Tentacular-Spectacular-Creature-Feature-Film-Trail at Southampton Pride, 25 Aug 2023

August 24, 2023

On the eve of Southampton Pride on 25th August 2023, the digital drag of Tentacular Spectacular’s queer cryptids is coming to the city!

Watch as they fester in alleys and spawn a series of short films, which will be projected onto surfaces in the city. Car parks are their canvas and every wall an opportunity to exhibit. Follow the mobile cinema as it moves around the city, featuring our favourite drag critters: Lasana Shabazz, Frogb0i, Shrek666, Bonnie Bakeneko, Jenkin van Zyl and WET MESS. 

Meet outside John Hansard Gallery at 9pm to start the tour. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.

Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely.

The event is free to attend and you can just turn up.

PROGRAMME OF FILMS

PIGGY – Lasana Shabazz invites you to their queer fever dream of childhood nostalgia centring gay culture. Glitter, Rainbows and Shame.

Just passing through – a Trans-fi, Sci-fi, Horror from SHREK666 This short embraces Queer DIY approaches to filmmaking & animation, experimenting with practical, VFX, AI & physical sculpted material. Scenes from Glasgow Queer culture merge with generated visions in dreamlike sequences of making and unmaking.

I am the brute – a visual analysis of the subjective and objective experience of the brutality and beauty of life on earth by Bonnie Bakeneko.

Pop to the shops by WET MESS – a short film following the drag artist as they embark on an odyssey around London in one of their trademark fantasy flesh suits. Arms so big they can’t hold them up. Arms so muscular they drag on the floor. Steroided up and yet hollow on the inside.

FROGMORPHIA – an introspection on being and feeling like the ‘other’ in society by Frogb0i.

Curtain Call (2021) by Jenkin van Zyl. Filmed on an abandoned Viking film set on a frozen shore in Iceland and continuing their attraction to narratives that reside on the borderline between paradise and hellscape, the film freefalls through the terror, excitement, panic, and anticipation of the void of self-creation.

Commucracy NOW! Follow Oozing Gloop on this epic trip, where you’ll find psychoactive solutions for psychopathetic citizens trapped behind the very screens that are there to help them communicate! From the highest to the lowest, Gloop seeks to link the universal to the particular to revive the democratic impulse and pose the communist hypothesis.

😎 Tentacular Spectacular Creature Feature – a short film developed from a series of Creature Feature Zoom workshops with nine emerging drag artists facilitated by Gloop and guest mentors, edited by NewfrontEars. The film aims to re-create Hieronymus Bosch’s cursed masterpiece through the collective creation of cursed imagery, within the cursed confines of Zoo.

Commissioned by John Hansard Gallery as part of Co-Creating Public Space. Supported by Arts Council England, Southampton City Council, University of Southampton, GO! Southampton and in partnership with Southampton Pride and Breakout Youth. Produced by Artsadmin.

Work Opportunity: Artist facilitator to lead The Wonder Club

August 24, 2023
Image credit: James Kirby

Work With Us! 

videoclub is seeking an experienced artist facilitator to lead The Wonder Club – a programme of engagement/workshops with young people aged 13 – 18 enabling them to engage with and participate in Days of Wonder.

Days of Wonder is a three-year programme delivered by arts organisations videoclub and Corridor in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East. Developed with communities and cultural partners in Brighton & Hove and Shoreham in response to film & media heritage and collections.

Days of Wonder will engage communities local to the Film & Media Collection at Hove Museum resulting in new work being created and exhibited by artists & communities. 

Deadline for applications: 10 am Monday 18 September 2023

Download the job description

Call out for stewards Southampton Pride film trail event – paid opportunity

August 16, 2023
Projection of Laura N-Tamara’s True Sound Facade (2021)

videoclub & Oozing Gloop are presenting a film trail for Southampton Pride – paid stewards wanted…

On 25th August, Oozing Gloop and videoclub are teaming up to deliver a Queer film trail around Southampton’s streets, with films being projected onto buildings while audiences follow us on an alternative walk of Southampton. 

videoclub uses a mobile cinema kit (speakers, projector) to project films above shops, bars, and buildings. Each film (approx 5 mins each) is played, then the cinema kit is packed away and moved to a new location, with audiences following the videoclub team as they move to each new location.

The timings will be 4 hours per evening between 7pm and 11pm, paid at £15 per hour (£60 altogether) plus payment of any travel expenses.

