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Light Reading series 10: Films by Sarah Pucill

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 05/03/2010 - 09:03
Light Reading series 10: Films by Sarah Pucill
23 March 2010, at 7pm
no.w.here
3rd Floor, 316–318 Bethnal Green Road
Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance / £3 students or no.w.here members

A screening of recent films by Sarah Pucill. The filmmaker will then be in discussion with Dr Margherita Sprio, University of Essex.

The most recent themes in Pucill’s work have focussed on the relationship between an exposing of the film making process alongside a performance in front of the camera. The discussion will explore three of her most recent films, Taking My Skin (16mm, B+W, 35min, 2006), Blind Light (16mm, Col, 21mins, 2007) and Fall In Frame, (16mm, 18mins, 2009). Each film examines the power of the gaze between a mother and daughter (TMS), the sky (BL) and in a mirror (FIF).

Pucill has been making films for 20 years. Her films have been screened in art galleries and at film festivals and have received funding from the Arts Council, The AHRC, and London Production Fund. Taking My Skin won the Marion McMahon award at Images Festival, Toronto 2007 and was screened in New Jersey University Gallery in ‘Mother Cuts’ and Fieldgate Gallery London. Blind Light was screened at European Media Art Festival at Aurora Festival, Norwich, and at the Louise Blouin Gallery in 2008. Fall in Frame was screened at Montreal Festival of New Cinema in 2009. A retrospective of her films premiered Fall In Frame on a US tour in 2009 at venues including Anthology Film Archives, NY, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, and LA Film Forum.

Dr Margherita Sprio is currently a lecturer in Art History and Film in the Department of Art History and Theory at University of Essex. After studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths and The Slade School of Fine Art, all of Dr Sprio’s research interests have been driven by issues of difference across the fields of film/screen-based media and contemporary art practice. After working internationally as a practicing artist, she moved into teaching within an Art History/Theory and Film Studies context. She is currently writing a manuscript called Contemporary Art and Film that explores the continued relationship between art and film history and it addresses how film makers such as Sarah Pucill and John Maybury, (amongst others) navigate their own practice in relation to contemporary debates about visual culture.

Telephone: 02077294494
Email: james.holcombe |at| no-w-here.org.uk
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Light Reading Series 9: The Wooden Lightbox

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 12/11/2009 - 10:44
Light Reading Series 9
The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art Of Seeing
Friday 20 November 2009, at 7pm
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG

Light Reading’s ninth series continues with a special performance and screening by Canadian artist and filmmaker Alex Mackenzie. Using a homemade, hand cranked projector and a series of hand processed films, the piece forms part of an ongoing exploration into the experiential potential of the cinematic apparatus and the materiality of film. THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX will be performed after Mackenzie’s day workshop at no.w.here on the techniques of handmade film.

THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX is both an archaic and a contemporary investigation into an immersive encounter with the moving image, employing deconstructive and reconstructive methods that draw out the potential for various contemporary, expanded experiences of a cinema of illusions that is created through the apparatus and in the hand making of the image. THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX is performed live with a hand-cranked 16mm projector built and assembled from various relic 16mm projector and rewind parts and framed in a wooden box. Ten “chapters” are presented over the course of 4 reels. Film speed is varied manually by cranking more quickly or more slowly, while the direction of the action is controlled by winding forwards and backwards. The Wooden Lightbox is an ongoing work in progress, an assembly of images entirely hand processed and contact printed, transforming and developing as new materials are added and deleted.

THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX had its world premiere at Victoria’s Anti-Matter Underground Film Festival, Canada and has been screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Lightcone (Scratch Projections) Paris, le 102 Grenoble, (k-raa-k)3 festival Brussels, Grand-Guignol Lyon, WNDX festival of film and video art Winnipeg, Canada, Struts Gallery Sackville, Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Canada and is currently being performed across the UK and most recently in Toronto, Canada in 2009.

Alex MacKenzie is a media artist working in film, video, light projection and performance. He has worked with a variety of independent film organizations over the past 15 years including Mainfilm, Pacific Cinematheque, Cineworks, and Doxa. He was the founder and director of The Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, The Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival, and currently works as an independent curator, graphic designer and writer.

Light Reading is an ongoing series of critical dialogues that engage artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist’s body of work. To be included on the mailing list for future events, please contact: <[email protected]>. Places are limited so booking is essential.

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no.w.here
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Nearest Tube / Train: Bethnal Green

Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance / £3 members & students
Telephone: 020 7729 4494
Email: [email protected]
Places are limited so booking is essential
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Light Reading Series 9: James Holcombe & Adam Asnan with Steven Ball

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 22/10/2009 - 07:35
James Holcombe & Adam Asnan with Steven Ball
London Light Reading
Wednesday 28 October 2009, at 7pm

Light Reading’s ninth series continues with a screening of recent works by artist James Holcombe performed collaboratively with artist Adam Asnan. no.w.here’s project space will be transformed into an intimately immersive space where the works will use its potential to construct an encounter with them as well as enabling critical debate and discussion. Holcombe will present seven works including LEY FARM (2001-2009), CHAMPION FIX (2009), LOMO/JOBO (2009), GRIM’S DYKE 2 (2008), GRAIN TOWER (2006-2007), A PECK OF DUST (2006-2008) and HANGER LANE HERACLEUM MANTEGAZZIANUM (2001-2004). Artist Steven Ball has been invited to respond to the works; to question and provoke dialogue and discussion that will form a bridge between an encounter with the works and a critical dialogue with the audience.
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Light Reading Series 9: After Amerika

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 22/09/2009 - 05:16
Light Reading Series 9: After Amerika
Wednesday 30 September 2009, at 7pm
London Light Reading
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG

In a Light Reading event in October 2007 the Berlin-based curator Marcel Schwierin conversed publicly with Tate Modern curator Stuart Comer on the image of the United States of America after the Iraq war. One outcome of this fruitful discussion was the Werkleitz Festival AMERIKA which happened in 2008 in Halle in East Germany.
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