A collective exhibition showcasing the work of past and present BEEF members across expanded film, video art, analogue processes, and sonic experimentation. Expect light, flickers, film loops, projected images, analogue technologies, sound works, OHPs, monitor stacks, record players, slide film, and more, revealing the diverse approaches and spirit of the BEEF collective.

The exhibition will also feature films developed through BEEF workshops over the past year, including works created with workshop participants such as Bigger House: Different Voices. The opening event will include live expanded film and sound performances by BEEF members, bringing together projection, performance, and experimental moving image.

Featuring 

Louisa Fairclough’s practice is situated between visual art and music with recent work Mental Falls taking the form of an essay film. Her practice includes a body of expanded 16mm choral film installations, performances with choristers, and drawings. She is currently making sound/live work rooted in her lived experience of psychosis, a project supported by Arts Council England.

Shirley Pegna an artist from Bristol, has experience working with composition and sound encompassing the realm of performance, play and field recordings.  Although taking long distance and very close up sounds of our environment with their physical attributes, her work is often set in the domestic.

Presenting Underscore is a collaboration between Louie Pegna, combining their practices in a live performance with sound sensitive visuals and subterranean field recordings.

Matt Davies’ work is primarily engaged with the act of listening, live performance and the exploration of chance based composition via the prism of 16mm experimental cinema. Using DIY microphones, magnetic tape, abstract turntablism, micro sounds, modified projectors and hand processed film loops, he brings the moment and material of projection to the fore. His current practice is concerned with the translation of light into sound with an emphasis on ‘Sound on Film’ techniques.

Melanie Clifford works in translation between moving image, sound, drawing, broadcast, material and site. Her work includes silent film and constructing visual scores for variable sound interpretation – soliciting sensitivity to detail, to minor fluctuations and structural disintegrity. She also works directly with sound and its location: performing site-specific sound pieces and recording found sounds and her own slight interventions, to be edited, reconstructed and broadcast.

Vicky Smith is an artist and academic who has worked with 16mm experimental film and animation for over 30 years. Vicky employs experimental animation and performance to explore the body within a broader ecology of fragility and tenacity.

Sam Francis is an interdisciplinary artist and project maker based in North Somerset, working at the crossroads of art, ecology, and social engagement. Rooted in wild places and everyday spaces, her often collaborative practice explores our relationship with place, the natural and more-than-human world. Themes of ritual, liminality, aloneness, traces, and connection run through her work, guided by an eco-feminist perspective and a deep attention to the evolving ecologies that interweave all things.

Kathy Hinde is an artist and composer whose practice embraces open methods and evolving processes. Through installations, performances and site specific experiences, she aims to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to the more-than-human world. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work represents a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented musical instruments. She creates pieces in response to specific locations and frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process.

Zoe Tissandier’s current practice employs various methods and materials in working through ideas of the archive, collecting, memory, and history, including video, letterpress, projection, sound and installation. She utilises found objects, text and stories, as a way to generate new meanings and assemblages. She spends time accessing material and taking inspiration from various archives, collections and museums. Zoe is interested in the distinction between public and personal archives, the former taking up order and efficiency as its main principles of structuring, the latter embracing unofficial, subjective material to recall different histories and ideas.

Dani Landau a filmmaker and visual artist, who specialises in participatory documentaries. He also works collaboratively on diverse film and media arts projects. Dani is part of collectives in Bristol, UK, including Bristol Expanded and Experimental Film (BEEF) and the Cube Microplex. His PhD research at the University of the West of England is titled ‘Moving Image and Place, Sense as Surfacing’

Ann-Margreth Bohl rooted in my experience as a stone carving sculptor, I engage with strata as an active and lively materiality. My current practice jumps between photography, performance,16mm film, embroidery and drawing.

Melissa Edwards

Biggerhouse film is a non-profit organisation founded by Stephen Clarke and Tom Stubbs who have been working together since 2000 with the broadcast documentary I Don’t Live Here for HTV, leading to the establishment of biggerhouse film. In partnership with Somerset Film, we launched JUMPcuts in 2009, an award-winning production company focused on films with and for people with learning disabilities. Our collaboration with 104 films, world leaders in disability cinema, began in 2017, producing the feature film The Dawn of The Dark Fox and the ongoing talent development programme Different Voices for neurodiverse filmmakers.

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Opening: Wednesday 24 June, 6.30-9.30pm 

Exhibition continues: Thu & Fri: 12-6pm / Sat & Sun: 11am-6pm

Willway Yard, Willway St, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4AZ