Who we’re looking for:

We’re looking for 4 stewards from Southampton to help with:

– Keeping people safe (e.g. making sure people are on pavements and not wandering/standing in the road)

– Carrying some equipment (speakers, speaker stands – not very heavy but need to be able to carry for short distances)

– Talking to people about the event / handing out maps/flyers

There will be an induction prior to the event, so you will be told all that you need to know before the event starts.

Timings of the test run and live events on 24th and 25th August:

There will be a test run of the trail on the evening of the 24th August 2023 (same timings for the actual trail on the 25th August as well): 

7pm – arrival at John Hansard Gallery and register

7:15pm – talk through the programme, health and safety, roles and responsibilities

8:30pm – walk to first location and set up kit

9pm: play first film, then go to next 5 locations and play films (6 locations altogether, trail will last approx an hour)

10pm – return to John Hansard Gallery and help pack away kit

11pm – finish

The full film trail will take place on 25th August. Meet at John Hansard Gallery at 7pm – then details same as above – finish at 11pm.

About the audiences we’re expecting

About the audiences we are expecting: as the start time is 9pm (for the films to be shown), we’re expecting the audience will be young people and adults, 15+. As it’s summer we don’t expect lots of students. Target audience is LGBTQIA+ people and allies as the event is part of Pride. 

Payment

Payment: 4 hours’ work x £15 per hour per evening – total of £60 per evening x 2 evenings = £120 for total of the two nights. Plus any expenses for travel. Payment will be made via invoicing videoclub. Details will be sent to you.

How to apply

If interested – please let Jamie Wyld, director of videoclub, know by emailing him at: jamie@videoclub.org.uk with a CV and confirmation that you can work on both 24th and 25th August between 7pm and 11pm. Deadline: 22/08/23 (applicants who apply earliest will be appointed earliest.)

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Call for submissions: Shoreham film trails

July 23, 2023
Image: True Sound Facade by Laura N-Tamara projected as part of Light Up Purfleet

Call for film & video submissions from LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers

Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place in September 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Shoreham, UK. Films will be curated from work submitted to us. Submissions will be accepted by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally.

We want to celebrate the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community, celebrating and platforming different viewpoints. However, films do not have to have LGBTQIA+ content. This is a platform to promote LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers who have varied and distinct perspectives.

Submissions can be artists’ film & video, experimental film, Machinima, short film, animation, or digital works, and must be 5 minutes or less in length.

Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub, with support from and in partnership with ESTEEM. Supported by Arts Council England.

SUBMISSION DETAILS AND INFORMATION

Night Watch screening datesSubmission deadlineOutcome date
21 and 28 September 202324 August 202305 September 2023

Criteria for screening submissions:

– Be between 2 and 5 minutes in length.

– Be engaging for viewers who may be passing in the street or watching throughout the programme, for example be visually stimulating, humorous, narrative, spectacular, fun, surprising and accessible.

– Be appropriate for public / outdoor exhibition (must be suitable for children and adults in public space).

– Work must be in digital format and be high enough in resolution to show at scale (1080p / HD).

Fee:

– A screening fee of £100 GBP will be paid to the filmmaker if work is shown in the programme.

– Fee will be paid via direct bank payment following receipt of an invoice. Successful artists/filmmakers will be sent details.

Requirements:

– If the language of the film is not English, the film must have English subtitles.

– Only one work per submission (add additional submissions to a new form).

– Entrants may submit an unlimited number of works.

– Work must be digitally available.

– Entrants declare that the film submitted is their own and that its public screening rights have not been transferred to third parties.

If you have relevant queries regarding the film event, the entry process or require assistance navigating the entry form, please email: info@videoclub.org.uk

All artists/filmmakers will be informed of the decision to screen in advance of public announcements.

Submission:

– Click here to submit a film or video via a Google form.

– Complete the form and submit. Please include a short biography about yourself and your work.

– Applications not using the application form will not be accepted.

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Vital Capacities: Gateways – new exhibition

June 29, 2023
Sammy Paloma, The Flowering Milk of the Boghead, 2023 (screen shot from artwork)

New work by Vital Capacities resident artists from the May 2023 residency, including work by artists Shaima Ali, Bassam Issa, Sammy Paloma, and Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX.

