Our annual celebration of the alt-wonderful world of artist film is crammed with special guests, premieres and discussions. We launch with artist Clara Casian and musician Robin Richard’s new collaboration, Birdsong – Stories from Pripyat, featuring footage captured in the famously abandoned ‘ghost city’ adjacent to the Chernobyl Power Plant blended with archive material and unique soundtrack by a live quartet.
We’ll be welcoming Boston-based video artist Luther Price for a rare retrospective of his groundbreaking practice, present a focus on contemporary Finnish Video Art, screen work by artists Oreet Ashery, Rob Crosse, Basim Magdy, Manchester film collective FOOMOO, host a workshop on curating artist film, plus the North West premiere of the brilliantly bizarro feature La Distancia and Q&A with director Sergio Caballero.
In this season
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Filmmaker Clara Casian on Birdsong: Stories From Pripyat & Feature Expanded
With Birdsong: Stories From Pripyat due to debut as part of our Artist Film Weekender, we spoke to Director Clara Casian about the project and…
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Birdsong: Stories From Pripyat with Live Score by Robin Richards
This original film with live performance of a brand new score by Robin Richards (Dutch Uncles) combines the immediacy and energy of live music with…
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La Distancia Q&A
This screening includes a post-screening Q&A with director Sergio Cabellero and Dr. Andy Willis, Film & Media Lecturer at Salford University, Senior Visiting Curator (Film)…
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Rob Crosse: Ritual choreography Q&A
This screening includes a post-screening Q&A with artist Rob Crosse and Chris Paul Daniels, artist and Lecturer in Filmmaking at Manchester School of Art.
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Finnish Video Shorts: Programme 2: Surreal Q&A
This event includes a post-screening Q&A with Darja Zaitsev, Curator, Finnish Art Agency and artists Dave Berg and Mikko Keskiivari.
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Finnish Video Shorts Programme 1: Poetic Q&A
This screening includes a post-screening Q&A with Laura Köönikkä, curator and founder of the Finnish Art Agency and artists Elena Näsänen and Nastja Rönkkö..
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Oreet Ashery: Revisiting Genesis
A web-series in twelve episodes written and directed by Oreet Ashery.
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La Distancia
A bizarre heist movie from Sergio Caballero, co-director and art director of the Sónar, Barcelona.
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Rob Crosse: Ritual choreography
Rob Crosse selects a programme of artist shorts that reflect and relate to his own practice.
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Finnish Video Shorts: Programme 2: Surreal
A programme of shorts selecting the best in current and recent artist practice across Finland.
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Finnish Video Shorts Programme 1: Poetic
Selected from the best in current and recent artist practice across Finland.
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Oreet Ashery: Revisiting Genesis Q&A
This screening includes a post-screening Q&A between artist Oreet Ashery and Sarah Perks, our Artistic Director of Visual Art.
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ICA Curatorial Seminar: The Commissioner and The Commissioned
This curatorial seminar is an informal opportunity for up to 30 arts professionals to gain a deeper understanding of the processes involved in commissioning a…
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The 2016 Jarman Award Touring Programme Q&A
This screening includes a mid-screening discussion with shortlisted artist Heather Phillipson and Chris Paul Daniels, artist and Lecturer in Filmmaking at Manchester School of Art.
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Luther Price Retrospective – Programme 2 Q&A
This screening includes a post-screening conversation and Q&A with artist Luther Price and Ed Halter.
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The 2016 Jarman Award Touring Programme
See a diverse and thought-provoking programme of artists’ moving image and hear from one of the six shortlisted artists for this year’s Jarman Award: Sophia…
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Luther Price Retrospective – Programme 3
Another trio of films from Boston-based video artist Luther Price.
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Luther Price Retrospective – Programme 2
A trio of films by Boston-based video artist Luther Price.
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Luther Price Retrospective – Programme 1
As ravenously beautiful as anything that he has ever made, this unforgettable Super 8 mini-epic stars the filmmaker in a totally committed performance that resulted…
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Birdsong: Stories From Pripyat
An amusement park in the city of Pripyat was due to be opened on the 1st May 1986, but the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred just…
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FOOMOO: The space of the cinematic
A unique compilation of films created by FOOMOO, a loose constellation of artist filmmakers orbiting Manchester.