FAFF2011

Best of FAFF 2011

2011-08-31T20:18:00.003+01:00

Fundada are delighted to announce the Best of FAFF 2011.

The viewing audience at Fundada Artists' Film Festival 2011 voted for the best film of the festival and the winners are:

Gold FAFFTA: Sparrow+Castice (UK) - Sparrow & Castice Do Wakefield (2011)

World Première!
On Monday June 13th 2011 Sparrow+Castice went to Wakefield. One week later on Sunday 19th they returned to Birmingham. At some point between these two dates 10 films were made. These are those 10 films.
sparrowandcastice.tumblr.com

Congratulations also to runners up in second and third place:

Silver FAFFTA: Paul B Johnson (UK) - TV of Tomorrow...Today (2011)

The piece explores the formal mechanisms of our assimilation of the television media, particularly reality television. The focus remains on such mechanisms as editing, framing and graphics by removing the characters' faces, reducing them to puppets. This reductive approach gives the piece its childlike quality. The womb soundscape reinforces the concept of television as a pacifier for society.
web.me.com/stripeypaul

Bronze FAFFTA: Gerard Freixes Ribera (ES) - The Homogenics (2010)

The same people living in the same houses. Uniformisation turns everything into stereotypes. The Homogenics family sitcom is an extreme example.
gerardfreixes.weebly.com

Congratulations to our FAFFTA award winning artists and thank you to everyone who voted.

Wolfie interviews Alice & Nancy

2011-07-28T18:11:00.004+01:00

The Wolf behind Fundada interviews founding co-directors Alice Bradshaw and Nancy Porter.

Wolfie: Where does the name Fundada come from?
Alice: It’s a mix of 2 of our main interests in art: Fun + dada.
Nancy: Well we wanted something that represented, something that could be a play on words but also something legitimate. It means 'founded' in Spanish and came off a bottle of Havana Club rum. We love rum and this subtle tip of our hats to it seemed perfect.

W: Why a film festival?
N: I think it was an interesting move for me personally as it's something I have never done before. It's been great to be critically engaged in something that we are all exposed to and absorbed in. Instead of looking at the big films that are out there, it's been a great experience to look at the smaller films which have a broad spectrum of talent and are interesting artistically.
A: Last year we were thinking of opening a gallery with a dedicated artists’ cinema space. The space we had in mind fell through but the opportunity to run a film festival as part of Halifax Festival came from Square Chapel who kindly offered us the venue and equipment to screen it. We had no good reason not to run it again this year. We’re planning other projects as Fundada though - not exclusively film.

W: This year FAFF comes to Wakefield. What prompted the move from Halifax?
A: The film festival or any other Fundada activity was never set to be tied to any geographical location. We’re peripatetic and opportunistic.
N: The opportunity came to us through Alice as she is a resident in the studio. Plus it has a pub. What's better? Pint and a film.

W: What's the ambiguous “Yes” / “No” for on the FAFF2011 submission form?
N: Interesting question! Originally we thought it'd be an amusing twist to our application forms. We were intentionally ambiguous what we want people to say Yes or No to.
A: It was an experiment to see if it prompted any surreal answers to the “questions.” It prompted more questions than answers.
N: We get a lot of ticks/crosses to Yes, some smiley faces and some questions. I like the response we've had to it.

W: Were there lots of submissions and does it take ages to review?
A: There were loads. We had them delivered to Westgate Studios and every week there was a new stack by the pigeonholes waiting for collection.
N: The reviewing process is a fairly long process but it never seems to drag because we get so many interesting and varied films, there's always something for us to discuss and muse over.
A: We really impressed by how far our open call went. We had submissions from every corner of the world and it was great reviewing them all.
W: What are the criteria?
A: The submission criteria this year was a maximum of 20 minutes duration and the submissions had to be DVD pal. Last year there were no criteria as we had 5 screening days to play with so feature lengths were not out of the question. We found that despite receiving good quality feature lengths from around the world, short films were much more interesting for us. I think there’s definitely a subtle distinction between film film and art film. It’s not a simple one eg having or not having narrative. And we like film film too.
N: We called it Fundada Artists’ Film Festival because we particularly wanted films made by artists rather than films made by filmmakers. It’s not specifically a criteria though - it’s just suggested in the title, because essentially filmmakers are artists and artists who make films are filmmakers.
A: We also had to make submissions postal only on DVD pal because we had serious issues with film formats last year. Filthy little mov files caused so many problems as they are so incompatible. We had to go to Lumen in Leeds and use their Macs with Final Cut Pro just to convert the files into a workable format. With films already in DVD pal there’s no conversion and quality loss.
N: Essentially, the selection criteria is a mix of quality and subjectivity and also if the films will work together curatorially.

W: What is the selection process?
A: The selection process is we’ll watch all the films together and discuss each one and make a longlist. Once we’ve reviewed all of them we’ll make a shortlist knowing what we’re working with. Then we’ll make the final selection and decide the running order.
N: Last year we didn’t have anywhere suitable to review films so we ended up in bars across Manchester with laptops and wine. We know all the best places to plug in for power, and the preferred seats nearest the plug sockets as well.
A: This year we have a very comfortable HQ with all the facilities.

W: Do you ever disagree about the selection?
A: I don’t think we have... sometimes we’re both unsure about a film and have different levels of enthusiasm for it, but it’s generally an easy process to decide and a good conversation in the process.
N: I don't think we've ever had a disagreement over a film, no. We're both very much on the same page. Plus we're a democracy, like U2 but with the Irish vibe and tax evasion.

W: What have been the worst films to review?
N: Dance. And experimental dance. I have no clue over this as an art form. It's not my place and never will be. Oh and scrotum footage. Can we say scrotum in an interview?
A: Swinging scrotum were the low point of our career as Fundada. We discussed the potential for screening a Worst of FAFF and the ethics of doing that. We haven’t ruled it out. Video documentation as video documentation and not a piece of work in its own right is not a good start and neither of us are particularly keen on dance as a medium, less so as documentation and not live.

W: And the best?
N: Scrotum footage. No, I kid. The best are the ones that when we watch them they instantly strike us as being Fundada. They're normally a little surreal, sometimes they'll feature a woodland animal or a flying rum bottle.
A: We also ran a public vote for best film of the day each screening day last year and have awarded the following Best of FAFF2010 FAFFTAs to: Splitty McCheeks (UK) & NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino (US) live, Eagle & Feather (UK) KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age, Sebaldo (UK) - Bomb Ed, Paul Tarragó (UK) - The Badger Series Episode 1, Kathy Toth (UK) – Loop, Jorge García Velayos (ES) - La Bestia (The Beast), Lemeh42 (IT) - Inner Klänge (Inner Sound) and Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK)- Space Drawing No.5.

