[spectre] Lighthouse presents direct-filmmaking screenings & Talk by Eddie Berg

[Honor Harger]

Dear Spectres,

This month, Lighthouse will be illuminated by 
stunning experimental film and thought-provoking 
moving image artworks through a programme we're 
presenting at Cine-City,- Brighton's Film 
Festival.

If you're in or around Brighton this November, please come along.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/events.htm


Best wishes,

Honor Harger

Director
Lighthouse
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk


LIGHTHOUSE AT CINE-CITY FILM FESTIVAL

Sunday 21 November 2010
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Saturday 27 November 2010

Lighthouse are delighted to be part of this 
year's Cine-City Festival - Brighton's annual 
celebration of film and moving image. We are 
presenting a special programme of screenings 
curated by Brighton-based artist, filmmaker and 
musician, Ian Helliwell. Helliwell was one of the 
artists who formed part of Lighthouse's prgramme 
for the ResoVision television station, which 
broadcast live from Frieze Art Fair last month. 
His work sits within the tradition of 
direct-filmmaking, where the filmmaker makes 
direct contact with the filmstrip. For Lighthouse 
and Cine-City, he has curated three screenings, 
which explore the work of a diverse range of 
experimental filmmakers who use this technique to 
create stunning, abstract films. The screenings 
take place on 21, 24, 27 November, and are a rare 
opportunity for Brighton audiences to experience 
distinctive and seldom-seen moving image 
artworks. Cine-City and Lighthouse are also 
presenting a talk by Eddie Berg, Artistic 
Director of the BFI (2 December).


Screening 1 - Hand Eye Visions: A Panorama of Cameraless Film
Sunday 21 November 2010
6.30pm: Doors & Bar
7.00pm: Start
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: £3
Spaces are limited. To book please go to: 
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/cameralessfilm.htm

In his first screening, A Panorama of Cameraless 
Film, Helliwell presents a fascinating line up of 
contemporary direct animation from some of the 
leading "Hand Eye Visionaries". With the focus on 
less familiar work, the programme has a strong 
selection of women film-makers who reveal a 
variety of experimental approaches and styles. 
This screening also presents audiences with a 
very rare chance to see an example of early work 
by Stuart Wynn Jones from the 1950s British 
amateur animation collective, the Grasshopper 
Group.

Films in the programme include:
Lauren Cook: Altitude Zero (2004, USA, 5`)
Naomi Uman: Hand Eye Coordination (2002, USA, 10`)
Jennifer Reeves: The Girl`s Nervy (1995, USA, 5`)
Dirk de Bruyn: Vision (1985, Australia, 4`)
Louise Bourque: Fissures (1999, USA, 2`)
Martha Colburn: Skelehellavision (2001, USA, 8`)
Stuart Wynn Jones: Short Spell (1956, GB, 2`)
Steven Woloshen: Camera Takes Five (2003, Canada, 3`)


Screening 2 - Hand Eye Visions: The Films of Ian Helliwell
Wednesday 24 November 2010
6.30pm: Doors & Bar
7.00pm: Start
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: £3
Spaces are limited. To book please go to: 
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/ianhelliwell.htm

The second screening in the Hand Eye Visions 
programme of direct animation focuses on the work 
of Brighton's own Ian Helliwell. This screening 
presents for the first time a retrospective of 
his direct animation films, which were broadcast 
on ResoVision at Frieze Art Fair last month. 
Helliwell is an artist-filmmaker-musician. Having 
begun intuitively at the start of the 1990s, he 
has experimented with a range of techniques for 
creating images directly on super 8 film. His 
work is distinctive, if not unique in that he 
also designs and builds his own electronic 
instruments – Hellitrons and Hellisizers – which 
he uses to make all the soundtracks of his films.
For anyone interested in colour, light and 
animation and the synthesis of film and music, 
this programme promises to be both an eye and an 
ear opener.

Films in the programme include:
Deflection Currents (2005, 3`15)
Grid (2007, 2`20)
Chromaburst (2001, 4`55)
Angel Recovered (2003, 3`15)
Orbiting the Atom (2002, 4`50)
Rust to Dust (2006, 2`25)
Origami (2003, 50 sec)
Signal Tracing (2007, 3`05)
Optical Action (2004, 3`50)
Striations (2005, 4`10)
Cycles Per Second (2003, 3`20)
Catalyst (1997, 1`25)
Get Set (2005, 3`25)
Crosshatch (2003, 7`20)
Dash Dot (2006, 55 sec)


Screening 3 - Hand Eye Visions: The Films of Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore
Saturday 27 November 2010
6.30pm: Doors & Bar
7.00pm: Start
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: £3
Spaces are limited. To book please go to: 
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/kayla&stewart.htm

The third and final screening in the Hand Eye 
Visions programme of direct animation presents 
the work of Plymouth based film luminaries, Kayla 
Parker & Stuart Moore. This must-see screening 
presents the work of this experienced music and 
film-making duo in Brighton for the first time, 
and includes a new film the pair have made 
especially for the event. Working in a variety of 
formats from Super 8 to 35mm, and with a number 
of commissions under their belts, the pair, have 
produced a significant body of experimental, 
cameraless work.

This screening includes:
Night Sounding (1993)
Sunset Strip (1996)
A Short Walk (2004)
Verge (2005)
Poppies (2006)
Brighton Road Movie (2010).


Talk - Eddie Berg
Thursday 02 December 2010
6.30pm: Doors & Bar
7.00pm: Talk
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Entry: £3
Spaces are limited. To book please go to: 
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/eddieberg.htm

Lighthouse and Cine-City are delighted to welcome 
Eddie Berg, Artistic Director The British Film 
Institute (BFI) to Brighton. The BFI is the UK’s 
leading organisation in promoting appreciation of 
film and television heritage and culture.

In Lighthouse's December monthly talk, Eddie Berg 
will be discussing the convergence of film, 
moving image and contemporary art, the BFI’s work 
as curator of the world’s most significant 
collection of film and television, and the role 
of BFI’s film festivals in showcasing new work 
and giving independent filmmakers a voice. As 
developments in government policy-making 
impacting the British film industry continue to 
unfold, this is a timely opportunity to hear 
Eddie’s views on what the future may hold for 
British filmmakers. Book early, as this is 
certain to sell out.

All these events are created in collaboration 
with Cine-City: http://www.cine-city.co.uk/





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