• Art Factor: Suki Chan
• FLAMIN Artists' Exhibitions, Screenings and Awards
• New Look BBC Film Network
• Harun Farocki Retrospective
• Filmarmalade: Call for Works
• Cove Park Residency 2010
• World Premiere of Sara Preibsch's White Shoe Station
• Reminder: Stephen Sutcliffe at Cubitt Gallery
• Reminder: Ed Ruscha Film Challenge
• Latest from tank.tv
  
  

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• Art Factor: Suki Chan
  
  Following a line of reality TV talent shows championing the brightest young things from cooks to pop stars, the popular television format has now turned its attention to contemporary art with School of Saatchi, a new BBC series showcasing the most promising contemporary artists working today.
  
  FLAMIN-supported artist Suki Chan, whose 2007 LAFVA-funded film Interval II is featured in the programme, is one of 6 artists selected to compete for the chance to receive patronage from Britart guru and collector Charles Saatchi.
  
  The winning artists will be included in Saatchi's next major exhibition, Newspeak: British Art Now, at the Hermitage Gallery in St Petersburg and be provided with their own studio for three years.
  
  School of Saatchi is shown on Mondays (9pm) on BBC 2.
  
  View an extract from Suki Chan's LAFVA-funded Interval II via the FLAMIN Showcase.  
• FLAMIN Artists' Exhibitions, Screenings and Awards
  
  Ben Rivers' 2007 LAFVA-funded film Origin of the Species is currently showing at Picture This, Bristol, alongside the first part of Rivers' new Animate commission Slow Action (until 5 December).
  
  Camera and Calisthenics, an exhibition that brings together FLAMIN-supported artist Lynne Marsh's two latest video installations (Stadium 2008 and Camera Opera 2008) will be on show at Danielle Arnaud (until 13 December).
  
  Kutluğ Ataman's 2004 LAFVA-funded film Küba will be showing at Museum Ludwig in Germany (until 17 January).
  
  Previous LAFVA awardee Sarah Miles' film Drum and Bass will be on show at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle (until 24 January).
  
  Spacex in Exeter will host a solo exhibition by FLAMIN-supported artist Emily Wardill, from 12 December until 20 February, which will include her new film Game Keepers Without Game.  
• New Look BBC Film Network
  
  The BBC Film Network has recently re-launched its website. As well as a new layout, the site features improved streaming quality and an abundance of new features.
  
  The BBC Film Network offers film-makers the chance to showcase their work to a wide audience and receive feedback from the Network's panel of industry professionals.
  
  Films uploaded to the site are organised by genre, which includes a category for artists' moving image. Works currently available to view include films by FLAMIN-supported film-makers: Joseph Barnett; Joe King; and Max Hattler.
  
  For more information and to view the films visit the BBC Film Network.  
• Harun Farocki Retrospective
  
  Tate Modern is currently hosting a series of screenings of work by German film-maker Harun Farocki. The screenings, which run until Sunday 6 December, mark the first major UK retrospective of Farocki's work and coincide with the artist's current exhibition at the Raven Row Gallery (until 7 February).
  
  Harun Farocki is one of Germany's most respected film-makers, artists and writers. His essay films question the production and perception of images, decoding the medium of film and examining how audiovisual culture relates to politics, technology and war.
  
  The Raven Row exhibition features nine video installations, from Farocki's first two-screen project Interface (1995) to Immersion (2009), about the use of virtual reality in the treatment of traumatised US soldiers following the occupation of Iraq.
  
  Visit the Raven Row website for more information.  
• Filmarmalade: Call for Works
  
  Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, are inviting artist film-makers to submit works for publication in their 2010 artists film and video DVD series.
  
  Every year Marmalade publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD includes one film only and is accompanied by a specially filmed interview with the artist.
  
  Please send film or video works on PAL or NTSC DVD for consideration to: Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA, United Kingdom. The deadline for submissions is 30 March 2010.
  
  Visit the Filmarmalade website for more information.  
• Cove Park Residency 2010
  
  Applications are now open for the Cove Park Residency, a three-month visual arts residency based in Scotland, which will take place between 3 May and 30 July 2010.
  
  The residency provides the time and support for an artist to focus exclusively on their own practice and ideas and is open to national and international visual artists. Successful applicants will receive a research/materials allowance, artist's fee, self-catering accommodation, private studio and access to a workshop, library and IT/computer facilities.
  
  The deadline for applications is 29 January 2010.
  
  For more information and details of how to apply, visit the Cove Park website.  
• World Premiere of Sara Preibsch's White Shoe Station
  
  Filmarmalade will present the world premiere of Sara Preibsch's 2008 LAFVA-funded film White Shoe Station on 17 December (6.30pm) at the IMT Gallery.
  
  Sara Preibsch's White Shoe Station is inspired by the story of the 'Piano Man', an amnesic who was found wandering on a beach in Sussex in 2005. The film combines a monologue by the writer Tilman Rammstedt and music by the composer Avi Tchamni, which create a meditative audio visual elegy that traces the breakdown of a man who no longer wants to recall or be called.
  
  This event will also includes screenings of Preibsch's previous film works, Late Birds and The Beekeeper, as well as a round table discussion with the artist and critic Andrew Fisher (co editor of the journal Philosophy of Photography), Gordon Shrigley (Filmarmalade) and the artist Julia Dogra-Brazell.
  
  Full details can be found via the IMT Gallery website.  
• Reminder: Stephen Sutcliffe at Cubitt Gallery
  
  Cubitt Gallery presents a solo show of new work by artist and film-maker Stephen Sutcliffe, until 10 January.
  
  Shortlisted for this year's Jarman Award, Stephen Sutcliffe's work draws upon a personal archive of broadcast material and printed ephemera. Recordings made from the television or radio, clippings from newspapers or books are run together to contradict each other or find an unlikely common ground. His short films often employ several sources simultaneously, obscuring part of the footage or layering soundtracks to undermine the integrity of the original and instill a notion of doubt.
  
  For his solo exhibition at Cubitt, Sutcliffe has developed a multi-channel video piece that will be shown alongside a series of wall drawings based upon comic illustrations collected from books and magazines.
  
  On Wednesday 9 December (6.30pm), Tate Modern's Starr Auditorium will host a screening of Sutcliffe's recently completed film Despair (2009).
  
  For further information visit the Cubitt website.  
• Reminder: Ed Ruscha Film Challenge
  
  To celebrate its current exhibition, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Hayward Gallery is holding an open competition to see who can make the best 30-second film about the exhibition. They are looking for inventive films that can quickly convey the spirit and look of Ruscha's work. Along with top prizes of a Canon HDV Camcorder and a handy pocket-sized Flip Ultra camcorder, the winning entries will also be shown at Hayward Gallery.
  
  For more information please email ruschafilm@gmx.com with your contact details to be sent a detailed brief and arrange a time for you to film in the gallery.  
• 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…  
• Latest from tank.tv
  
  On Friday 11 December (7pm) at Tate Modern's Starr Auditorium (http://www.tate.org.uk/modern), tank.tv presents From John to Sebastian, a screening of work by artists who have been featured on tank.tv throughout 2009 Featuring several new productions, the screening will include works by: John Bock; Alice Anderson; Thomas Hirschhorn; Jean-Charles Hue; Lisa Oppenheim; Steve Reinke; Michael Robinson; Mark Aerial Waller; and Sebastian Buerkner.
  
  tank.tv's latest online exhibition (until 15 December) brings together a selection of films by FLAMIN-supported artist  Mark Aerial Waller.
  
  To view the work visit: http://www.tank.tv  

* Event supported or directly run by the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network or Film London