W: What's next for Fundada?
N: We have big plans. We're thinking of something abroad - we want to take Fundada to Europe. And perhaps something printed like a zine.
A: We’re both interested in language and are developing a project around multilingualism and the inherent strangeness of language. Research trips are going to be an important part of the next year. Showcasing artists’ films will still be a big part of what we do though. Fundada TV is here!

http://vimeo.com/fundada

FAFF 2011 Success!

2011-07-28T18:02:00.002+01:00

Fundada had a full house at Westgate Studios last night and received some lovely feedback.

"..a great mix of quality short art films ranging from narrative pieces to more abstract works. Films with humour and some with a more serious edge. All wonderfully unpredictable." - BLPT

"[Sparrow+Castice Do Wakefield] was hilarious but moving as there was an implied abstract narrative."

"I think we should guard against making video films that copy the techniques used in television!"

"I liked that you could follow the story even though it was in a foreign language and the colours were so rich."

[On Women In Sheds] "I have an enduring love of sheds. An affinity. Faffing around. Escapism. Sanctuary. Bloody Lovely."

"Thank you!"

We also asked our audience to vote for their favourite film of the festival and will be announcing the FAFFTA award winner shortly!

Fundada Artists' Film Festival 2011

2011-07-20T18:01:00.020+01:00

Fundada Artists' Film Festival 2011
Wednesday 27th July 2011, 5-9pm
1st Floor, Westgate Studios, 55 Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW
FREE ENTRY
The programme will run 5-7pm and 7-9pm

Sparrow+Castice (UK) - Sparrow & Castice Do Wakefield (2011) 08:00 World Première

On Monday June 13th 2011 Sparrow+Castice went to Wakefield. One week later on Sunday 19th they returned to Birmingham. At some point between these two dates 10 films were made. These are those 10 films.
sparrowandcastice.tumblr.com

Simona da Pozzo (IT) - Exclave (2010) 15:33

Portable Grounds is an intervention about territory, identity and mobility: it acts as a compulsive reflex that pushes to transport, to have objects –or parts of them- with the idea to have a physical link with that we love, to despite distances. A attitude to condense sadness in objects that nourish nostalgia.
www.simonadapozzo.net

Marius Leneweit & Rocío Rodríguez (DE) ...niland 2 (...no land 2) (2011) 09:56

...niland (no land) is a visionary work about the adaptation and transformation of humankind to a life beneath the water surface. The work is based on themes of climate change and develop, particularly the way it has produced a grotesque notion of the sea's rising water table. The interface of air and water functions as the indicator of a climate influenced by humanity, raises questions regarding the ambivalence of the symbiosis human-environment and examines the stringent concurrence of climate change and cultural change.
www.gruppefisch.com

Patrick Moser (US) - Patty Goes (2011) 02:10 UK Première!

An animated homage to the Patterson footage that inspired me as a child.
www.patrickmoserpaintings.com

Fin McMorran (UK) - Women and Sheds (2010-11) 10:50

9 women tell their stories, about their sheds – private space, workshops, refuges and occasional disaster areas. A representative of the local shed community replies, detailing some of her hopes and aspirations and revealing some truths about the complex nature of sheds.
www.finmcmorran.co.uk

Chiara Malta (IT) - D'attends une Femme (Waiting For A Woman) (2010) 20:00

Mireille is drawing a naked woman and a dog for olivia. Anna is wearing some makeup. Priscillie and Virginie are taking their clothes off. Milo knows girls' legs. Annie is very comfrotable with the instruments of her profession. Francoise reas the cards. Christian is jealous. And I, I am filming this little theatre.
www.sacrebleuprod.com

Jennifer Ross (UK) - Caught in Mise en Scene (2010) 03:35

Popular culture is characterised by paranoia; some system or organisation controlling our moves. We crave to break free of the constraints of life and to be a free individual. But what, and how is shaping our existence? Are we able to escape it?
www.jennifer-ross.co.uk

Alice Bradshaw (UK) - Rubbish (2011) 01:00

A montage from the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish.
museumofcontemporaryrubbish.blogspot.com

Rémi Mazet (FR) - Siggil (2010) 18:03

Dakar is a popular district. An old man, Lamine, is getting ready to go to an important meeting. At the other side of the city, in a sumptuous villa, someone is waiting for him anxiously.
www.sacrebleuprod.com

Marzia Moretti (IT) - Azione Sovversiva Minima 6 (Minimal Subversive Action 6) (2010) 00:44 World Première

Intake, compression, power, exhaust.

Paul B Johnson (UK) - TV of Tomorrow...Today (2011) 01:10

The piece explores the formal mechanisms of our assimilation of the television media, particularly reality television. The focus remains on such mechanisms as editing, framing and graphics by removing the characters' faces, reducing them to puppets. This reductive approach gives the piece its childlike quality. The womb soundscape reinforces the concept of television as a pacifier for society.
web.me.com/stripeypaul

Gerard Freixes Ribera (ES) - The Homogenics (2010) 04:00

The same people living in the same houses. Uniformisation turns everything into stereotypes. The Homogenics family sitcom is an extreme example.
gerardfreixes.weebly.com

Andrew Branscombe (UK) - Retrograde (2011) 05:15

Our lives today our driven by storage, the Internet is built upon huge databases, but how long can this storage last, and does the constant replication of this data cause the original qualities or meanings to become diluted or erased? The film depicts the interior of a VHS VCR, the HD footage has been deliberately deteriorated by reproducing it on various 'older' technologies, from DVD to the infamous VHS. The VHS media has been re-recorded repeatedly until the resulting image becomes completely incoherent.
andrewbranscombe.blogspot.com

Rudolf Costin (RO) - O Dada (2010) 01:43

O Dada is an illustration of a literary exquisite corpse assembled by chance in a coffee shop in Cluj-Napoca. The video is a subjective view of the produced poem, with sudden cuts in the image and sound, the same way as the words are divided in dada poetry. By definition, a dada poem is an assembly of verses with no links between them, just like the sliced up storyline of this video.

