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A short film about war

‘A short film about war’ (2009/2010) commissioned by Alt-w/New Media Scotland (£4000) is a two-channel documentary artwork made from information found online and part of a wider project called, 'Flat Earth Trilogy'. It considers new models of documentary making - asking what potential our new globally accessible databases and social media repositories have as documentary archives, while focusing specifically on how information is distorted as it is mediated through globally networked digital communications systems? The other two works in the trilogy are 'Flat Earth' (2007) commissioned by Channel 4 & AnimateTV (£16,000) and ‘Belief’ (2012) commissioned through a Vital Spark nomination with Creative Scotland (£40,000) ‘A short film about war’ has been exhibited widely internationally including: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool for the touring exhibition ‘My War’ (catalogue 110 pages ISBN 978-3-86828-134-7 subsequent venues: Edith Russ Haus, Oldenberg); Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2011 (nominated for a Tiger Award); Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, 2011; Rooftop Films, New York, 2011; as part of our solo exhibition at Watermaal Station in Brussels, Belgium 2011; Recontres Internationales 2011/2012, Centre Pompidou/Gaîté Lyrique, Paris and touring (Madrid and Berlin); part of our nomination for the Samsung Art Prize, BFI Southbank 2012; Loop Art Fair, Barcelona 2012; for the major group exhibition at Haus Der Kunst Munich, ‘Image Counter Image’ (catalogue 200 pages ISBN 978-3-86335-208-0); at the fourteenth Videonale in Bonn, 2013 (catalogue 146 pages http://www.videonale.org/en/catalogues/detail/1190-catalogue-videonale14), and Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists’ Film and Video in Britain 2008–2013, Tate Britain (2013-14). It is also the subject of an online exhibition: International New Media Gallery (inmg.org.uk, online catalogue 32 pages http://www.inmg.org.uk/thomson-craighead/catalogue). ‘A short film about war’ is distributed internationally by Lux, Carroll/Fletcher gallery and Animate Projects where a contextual essay by Lisa LeFeuvre (Director of Henry Moore Institute) is available for download.