In May 2023, four artists took part in residencies on Vital Capacities – Shaima Ali (Palestine), Bassam Issa (Ireland), Sammy Paloma (UK), and Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX (Taiwan) – to explore and develop new work, supported by partnerships with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Shubbak Festival, Videotage and Wysing Art Centre.

Throughout the month the artists did research, tested ideas and created new work, working with our partners, web designer and digital inclusion specialist. Gateways is an exhibition of new work resulting from May 2023’s residency.

See the exhibition now: vitalcapacities.com/exhibition/

With thanks to Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Shubbak Festival, Videotage, and Wysing Art Centre. Thank you to Arts Council England for their support.

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Both Sides Now 8 online screening – 25/Jun to 02/Jul/23

June 24, 2023
WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Passion 激情, 2017 (still image from film)

Both Sides Now 8 film programme was available to watch between 25/06/23 and 02/07/23. 

Both Sides Now 8 explores both real and virtual Queer spaces, with moving image works by international artists and filmmakers, including Kit Griffiths, Bassam Issa, Liao Jiaming 廖家明, P1nk Poodle, SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Megan Watson, Robert Yang.

Curated by videoclub and Videotage, Both Sides Now 8 brings together a collection of films that explore queerness from international perspectives, which resonate between the fantastical, material, theoretical and playful. Where artists are exploring real and virtual spaces, creating and queering reality and virtuality. Using videogames, CGI, post-digital performance, and film, artists have made work exploring desire, death, cyberspace, passion and exorcism.

PROGRAMME

  • Megan Watson, The Air in Cyberspace, 2022, 3:20 mins
  • Bassam Issa, A Paradise Out of a Common Field, 2020, 5:32 mins
  • Robert Yang, Zugzwang, 2022, 3 mins
  • P1nk Poodle, Queer Theory Saved My Life, 2023, 4:20 mins
  • SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, The Glamorous Boys of Tang (1985, Chui Kang-Chien) 唐朝綺麗男（邱剛健，1985), 2018, 17 mins
  • WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Passion 激情, 2017, 13:10 mins
  • Kit Griffiths, Dic Pic, 2019, 11:43 mins
  • Liao Jiaming 廖家明, Repetition Maximum 最大重複次數, 2021, 5 mins

關於彼岸觀自在 About Both Sides Now

Both Sides Now is a tactical programme partnership between Videotage (HK) and videoclub (UK). Which uses contemporary and historical film and video work to explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong, China, the UK, and beyond.

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Both Sides Now 8 – UK & Hong Kong screenings

April 30, 2023
Image: Robert Yang, Zugzwang, 2022 (image still from videogame)

Both Sides Now 8 explores both real and virtual Queer spaces, with moving image works by international artists and filmmakers, including Kit Griffiths, Bassam Issa, Liao Jiaming 廖家明, P1nk Poodle, SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Megan Watson, Robert Yang.

Curated by videoclub and Videotage, Both Sides Now 8 brings together a collection of films that explore queerness from international perspectives, which resonate between the fantastical, material, theoretical and playful. Where artists are exploring real and virtual spaces, creating and queering reality and virtuality. Using videogames, CGI, post-digital performance, and film, artists have made work exploring desire, death, cyberspace, passion and exorcism. 

SCREENINGS

THE HORSE HOSPITAL, LONDON
Date and time: 22 May, doors and bar at 7pm, screening at 7:30pm
Address: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
Tickets: £3 // Book tickets by clicking here
Access: Films are subtitled. The Horse Hospital is an accessible space for wheelchair users.
Travel: Nearest underground: Russell Square (Piccadilly line) / Bus: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188

FABRICA GALLERY, BRIGHTON
Date and time: 23 May, 6pm doors and bar, 6:30pm screening
Address: 40 Duke St, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1AG
Tickets: £3 // Book tickets by clicking here
Access: Films are subtitled. Fabrica is an accessible space for wheelchair users.

EATON, HONG KONG
Date and time: 17 June, 2pm (Hong Kong time)
Address: 1/F Kino, Eaton Hong Kong, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tickets: Free to attend, please click here to reserve a place
Access: Films are subtitled. Eaton is an accessible space for wheelchair users.

ESEA CONTEMPORARY, MANCHESTER
Date and time: 21 June, 6:30pm
Address: 13 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU
Tickets: £5 // Book tickets by clicking here
Access: Films are subtitled. esea contemporary is an accessible space for wheelchair users.

