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"Bristol’s bastions of 16mm BEEF kick off their Doing It For Ourselves weekender at The Cube with a series of short films celebrating camera-led experimentalists alongside a knowledge-laden panel discussion. Expect meaty insights into DIY film labs, collective practice, and the past, present and future of analogue film culture in the UK."
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A event held at The Cube on Friday 20th February. The event starts at 19:00.
SCREENING: THE FILM CAMERA
This screening includes films in which innovation is reflected through the camerawork and through the film material by mixing different frame rates, bi-packing, multiple passes, exploring the limits of lenses and light, incorporating found footage and working with wrong film stocks.
Featuring short films by:
Elliptic, 30’ Els Van Riel
Shedding, 4’ Vicky Smith
A Dream of Glass Bangles, 4’ Michaela Talwar;
The Land at Night 14’ Diana Barrie & Richard Tuohy
Where Night Falls a Thud, 8’ Sophie Watzlawick
The Ripple Effect, 9’ Niyaz Saghari
Traction 3’ Jenny Baines,
Garden Glimpses, 6’ Caryn Cline 2022, US
A Half Moon Needs a Dark Night, 5’ Karan Suri Talwar
Badluck Film: the Bread, 4’ Gérémy Lelièvre
The Watershed 7’ Alia Syed
Dans sa toile est un lac, 7' Oscar Weiss
PANEL DISCUSSION
Posing the question of how DIY analogue film labs and artist initiated film screenings stimulate and support innovation and new aesthetics in cinema, the panel will discuss approaches to collective film-making and screening, the sustainability of DIY film labs in the UK in the absence of any industrial processing facility and the role of universities in sustaining 16 mm film production.
Els Van Riel (Brussels Film Lab)
Kim Knowles (Labordy Ffilm Aber)
Andrew Vallance (Contact, Film Talks)
Alia Syed (film-maker, former London Film Makers cooperative)
collective-iz (expanded cinema events)
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Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
This screening includes films in which innovation is reflected through the camerawork and through the film material by mixing different frame rates, bi-packing, multiple passes, exploring the limits of lenses and light, incorporating found footage and working with wrong film stocks.
Featuring short films by:
Elliptic, 30’ Els Van Riel
Shedding, 4’ Vicky Smith
A Dream of Glass Bangles, 4’ Michaela Talwar;
The Land at Night 14’ Diana Barrie & Richard Tuohy
Where Night Falls a Thud, 8’ Sophie Watzlawick
The Ripple Effect, 9’ Niyaz Saghari
Traction 3’ Jenny Baines,
Garden Glimpses, 6’ Caryn Cline 2022, US
A Half Moon Needs a Dark Night, 5’ Karan Suri Talwar
Badluck Film: the Bread, 4’ Gérémy Lelièvre
The Watershed 7’ Alia Syed
Dans sa toile est un lac, 7' Oscar Weiss
PANEL DISCUSSION
Posing the question of how DIY analogue film labs and artist initiated film screenings stimulate and support innovation and new aesthetics in cinema, the panel will discuss approaches to collective film-making and screening, the sustainability of DIY film labs in the UK in the absence of any industrial processing facility and the role of universities in sustaining 16 mm film production.
Els Van Riel (Brussels Film Lab)
Kim Knowles (Labordy Ffilm Aber)
Andrew Vallance (Contact, Film Talks)
Alia Syed (film-maker, former London Film Makers cooperative)
collective-iz (expanded cinema events)
- - -
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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