This section attempts to give artists who either currently work with, or are interested in working with, the moving image, information about where to get technical skills, access to production equipment and how to promote your work once it is finished. On the whole, this guide focuses on resources available to UK artists or those artists wishing to work in the UK. This guide is in development so we would appreciate your thoughts. Please let us know about information you feel would be useful to other artists: email to info@lux.org.uk
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Commissioning Organisations | Distributors | Exhibition Equipment | Festivals | Film Clubs | Film Laboratories | Film and video supplies | Funding | Independent UK film venues | International exhibition venues and organisations | Networks | Production Facilities and Equipment Hire | Professional Development | Training
Commissioning Organisations:
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The following UK organisations commission artists' moving image work:
Artangel
www.artangel.org.uk
Film and Video Umbrella
www.fvumbrella.com
Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies
www.fact.co.uk
Hull Time-based Arts
www.timebase.org
Locus +
www.locusplus.org.uk
Lumen
www.lumen.net
Onedotzero
www.onedotzero.com
Picture This Moving Image
www.picturethismovingimage.co.uk
Distributors:
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The following distributors handle international artists' film and/or video work:
Video:
235 Media
Cologne, Germany
www.235media.com
Electronic Arts Intermix
New York, USA
www.eai.org
Montevideo
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl
Video Data Bank
Chicago, USA
www.vdb.org
Film and Video:
British Film Institute
London, UK
www.bfi.org.uk
Independent Exposure
USA
www.microcinema.com
LUX
London, UK
www.lux.org.uk
New York Filmmakers Co-op
New York, USA
www.film-makerscoop.com
Light Cone
Paris, France
fmp.lightcone.org:8000/lightcone
Film:
Canyon Cinema
San Francisco, USA
www.canyoncinema.com
Exhibition Equipment:
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Film and Video Umbrella
London, UK
www.fvumbrella.com
LCD Projectors, DVD players, plasma screens, touch screens
Glasgow Media Access Centre
Glasgow, UK
www.g-mac.co.uk
Video, 16mm, Super 8 projectors and video decks
Insight Lighting
London, UK
www.insightlighting.co.uk
Video projectors, 16mm, 8mm, slide projectors, lighting, video decks and monitors
Halo Presentations
London, UK
www.haloco.co.uk
Video projectors, 16mm, 8mm, slide projectors, lighting, video decks and monitors.
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Kino Club
London, UK
Email: d.leister@virgin.net
Run by film-maker/performance artist David Leister, Kino Club provides best
technical advice and projectionists for film exhibition, and hires exhibition
equipment including 16mm, 8mm and slide projectors, screens and 16mm loop formers
for long term exhibition of gallery loops.
Lumen
Leeds
www.lumen.net
Video projectors, video decks, computers
MITES
Liverpool, UK
www.mites.org.uk
Hires a range of video projectors, monitors, and video decks at subsidised
rates. MITES also provides a very competitively priced DVD burning service.
They also publish a very useful guide to exhibition technologies, The Mites
Manual available directly from them.
Picture This Moving Image
Bristol, UK
www.picturethismovingimage.co.uk
Video projectors, monitors and video decks
SDNA
London, UK
www.sdna.tv
video projectors, PA, and video decks.
Festivals:
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Below is a small selection of festivals which particularly feature artists' film and video work. This list is by no means exhaustive, so you should also consult the BritFilms (www.britfilms.com), FilmFest (www.filmfest.dk) and Video Art (www.videoart.suite.dk/videofestivals) websites, which all list a huge amount of international festivals.
Alternativa: Barcelona Festival of Independent Cinema
CCCB, Montalegre, 5, E08001 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 306 41 00 - 306 41 24
Fax: +34 93 302 24 23 - 93 301 82 51
Email: alternativa@cccb.org
alternativa.cccb.org
Dates: Annual, autumn
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video
Fairly new festival focusing on 'independent film' in the form of features,
documentary, short film and animation. Strong programming and a serious attempt
to build an online community around the festival (the Independent Film Network, ifn.cccb.org)
make this a festival to watch for the future.
Prizes: Short film awards, audience award.
Biennial of Moving Images
Centre for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais Genève, 5, rue du Temple,
1201 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 20 00
Fax: +41 22 908 20 01
Email: info@sgg.ch
www.centreimage.ch/bim
Dates: Bienniall (odd years), autumn
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, DVD
Excellent visual arts orientated festival, with the focus on a large installation,
exhibition, retrospectives and curated programmes as well as an international
competition.