Fin McMorran (UK) - Paper (2009) 04:30

At the end of a long and weary art conference, full of long words and longer papers, the audience is doodling and dreaming of teabreaks. Then, the final paper comes unexpectedly to life with an unplanned demonstration of theory becoming practice allowing the metaphorical fish to tell it like it really is.
www.finmcmorran.co.uk

Katriona Skinner(UK) - I Will Brush Them Again if You Want (2010) 01:24

The everyday is a structure and sequence of familiar patterns formed into routines of repetition. The insignificant becomes significant. I sort through the mundane, patch-working humdrum monotonous moments together creating a glimpse of the reality of the everyday. I investigate the trivial, the uncanny and the absurdity of the quotidian by removing its structure to create a new order, using staged and real home movies to capture rhythm, like the ticking of a clock; to capture the beat of the day.
www.katrionaskinner.com

Anna Francis (UK) - Emoticon (2011) 08:00

Within my work as an artist and as a child of the 70s struggling with the digital age I use social media a lot within my practice. While I see the great benefit of this astounding connectivity I am also perturbed by the limitations and dumbing down of meaningful connections which can, on occasion, be the result. In Emoticon I am exploring the limitations and possibilities of the emoticon in adequately representing a broad range of human emotion. The shorthand of the emoticon is used by many to attempt to add a human and emotional level to what are often kneejerk, quick-response messages. The immediacy of email and text has meant that the nuances of human emotion are often lost in translation, misunderstandings frequently occur. www.annafrancis.com

THANKS
Fundada would like to thank the following people without whose help FAFF2011 would not be possible: The artists, Westgate Studios for the use of the space, The Arthouse for the use of their projector, Facelessco for the use of their speakers, Bob Milner for his amazing illustrations, The Hepworth Gallery for the cardboard, Sparrow+Castice for the transportation of the cardboard, Our friends, family and colleagues for their ongoing support.

Fundada TV Launches!

2011-07-16T18:26:00.002+01:00

Fundada TV is a new online channel showcasing the Best of Fundada Artists' Film Festival.

A new film uploaded each week!

http://vimeo.com/fundada/

FAFF2011 Programme Confirmed!

2011-07-16T16:22:00.003+01:00

FAFF2011 will take place on Wednesday 27th July 2011, 5-9pm
1st floor, Westgate Studios, 55 Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW
Screenings: 5-7pm and 7-9pm

Programme:
Sparrow+Castice (UK) - Sparrow & Castice Do Wakefield (2011) World Première!
Simona da Pozza (IT) - Exclave (2010)
Marius Leneweit & Rocío Rodríguez (DE) ...niland 2 (...no land 2) (2011)
Patrick Moser (US) - Patty Goes (2011)
Fin McMorran (UK) - Women and Sheds (2010-11)
Chiara Malta (IT) - D'attends une Femme (Waiting For A Woman) (2010)
Jennifer Ross (UK) - Caught in Mise en Scene (2010)
Alice Bradshaw (UK) - Rubbish (2011)
Rémi Mazet (FR) - Siggil (2010)
Marzia Moretti (IT) - Azione Sovversiva Minima 6 (Minimal Subversive Action 6) (2010)
Paul B Johnson (UK) - TV of Tomorrow...Today (2011)
Gerard Freixes Ribera (ES) - The Homogenics (2010)
Andrew Branscombe (UK) - Retrograde (2011)
Rudolf Costin (RO) - O Dada (2010)
Fin McMorran (UK) - Paper (2009)
Katriona Skinner (UK) - I Will Brush Them Again if You Want (2010)
Anna Francis (UK) - Emoticon (2011)

Best of FAFF2010

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The public voted FAFFTA winning Best of FAFF2010 are:

Splitty McCheeks (UK) - You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks

Special guest performing with Splitty McCheeks at the FAFF Launch Event at Square Chapel, Halifax featuring Hollywood based NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino. Barry plays 10 VHS video players hung round his neck projecting the mixed images through a digital projector strapped to his head.

Eagle & Feather (UK) KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age

Kipple: A term borrowed from Phillip K Dick referring to the detritus of modern living that will one day overwhelm us. Collaboratively, Eagle & Feather have been putting their own interpretation on the term kipple for a number of years. Through regular visits to charity shops, public libraries and jumble sales they have amassed a collection of absurdly peripheral and esoteric videotapes, selected for their distinct peculiarity. Theirs is an attempt at alchemy, taking base material and transforming it, by various means – editing, manipulating, combining and reducing - into something that is imbued with new qualities - humour, drama, pathos and poetry. Turning kipple into non-kipple, at least temporarily.

Sebaldo (UK) - Bomb Ed

"I am eating the bread of modern design. I spend my days teaching ideas how to spread their wings and cross roads safely. I am extremely versatile. I specialise in Illustration, animation, 3D, concept building and narrative work. When not swimming in ponds I am an expert Papier Mâché sculptor. I love my work, and unlike normal ducks, I can land on trees."

Paul Tarragó (UK) - The Badger Series Episode 1

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

Kathy Toth (UK) - Loop

Loop is a stopframe animation where handmade charcoal drawings have been photographed. Each object is rubbed out and then redrawn onto the same drawing for the next frame, thus leaving a trace of movement. These objects are inspired by found imagery resembling scientific diagrams. My interest lies in how diagrams are perceived once taken out of context and viewed purely as a set of shapes and lines. While drawing diagrams I begins to associate them visually with other objects in a way that is similar to cloud spotting and 'projective tests' within psychoanalysis.

Jorge García Velayos (ES) - La Bestia (The Beast)

In Paris begins a strange revolution on the roofs, with the sculptures and the clouds. When the beast appears is time for the destruction.

Lemeh42 (IT) - Inner Klänge (Inner Sound)

Kandinskij published one of his most important works, Klänge (Sounds). The general principle of Klänge was the liberation of the inner sound. One century later, Lemeh42 realizes a personal homage to this Russian painter. Inner Klänge (Inner sounds) is an animated journey to find the Inner sound.

Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK)- Space Drawing No.5

Space Drawing No.5 was created in 2009 in Russia. Through the simplest yet most fundamental function of line - to divide, subtract, Space Drawing attempts to capture a moment of transitory energy.

Michael Palin Says Yes to Fundada

2011-04-25T22:26:00.000+01:00

FAFF2011 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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FUNDADA ARTISTS' FILM FESTIVAL 2011

Wednesday 27th July 2011
Westgate Studios, Wakefield (UK)
FREE ENTRY

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

WHAT: Open call for single-channel screen-based art; film, video, animation (no thematic criteria)

WHO: Anyone can submit to FAFF2011; all nationalities, all career levels including students

DURATION: 20 minutes maximum

FORMAT: Films should be supplied on DVD format. A film still (jpg at 300dpi) is also required.

LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES: Films with non-English dialogue do not have to have English subtitles but it is recommended.

COST: No submission or participation fee. Postage for postal submissions is payable by the applicant. Postal submission cannot be returned. Please note that only FAFF2011 is only able to notify successful applicants.

POSTAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY

DOWNLOAD FORM (PDF): http://bit.ly/FAFF2011

POSTAL ADDRESS: (Non-EU submissions: No commercial value, for cultural purposes)

FAO Alice Bradshaw, FAFF2011, Westgate Studios, 55 Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW, UK

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS (Receiving date not postmark date): 27th June 2011

FAFF2010 Programme: Friday 20th August 2010

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Sam Holden (UK)
70 still frames and 5 minutes 50 seconds
70 still frames and 5 minutes 50 seconds of video Using a digital SLR, image capture software and a hidden video camera 70 Still Frames and 5mins 50 seconds of Video highlights how much we simply don't see when encountering someone's photographic reproduction and underlines how problematic photography can be as representative medium.

David Cochrane (UK)
Rehearsal (Day In, Day Out)
Performance related video
An unknown protagonist puts on and takes of different ties

Şinasi Güneş (TR)
Anatolia
This work contains images of women who live in Anatolia and have different cultural features and also of women who are veiled are scrutinised.

Sarah Filmer (UK)
Unravel
A disparate collection of personal moments becomes an articulation of the universal notion of loss. The pale blue jumper has a trajectory through the world that acts as a metaphor for the life of any one or any thing. It's story is spoken, while the visual elements of the video allude to the ways in which we incorporate a life-changing death into a lived experience.

Maggie Hall (UK)
Rolling Drawing
"I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation."

Tom Walker (UK)
Spin
"My work draws from sources such as performance art history, jackass and youtube and it is from these that I extrapolate the ridiculous, the futile and failure of actions or moments in order to create my work. These stimuli can either be used as a trigger or directly within the work, the videos always feature me, after all if one cannot make an ass of one's self then what is the point? Maybe it is I who is laughing at me, laughing at you, laughing at me."

Sarah Buckius (USA)
Trapped Inside Pixels
This animation combines performance, video and photography to digitally transform human movements to create kaleidoscopic patterns. This work explores how digital media uses replication to reconfigure a digitized single moving body into infinite animated mutations.

Kit Merritt (UK)
We Shall Never Speak of This: 7th January
Performance in response to an item received in the post. Part of an on-going mail art piece titled We Shall Never Speak of This , in which conversations with other artists evolve in every medium except the spoke / written word.

Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK)
Space Drawing No.5
Space Drawing No.5 was created in 2009 in Russia. Through the simplest yet most fundamental function of line - to divide, subtract, Space Drawing attempts to capture a moment of transitory energy.

Sara Brannan (UK)
Work no.14
"I am using animation as an extension of my sculptural practice and I am using the medium to promote ideas that I am unable to do in conventional sculpture. I am shifting the location of the art object from being wholly material into the realms of digital art and in doing so I can play with form, movement and perception. The low-resolution DIY ethic of my practice is continued by using basic tools and equipment to produce the works."

Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (BE)
The Good Life (a guided tour)
The Good Life shows a guided tour through empty white gallery spaces. An exhibition is being built up, paintings are ready to be unpacked. A guide is accompanying a small audience and comments upon the art and the fantastic spaces in the museum. However, after a while the guide appears to be an estate agent who recommends a visionary architectural design (by architectural agency 51N4E), which will replace the museum with exclusive lofts.

Tether / Grin & Slutsky (UK)
Grin & Slutsky
Soon, Grin & Slutsky will reveal the one thing that all people want to know...

Doplgenger (SRB)
Voices Gazes Traces
Medusa, one of the three sisters known as the Gorgons, was punished by given the destructive power to turn anyone who looked directly at her into stone. The piece Voices Gazes Traces as expanded cinema deals with feminist concept of writing here transposed to film medium. It is a study of the screen history and contemporary placement of 'Woman as film Icon'.

Milk, Two Sugars (UK)
Cinefun
Bob Milner on Cinefun: "I became interested in the expressive qualities of the human voice during voice workshops I attended some years ago. Participants were encouraged to play with sound, in the way children seem to, before they learn to speak. We gurgled and chortled, made animal noises, called and crooned, and we communicated to each other using these nonsense sounds. Though we were sometimes in a darkened room where we could not 'read' each other's facial expressions, we were able to convey emotion and meaning with these nonsensical noises. As a visual artist, I wondered if something as abstract as these sounds could be explored in visual imagery. How could I depict an energetic, joyous laugh, or a gut-wrenching, wailing sadness? Could frenzied, erratic lines convey wild cackling calls, or a soft smudgy line convey a gentle humming? I didn't know then and I still don't. Enjoy the film!"

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episodes 7 & 8
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

FAFF2010 Programme: Thursday 19th August 2010

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Clare Harris (UK)
Passing Moment
Passing Moment is a short film in which the viewer is placed in a position of being a voyeur in which they observe consciousness looking in on itself. With ambiguous and sometimes tense imagery the viewer finds themselves lost in a void of emotion.

Roland Wegerer (AT)
Sunwatersandbucket
On a beach near the Danube a bucket full of water will positioned. The bucket will be knocked down. A splash flows over the sand and looks for a way to the water. Because of the angle of view the qualities of this process can be seen. Extensions, course, glittering, ooze away, reducing. A narrative game with our perception.

Lin de Mol (NL)
You Can
Slowly, in a meditative mood, the camera investigates details of the interior of an old house. The water tap is dripping, a woman's hand is embroidering a table cloth and a lizard slowly crawls over a bowl of red berries. Trees, duckweed and brushwood alternate with scenes from the interior, describing the mood of a moment like a string of haikus. Bach's opening aria of the Goldberg Variations forms the frame of this 'associative editing' piece that bears references to Dutch painters Pieter Claesz ad Lara de Moor.

Sara Rajaei (NL)
Forever for a While
A young woman enters a living room, moments later she is an elderly woman looking at herself in a mirror, or is a little girl sitting in a chair. Once in a while they seem to find themselves in the same space, which is otherwise populated by family members who are completely taken up with each other, while the woman is moving in isolation as if she is not really there, her gaze turned inwards.

