featuring in the E X P A N D E D C I N E M A E V E N T
An evening of expanded cinema in which ordinarily hidden elements of cinema are performed in the present as live events.
Expect mixed gauge, multi-projection, performance-projection, mutable screens, improvisation with light, live sound, + discussion with multi-screen installation artist Louisa Fairclough (BEEF) and collective-iz.
Featuring:
Aurélie Percevault – Matt Davies – Melanie Clifford – Maria Anastassiou – Deniz Johns – Karolina Raczynski – Amy Dickson – Sewing Café Lancaster – Mars Saude – Dani Landau – David Hopkinson
Sat 21 February // 7pm – 10pm // Kit Form, Jamaica Streets Studio
Mars da Silva Saude
works with time-based media involving subjects such as marginal histories, the landscape, neurodivergent poetics, counterculture, radical politics, and text(s). Their moving image work has screened at venues and festivals including Open City Documentary Festival, Experiments in Cinema, FLEX Fest, Analogica, Mimesis Documentary Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Torino Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and artist-run labs and DIY project spaces internationally. Saude is a member of the Filmwerkplaats collective moving image lab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as well as BEEF in Bristol, UK. A Portuguese national raised in California, they currently work in Aberystwyth, Wales, where they tend Labordy Ffilm Aber and are one half of sound duo Landscape Suicide.
presenting…
Glue your Eyelids Together
(17 min, 2024)
is a 16mm expanded cinema performance with a live improvised score by the filmmaker. Against a background of abstract direct animation, re-photographed imagery draws from scientific films on sight, manipulated 3D models, newsreels, and re-photographed, re-worked imagery derived from Harun Farocki and Rainer Werner Fassbinder films. These sources pose questions about vision technologies, violence, and victimhood. Reworked through washes of colour noise, deep extended drones, and flicker, the images churn into an embodied perceptual experience bleeding past the barriers of closed eyes.
This programme is funded by Arts Council England.