PROGRAMME

  • Megan Watson, The Air in Cyberspace, 2022, 3:20 mins
  • Bassam Issa, A Paradise Out of a Common Field, 2020, 5:32 mins
  • Robert Yang, Zugzwang, 2022, 3 mins
  • P1nk Poodle, Queer Theory Saved My Life, 2023, 4:20 mins
  • SU Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇, The Glamorous Boys of Tang (1985, Chui Kang-Chien) 唐朝綺麗男（邱剛健，1985), 2018, 17 mins
  • WANG Jun-Jieh 王俊傑, Passion 激情, 2017, 13:10 mins
  • Kit Griffiths, Dic Pic, 2019, 11:43 mins
  • Liao Jiaming 廖家明, Repetition Maximum 最大重複次數, 2021, 5 mins

關於彼岸觀自在 About Both Sides Now

Both Sides Now is a tactical programme partnership between Videotage (HK) and videoclub (UK). Which uses contemporary and historical film and video work to explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong, China, the UK, and beyond.

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Vital Capacities new resident artists May 2023

April 27, 2023
Artists on Vital Capacities residency in May 2023 – from top left, clockwise: Sammy Paloma, Bassam Issa, Shaima Ali, and Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX

For the eighth Vital Capacities‘ residency, we partner with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Shubbak Festival, Videotage (Hong Kong) and Wysing Art Centre (Cambridge) to work with artists from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Palestine and Hong Kong. From 1 May, artists Bassam Issa, Sammy Paloma, Shaima Ali and Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX will join Vital Capacities, to undertake research and develop new work. Working with our partners, they will explore and exchange new ideas using their studio spaces, and create new work throughout the residency.

The artists for May 2023’s residency are:

Bassam Issa works across digital animation, painting, sculpture, and textiles creating visions of resistance, transformation, and queer possibility. He completed a BA in Visual Art Practice from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include: IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THIS! The Douglas Hyde Gallery(2022) I AM ERROR, Gasworks, London (2021), and De La Warr Pavilion, Sussex (2022).

Sammy Paloma is an artist, poet and witch living in Shetland, on a croft by a beach, next to a bog, with 11 chickens. She paints, prints, tattoos, writes poetry, and makes computer games (with Uma Breakdown). Her work is into how divination disturbs linear time, grief rituals and necromancy. Her current obsession is the overlapping folklore and paranormal phenomena surrounding both boglands and crossroads.

Shaima Ali is an artist from the destroyed village of Beit Thul in Palestine. She uses sculptural elements and video art to explore the liminal space between the personal and the collective, where it  is a point of intersection and where it is a point of departure. She draws her inspiration from that which demands an interruption to the every day. Her art is political in that it refuses to take on a singular perspective, preferring to reflect the mixture and entwinement of politics in the day-to-day of the Palestinian individual through their life, hopes and dreams.

Su Hui-Yu & XTRUX – Su Hui-Yu is a Taipei based artist who has been working on his specific “Re-shooting” series which focuses on Taiwan’s colonial histories, martial law memory and body-politics for many years. XTRUX is a Taiwanese collective art founded in October 2020 with a number of creators whose works focus on new media art. Su and XTRUX have been cooperating on experimental projects since 2022.

Residencies will launch on 1 May 23 – find out what artists are up to by joining our mailing list and following them on: vitalcapacities.com

May’s residency programme is delivered in partnership with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Shubbak Festival, Videotage (Hong Kong) and Wysing Art Centre, with support from Arts Council England.

Vital Capacities is an accessible, purpose-built digital residency space, that supports artists’ practice while engaging audiences with their work.

Vital Capacities has been created by videoclub in consultation with artists, digital inclusion specialist Sarah Pickthall and website designer Oli Pyle.

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Sponsor Dreamy Place Festival

March 30, 2023
Remembering Place by Thomas Buckley (2022) – commissioned by videoclub

videoclub is calling for sponsors for Brighton Digital Festival – now titled Dreamy Place Festival – to support the delivery of the programme in October 2023. Film and digital culture agency, videoclub have recently taken on management of the festival and are seeking sponsors in addition to funds from British Council and other funders.

Dreamy Place Festival is a programme of outdoor projections, videogaming, exhibitions, digital dance performances and events in Brighton & Hove (19-22 October) and Crawley (12-14 October).

Our aim is to include the following elements within the programme:

– Young people digital skills development programme – providing disadvantaged young people with opportunities to develop creative digital skills working with artists, industry, and developers. Outdoor screenings will give young people the chance to show work as part of the festival.