Prizes: Grand Prix and 'young creator' prize.
Clemont- Ferrand Short Film Festival
I6, place Michel-de-L'Hospital, 63058 Clermont-Ferrand cedex , France
Tel: +33 473 14 73 23/24
Fax: +33 473 92 11 93
Email: info@clermont-filmfest.com
www.clermont-filmfest.com
Dates: Annual, winter
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm
Clemont-Ferrand is the short film festival that the feature film world has
heard of. The selection favours more mainstream work but it is a key event
for selling work to broadcasters as it incorporates one of the world's most
important short film markets.
Prizes: Grand Prix, Audience Prize, Special Jury Prize, Press Prize, Research
Prize (for the most innovative short film in style and technique), Best Soundtrack
Creation Award.
COURTisane Festival of Short Film, Video & New Media
COURTisane vzw, Scheldestraat 169, B-9040 Ghent, Belgium
www.courtisane.be
Dates: Annual, spring
COURTisane explores the vast territory of narrative and non-narrative short
film, video and new media. We programme titles by professional filmmakers,
artists or students and look for talent, individuality, courage, simplicity
and inspiration in the broad range of Belgian and international production.
European Media Art Festival
Postfach 1861, Lohstr.45 A, D-49074 Osnabrück, Germany
Tel: +49 541 21658
Fax: +49 541 28327
Email: info@emaf.de
www.emaf.de
Dates: Annual, spring
Exhibition format: 35mm, 16mm, Video, DVD
A key event in the festival calendar, EMAF casts a wide net across a range
of 'media art' including film, video, internet, CD Rom and installations. A
well-established and friendly festival, which also includes an international
forum for student work. The festival is non-competitive for non-German work
but organises a yearly best of the festival international tour that gets a
good amount of attention.
Prizes: Non-competitive international programme.
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg e.V., Filmhaus - Friedensallee 7, 22765 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49 40 39 10 63 23/63 21
Fax: +49 40 39 10 63 20
Email: festival@shortfilm.com
www.shortfilm.com
Dates: Annual, summer
Formats Exhibited: 35mm,16mm, Video
Important short film festival with a fairly mainstream focus organised by the
Short film Agency Hamburg. The event also includes a film market aspect and
has good industry links.
Prizes: International competition, no budget prize.
Image Forum Festival
Fudosan-kaikan Bldg. 3-5, Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan
Tel: +81 33357 8023
Fax: +81 3359 7532
Email: info@imageforum.co.jp
www.imageforum.co.jp
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats exhibited: 16mm, video
Small but important Japanese touring festival which takes in all of Japan's
major cities. Organised by Image Forum, Japan's key organisation for the promotion
of experimental film and video, the festival offers a unique meeting point
between Japanese and international work.
Prizes: non-competitive for international work.
Impakt Festival
P.O. Box 735, 3500 AS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 2944 493
Fax: +31 30 2944 163
Email: info@impakt.nl
www.impakt.nl
Dates: Annual
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, installations
One of the best visual arts-based festivals, known as much for its strong innovative
programming as it is for its friendliness. Film, video, Installations and music
events are given equal attention and the festival takes place on an intimate
level that makes it a good place to meet and spend time with other artists.
Prizes: Non-competitive
Images Festival of Independent Film and Video
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 448, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8, Canada
Tel: +1 416 971 8405
Fax: +1 416 971 7412
Email: info@imagesfestival.com
www.imagesfestival.com/
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, DVD, Video, projection-related installations
and new media works
Excellent broad-based festival devoted specifically to independent and experimental
film and video, as well as installation and new media work. Includes a special
programme for student film and video each year.
Prizes: Three awards are available to non-Canadian artists: The Overkill Award
for "a film, video or installation artist whose work approaches extremes
of incorrigibility through form and/or content"; the Best International
Film or Video Award; and the V Tape Award for Best Student Video.
International Media/Art prize
ZKM \\ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Lorenzstr. 19,
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: +49 721 8100 1150
Fax: +49 721 8100 1139
Email: medienkunstpreis@zkm.de
www.swr.de/medienkunstpreis
Dates: Annual, autumn
Formats exhibited: Video
Not a festival as such, this is an important and influential competition set
each year around a particular theme. A jury of artists and curators makes a
short list of 50 works that are then exhibited on television, there is then
a public vote to select the best three.
