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http://www.cubecinema.com http://www.differencescreen.net 1.00pm Registration, refreshments 1.30pm – Introduction 20 minsAims, screenings and countries – Bruce Allan, Ben EastopIdentity, culture, difference – From the Fabric of Things – Gareth Evans 1.50pm – Screening – Landscape and identity 1Sounds from Beneath Mikhail Karikis and Uriel Orlow 6:475 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown Shelly Silver 10:00Staging Actors, Staging Beliefs Renata Poljak 12:00Hollywood Daniel Brefin 12:20(42mins) 2.35pm Questions and discussion (15mins) 2.50pm – Screening – Landscape and identity 2Travelling Fields – Inger Lise Hansen 8:40Mumbaikar Ganesh – Collin D’Cunha 5:10Friends He Lost At Sea – Henrik Lund Jørgensen 5:32A Drone Wrapped Up in Flying Carpets – Riaz Mehmood 6:06Mantra – Gordana Andjelic-Galic 5:30Collective …

Difference Screen, Cube Bristol – Programme Read more »

Having originally arranged provisional dates for Difference Screen to close at Arnolfini, staff cuts and restructuring at the gallery necessitated a change of plan. Cube Cinema, Bristol was a suitable and sympathetic venue to review the Difference Screen Project. We were supported by independent curator for artists’ moving image Carmen Billows, curator and writer Mercedes Vicente with Gareth Evans film curator, Whitechapel Gallery moderating. Artists attending included Difference Screen contributors Neville Gabie Collective Breath and Arpine Tokmajayan A 3000 times walked way. The afternoon was divided into two broad themes Landscape and Identity, Conflict and Migration with groups of films followed by discussion.  Aims of the core activity reflecting on changing political …

Difference Screen Review Cube Cinema, Bristol 23 January 2016 Read more »

Video screenings of works by artists can sometimes be joyless, or tedious affairs in which outsiders struggle to suspend their disbelief for the full duration. This might be because the films were under, or overcooked, or because the artist saw no need to moderate his narcissism in a way that will enlighten others. Most of us are accustomed to well-manicured movies that are the fruits of a budget big enough to rally an army of fully trained professionals. By curating a rich body of work from many European countries, Difference Screen re-splices some of these disciplinary differences and provides a high quality of content that stands for itself. Our visit …

ROOMARTSPACE October 4 London Read more »

…on the passing of time in the digital age. A message received by BA on New Year’s Day 2014 from Phil Dadson in New Zealand. Unbelievable another year has swept by already .. not sure whether it’s this speedy digital era we live in or whether our brains are changing, or maybe just a symptom of growing old? Is our perception of time passing – the hours of the day, the passage of months and the changes of the season the same in all corners of the planet? Does the passing of time register the same in your town as in mine? in your brain as in mine? It’s intriguing …

Thoughts and musings Read more »

Over one hour we were transported to corners of the old Soviet Union and then halfway across the globe to a California which Hollywood has never shown us. Most shocking, and memorable, was the mismatch between the images of black-and-white Las Vegas and the gentle West Coast voice of the narrator, and the story she told of the horrific and seldom told repercussion of the testing of atom bombs in the desert, close by. Individually the films showed personal (and unique) views of distant but part-familiar places in our times. Refreshing and stimulating – in Mid Wales. Iris Nunn