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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Derby
'Pictures in Motion' - Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival - 8th Edition
Works include single-screen, multi-screen and installation sited in 10 locations.
Curation of Artist's Trail
60 page catalogue - ISBN 978-09551203-2-9
Principal funders; Arts Council of England, Creative England, BFI, PRS, Northern Rock Foundation, First Light, Community Foundation, East Coast. (Also curated and programmed minor editions of the Festival in September 2011).
The Commissioned pieces toured to other venues beyond the Festival. In the case of ‘Pictures in Motion’ this included; included Mishka Henna & David Oates (subsequently shown at Dong Gang International Photography Festival, South Korea), Edmund Clark (shown subsequently at Flowers Gallery, New York), and Screen Bandita & The One Ensemble (shown subsequently at Summerhall, Edinburgh and the Sound Scotland Festival). Audience attendance:6592; Budget:£125k
Davies' research develops from a critical and cultural dialogue for understanding the works of art, their complexities of aesthetics and technologies. This festival involved research of the contemporary landscape for film and photography with the pieces of work as exemplars of this critique. The curatorial project was in siting the works within a unique environment exploring further dimensions of Landscape research. The Festival theme examined the relationship between cinema and photography, featuring the work of a number of artists and filmmakers who have worked with both the moving and still image. Through its use of innovative programming and curation, the Festival explored the historical technological development of the moving image from the Zoetrope (as referenced in the commissioned work of Jason Dee – 24 times), through to the arrival of digital technologies and the inbuilt hybridity of modern mobile devices (as seen in Mark Cousins – What is This Film Called Love).
Other areas included, artists working with temporal duration and expanded time (see the work of Duane Hopkins – Boy in Landscape), the representation of the photographer in film (see the commissioned work of Blacklab Artists - Photographers) and the use of the still image in cinematic works designed for the single screen (see the work of Katharina Duve & Timo Schierhorn – Fratzengulasch).
As with the previous Festivals, the main focus was on the exhibition of artists’ film and video on the Artists’ Trail, which links together a number of different site-specific architectural locations within the Elizabethan Ramparts. The 2012 edition featured the work of 47 artists and filmmakers from 17 different countries and included 16 UK premiers and 6 specifically commissioned works. The commissions (selected from an international call) provide the opportunity for the creation of original new works as a response to the Festival theme and environmental location.
