catch a plane to Greece. He spends sixteen months on the road working his way through eight West African countries.” Your journey to an airport will never seem that long again...
  
  Saskia Olde Wolbers has had recent solo exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal in 2007 and The Falling Eye, at the Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, in 2006. Her work was also shown in The Plain of Heaven on the High Line in New York, organised by Creative Time in 2005. She will be included in the forthcoming exhibition, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
  
  The Maureen Paley gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday (11am – 6pm) and by appointment. For further information visit the Maureen Paley website.
• Mark Lewis’ first solo show in London opens at BFI Southbank’s new gallery space on 14 September and will include his 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 is free and runs from 14 September until 11 November.
  
  For more information visit the BFI Southbank website.
• 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 2007 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.
  
  Through the subsequent editing process the material is subjected to radical temporal shifts in the form of loops, overlays, speeding, slowing and repetition creating a series of rhythms, counterpoints and silences, all exploring the construction of song and narrative expectation forming a drama (or crisis) of performance. The songs themselves are literally at stake, their survival questioned through these processes of translation.
  
  The overall feeling is that of a séance in which the enquiry is - what have they done to my song?
  
  This exhibition is accompanied by a free booklet published by Matt's Gallery. The film will subsequently tour to the Arnolfini, Bristol.
  
  For more information visit the Matt’s Gallery website.
• 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 visa versa, questioning the aspiration of documentary to collapse the distance between reality and representation.
  
  
  "Clio Barnard's work explores what is involved in our return and repeating, and the remembering this provokes is an emotional as well as cognitive encounter. It is 'found' material that is central to these works; they document a reality, but at the same time address the status of documentary's account of its recording of reality."
                                                                                                                                      Elizabeth Cowie, 2007
  
  Clio Barnard is an artist film-maker, whose work has shown in cinemas, international film festivals and galleries, including Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Her work has screened on Channel 4 and had several international broadcasts. Barnard was one of the winners of the 2005 Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. In 2007 she was awarded a major commission through Art Angel, which will involve an ambitious live performance and feature-length film.
  
  For further information visit the Herbert Read Gallery website.