Prize: International Media/Art Prize
Kasseler Documentary and Video Festival
c/o Filmladen Kassel e.V., Goethestr. 31, 34119 Kassel, Germany
Tel: +49 561 70764 0
Fax: +49 561 70764 41
Email: dokfest@filmladen.de
www.filmladen.de/dokfest
Dates: Annual, autumn
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, DVD, installations.
This festival started as a straight documentary film festival before expanding
its scope to take in more experimental video, new media and installation work.
The fact that the event still includes a substantial documentary element gives
the selection a unique character.
Prizes: Non-competitive
London Film Festival
Regus London Film Festival, National Film Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 8XT,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7815 1322
Fax: +44 (0)20 7633 0876
Email: sarah.lutton@bfi.org.uk
www.rlff.com
Dates: Annual, Autumn
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, DVD
Major international festival, as well as shorts section the event includes
a strong experimental section of short and feature work, Experimenta.
MEDIAWAVE - Another Connection International Festival of Visual Arts
MEDIAWAVE Foundation, H-9028 Györ, Soproni u.45., Hungary
Tel: +36 96 517 667
Fax: +36 96 415 285
Email: mail@mediawavefestival.com
www.mediawavefestival.com
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, video
Unique festival which acts as a mediation point between the art of Eastern
and Western Europe with special attention given to independent and experimental
film and video. Each year the festival is organised around a particular theme
and the selection is made accordingly. The festival also offers opportunities
for East and West based artists and curators to meet and interact.
Prizes: Main Prize, Category Prizes, Best of Prizes, most of which come with
money.
Microwave Festival
C/o Videotage, P.O. Box 24496, Aberdeen Post Office, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2573 1869
Fax: +852 2503 5978
Email: microwavefest@hongkong.com
www.videotage.org.hk
Dates: Annual
Formats exhibited: Video, DVD
Hong Kong's key media art festival is part of a number of initiatives (including
exhibitions, publishing and online projects) set up by the Hong Kong artist
collective, Videotage. Each year the festival has a particular theme and work
is selected accordingly, also an international artist in residence scheme is
run to coincide with the festival.
Prizes: Non-competitive
Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media (FCMM)
3530, boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, H2X 2V1, Canada
Tel: +1 514 847 9272
Fax: +1 514 847 0732
Email: montrealfest@fcmm.com
www.fcmm.com
Dates: Annual, autumn
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video
Well-respected and influential world-class festival that gives equal and balanced
presentation to experimental work alongside feature films, new media work and
performances.
Prizes: Best Short Film
Mostra de Video Independent & Fenòmens Interactius (MVI)
O.V.N.I. - Observatori de Vídeo No Identificat, Centre de Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona, Montalegre, 5 08001 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 93 306 41 00
Fax: +34 93 306 41 04
Email : ovni@cccb.org
www.cccb.org/ovni
Dates: Every eighteen months.
MVI is a project run by OVNI, a Barcelona-based collective of video makers
and programmers and focuses on video and new media work. This is a creatively
programmed, small friendly event, each festival's theme is developed from the
general trends of the work submitted. OVNI is also very active with extra-festival
activities including tours, TV broadcasts and the development of a unique thematic
media archive.
Prizes: Non-competitive.
New York Film Festival and New York Video Festival
Film Society of Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street, 4th Floor, New York,
NY 10023-6595 USA
Tel: +1 212 875 5638
Fax: +1 212 875 5636
Email: sbensman@filmlinc.com
www.filmlinc.com
Dates: Annual, autumn (film festival), summer (video festival)
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm (film festival), Video (video festival)
Fairly traditional film festival with small but focused experimental film section,
'Views from the Avant-Garde'. Video festival is also quite small but again
perfectly formed. Both of these festivals are very highly regarded and the
programming is unique and influential.
Prizes: Non-competitive
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Grillostr. 34, 46045 Oberhausen, Germany
Tel: +49 208 825 2652
Fax: +49 208 825 5413
Email: info@kurzfilmtage.de
www.kurzfilmtage.de
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, video
Oberhausen is the ultimate short film festival and the oldest in the world.
A massive programme, which includes short films of all kinds, excellent presentation
and talks, this festival is one of the most important events in the short film
calendar.
