Fri 20 February // 7pm – 10:30pm // Cube Cinema
Posing the question of how DIY analogue film labs and artist initiated film screenings stimulate and support innovation and new aesthetics in cinema, the panel will discuss approaches to collective film-making and screening, the sustainability of DIY film labs in the UK in the absence of any industrial processing facility and the role of universities in sustaining 16 mm film production.
*This discussion is part of the ‘Screening: The Camera’ event.
Els van Riel lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Studied photo- and cinematography, and works as a photographer, editor and producer for various photo-, film-, and video-productions.
Her films, video’s and installations explore the impact of detailed changes in moment, movement, matter, light and perception.
“With links to the tradition of structural film making, the work by the Brussels based film-and videomaker, Els van Riel, explores the basic elements for cinema -time and light- and develops a form for new aesthetic pleasure, bypassing any symbolism and narrativism. For van Riel the projector is a central figure in the cinematographical act of giving form to a screening, performance or installation. The mechanical image source becomes actively present as if it were a living object.”
(L’ART MÊME, April 2009)
Kim Knowles is Lecturer in Alternative and Experimental Film at Aberystwyth University and Experimental Film Programmer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the author of Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices (2020) and A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (2009/12).
Alia Syed is an experimental film maker whose work has been shown extensively in cinemas and galleries around the world. She is interested in story telling: the protean nature of self-narration, enfolding fact and fiction, how histories are made and unmade, especially in relation to culture, diaspora and location.
Andrew Vallance is the MA Film Practice Award Leader and Associate Professor at Arts University Bournemouth. He studied his Master’s and PhD at the Royal College of Art. His thesis considered film and memory. He is also an artist, curator and writer.
Alia Syed (film-maker, former London Film Makers cooperative)
collective-iz Founded by artist filmmakers Maria Anastassiou, Amy Dickson, Deniz Johns and Karolina Raczynski in 2012, collective-iz has programmed and produced film and video screening events that often include expanded cinema and sounds works, in which a range of technologies and projection methodologies co-exist; from analogue film projections and live feed performances to para-cinematic works.
This programme is funded by Arts Council England.