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 A Lecture Hollis Frampton (read by Emily Wardill) USA, 16mm projector with sound on tape, 1968, 12min Taking the form of a lecture/performance, Frampton analyses the peculiarities of the film medium from the inside-out. Presented here with a revised soundtrack read by filmmaker Emily Wardill.  Pitcher Of Coloured Light Robert Beavers USA, 16mm, 2007, 23 min, colour, sound I have filmed my mother’s house and her garden. The shadows play an essential part in the mixture of loneliness and peace that exists here. The seasons move from the garden into the house, projecting rich diagonals in the early morning or late afternoon. Each shadow is a subtle balance of stillness and movement; it shows the vital instability of space. Its special quality opens a passage to the subjective; a voice within the film speaks to memory. The walls are screens through which I pass to the inhabited privacy. We experience a place through the perspective of where we come from and hear another’s voice through our own acoustic. The sense of place is never separate from the moment. — Robert Beavers  Wounded Kite At 8:05 Stuart Bannister UK, sound only, 2009, 8min A sound work for a cinema recorded on the ground and in the air one windy afternoon in May. A homemade sound feedback system retrofitted to a kite recounts a turbulent journey through the atmosphere in an attempt to remain airborne. |
 Iris Out Simon Payne UK, video, 2008, 10min, colour, sound A video that's composed of single frames from sequences of expanding and contracting irises, reformatted for different aspect ratios. In the middle of the piece there are rows that incorporate nine contrasting sequences, comprising six different colours and tones in alternating combinations. As with my other videos, it’s the relation between the edges of planes and the shape of the screen that I’m interested in. And what’s fascinating to me is the way in which the colour fields are reproduced by the eye and brain, affecting consciousness and perception. — Simon Payne  Last Days In A Lonely Place Phil Solomon USA, video, 2007, 22 min, b/w, sound Solomon has created a sombre elegy for a departed friend from fragments of movie soundtracks and anomalous images liberated from Grand Theft Auto. A soul drifts through unpopulated (virtual) spaces and we see absence. — Mark Webber  Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist Marie Losier USA, 16mm on video, 2008, 26min, colour, sound This is a dream portrait of Tony Conrad [avant-garde filmmaker, minimalist musician/composer, sound artist, teacher, writer] in his studio with costumes and wigs, jumping on beds with Joe Gibbons, playing violin in his home town Buffalo, cooking pickled films, performing at Tonic in NYC, recalling his first hand puppet performances with his mother, his first meeting with Jack Smith and his involvement with Flaming Creatures. 2 years of footage and stories and laughters to share. — Marie Losier |
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