Prizes: International competition for work under 35 minutes
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Karel Doormanstraat 278b, PO Box 21696, 3001 AR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 10 890 9090
Fax: +31 10 890 909
Email: tiger@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Dates: Annual, winter
Formats: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, video, DVD, installations
One of the world's best film festivals with a multifaceted programme that gives
equal attention to experimental work and gallery installations as it does to
feature films. The festival also includes the Cine-Mart, a large market in
which producers can develop and sell new projects, and an active programme
of commissioning and production support.
Prizes: VPRO Tiger Award (3 prizes of $10.000 each) for films made by new,
talented filmmakers, premiering with their first or second film. Canal+ Audience
Award, the favourite film of the festival's audience Fipresci Prize, prize
from the international film critics.
São Paulo International Short Film Festival
c.o. Zita Carvalhosa, Rua Simão Alvares, 784 / 2, 05417-020 São
Paulo SP, Brazil
Tel: +55 11 30629601
Fax: +55 11 30629601
E-mail: spshort@kinoforum.org
www.kinoforum.org/shorts
Dates: Annual, summer
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm
One of the leading short film festivals in Latin America, with an aim to provide
an exchange point between work from the region and other international productions.
Fairly mainstream in character but an important market place for short film
sales in Latin America.
Prizes: Best film and audience awards.
Split Festival of New Film
P.O. Box 244, Split 21000, Croatia
Tel: +385 21 348 001
Fax: +385 21 348 002
Email: split.filmfest@st.tel.hr
public.st.carnet.hr/split-filmfest
Dates: Annual, autumn
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, installations
Characterful and hospitable media art festival in the beautiful city of Split,
as well as film and video the event gives equal attention to installations,
performance and new media work.
Prizes: Film and video competition
Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival of Expanded Media
Wand 5 e.V., Friedrichstr. 23 A, D - 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel: +49 711 226 9160
Fax: +49 711 226 91 61
Email: wanda@wand5.de
www.filmwinter.de
Dates: Annual, winter
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, DVD, installations
Good multifaceted arts festival that includes a large film and video competition,
installations, performances and an extensive programme of seminars and workshops.
Prizes: International competition
Tampere Film Festival
PO Box 305, 33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel: +358 3 223 5681
Fax: +358 3 223 0121
Email: office@tamperefilmfestival.fi
www.tamperefilmfestival.fi
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm
Well-respected mainstream short film festival that is known for its hospitality
and unique character. An important date on the short film circuit as the festival
also includes a film market for selling work.
Prizes: Grand Prix, Two Principal Prizes, Special Prize of the Jury, Prix UIP
Tampere, Diplomas of Merit (audience award)
Transmediale International Media Art Festival
Klosterstraße 68-70, 10179 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 24 72 19 07
Fax: +49 30 24 72 19 09
Email: info@transmediale.de
www.transmediale.de
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats exhibited: Video, installations
Interesting media art festival that has recently been going through a change
in identity. Established as a originally as a video festival Transmediale is
now shifting its focus towards an inclusive concept of digital arts which encompasses
video, internet, installations, performance and artistic software - with a
yearly thematic focus, this is definitely a festival to watch.
Prizes: Transmediale award for video.
VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival
Assooçião Cultural VideoBrasil, Rua Fernandes de Abreu, 31 -
1Å andar, CEP 04543-070 São Paulo SP, Brasil
Tel: +55 11 3845 8454
Fax: +55 11 3849 2377
Email: info@videobrasil.org.br
www.videobrasil.org.br
Dates: Annual, autumn
Formats exhibited: Video
Important event for the exhibition of video works from Portugese-speaking countries
that also shows other international works. A unique festival in the region,
VideoBrasil offers artists working with video a respected exhibition platform
in Latin America.
Prizes: Video competition.
Videoex
Freyastr. 21, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 1 2420328
Fax: +41 1 2420328
Email: info@videoex.ch
www.videoex.ch
Dates: Annual, spring
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, Video, DVD
Young festival dedicated to video art and experimental film. Videoex is an
Artist-run event with excellent programming and friendly hospitable character
that is sure to become increasingly important in the future.
Prizes: International competition
Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival
Praca da Republica - Auditorio Municipal, 4480 Vila do Conde, Portugal
Tel: + 351 252 646 516/248 469
Fax: +351 252 248 416
Email: festival@curtasmetragens.pt
www.curtasmetragens.pt
Dates: Annual, summer
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm
Respected mainstream short film festival, which because of its film market
and beautiful location is another key event on the short film circuit. Excellent
retrospective programmes and celebrity attendees make this an enjoyable event
to attend.
Prizes: Best animation prize, best European short film, and audience prize.