Joanne Masding (UK)
Tree Door
A plastic three is wedged into and take out of a space in a door frame while a projection of a plastic tree is wedged into and taken out of a space in a door frame.

David Cochrane (UK)
Incident
Performance related video - diptych
Left screen - a candle is melted using a blowtorch
Right screen - a paper house is built

Gerald Zahn (AT)
Nur Noch 5 Minuten (Just 5 More Minutes)
A study of time in cinematic perception, Viennese media artist Gerald Zahn visualises 5 minutes by filming a person holding his breath for the duration of the film. In contrast with the casual disregard for mere 5 minutes in the film title, the film fills this period with significance. The emotional turmoil on the actor's face as he fights through every second on the stop-watch, making 5 Minutes a cinematic era of tension, impatience, doubt and expectation.

David Cochrane (UK)
Dealt
Performance related video
A deck of card is dealt out

Lernert & Sander (NL)
How To Explain It To My Parents: Arno Coenen
In How To Explain It To My Parents: Arno Coenen, multimedia artist Arno Coenen is sitting at a table with his father. Together they taste Arno's elf-brewed Eurotrash beer; followed by an attempt at a dialogue on how the brewing of beer can also be regarded as art. But ultimately, the conversation mainly tells us a great deal about the father-son relationship.

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 5
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

Lemeh42 (IT)
Inner Klänge (Inner Sound)
Kandinskij published one of his most important works, Klänge (Sounds). The general principle of Klänge was the liberation of the inner sound. One century later, Lemeh42 realizes a personal homage to this Russian painter. Inner Klänge (Inner sounds) is an animated journey to find the Inner sound.

Adam Brandon (UK)
02/60
The film is based upon the parallels between our perception of time, and the fundamental quality of time itself. By slowing footage to 2000 frames per second, the viewer is given a unique look into an unseen world, questioning not only our perception of time, but of the very idea of the natural, unchangeable forces surrounding us.

Lernert & Sander (NL)
Revenge: Bottle of Champagne
Revenge: Bowling Ball
Revenge: Hammer
The ingredients: a bottle of champagne, a bowling ball, a hammer. And the laws of physics. The goal: sweet revenge. Revenge is a series of short videos, originally part of a two hour documentary about revenge for Dutch VPRO television.

Tom Walker (UK)
You and Me
"My work draws from sources such as performance art history, jackass and youtube and it is from these that I extrapolate the ridiculous, the futile and failure of actions or moments in order to create my work. These stimuli can either be used as a trigger or directly within the work, the videos always feature me, after all if one cannot make an ass of one's self then what is the point? Maybe it is I who is laughing at me, laughing at you, laughing at me."

Sarah Harbridge (UK)
Not Reacting to Something Horrific
This video comes from Sarah Harbridge's current project (March 2010) to attempt to make a piece of art each day, within her means: time, ability, cost.

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 6
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

FAFF2010 Programme: Wednesday 18th August 2010

2010-08-11T19:02:00.000+01:00

Çağlar Çetin (TR)
Peki (Alright)
A motionless woman, who is surrounded by ceaseless speeches of her family, colleges and childhood memories, comes across with people shaking their heads. Would she really like to take any action?

Sarah Lüdemann (NL)
Other Voices
If you do not have a language, do you have an identity? Twelve "impossible" conversations between the artist (German) and participants speaking their own mother tongue arranged into a symphony of voices, sounds and gestures.

Jenny Triggs (UK)
The Unnamable
A short animated film based on 'The Unnamable' by Samuel Beckett

Tory Smith (UK)
Bariera Jezykowa (Language Barrier)
Language Barrier (Barieka Jezykowa) portrays the inability of words to approximate the visual image and successful translations from one language to another. The short film incites the visual and spoken word through the production of dynamic exchange. The combination of elements; taught language, the art of translation, identity, and memory, confront the prejudices of linguistic lack to shape the perception and understanding of foreign languages.

Lernert & Sander (NL)
How To Explain It To My Parents: Martin de Waal
Martin de Waal is a Dutch artist who uses his own body as a medium and pushes the boundaries of self-alteration, in order to reflect on human identity and people's judgement about physical appearance. In How Yo Explain It To My Parents: Martin de Waal, he speaks with two people who might be worried about this - his parents. The conversation shifts to expectations, understand and memories of the furniture and artworks in the parental home.

Keren Cytter (DE)
Der Spiegel (The Mirror)
With simple means, Keren Cytter stages a Shakespearean drama in a stripped contemporary Berlin apartment. A 42 year old woman is confronted by her mirror image with the fact she's not 16 anymore, she is being rejected by her crush and has no eyes for the man who loves her.

Jacki Storey (UK)
Vanitas
Vanitas is the unmediated recording of a live camera obscura projective installation. Ordinary objects are animated in real time using synchronicity, juxtaposition, transparency and transition and the manipulation of light. By perceptually transforming the normal appearance and behaviour of objects, the realm of the Uncanny is explored.

Jane Chavez-Dawson (UK)
Seeing The Woods For The Trees
'Seeing The Wood For The Trees' sees Jane Chavez-Dawson build upon the idea of Frieda Kahlo as a cultural signifier, Kahlo is synonymous with the myth & truth of her suffering, this persona often depicted in her own work is adopted by Chavez-Dawson. Yet here the mechanics of the work is made transparent and a multi visual presentation; from the initial video, to post-production to a backdrop for a live performance is revealed, each phase adds a new level to the audience's reading of Chavez-Dawson as Kahlo with the prospect of the footage being considered authentic.

Vincent Meessen (BE/US)
Dear Advisor
This must be Chandigarh, the well known preconceived city in the Indian state of Punjab. With his black suit, bow tie and bowler hat, the walker looks like Le Corbusier, the creator of this city. The film is intermixed with images of someone typing a letter that opens with the words "Dear Advisor." Both the salutation and the voice-over refer to "Three Reminders to the Architects," a seminal text by Le Corbusier who, during this project in which various architects participated, would rather be addressed as 'advisor' than as architect.

Jorge García Velayos (ES)
La Bestia (The Beast)
In Paris begins a strange revolution on the roofs, with the sculptures and the clouds. When the beast appears is time for the destruction.

Semiconductor (UK)
Time Out of Place
The Kings Cross area in London is rapidly transforming, creating a city in flux. Semiconductor have captured this moment in human history by documenting the day to day happenings in a short moving image work with a process whereby we see the past, present and future simultaneously.

