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
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.
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 & Matt are both active members of BEEF and have collaborated on expanded cinema projects and radio broadcasts since 2017.
presenting…
New Brunswick Swing
explores the inner workings of 16mm film projectors through refraction and shadow play. Suspended projector parts act as nervous pendulums, animated by hand. Some hold optical sound photocells that react to light, while others function as shutters that interrupt it. Set in motion, these elements interact with long film loops of projector bulbs ignited and fading, lighting and cooling, close-up and time-altered: yielding hums, flickers and pulses in light and sound.
This programme is funded by Arts Council England.