– Health & Wellbeing programme – demos, talks & events showcasing how creative technology and games can promote and nurture health & wellbeing.

– Public programme – dance performances, exhibitions, outdoor projections and videogaming, 24-hour talks event, Gaming & Wellbeing programme and much more in Brighton & Hove and Crawley.

Sponsorship opportunities include exposure through festival PR, social media (including 20 festival partners), and print and digital promotion. Plus the opportunity to support the arts and digital culture of Brighton & Hove and Crawley, and support young people to develop creative digital skills.

If you would like to find out about sponsoring the festival, email videoclub’s director, Jamie Wyld: jamie@videoclub.org.uk

Night Watch outdoor film trail at Light Up Purfleet, 17 Mar

March 7, 2023

BIRDS by Signe Ebbesen projected outdoors, Jan 2023. Credit: videoclub

See Purfleet in a different way – watch films outdoors as part of Light Up Purfleet 2023.

Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place on 17th March 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Purfleet-on-Thames. Including films by artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally.

Follow the film trail as we journey amongst the architecture of High House Production Park, with opportunities to stop and watch, and then follow the trail to the next location. Viewers can follow the trail or just watch one film. videoclub will be walking films through the streets using a portable cinema.

The short films will be a combination of film & video, experimental film, short film, animation, and digital works.

There will be two trails, both with the same films, one at 7:30pm and the second at 8:45pm.

Meet outside The Barns High House Production Park at 7:30pm or 8:45pm to start the tour. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.

Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.

The event is free to attend and you can just turn up.

PROGRAMME OF FILMS

True Sound Façade by Laura Nasir-Tamara, 2020

Commissioned by Barbican x The Smalls for their “Inside out” short film series, True Sound Facade is a poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self. The film takes its inspiration from the Japanese notions of “honne” the true sound, one’s innermost feelings, and “tatemae”, the façade we put up to live in society. It stars Kino McHugh, dancing with and against a colourful animated environment born out of her movements.

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Reverse Wormhole by Sarah Ann Banks, 2021

Reverse Wormhole explores the existence of a cosmic creature with a random matter-generating portal for a head. As we follow her through space and time, she expels distorted life forms into existence.

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Advena by Georgia Tucker, 2021

Advena responds to our desire for escapism during the pandemic – discovering an idyllic landscape of tropical fauna, colourful architecture, opalescent orbs and warm beaches. The work explores the ecological and social impact of tourism and its corresponding resorts.

The full experience of Advena, shown within luxury hotels, is designed to be an overstimulating sensory experience, highlighting the excessive nature of current fast lifestyles and our craving for more stimulation.

Airy Me by Yoko Kuno, 2013

Airy Me is inspired by Cuushe’s 2009 song of the same name. The animation also features her 2013 song “Steamy Mirror.”

Yoko Kuno created Airy Me from 3,000 still images drawn over almost two years. Images were drawn with colored pencils and crayon and edited with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. It received the Animation Division New Face Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival.

BIRDS by Signe Ebbesen, 2022

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Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub. Delivered in partnership with Light Up Thurrock and Arts Outburst as part of the Light Up Purfleet festival. Supported by Creative Estuary and Arts Council England.

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Night Watch outdoor film trail, Crawley, 23 Feb

February 8, 2023

BIRDS (2022) by Signe Ebbesen projected onto 5 The Boulevard, Crawley as part of 26th Jan film trail. © Pete Jones pete@pjproductions.co.uk

See Crawley in a different way – watch films outdoors as part of videoclub’s Night Watch film trail.

Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place on 23rd February 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Crawley, UK. Films will be curated from submissions by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally. The next film trail will take place on 26th January, and another film trail on 23rd February.

Follow the film trail as the mobile cinema moves around central Crawley, with opportunities to stop and watch, and then follow the trail to the next location. Viewers can follow the trail or just watch one film. videoclub will be walking films through the streets using a portable cinema.

The short films will be a combination of film & video, experimental film, short film, animation, and digital works. With live music played between locations.

There will be one trail taking place at 6:15pm on 23rd February.

Secure your place for the film trail on Thursday, 23rd February by clicking HERE.

Meet outside Marks & Spencers in Crawley town centre at 6:15pm to start the tour. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.

Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.

The event is free to attend and you can just turn up. Spaces are limited though, so to guarantee your place please reserve your FREE ticket.