Viper
International Festival for Film Video and New Media, P.O.Box, CH-4002 Basel,
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 283 27 00
Fax: +41 61 283 27 05
Email: info@viper.ch
www.viper.ch
Dates: Annual, autumn
Viper is an interdisciplinary event that crosses all aspects of experimental
film, video and new media and focuses on points of convergence. Each festival
has a particular theme that as well as shaping the selection, leads a symposium
exploring the theoretical implications of the subject.
Prizes: International competition.
WRO International Media Art Biennale
WRO Foundation Center for Media Art, 29a Kuznicza St., P.O. Box 1385, 54-137
Wroclaw, Poland
Tel: +48 71 3422691
Fax: +48 71 3422691
Email: wro@wro.getin.pl
www.wro.art.pl
Dates: Biennial (odd years), spring
Formats exhibited: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, video, DVD
Central Europe's oldest and largest festival of media arts, as well as screenings
they the event includes media installation exhibitions, conferences, performances
and concerts. Each festival has a particular theme and selections are made
accordingly.
Prizes: Jury of artists and curators reward 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize plus honorary
mentions.
Film Clubs:
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Exploding Cinema
www.explodingcinema.org
Halloween Society
www.collective.co.uk/halloween
London Socialist Film Co-op
www.londonsocialistfilmco-op.com
OMSK
www.omsk.org.uk
Strange Attractor
www.strangeattractor.co.uk
Film Laboratories:
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Film Lab North
Leeds, UK
www.filmlabnorth.free-online.co.uk
Film laboratory which processes and prints 16mm colour and black and white
film.
Soho Images
London, UK
www.sohoimages.com/
Film laboratory which can print and process 16mm and 35mm and offers student
reductions.
Film and video supplies:
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Creative Video Associates
Bristol, UK
www.cva.co.uk
Recycled video tapes
PEC
London, UK
www.pec.co.uk
Stanley Productions
London, UK
www.stanleysonline.co.uk
Cheap video transfers
The Widescreen Centre
London and Nottingham, UK
www.widescreen-centre.co.uk
Funding:
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There are different schemes running at different times of the year. These are the main bodies that offer funding for artist projects. Contact them directly to find out their schedule of awards.
Animate!
www.animateonline.org
Experimental animation scheme funded by Channel 4 and Arts Council of England
Film Council
www.filmcouncil.org.uk/shorts/
More aimed towards more mainstream and narrative production, but does have
a variety of schemes many of which are offered through regional partner organisations.
Film London
www.filmlondon.org.uk
Offers a range of production funding in London, and has information on funding
schemes offered by London boroughs.
UK Arts Councils
All Regional Boards offer a variety of schemes to support artists and projects
in their region.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
www.artscouncil-ni.org
Scottish Arts Council
www.scottisharts.org.uk
Arts Council of Wales
www.ccc-acw.org.uk
Arts Council of England
www.artscouncil.org.uk
Independent UK film venues:
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Independent venues that are committed to showing experimental work:
Brighton Cinematheque
Brighton, UK
www.cinematheque.org
Cineside
Newcastle, UK
www.amber-online.com/html/document228.html
The Cube
Bristol, UK
www.cubecinema.com
The Horse Hospital
London, UK
www.thehorsehospital.com
Institute of Contemporary Arts
London
www.ica.org.uk
International exhibition venues and organisations:
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Anthology Film Archives
New York, USA
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
Blinding Light
Vancouver, Canada
www.blindinglight.com
Cinema de Balie
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.balie.nl
Cinema Nova
Brussels, Belgium
www.nova-cinema.com
Cinematheque Ontario
Toronto, Canada
www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/default.htm
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, USA
www.chicagofilmmakers.org
Experimenta
Melbourne, Australia
www.experimenta.org
Film Forum
Los Angeles, USA
www.filmforum.org
Four Wall Cinema
Portland, USA
www.fourwallcinema.org
Harvard Film Archive
Cambridge, USA
www.harvardfilmarchive.org
Image Forum
Tokyo, Japan
www.imageforum.co.jp
Kino Arsenal
Berlin, Germany
www.fdk-berlin.de/arsenal
Millennium
New York, USA
www.millenniumfilm.org
Moving Image Centre
Auckland, New Zealand
www.mic.org.nz
Museum of Modern Art
New York, USA
www.moma.org/staticfilmvideo/current.html
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema
New York, USA
www.rbmc.net
Pacific Film Archives
Berkeley, USA
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa
Pleasure Dome
Toronto, Canada
home.ican.net/~pdome
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, USA
www.sfcinematheque.org
Scratch Projections
Paris, France
fmp.lightcone.org:8000/lightcone/index_scratch.html
Networks:
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East London Moving Image Initiative
www.elmii.org.uk
The East London Moving Image Initiative aims to be an active site in which
freelancers and organisations based in both in East London and beyond, register
to locate each other, network and share information about moving image events,
training and funding.
