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Previous events
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Cinestar at Cornwall Film Festival
Film and Light in Redruth 9-14th November 2015 |
Loop the Loop Redruth with Cornwall Libraries
Showing of work by participants in the Drawing and Writing on Film workshops (March 2015)
Loop the Loop St Ives with Cornwall Libraries
Curation and showing of Silence at the Library (2 weeks, June 2014) in participation with no.w.here
Showing of work by participants in the Drawing and Writing on Film workshops (June 2014)
Showing of work by participants in the Drawing and Writing on Film workshops (March 2015)
Loop the Loop St Ives with Cornwall Libraries
Curation and showing of Silence at the Library (2 weeks, June 2014) in participation with no.w.here
Showing of work by participants in the Drawing and Writing on Film workshops (June 2014)
16mm Artists' Film Screening Event
A collaboration between no.w.here, London and Cinestar, Cornwall
A series of short films curated by James Holcombe for no.w.here and Jacqui Knight for Cinestar
Shown from original 16mm prints
Friday 27th September 2013
8pm
The Island Centre, St Ives (next to the Island CarPark)
£5 on the door
If you want a chair, come early
BYO drinks
A collaboration between no.w.here, London and Cinestar, Cornwall
A series of short films curated by James Holcombe for no.w.here and Jacqui Knight for Cinestar
Shown from original 16mm prints
Friday 27th September 2013
8pm
The Island Centre, St Ives (next to the Island CarPark)
£5 on the door
If you want a chair, come early
BYO drinks
Confirmed works:
Karel Doing
Electricity is Life!
Energy Energy
16mm black & white 7 minutes 1999
Directed by Karel Doing
Music by Pierre Bastien
Found-footage film, compiled from industrial, instructional and promotional films from the first half of the twentieth century, presenting progressive thought and technological development. Rotations, transportation, resources; a feast of technological inventions. This idyll is disturbed by the destructive power of the human mind and the greedy nature of the status quo.
James Holcombe
A Peck of Dust
16mm black and white film 10 mins 2007
Image: James Holcombe. Original sound re-mastered by Adam Asnan
A film born of feelings of frustration, imbued with failure, and to date the only optical sound film I have ever made. Two pieces of found footage purchased at a car boot fair (one a travelogue focusing on American Gravestone inscriptions of the founding fathers, the other a loop of a rooster culled from Aesop’s Fable of the Fox and the Rooster) are deconstructed then re-constructed using a 16mm splicer. The graveyard film being originally 24 scenes long, was cut so that scene 24 lasts 24 frames, and so on down to scene one lasting a single frame. As each scene runs out of film, a frame of rooster footage in negative is inserted. The film gradually shifts from shots of gravestones to subliminal shots of the rooster until this finally becomes the dominant image. An absurdist annoying film filled with unintentional error and hopefully some structuralist materialist humour.
Sally Golding
Composted Memorial
10 minutes
Slivers of someone else’s silver small-screen memory, evocations and apparitions unknitted by the passage of time. A photo-sonic film where images literally generate the experimental noise soundtrack. Composed entirely in the darkroom, 9.5mm vintage home movies from Brisbane were contact printed alongside reproduced waveforms of cicadas and jazz scores. A wonky filmic resurrection, as a cine-essay dissolving in destructive magic.
Mark Jenkins
If this is No-one's then it's Ours
16mm film shown digitally, 12mins 39 secs
'If this is No-one's then it's Ours' is a study of perceived dereliction in public space when it is between uses, shot on out of date film stocks and hand-processed in buckets.
Michael Punt
Crossing the Styx (started 1984)
approx. 6 mins
Crossing the Styx was started as a film project in 1984. Like all my films it is unfinished. It has never been publicly projected. A U-Matic version of the film with a soundtrack was shown at Kettles Yard in Cambridge as part of an exhibition based on Death in the late 1980s. The film was shot, processed, edited and projected in my kitchen. As with all the films that I have made, this one is concerned with understanding how films have meaning and how it is possible to make a film that refuses narrative coherence and still retains, at least in some readings, a degree of intention. In particular Crossing the Styx embraces the mediation and
remediation of filmed materials in television formats and presents them as film in the material sense in order to recover the images as independent of the narrative apparatus. It is intended to sit between worlds at a moment of unknowable change. This was a politically informed set of judgements as was the choice of the method of production. The version presented here is silent and can be difficult to endure and I am grateful for your time.
