Artists’ Moving Image in Cornwall
| The CAST Workshops Have CommencedCAST’S Cornwall Workshop is a weeklong intensive residential workshop for artists, filmmakers, curators and writers based in the South West. It is hosted by the Kestle Barton Trust in an award-winning conversion of an ancient Cornish farmstead situated above the Helford River. Aspects of the programme will take place at CAST in Helston.
The Cornwall Workshop 2016 expands upon key themes explored in Ben Rivers’s work: from the concept of ‘edgelands’ and his interest in the physical and conceptual borders of society to portraiture and ethnography. Rivers’s practice treads the line between documentary and fiction and his camera often turns to individuals and communities who have in some way retreated from society. He typically spends weeks, often months, with the people he films, using the resulting raw footage as a starting point for his exploratory visions of alternative existences in marginal worlds.
For more information, check out their website here: http://c-a-s-t.org.uk/
LUX
Beginning on the 18th of March and ending on the 15th of April 2016 LUX will be taking residency within Porthmeor Studios in the picturesque Cornish village of St Ives. Attendants will get to experience a whole programme of screenings, workshops, discussions, and initiatives that will provide an abundance of both artistic and professional support – all geared specifically for the Cornish context!
For more information: http://cornwallfilmfestival.com/lux/
Events should be booked primarily through Eventbrite
Check out some of the events occurring below. |
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| Ben Rivers Events
A bit about Ben: Multiple award winning artist and filmmaker, Ben Rivers was born in Somerset in 1972, and currently lives and works in London. He studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in the sculpture and photography departments before finally discovering super-8 filmmaking. Since completing his degree, he has worked predominantly with 16mm film. In 1996, he co-founded the Brighton Cinemathèque, which he co-programmed until its demise in 2006.
Artists’ Talk
When: Tonight! 14 March, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Admission: FREE
Where: Helston Community College
TONIGHT, LUX and the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST) will be presenting a unique opportunity to hear acclaimed artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers speak about his work. Rivers will discuss recent projects, including his latest feature films The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers and What Means Something, alongside his wider practice. The talk will be illustrated by a selection of film excerpts.
Edgelands: Films Selected by Ben Rivers
Where: Woodlane Lecture Theatre, Falmouth University
When: 16 March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Description:
Admission: FREE
LUX and the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST) present Edgelands, a screening programme curated by the artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers. Edgelands draws on Rivers’ interest in the physical and conceptual borders of society, from the neglected peripheries of the city to the withdrawal of individuals from mainstream culture.
Special Preview: The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Where: Royal Cinema at the Royal Square, St Ives
When: 18 March, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Admission: £6.50
An enigmatic young director abandons his film set and descends into a hallucinatory, perilous adventure of cruelty, madness and malevolence. A multi-layered excavation into the illusion of cinema itself, Ben Rivers’ (Two Years at Sea, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness) latest feature is a visually unsettling film that moves between documentary, fiction and fable taking us through the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the Sahara. |
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LUX – Artists’ Moving Image
Public Meeting with Lux Cornwall
Where: LUX Cornwall – Studio 5, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West
When: 19 March, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Admission: FREE
Come and meet LUX staff to discuss our aims for the residency and our plans for the coming month. During the residency, we hope to establish an ongoing relationship with the artistic community in Cornwall and think about how moving image practice in the region can be better supported in the future. We would like to hear your views and experiences and use this meeting to reflect on the current conditions for artists’ moving image practice in Cornwall and how LUX might support this in the future.
16mm Filmmaking Workshop with BEEF: The Animated Ground Meets the Film Strip
Where: LUX Cornwall, Studio 5, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West
When: 23 March – 24 March, 10:00am – 6:00pm
Admission: £90
In this two-day workshop led by guest artist and filmmaker Vicky Smith, participants will shoot a 16mm film, learn Bolex camera operation, darkroom processing and animation techniques. Film will be considered as quantities of frames and lengths that can be impressed with passages of light, traces and textures using methods of framing, rubbing and layering.
Anna Lucas: Screening and Discussion
Where: Borlase-Smart Studio, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West
St Ives
When: 30 March, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Admission: FREE
Anna Lucas is a London-based artist known predominantly for her work in film and video. She also makes drawings and still images. Her practice engages with and develops from observations of social networks and individuals in response to specific geographic and architectural locations. Underlying these themes the work also refers to the processes of filmmaking and the materiality of film itself.
This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978–85)
Where: Borlase-Smart Studio
When: 2nd – 3rd April
Admission: Free
LUX is pleased to present THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK, a major new touring project that looks at artists’ film and video from the post-punk era (1978–85). The project comprises seven screening programmes and is developed in partnership with the BFI National Archive.
Evening Course: Introduction to Artists’ Moving Image
Where: LUX Cornwall Studio 5, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West
When: April 7 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Admission: £10
Using key works from the LUX collection, this short introductory course will trace and discuss artists’ engagement with the moving image throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, from the early pioneers of the 1920s to contemporary practitioners. We will explore through active discussion the relationship between art and cinema and the place and role of the moving image within contemporary visual arts today.
Tony Hill: Film Screening celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative
Where: LUX Cornwall Studio 5, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West
When: 8 April, 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Admission: FREE
A screening of 16mm films by Cornwall-based artist filmmaker Tony Hill, who was a member of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative in the 1970s, including his performance piece Point Source.
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: An afternoon of film screenings celebrating the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative
Where: Borlase-Smart Studio
When: April 10 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Admission: FREE
An afternoon of screenings celebrating the first decade of LUX’s predecessor, the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative (1966–76). The LFMC was founded in October 1966 as a non-commercial distributor of avant-garde cinema.
LUX Moving Image Seminar (Penzance)
Where: Newlyn Art Gallery (Studio Café)
When: 13 April, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Admission: Free
LUX is the UK agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image, it represents Europe’s largest collection of artists’ film and video works from the 1930s to the present day. In this free seminar for artists, Matt Carter (Head of Distribution) and Benjamin Cook (Director) of LUX discuss the work of LUX in supporting artists and answer your questions about how to build a practice working with the moving image.
Last year we saw some wonderful art and everyone enjoyed the event when we showed all the art and announced the winners. This year we hope to see more amazing art.
Viva Cornwall 