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
collective-iz
Founded in London in 2012 by artists and filmmakers Maria Anastassiou, Amy Dickson, Deniz Johns, and Karolina Raczynski, collective-iz originally formed as a programming collective and gradually evolved through regular cooking-and-eating meetings held in domestic spaces into a deep creative friendship. Within this context, making, programming, thinking, writing, and sharing practices and lived experiences became inseparable. Since its inception, collective-iz has programmed and produced over a dozen experimental film and video screening events, presenting a wide range of technologies and projection methodologies, including analogue film projections, immersive sound works, live-feed performances, and para-cinematic practices.
Drawing inspiration from the historical trajectory of experimental film and video and expanded cinema, collective-iz’ events seek to activate new connections and frameworks, while fostering dialogue between emerging and established artists. The collective’s work has been generously supported by a broad community of experimental filmmakers and writers over the years, including A.L. Rees, Annabel Nicolson, Lis Rhodes, Nicky Hamlyn, Guy Sherwin & Lynn Loo, William Raban, Nick Collins, Simon Payne, Cathy Rogers, and Vicky Smith, among others, as well as institutions such as The Horse Hospital, Lux/London, Riverside Studios, no.w.here, and the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection. Through these collaborations and presentations, collective-iz continues—albeit less frequently since 2020—to create spaces for exchange, experimentation, and the sharing of expanded experimental cinema practices.
Karolina Raczynski is an artist filmmaker currently working at the intersection of art, film/video, community and science. She seeks to merge her background in socially engaged and participatory modes of artist filmmaking by using lens based and experimental ways of working. She has most recently completed numerous community-based artist commissions including working with volunteers at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, park wardens and visitors at Victoria Park, NHS doctor and Heritage Eastbourne archaeologists.
Amy Dickson is an artist, programmer, and educator whose practice spans textiles, film, video, and live performance. Their work has been screened and commissioned by Café OTO, Whitstable Biennale, LUX Critical Forum Glasgow, the V&A, and the National Portrait Gallery. They are co-director of Jwllrs and are currently a PhD candidate in FASS at Lancaster University.
Deniz Johns (she/they) is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and educator. Her recent works investigate the radical political potential of aesthetic negation—through absence, abstraction, distortion, and deconstruction—as a means to subvert dominant visual cultures and foster radical spectatorship. She also writes on the politics of representation, especially concerning the oppressed, and the power dynamics between artwork and viewer in relation to race, gender identity, and agency.
Maria Anastassiou is an artist/filmmaker whose work across video and analogue film explores place, history, community, and collaboration. Her films have been shown at BFI London Film Festival, the Whitney Museum NYC, Benaki Museum Athens, Berwick Film and Media Festival amongst others. She is currently a resident at A House for Artists London where she co-programs Barking Community Cinema and a PhD candidate at University of Exeter and London Film School.
presenting…
Walk No 1: “Fight, fight, fight back!”, Deniz Johns & Karolina Raczynski (Digital Video, 3’, Colour, Sound)
Returning and Turning, Deniz Johns & Martin Zeilinger (Multi-Screen Video Projection, 5’38)
Bir, iki, üç – expanded -, Maria Anastassiou & Deniz Johns (16mm film, Duration Variable, Approximately 3’)
Nan Sewing, Stitched Film, Amy Dickson (16mm Film, Digital Video, 5’, Sound)
This programme is funded by Arts Council England.