Manuel Saiz (IT)
Sic Transit
For a contemporary artist it can be overwhelming to come to a city like Rome to live and work. Thousands of years of (art) history can be a heavy load on your shoulders. Certainly any artist coming to Rome for a short time will be wondering what his/her contributions could be. Is there anything that can be done? Manuel Saiz, who lived in Rome as an artist-in-residence, wrote an essay on this. On the banks of the Tiber, Rome, near a viaduct over which traffic is racing in the dusk, runners are approaching one by one. They stop in front of the camera panting and stumbling over their words and read out fragments of the text.

John Deller (UK)
Gear Change Action
The artist cycled to work using the same route twice a week an approximate round trip of 11miles. Attached to the front of his bike was a super 8 camera rigged with a cable release attached to the gear shifter and set up to take a single frame every time the gears were changed. Filming was continued during the journey until the film ran out.

Max Hattler (UK)
Striper v0.1
"I am interested in the space between abstraction and figuration, where storytelling is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. My work contemplates microcosms, moments, atmospheres: Close-ups as reflections on the big picture. While my films tend to be without dialogue, they explore the relationship between sound, music and the moving image."

Maggie Hall (UK)
Round Drawing
"I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation."

Kevin Boniface (UK)
Summer Wine
Compo, Clegg, Foggy and an Angel's kiss in spring.

FAFF2010 Programme: Tuesday 17th August 2010

2010-08-11T18:49:00.000+01:00

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 3
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

Kevin Boniface (UK)
Worktime Learning
A postman's diary

Lernert & Sander (NL)
How To Explain It To My Parents: Bart Julius Peters
In How To Explain It To My Parents: Bart Julius Peters, Photographer Bart Julius Peters shows one of his latest photographs to his father - a portrait of a young hockey player in the North of Amsterdam. Dad struggles to understand why it is art and investigates how his son decides on the quality of his photographs.

Manuel Saiz (IT)
The Two Teams Team
The Two Teams Team is a short and multi-layered film about the difference and similarities between video art and cinema, two subjects which Manuel Saiz regularly addresses in his work, often on a meta level. Two actors - one specialised in film, the other in video art - are having a chat. Their conversation revolves around film sets in film and video art, bout differences in budget, about emotions, the relation to fiction and reality, and about punchlines.

David Cochrane (UK)
Cube
Performance related video
2 sugar cubes soak up and exchange coffee from a saucer

Maggie Hall (UK)
Line
"I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation."

Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK)
Carbon Dating Angels
The idea of "carbon dating angels" suggests a search for origin, and by extension meaning or truth, in that which is beyond the realms of scientific enquiry. This piece appropriates the controlled and precise movement vocabulary of archive x-ray films in an intriguing, yet impenetrable, ritual of choreographed opened a new visual perspective this films alludes to ways of knowing that are at once buried and revealed.

Kathy Toth (UK)
Loop
Loop is a stopframe animation where handmade charcoal drawings have been photographed. Each object is rubbed out and then redrawn onto the same drawing for the next frame, thus leaving a trace of movement. These objects are inspired by found imagery resembling scientific diagrams. My interest lies in how diagrams are perceived once taken out of context and viewed purely as a set of shapes and lines. While drawing diagrams I begins to associate them visually with other objects in a way that is similar to cloud spotting and 'projective tests' within psychoanalysis.

Semiconductor (UK)
Black Rain
Black Rain uses images from the STEREO mission by NASA (2006-2008) in which twin satellites tracked interplanetary space for solar wind as well as registering violent eruptions of matter from the sun; coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Semiconductor collected all images resulting from the mission, selecting unwanted images usually edited out of scientific research presentations.

Saskia Takens-Milne (UK)
Untitled (Toast)
Saskia Takens-Milne's video art presents us with an uncanny, realistic depiction of life in a looking-glass world. The world depicted is the actual world in which we live, the only world we could - perhaps - ever have, the unreal world of ideology. The work is allusive in nature; but these videos surprise themselves - risible melodrama is a structural feature of her work - by being finally irreducible to, and inexplicable by, their origins.

Alice Bradshaw (UK)
Brown Paper Bag Box
Box, made from a brown paper bag, animated.

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 4
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

FAFF2010 Programme: Monday 16th August 2010

2010-08-11T18:23:00.001+01:00

Fumiko Matsuyama (DE)
Abenteuer der Rumflasche (Adventure of the Rumbottle)
A mischievous rum bottle travels in a country where the ideals and the reality of the revolution do not always reconcile with ideals with each other. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and US embargo Cuba is an embarrassing situation. So much so that the dollar was recognized as legal currency. This short experimental film was shot mostly in Gibara, where the whole town turned out to celebrate its film festival. The famous Cuban film director and festival director, Humberto Solas who passed away meanwhile appears in this in cognito.

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 1
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

Milk, Two Sugars (UK)
Funny Little Dance
Tom Senior on Funny Little Dance: "Our practice gives serious regard to the faux decadence of girlish or womanish preoccupations, like dancing. The choice of imagery in the film questions gender distinctions and the status of the decorative as opposed to typical male ideas of grandeur and building for prosperity; exploring the gulf between the two archetypal constraints. This creates the tension, symbolised in a funny little dance."

eddie d (NL)
Majesteit (Majesty)
In his clever and witty poems, eddie d mercilessly exposes the conventions and clichés of television and films. In Majesty, eddie d tackles a special (and extreme) example of political ostentation and ritual in the Netherlands: 'Prinsjesdag,' the day on which the monarch presents the governmental policies for the forthcoming year to the collective Dutch parliament. Majesty compares two so called 'Throne speeches' with each other from 1997 and 2008. Are there essential differences – apart from Queen Beatrix's new hat and perhaps the newly designed upholstery on her throne?

Sebaldo (UK)
Bomb Ed
"I am eating the bread of modern design. I spend my days teaching ideas how to spread their wings and cross roads safely. I am extremely versatile. I specialise in Illustration, animation, 3D, concept building and narrative work. When not swimming in ponds I am an expert Papier Mâché sculptor. I love my work, and unlike normal ducks, I can land on trees."

Alice Bradshaw (UK)
Static
The remains of a hole-punched text The Rocks Remain in constant motion. The found, mass-produced object has been manually hole-punched and the remains captured as stills. The stills created a frame pool which were randomly sequenced to create the moving image based on a random number from the computer's operating system entropy pool.

