The latest DVD release from Filmarmalade brings together a selection of recent contemporary artists’ film and video, including work by LAFVA awardees Sara Preibsch and Karen Mirza and Brad Butler.

The Beekeeper by Sara Preibsch, records a few moments in the later life of the beekeeper Helmut Preibsch at his home in Stockholm. Within this work Preibsch expertly manoeuvres between an exposé of his experiences as a young and impressionable protégé of the Nazi regime and his now seemingly idyllic life in Sweden, where he tends, ruminates and writes on the life of bees.

Mirza and Butler’s Where A Straight Line Meets A Curve, first began as a visual transcription of the early feminist novel Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which through the process of collaboration with the sound artist David Cunningham, developed into an epic meditation on the nature of pictorial space within experimental film.

This year’s Filmarmalade compilation also includes works by the artists Claudia Joskowicz, Patricia Shrigley and Julia Dogra-Brazell, as well as specially commissioned extended interview featurette with the artists.

Filmarmalade 2008 artists’ film and video DVD series are available at the ICA bookshop.

More information can be found via the Filmarmalade website.