PROGRAMME OF FILMS

(Tending) (to) (Ta): Ta Introduces Ta by April Lin 林森, 2021

This is an edited excerpt from the feature-length work (Tending) (to) (Ta), in which the character Ta introduces themselves to the viewer, an infinite cosmic entity who exists across universes and is present in all beings and matter. Their conceptualisation grounds itself in ‘tā’, the monosyllabic sound which in Mandarin Chinese encompasses all third person pronouns: 他 (third person male), 她 (third person female), and 它 (more-than-human lifeforms and objects).

As these multiple genders and modes of being are all pronounced ‘tā’, the word ‘ta’ has in recent years been reconfigured and adopted as a gender-neutral pronoun in colloquial contexts in Mainland China, in queer spaces and beyond. For the artist, the simple sound “Ta” encompasses the potentialities of rethinking identity and the coexistence of life forms. It represents a world where subjecthood is recognised as fundamentally ever-changing, porous, and co-dependent, where togetherness is built upon a sense of criticality.

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Gut Feelings by Megan Visser (2020)

Gut Feelings (2020) is a video project that explores how our bodily systems and visceral responses can be seen as a form of non-verbal dialogue – illustrating our shared confusion about love and its effects on us. By questioning these hard to define bodily responses, the boundaries between traditional categorization, real and fiction are blurred. Why are we as humans so comforted by maintaining and establishing boundaries, diagnosing the symptom, and fixing the ‘problem’.

Your stomach starts to turn, your heart beats faster and blood begins to flow, your gut is trying to communicate something to you but you cannot understand.
Your body senses something is not right, a bug has entered the system, a fluttering sensation in the stomach causes a sense of confusion, things start to turn fuzzy, and the established boundaries begin to blur.

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Queer Theory Saved My Life by P1nk Poodle, 2023

Queer Theory Saved My Life explores queerness in AI image models alongside NASA public domain footage. Typically, text-to-image AI image generation is done with visually descriptive keywords, but by inputting excerpts from queer theorists unexpected representations are created. Various cycles of feedback into the image generators, alongside other processing are used in a science fiction narrative of escape to Mars.

P1nk Poodle is a non-binary artist working with moving image and digital media.

Instagram: @p1nkpoodle

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On Black Pain by Jameisha Prescod, 2022

On Black Pain is an experimental essay film archiving three stories of Black British people living with chronic pain. Through dreamy visual sequences and intimate phone interviews, the film reflects on Western medicine’s colonial origins while examining how this impacts modern Black people in the 21st century.

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ISHTAR by Mia Georgis, 2020

ISHTAR is an experimental short film based on the gender fluid Mesopotamian deity. The film looks at the coloniality of gender and seeks to re-address the way in which the UK has imposed the gender on people of colour. It is an affirmation of our historical and present existence. Ishtar hosts a feast in an English country garden for five gender non-conforming/trans/non-binary siblings of colour. Each guest holds the history of their ancestors and their present-day selves.

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Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub, with support from Crawley LGBTQU+. Delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley as part of their Enliven programme funded by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District. Supported by Arts Council England.

 

         

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Night Watch film trail, Crawley on 26th January

January 9, 2023

Thomas Lock’s film ‘Memory Theatre’ projected onto M&S, Crawley (photo by Bip Mistry).

Watch short films projected onto the streets of Crawley as part of videoclub’s Night Watch film trail.

Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place in January and February 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Crawley, UK. Films will be curated from submissions by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally. The next film trail will take place on 26th January, and another film trail on 23rd February.

Follow the film trail as the mobile cinema moves around central Crawley, with opportunities to stop and watch, and then follow the trail to the next location. Viewers can follow the trail or just watch one film. videoclub will be walking films through the streets using a portable cinema.

The short films will be a combination of film & video, experimental film, short film, animation, and digital works. With live music played between locations.

There will be two trails (with the same films) taking place on the 26th Jan, one at 4:45pm and one at 6:15pm. Choose which time works best for you, and book using the link below:

Secure your place for the film trail on Thursday, January 26th by clicking HERE.

Meet in Queen’s Square outside Metro Bank at either 4:45pm or 6:15pm to start the tour. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.

Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.

The event is free to attend and you can just turn up. Spaces are limited though, so to guarantee your place please reserve your FREE ticket.

Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub, with support from Crawley LGBTQU+. Delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley as part of their Enliven programme funded by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District. Supported by Arts Council England.