Thomas Rummelhoff (NO)
Brainbox
Brainbox is a recent video project incorporating live action and animation, creating a string of scenes in which the spectator encounters various characters and events in haunting spaces. The juxtaposition of ambiguous scenes intends to trigger a creative thought process, where the spectators and invited to interpret and continue the narrative for themselves.

Maggie Hall (UK)
Face
"I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation."

Robert Crosse (UK)
The Right String
Exploring the notions of restriction and control by isolating hand movements to tell a lyrical story of poetic manipulation. Taking inspiration from the story of Petrushka the hands appear in both conflict and conversation with each other. The projected image hints at the dance of puppetry and the invisible lines that keep us in line. We are the puppets.

Rä di Martino (BE)
August 2008
In a spacious, classic-looking room, which could also be the décor for a 1950s movie, a man and a woman are singing to each other. In an absurdist manner, they are singing a flood of information about attacks, wars, catastrophes and political highs and lows. The title suggest that these are things that all happened in one month, which seems rather unlikely. And yet, the lyrics of their song are based purely on newspaper headlines from August 2008.

Tomoyuki Yago (JP)
One Two Three. Five
This is a film about nothing as a place for everything. Every person in these videos is silently imagining the seconds from 123.5 without the help of a clock. At the start they hear a metronome for 3 seconds, which gives them a precise duration for reference. When reaching what they believe is the duration of 123.5 seconds they clap once. Only nine videos are selected randomly from a larger pool of over 90 videos when a renewed set of videos starts.

Sarah Harbridge (UK)
Sum Card
This video comes from Sarah Harbridge's current project (March 2010) to attempt to make a piece of art each day, within her means: time, ability, cost. May contain some nudity and swearing, parental guidance may be required.

David Cochrane (UK)
Leads
Performance related video
breaking pencils

Elodie Pong (CH)
After the Empire
Zurich based video artist Elodie Pong is known for her subtle, analytic works focusing on how human relationships and cultural conventions impact contemporary society. In After The Empire, Pong orchestrates face-to-face conversations between various late icons of popular culture and political history including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Batman and Karl Marx. Surrounded by a post-apocalyptic set, the actors embody their character's individual and symbolic extremes, longings and ideals in simultaneously humourous and elegiac ways.

Marlanna & Daniel O'Reilly (UK)
Longbridge
Copenhagen, St George's Day 2008. The Institute of Film and Video Studies produced a documentary about a mysterious case of arson somehow connected to the coincidental encounter of three individuals at the famous landmark of Longbridge, The documentary presents original footage from the only surviving piece of evidence - a video tape recorded by the arsonist who was compiling a video archive spanning years of private surveillance of the citizens of Copenhagen.

Paul Tarragó (UK)
The Badger Series Episode 2
The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children's entertainer.

FAFFTA Public Vote

2010-08-09T23:14:00.000+01:00

Each Festival screening day, the viewing public are asked to vote for their favourite film of the day. Each winning artist will be awarded a prestigious golden FAFF Teabag Award as exhibited by Wolf:

FAFF2010 Artists

2010-08-09T13:02:00.001+01:00

Kevin Boniface (UK), Alice Bradshaw (UK), Adam Brandon (UK), Sara Brannan (UK), Sarah Buckius (USA), Jane & Mike Chavez-Dawson (UK), Çağlar Çetin (TR), David Cochrane (UK), Robert Crosse (UK), Keren Cytter (DE), eddie d (NL), John Deller (UK), Doplgenger (SRB), Eagle & Feather (UK), Sarah Filmer (UK), Şinasi Güneş (TR), Maggie Hall (UK), Sarah Harbridge (UK), Clare Harris (UK), Max Hattler (UK), Sam Holden (UK), Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK), Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK), Lemeh42 (IT), Lernert & Sander (NL), Sarah Lüdemann (DE), Rä di Martino (BE), Joanne Masding (UK), Fumiko Matsuyama (DE), Kit Merritt (UK), Vincent Meessen (BE), Milk, Two Sugars (UK), Lin de Mol (NL), Marlanna and Daniel O'Reilly (UK), Elodie Pong (CH), Sara Rajaei (NL), Thomas Rummelhoff (NO), Manuel Saiz (IT), Sebaldo (UK), Semiconductor (UK), Tory Smith (UK), Splitty McCheeks (UK), Jacki Storey (UK), Saskia Takens-Milne (UK), Paul Tarragó (UK), Tether / Grin & Slutsky (UK), Kathy Toth (UK), Jenny Triggs (UK), Barry Valentino (USA), Jorge García Velayos (ES), Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (BE), Tom Walker (UK), Roland Wegerer (AT), Tomoyuki Yago (JP), Gerald Zahn (AT)

Inaugural FAFF Launch Event Announced

2010-06-07T16:29:00.000+01:00

Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age
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You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks

Saturday 14th August, 2-4pm
Square Chapel, Halifax, UK
FREE ENTRY

You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks

The special guest performing with Splitty McCheeks at the FAFF Opening Event will be Hollywood based NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino. Barry plays 10 VHS video players hung round his neck projecting the mixed images through a digital projector strapped to his head. Barry will be flying over from his condo on Mulholland Drive, Hollywood, straight to the Halifax Square Chapel. Don't miss this unique performer in his first UK gig.

www.youpigs.com

Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age

Kipple: A term borrowed from Phillip K Dick referring to the detritus of modern living that will one day overwhelm us.

“Kipple drives out nonkipple………No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot………the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Eagle & Feather: Julian Butler, aka Eagle, and Stephen Earl Rogers, aka Feather. Stephen is an artist working mainly as a painter. He is held in permanent collections in the UK and United States and has exhibited many times at the National Portrait Gallery. Julian is a film-maker and television producer. His work has appeared on BBC2, Channel 4, Sky, ITV and at the Edinburgh, London and Cannes film festivals.

Collaboratively, Eagle & Feather have been putting their own interpretation on the term kipple for a number of years. Through regular visits to charity shops, public libraries and jumble sales they have amassed a collection of absurdly peripheral and esoteric videotapes, selected for their distinct peculiarity.

Theirs is an attempt at alchemy, taking base material and transforming it, by various means – editing, manipulating, combining and reducing - into something that is imbued with new qualities - humour, drama, pathos and poetry. Turning kipple into non-kipple, at least temporarily.

www.smileorangefilms.co.uk/film_kipple.html
www.youtube.com/user/smileorange3

About Eagle & Feather

Before meeting each other Feather had previously trained as green berets under the legendary Colonel Trautman, Eagle and had MC'ed for John Virgo on his UK tour. And Feather was very aware of being a jew.

