PATRICK BEVERIDGE
THE IVALO RIVER DELTA
UK, 2007, 16 mins, 38 secs, 16mm

The title of this film refers to the landscape where it was shot - an open marshland in northernmost Finland. This terrain, which is covered in thick snow during the winter months, provided a surface for filming changes in nocturnal light  that are in response to the movement and position of the moon, and the sporadic displays of the polar lights.  Such a project inadvertently raises the problem of landscape film as a genre in its own right (1). However, the film also has elements of astronomical and atmospheric photography. In particular, some experiments using film cameras placed on  rotating celestial mounts lead to the unpredicted outcome of both the earth and the sky staying in focus with prolonged exposure for each frame.

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LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST
FRANCIS
UK, 2007, 3 mins, 42 secs. video

An account of the creation of a 10-year old ‘disturbed’ boy through drawings and video. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, he is subjected to quasi-scientific observation but the rational assessment becomes increasingly at odds with his behaviour…

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MARK SIMON HEWIS
THE LIFE SIZE ZOETROPE
UK, 2007, 6 mins, 33 secs, video

Fairground ride becomes human Zoetrope as we marvel at the joy and pain of the cycle of life, from birth to death and everything inbetween. All displayed within a real giant spinning barrel in three minutes and one shot.

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ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
Bachelor Machines Part 1
UK, 2007, 30 mins, 16mm

A new film by Rosalind Nashashibi set on a cargo ship sailing from Southern Italy to Sweden via Portugal, England and Ireland.

Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Picture This, Bristol.

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ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
Bachelor Machines Part 2
UK, 2007, 5 mins, 16mm

A two-screen film projection.

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SEMICONDUCTOR
MAGNETIC MOVIE
UK, 2007, 4mins, 47secs, video

The remarkable secret life of invisible interplanetary magnetic fields, revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries in man’s visible environment. All action takes place around the NASA Space Sciences Laboratories, set to recordings of space scientists excitedly describing their visualisation techniques.

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TIM SHORE
CABINET
UK, 2007, 18 mins, 20 secs, video

“In Cabinet, Tim Shore pursues a disturbing message through the spaces of the American landscape. An associative framework of found footage, digital reconstruction and text form a meditation on identity, technology and the land. Shore’s fragments of found imagery and sound evoke America’s myths of itself, from its war record to its prairies and birdsong. Yet, this is shadowed by the dark spaces of the Unabomber in his forest cabin, and the repetitive sound of the typewriter, a reference not only to the latter’s destructive manifesto but also to the fragmenting advance of technology.”
Lucy Reynolds, March 2007

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JOHN SMITH
DIRTY PICTURES
UK, 2007, 14 mins, video.

Moving from one hotel in Bethlehem to another in East Jerusalem, the filmmaker encounters a series of problems involving a ceiling, a video camera and the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Dirty Pictures is the seventh episode in the Hotel Diaries series, a collection of video recordings made in hotel rooms which relate personal experiences to contemporary world events.  Other works in the series currently include Frozen War (Ireland, 2001), Museum Piece (Germany, 2004), Throwing Stones (Switzerland, 2004), B & B  (England, 2005) and Pyramids/Skunk (Netherlands 2006/7). They can be shown individually or as a chronological group.

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