 

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Selected 12 online – 5th to 11th Dec 2022

November 17, 2022

Between 5 and 11 December,  Selected 12 programme was shown on this webpage. The trailer for the programme can still be watched above.

Selected 12 is a new collection of eight artists’ films, which toured the UK in 2022, screening at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video in Glasgow, Nottingham, London, Cardiff, Southampton and Brighton.

Shortlisted artists for the 2021 Film London Jarman Award – Adham Faramawy and Guy Oliver, FLAMIN and videoclub have curated a stimulating film programme celebrating diverse filmmaking talent. Artists in the programme include: Sarah Gonnet, Sophie Hoyle, Jessy Jetpacks, Seo Hye Lee, April Lin, Laura Lulika, Jennifer Mehigan and Ker Wallwork.

Programme of work:

  • Laura Lulika, A leak, a draft, a mold, a flame, 2022, 9 mins
  • Sarah Gonnet, Womb, 2018, 2:17 mins
  • Ker Wallwork, small wet mouth, 2019, 12 mins
  • Sophie Hoyle, Hyperacusis (Part 1), 2021, 7 mins
  • Seo Hye Lee, [sound of subtitles], 2021, 1:37 mins
  • Jennifer Mehigan, Honeysuckle Joyride, 2021, 12:37 mins
  • Jessy Jetpacks, Icarus, 2020, 3:57 mins
  • April Lin 林森, TR333, 2021, 10 mins

View the detailed film programme in Word: SELECTED 12 – programme notes and in PDF: SELECTED 12 – programme notes

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Selected 12 is produced by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Supported by Arts Council England and Film London.

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network

Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supports London-based artists working in moving image, working in partnership to deliver a comprehensive programme including production award schemes, regular screenings, talks and events, as well as the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award.

http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk

      

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Call for film submissions – videoclub’s Night Watch

November 16, 2022
Large projection onto the brick wall of a regency townhouse of a woman with black hait and bright red lipstick and a shimmering blue background.

Projection onto a white residential tower block of a woman holding her hands in front of her with an illustration of a pink carnation covering her face and head over a white background.
True Sound Façade by Laura Nasir-Tamara projected onto 5 The Boulevard, Crawley.

Call for film & video submissions by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers

Night Watch is an outdoor film trail taking place in January and February 2023, with film & video works projected onto buildings around the town of Crawley, UK. Films will be curated from work submitted to us. Submissions will be accepted by LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers from the UK and internationally.

Submissions can be artists’ film & video, experimental film, Machinima, short film, animation, or digital works, and must be 5 minutes or less in length.

Night Watch is curated and produced by international artists’ film & video agency, videoclub, with support from Crawley LGBTQU+. Delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley as part of their Enliven programme funded by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District. Supported by Arts Council England.

SUBMISSION DETAILS AND INFORMATION

Night Watch screening date Submission deadline Outcome date
Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20 Dec 2022 20 Jan 2023
Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15 Jan 2022 20 Feb 2023

Criteria for screening submissions:

– Between 2 and 5 minutes in length.

– Be engaging for viewers who may be passing in the street or watching throughout the programme, for example be visually stimulating, humorous, narrative, spectacular, fun, surprising and accessible.

– Be appropriate for public / outdoor exhibition (must be suitable for children and adults in public space).

– Work must be in digital format and be high enough in resolution to show at scale (1080p / HD).

Fee:

– A screening fee of £50 GBP will be paid to the filmmaker if work is shown in the programme.

– Fee will be paid via direct bank payment following receipt of an invoice. Successful artists/filmmakers will be sent details.

Requirements:

– If the language of the film is not English, the film must have English subtitles.

– Only one work per submission (add additional submissions to a new form).

– Entrants may submit an unlimited number of works.

– Work must be digitally available.

– Entrants declare that the film submitted is their own and that its public screening rights have not been transferred to third parties.

If you have relevant queries regarding the film event, the entry process or require assistance navigating the entry form, please email: info@videoclub.org.uk

All artists/filmmakers will be informed of the decision to screen in advance of public announcements.

Submission:

– Click here to submit a film or video via a Google form.

– Complete the form and submit.

– Applications not using the application form will not be accepted.

Night Watch is delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley. Supported by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District and Arts Council England.