Whilst saving the beaver and with Grey Owl in Canada they both went foraging for food (things like mashed bread and Robin Morley's smelly cheese). But instead they uncovered a nuclear bunker where the US government had dumped video tapes, saved for future generations.

The first tape they played featured Cleethorpes Rastafarian and Bob Marley chancellor Irie White singing ‘Bye Bye Dobbin’. The second tape was an incontinence self help video ’Out and about and dry’. They were hooked. Returning from the bunker as prophets to The Midlands and Slaithwaite, they set up a monastery to spread the gospel of what they called KIPPLE.

They were ignored for many years until, by chance, Melvyn Bragg was introduced to KIPPLE by Gail Porter. He immediately got them involved in the filming of the Granada show 'An Audience with Cliff Richard Possessed' and choreographing the fight scenes for Cliff Richard's Heathcliff.

Eagle and Feather were now unstoppable going on to start their own fashion label for tractor drivers (Brotherhood Fashions) endorsed by celebs like Peter Fonda and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. They also sponsored Jan Johnson in his failed 'Portraits from Space' and Olympic pole-vault bid. The duo's range of cuddly toys based on the 'furry' (the incredible Japanese headless dogs) is launched this fall. They also got themselves a pizza ad out of it.

Catch them here in Halifax for their warm up show before their London Palladium live parade, starring Paul Wheater (Paul has always been a drinker), the 'better than Jolson' sounds of Clive Baldwin and Timothy Dalton's performance with his trained wolves ('A Wolf-able experience' - Peter Ustinov, Daily Telegraph). The young Jonathan Pryce may also make an appearance with the Florida Jets display team.

Eagle and Feather also gain inspiration from the following works of VHS art:

Fish for a Quid, The Bream Machine, Carp on the Long Pole, Introducing the new Velux Roof Window System, Electronic Monitoring for Offenders, How to Hang Wallpaper, Creative Routing for the Home Craftsman, How You Can Win Competitions, The Legion Players Present The Wind in the Willows Gaiety Theatre 8th to 10th November 2001, Born 2B Gangsta?, Egyptian Belly Dancing for Intermediates, Get to Know God Video, Happy to be a Muslim, The Kingdom of Ticky Tack, The Story of the Red Mason Bee, Ceramic Tiling, The Making of ‘Seasonal Gardening’, Ray Reardon Master Class, Food Processor Cooking: Tasty Tips from the Craft Cook, Traction Engines: The Millers Trail Vol 1, Learn the Skills of Rugby League, Tom’s River, Master Bakers: A Golden Opportunity, Start the Day with Great Taste: Exclusive video from Nescafe featuring Susannah & Trinny, Tony Allcock’s Art of Bowls, Get That Job, Game for a Job, Is Work for Me?, Learning Tenor Banjo, Darrin’s Dancing Grooves, British Rail Today, Kleeneze: What does Success Mean to You?, Horse Sense for Riders, Super Tours in Super Somerset, Discover Fish, Learn to knot Vol 1, Retailing, Resources in Training and Education Ltd, Sports Boat, Tile it Yourself, The Fun of Cake Decorating, Fimo Modelling Projects: Fill your Doll’s House / Shop / Market Stall, Jersey Battle of Flowers, Safe Moving and Handling for Carers at Home, Breastfeeding: A Gift for Life, What you Really Need to know about Problems with Fertility, Out and About and Dry.

Previous KIPPLE Events

TV
'The BBC: Budget Broadcasting Corporation'. Pilot for Channel K for Channel 4. 2008
'Headgasm'. Pilot with Shine productions for Bravo Channel. 2006
'Top Ten Kipple Moments'. Pilot for Granada TV. 2005

Exhibitions
2010
A Night of Kipple, Blacklab, Manchester
Video Progetto, Grand Union & 26CC, Birmingham and Rome

2009
Knowing me Knowing you, Vivid, Birmingham
Endless Supply, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds Film Festival, Leeds
Popcorn Comedy, Roxy Bar & Screen, London
Supersonic Festival 09, The Custard Factory, Birmingham
Everyday Film & Photography, Temporary Art Space, Halifax
Flatpack Festival 3, Kino, Birmingham
Antifreeze - art car boot sale – Manchester
Exploding Cinema, London
Everything is Terrible, LA, USA

2008
Conjunction 08, Stoke-on-Trent
Supersonic Festival 08, The Custard Factory, Birmingham

2007
Kipple Night, Periscope, Birmingham
Aurora, In association with 7inch Cinema, Norwich Arts Centre
Supersonic Festival 07, The Custard Factory, Birmingham
Capsule & Cake - Gigbeth, Birmingham
Video Gumbo, Hare & hounds, Birmingham
Flatpack Festival 2, Birmingham
New Generation Arts Festival, The Electric Cinema, Birmingham

Reviews and Features
'Wow, great stuff!' - Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine
'I love this so so so much' - Robert Popper, Writer; Peep Show, Look Around You, IT Crowd
'British people like to act superior to their colonial cousins, thanks to video wizards Eagle & Feather we know that thats just bollocks.' - EverythingisTerrible.com
'Holy shit, that's ridiculous.' - Joe Pickett, Found Film Festival
'Unnerving Fun' - Headpress Magazine
'Made me double up. Am I wrong?' - Matt Tiller, Comedian
'Like speed injected into the eyeballs.' - BlackLab

Film Festival Technician Required

2010-03-17T19:58:00.000Z

Film Festival Technician Required (Unpaid Experience)

FAFF2010 requires a film show reel producer/technician to prepare film show reels of selected artists’ films with consistent title sequences for digital DVD projection. We require you to have your own software and hardware to produce high quality film show reels DVDs from a variety of digital formats under the direction of the festival curators. The film festival will run 14th – 20th August 2010 and availability to test-run the final show reels in advance of the launch is essential. Knowledge and skills of show reel production and AV equipment is essential but previous festival experience is not essential.

FAFF2010 is a zero budget film festival and is regrettable unable to offer financial reward for work but will provide enjoyable and creditable experience working as part of a creative team.

To apply, email: dice.fundada[at]yahoo.co.uk outlining your working knowledge of film, your software of choice, your availability in August and any other additional festival roles you may be interested in.