Tony Hill
Expanded Movie
16mm, 12 mins, 1990
An experimental anamorphic film with optically squashed and squeezed images which raises some questions about the perception of shapes. From the longest cow to the shortest car, the film contains bizarre and sometimes hilarious images. It weaves a path between home, street and playground, finally meeting with its own musical ending.
Broadcast by Canal Plus in France. Screened at many International Film Festivals.
Downside Up
16mm, 17 mins, 1984
A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits places, objects, people and events. The observations gradually speed up to reveal a double sided ground flipping like a tossed coin, then slow again to oscillate about the earths edge.
Best Experimental Film at Melbourne Film Festival and Audience Prize at Hamburg Short Film Festival.
Screened at many other International Film Festivals. Broadcast on TV in Holland, Germany, France and by Channel 4 in the UK.
Karel Doing
Electricity is Life!
Energy Energy
16mm black & white 7 minutes 1999
Directed by Karel Doing
Music by Pierre Bastien
Found-footage film, compiled from industrial, instructional and promotional films from the first half of the twentieth century, presenting progressive thought and technological development. Rotations, transportation, resources; a feast of technological inventions. This idyll is disturbed by the destructive power of the human mind and the greedy nature of the status quo.
James Holcombe
A Peck of Dust
16mm black and white film 10 mins 2007
Image: James Holcombe. Original sound re-mastered by Adam Asnan
A film born of feelings of frustration, imbued with failure, and to date the only optical sound film I have ever made. Two pieces of found footage purchased at a car boot fair (one a travelogue focusing on American Gravestone inscriptions of the founding fathers, the other a loop of a rooster culled from Aesop’s Fable of the Fox and the Rooster) are deconstructed then re-constructed using a 16mm splicer. The graveyard film being originally 24 scenes long, was cut so that scene 24 lasts 24 frames, and so on down to scene one lasting a single frame. As each scene runs out of film, a frame of rooster footage in negative is inserted. The film gradually shifts from shots of gravestones to subliminal shots of the rooster until this finally becomes the dominant image. An absurdist annoying film filled with unintentional error and hopefully some structuralist materialist humour.
Sally Golding
Composted Memorial
10 minutes
Slivers of someone else’s silver small-screen memory, evocations and apparitions unknitted by the passage of time. A photo-sonic film where images literally generate the experimental noise soundtrack. Composed entirely in the darkroom, 9.5mm vintage home movies from Brisbane were contact printed alongside reproduced waveforms of cicadas and jazz scores. A wonky filmic resurrection, as a cine-essay dissolving in destructive magic.
Mark Jenkins
If this is No-one's then it's Ours
16mm film shown digitally, 12mins 39 secs
'If this is No-one's then it's Ours' is a study of perceived dereliction in public space when it is between uses, shot on out of date film stocks and hand-processed in buckets.
Michael Punt
Crossing the Styx (started 1984)
approx. 6 mins
Crossing the Styx was started as a film project in 1984. Like all my films it is unfinished. It has never been publicly projected. A U-Matic version of the film with a soundtrack was shown at Kettles Yard in Cambridge as part of an exhibition based on Death in the late 1980s. The film was shot, processed, edited and projected in my kitchen. As with all the films that I have made, this one is concerned with understanding how films have meaning and how it is possible to make a film that refuses narrative coherence and still retains, at least in some readings, a degree of intention. In particular Crossing the Styx embraces the mediation and
remediation of filmed materials in television formats and presents them as film in the material sense in order to recover the images as independent of the narrative apparatus. It is intended to sit between worlds at a moment of unknowable change. This was a politically informed set of judgements as was the choice of the method of production. The version presented here is silent and can be difficult to endure and I am grateful for your time.
Tony Hill
Expanded Movie
16mm, 12 mins, 1990
An experimental anamorphic film with optically squashed and squeezed images which raises some questions about the perception of shapes. From the longest cow to the shortest car, the film contains bizarre and sometimes hilarious images. It weaves a path between home, street and playground, finally meeting with its own musical ending.
Broadcast by Canal Plus in France. Screened at many International Film Festivals.
Downside Up
16mm, 17 mins, 1984
A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits places, objects, people and events. The observations gradually speed up to reveal a double sided ground flipping like a tossed coin, then slow again to oscillate about the earths edge.
Best Experimental Film at Melbourne Film Festival and Audience Prize at Hamburg Short Film Festival.
Screened at many other International Film Festivals. Broadcast on TV in Holland, Germany, France and by Channel 4 in the UK.
