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Concrete Futures

By Anonymous on Tue, 28/02/2017 - 18:44

Presented by Sheffield Fringe Concrete Futures brings together films that deal with fiction and imagination, inviting encounters with speculative futures, which are nonetheless grafted onto the present, ‘documentary’ moment that haunts them. Moreover, through the use of images as documents and as drivers of the imagination, Serbian, Angolan and Spanish cityscapes are connected in a type of speculative haunting.

Dates:
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Sheffield Fringe: Open call for artists' film

By Sheffield Fringe on Tue, 24/11/2015 - 04:11

Sheffield Fringe is now open for artists’ moving image submissions for our 2016 edition, starting at Bloc Projects gallery, Sheffield, in June 2016, with a touring schedule to follow. DL 25th January 2016

Dates:
Monday, January 25, 2016 (All day)
Kiss me, gentlemen - In Pursuit of Realness

By Sheffield Fringe on Sat, 15/08/2015 - 20:13

In one way or another all the films in this programme deal with the mechanisms and technologies of entrapment: the destitute body, the incarcerated body, the body as a self-replicating system, bodies of soldiers performing military rituals, Greek mythology made contemporary through performative acts of defiance. Strategies in the pursuit of ‘realness’ range from injecting humour; others incite horror, follow a performative impulse, or straddle precariously on the ethical tightrope of representation. All point powerfully towards the condition of embodied subjects that have become specular, schizoid, internally disjointed.

In attendance: filmmaker Chelsea Knight, and Jess Wilcox, curator at the Brooklyn Museum. With films by Alexander Lorenz, Nelmarie du Preez, Sirah Foighel, Daniel Mann, Eitan Efrat, Miranda Pennell, Chelsea Knight, Michel Wenzer, Yaron Lapid, Elise Rasmussen.

Dates:
Friday, September 4, 2015 - 19:30 to 21:30
Venue:
UnionDocs - New York, United States
Sheffield Fringe 2014

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 19/05/2014 - 03:17

Film at the intersection of art and documentary

This year’s extended edition of Sheffield Fringe (June 6-14) considers the relationship between aesthetics and emergency politics, manifested as experimental narratives. Encountering both domestic and institutional arrangements, cultural conditioning, and national political milieux, the ethics of artistic agency and representation are brought into question as filmmakers cross-examine their chosen subjects from many angles. Improvisation may inform both subject matter and approach, with egos incisively and humorously dismantled; the specifics of a given place or circumstance may be scrutinized. The films, performances, and discussions that make up Sheffield Fringe 2014 are by turns playful and unsettling, with monologue emerging as a strategy for preservation, and dialogue as the option to move things forward into the future.

Dates:
Friday, June 6, 2014 (All day) to Saturday, June 14, 2014 (All day)
Venue:
Bloc Projects - Sheffield, United Kingdom
Sheffield Fringe: Write after reading

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 30/03/2014 - 09:41

The shifting physicality of the written word in the age of digital surveillance continuously warps and renegotiates notions of the personal and the political throughout this selection of films. Personal footage and self-interrogation are re-appropriated in narratives that blur the lines between documentary, manifesto and fiction.

With 40 years between them, John Latham’s Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971) and Andrew Norman Wilson’s Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011) both interrogate the evolving physicality and accessibility of the written word. Helen Benigson’s The Future Queen of the Screen (2011) starts with an old-fashioned, echoing keyboard clang, never letting go of the seductive tactility of the digital interface. Equal parts futuristic dystopia and childhood holiday nostalgia, Daniel Mann’s Future Diaries (2011) creates an improbably seamless experiment in narrative dissonance from the artist’s father’s Hi-8 family video archive.

A discussion will follow the screening.

With thanks to Openvizor, LUX, and Angus-Hughes Gallery.

Dates:
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 19:00 to Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 18:55
Venue:
Hackney Picturehouse - London, United Kingdom
Sheffield Fringe - Artists' Moving Image Call

By Sheffield Fringe on Fri, 20/12/2013 - 12:03

Sheffield Fringe is now open for artists’ moving image submissions for our 2014 edition, starting at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, in June 2014. We are interested in single-channel works that inspire dialogues, and/or are playful critiques of the documentary form, performance and spectatorship. Please check our website for previous editions and guidelines.Deadline: Midnight GMT, Sunday 16th February 2014Submit online: http://sheffieldfringe.com/

Dates:
Sunday, February 16, 2014 (All day)
Sheffield Fringe 2013 programme announced

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 04/06/2013 - 02:37
The full programme for the 3rd edition of Sheffield Fringe (June 14-15) in collaboration with Bloc Projects & Bloc Studios in Sheffield has been announced. The 3rd edition of Sheffield Fringe considers the critical possibilities of film as both documentary and art. This year’s programme traces back through the film co-op movement of the 80s, and earlier experimental film in continuous dialogue with new documentary practices.

Charlotte Ginsborg’s Over the Bones launches Sheffield Fringe 2013, as the opening salvo of a curatorial mix tape that positions artists’ film as musical. The remarkable Sheffield Media Unit archive (1984-89), affirms Sheffield as a centre of both resistance and serious play. In tribute to Michael Grigsby, Living on the Edge (1987) reveals the impact of the Thatcher era on three families, counterbalancing the exuberance Sheffield Media Unit. Urban Observations, guest curated this year by November Paynter, presents videos that work with performance, recital and gathering to share very specific and diverse tales of Istanbul and beyond. Annexinema are showing George Barber ‘s I was once involved in a shit show, Peter Kubelka’s Afrikareise and more + Live A/V performances by Neil Webb, Ron Wright, Rob Barker, Joe Moran & guests.

BLOC PROJECTS Friday 14th June 6pm & Saturday 15th June 12-9pm, 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield S1 4RB. Admission to all events is free.

See the full programme here: http://sheffieldfringe.com/programmes/year-2013/

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Sheffield Fringe 2013

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 29/12/2012 - 18:13
Sheffield Fringe 2013
Call For Entries
Deadline 18th February

Now in its 3rd year, Sheffield Fringe is inviting artists’ moving image submissions for our 2013 screening series at Bloc Projects, Sheffield in June 2013, with touring venues to be announced.

There are no restrictions in theme or approach. We want the selection to be a response to artists’ practice interests and theoretical concerns. Works should not exceed 30 min and have some relationship to ‘actuality’.

Sheffield Fringe is an artist-led curatorial project, exploring the confluence point between art & documentary practice. It was first staged as a nano festival in June 2011 to coincide with Sheffield Doc/Fest. We are interested in single-channel works that inspire dialogues, and/or are playful critiques of the documentary form, performance and spectatorship.
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