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Night Watch film trail in Crawley, 19 Nov

October 20, 2022

See Crawley in a new way as part of an outdoor film trail

On Saturday 19th November, watch short films projected onto the streets of Crawley as part of videoclub’s Night Watch film trail. Five films by British and international artists will be shown above shops and on buildings, taking place for one evening only.

Follow the film trail as the mobile cinema moves around central Crawley, with opportunities to stop and watch, and then follow the trail to the next location. Viewers can follow the trail or just watch one film. videoclub will be walking films through the streets using a portable cinema.

Meet in Queen’s Square outside Metro Bank at either 5pm or 6:30pm to start the tour. The trail will be repeated at those times. Look out for the yellow hi-vis vests.

To get free tickets for the film trail on Saturday, 19th November: Book here for the 5pm or 6.30pm trail*

*Both trails are the same, so you only need to attend one unless you’d like to repeat your experience.

Access: the trail will cover approximately 1km, all wheelchair accessible. The pace is fairly leisurely. Films will be subtitled.

The event is free to attend and you can just turn up. Spaces are limited though, so to guarantee your place please reserve your FREE ticket.

FILM PROGRAMME

A still image from an animation shows a bright pink UFO hovers on a glitchy, digital yellow background watched by blue frogs.
Memory Theatre by Thomas Lock, 2012

“Memory Theatre takes as its starting point a personal reflection on my memory of cartoons, films, online videos and music. The material used in the work ranges from reflections on my childhood in the 80’s through to the present day. Collage and cut up techniques run throughout the editing creating confusing and psychedelic relationships within the visual and sonic content. Video is broken down through pixelation whilst layers of imagery, sound and live action are merged together.” – Thomas Lock

A still from a digital animation shows a black and white spotted fourlegged furry animal with a loop of fur for a head. The animal is in a brightly coloured pink and greeen environment with stars and rainbows.
Reverse Wormhole by Sarah Ann Banks, 2020

In Reverse Wormhole a cosmic creature, with a random matter-generating portal for a head, expels distorted life forms into existence.

A still from an animation shows 5 bright green bald cyclists riding a red five seater bicycle along a street.
Cool 3D World (Brian Tessler and Jon Baker), Bicycle, 2019

Five green people on a tandem bicycle ride through the streets of New York City. The group effortlessly pedals around road signs, traffic and even up a tall building to escape the wrath of a street cart vendor. The bicyclists eventually wind up at a roof party where they sadly lose their front wheel. Luckily there are several purple unicyclists nearby to help.

A person with bright red lipstick and yellow make up around the eyes has their mouth wide open with a jam jar exiting it. Fire comes out of their ears and a bright red neon light shines horizontally behind the person.
Dynasty Handbag, Vat Do You Vahnt For Bwekfas?, 2016

Vat Do You Vahnt For Bwekfas? is a response to privilege, environmental collapse and the horror of American grocery stores. This work features a robot version of Dynasty Handbag refusing choice, being disdainful of choice, questioning choice and fighting choice. How are the choices we make in our life today preparing ourselves for having zero choices in the future? Doesn’t look good!

Still from an animation shows a woman in black and white standing in a brightly coloured environment including a puffy pink tree, lime green sky, yellow sandy beach and blue sea. Two floating white appliances have images on, one with pink lips and one with a yellow, blue and pink eye with long lashes.
True Sound Façade by Laura Nasir-Tamara, 2020

Commissioned by Barbican x The Smalls for their “Inside out” short film series, “True Sound Facade” is a poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self. The film takes its inspiration from the japanese notions of “honne” the true sound, one’s innermost feelings, and “tatemae”, the façade we put up to live in society. It stars Kino McHugh, dancing with and against a colourful animated environment born out of her movements.

ABOUT NIGHT WATCH

Night Watch is part of a season celebrating 75 years of Crawley new town. Crawley Borough Council will light up and enliven Crawley town centre from 18th to 20th November with lanterns and light installations in Memorial Gardens, plus a ‘Tales of Crawley’ promenade performance on the High Street, bandstand entertainment, and street performances. The festive weekend will end with the annual Christmas tree lights switch-on in Queens Square on Sunday, 20th November.

Creative Crawley are delivering a free Give it a Go: Projection workshop from 12 – 3pm on the same day as the Night Watch film trail. If you would like to do some experimenting with projection and 3D mapping you can join for free – find out more information by clicking here.

Night Watch is delivered in partnership with Creative Crawley. Supported by Crawley Town Centre Business Improvement District and Arts Council England.

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