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1 June 2008 Hyde Park Picture House Brudenell Road Leeds Doors: 1.30pm / £4.50/3.50		Market Street Tomonari Nishikawa 16mm, USA/Japan, 2005, silent, 5mins. “I started working on this project for an event, 'A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005: An Outdoor Centennial Celebration', sponsored by the Exploratorium, a museum in San Francisco. As I am interested in the projection apparatus and human visual perception, I single-framed and carefully juxtaposed images on Market Street, in order to create certain happenings on the screen. The result may look abstract, yet representative enough to show the characteristics of the street. For sound, I will record the outdoor event, which will take place at the east end of Market Street, with a shotgun microphone, while this film is being projected as a silent film.”—Tomonari Nishikawa www.tomonarinishikawa.com George Luke Fowler UK, 2008, video, sound, 4mins. Images and sounds recorded in St. Goerge's X, Glasgow, are arranged, cut and re-composed with curiosity and musicality. A sensitive portrait of the everyday in a place unknown. – William Rose Principle 4 Botborg Australia, DVD, colour, sound, 5mins. Botborg present live audiovisual performances using a complex feedback system consisting of audio and video mixers, screens and cameras. www.botborg.com Jaye Lady Jaye Marie Losier 2008, video, colour, sound, 17mins. A documentary-in-progress in celebration of the life of Lady Jaye, the partner of ex-Throbbing Gristle frontman Genesis P-Orridge and their pandrogenic project. Ex-Throbbing Gristle front man Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye are the subjects of Marie Losier’s diary/documentary, which pursues the pandrogynous partners at home, visiting MoMA’s Dada exhibition, and on tour with Thee Majesty and Throbbing Gristle. A work-in-progress in celebration of the life of Lady Jaye, who died suddenly on 9 October 2007. http://marielosier.net Basket Nicky Hamlyn UK, 9mins. Characteristic of Nicky Hamlyn's work, Basket is a transformative representation of an everyday object. A yellow clothes peg basket hanging on a washing line moves steadily in the wind, the permutations of it twists and turns being optically intensified by the low resolution camera it was recorded on. – William Rose		Distant Things Katy Woods 2006, video, silent, 10 mins. In her film Distant Things Katy Woods animates micro film by standing a video camera in front of the monitor and speedily flicking through thousands of images. She then pauses for a few seconds resting on an image she likes the look of. Woods has an eye for a satisfying image. She loves a bird. Images of birds are paused at frequently. In a world saturated with visual images How does one make a choice? Ones own intuition seems as successful as any. The Harbour Doubts Luke Fowler UK, 2007, video, sound, 6 mins. A sketch of a place steeped in industrial past and present. Inquisitive and restless images recorded somewhere in Europe are composed, processed, and interwoven with surging and mechanised soundtrack. – William Rose Black and White Trypps No. 4 Ben Russel 16mm, USA, 2008, b/w, sound, 10 mins. Using a 35mm strip of picture slug featuring the deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorscharch assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes. – Ben Russell www.dimeshow.com Nymph Ken Jacobs USA, 2007, sound, 2 mins. “The belle of the ball surrounded by suitors. A vigorous 3-D that can be seen without special spectacles and even by the one-eyed” – Ken Jacobs. All Through the Night Michael Robinson 2007, video, sound, 4 mins. A charred visitation with an icy language of control. There is no room for love. – Michael Robinson