Gallery II
***THIS SPECIAL FILM EVENT HAS NOW BEEN RESCHEDULED AND WILL BE HAPPENING IN THE BRADFORD PLAYHOUSE AUDITORIUM IN THE AUTUMN***
EXPERIMENTAL FILM EVENT, CURATED BY WILL ROSE
A late afternoon/early evening of contemporary and historical expanded cinema including the re-staging of works using multiple 16mm projectors and involving performative interventions.
Film, or at least our experience of it, can exist only in the present.
Whether old or new, a film is accountable only to the situation in which it is projected and to the people that have gathered to watch it. With no clear past or future it is a cultural nomad - momentarily activating time and space.
The event will set out to amplify ideas of 'liveness' and 'presentness' inherent in film watching by foregrounding them as curatorial concepts. A series of works by moving-image artists, some already existing as ideas or gestures, others commissioned for the occasion, will be presented in the form of a live film event. The works will be characterized by their refusal and inability to exist in anything but the absolute present - to the extent that they are unrepeatable, entropic and inherently deconstructive. The self- cancelling form of each work will be such that its presentation renders it irrecoverable, never to be seen again.
Situated at the intersection of experimental film, expanded cinema, conceptual art and live-art, the works will fuse the moving image with performance and live intervention. Some of the artists may be present, others may mobilize their ideas through instructions or other means.
Those likely to be included in the event are Morgan Fisher, Sandra Gibson and Louis Recoder and Bob Levene.
- William Rose
William Rose is an independent moving-image curator and projects curator for no.w.here, an artist run project space in London. Prior to this he was programme director at Lumen, a media arts organisation in Leeds, and principal curator of the Evolution festival (2001-7). He has curated screenings and exhibitions for organisations and venues including the Leeds International Film Festival, Whitechapel Art Gallery/Lux, Independent Film Show (Naples), Henry Moore Institute and The British Library. He is currently editing a publication which will bring together the writings and lectures of acclaimed US artist and filmmaker Ken Jacobs.