Frameworks
www.hi-beam.net/fw.html
Lively discussion list for experimental film
Flicker
www.Hi-beam.net
US portal site for experimental film and video
Ljubljana Digital Media Lab
www.ljudmila.org/
Excellent portal for artists working in Slovenia and Eastern Europe.
London Cinephiles
www.london-cinephiles.org.uk
Email forum for the announcement of London film events
Microcinema Network
www.microcinema.com
International network of independent screening venues
Northern Film Network
www.northernfilmnetwork.co.uk
Forum for filmmakers based in the North-West of England
Reel Exchange
www.reelexchange.co.uk
Site for filmmakers and collectors to buy and sell equipment
Secret Cinema
www.secretcinema.co.uk
Mailing list for avant garde film events maintained by Mark Webber
Shooting People
www.shootingpeople.org
UK Low budget filmmakers bulletin board
The Thing
bbs.thing.net
NY based art bulletin board
UNXposed
www.unxposed.com
Resources and mailing list for London based video artists
Production Facilities and Equipment Hire:
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Connections Communication Centre
West London
www.ccmedia.co.uk
Avid and desktop editing systems
Film and Video Access
Edinburgh
www.insideout.co.uk/video/feats/fva.htm
Video, 16mm and Super 8 cameras, 2 and 3 machine linear edit suites, lights
and sound recording equipment.
Four Corners Film Workshop
East London
Tel: 020 8981 6111
Email: film@fourcorners.demon.co.uk
Post-production and out-house equipment hire including 16mm, BetaSP and DVCam
cameras, AVID, 16mm cutting room, lights, DAT/Nagra.
Glasgow Media Access Centre
Glasgow
www.g-mac.co.uk
Post-production and out-house equipment hire including 16mm, Super 8, DVCam
cameras, AVID, 16mm cutting room, lights, sound equipment
Lighthouse
Brighton
www.lighthouse.org.uk
Post-production and out-house equipment hire including a variety of video cameras
and shooting kits, AVID
no.w.here lab
www.nowhere-lab.org
Training and facilities for artists using 16mm, including optical printing
equipment
Oxford Film and Video Makers
www.ofvm.org
Linear and non-linear editing suites
Photofusion
South London
www.photofusion.org
Desktop editing systems
Picture This Moving Image
Bristol
www.picturethismovingimage.co.uk
Post-production and out-house equipment hire including DVCPro, DVCam, 16mm
and Super 8 cameras, AVID, lights
Pink Pigeon
London
www.pinkpigeon.net
Post-Production and DVD authoring
Site Gallery
Sheffield
www.sitegallery.org
Digital production equipment and desktop editing (Final Cut Pro, Premiere)
as well as an AVID express system. They also run a bursaries scheme for equipment
use.
Space Place
East London
www.spacestudios.com
Desktop editing systems (Final Cut Pro, Premiere) and other multimedia software
Team Pictures
East London
www.teampictures.co.uk
Post-production and out-house equipment hire including BetaSX and DVCam cameras,
AVID
Professional Development:
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The following organisations provide general professional development support for artists:
ACAVA (Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art)
London
Email: info@acava.org
Provides access to equipment, studios and training courses for professional
artists.
Artsadmin
London
www.artsadmin.co.uk
Artsadmin runs an advice and information service for artists working in the
area of live art, performance, time-based media and interdisciplinary arts.
They also have rehearsal space and video production equipment available to
hire.
[a-n] Magazine
www.anweb.co.uk
Monthly magazine and website resource for artists, particularly good for information
about opportunities for artists.
Artquest
London
www.artquest.org.uk
As well as an excellent website offering advice and information for professional
artists and recent graduates, Artquest have email and telephone helplines and
offer one-to-one advice on specific issues.
Live Art Development Agency
London
www.liveartlondon.demon.co.uk/
Live Art Development Agency offers a range of services and schemes for the
support and development of artists and organisations involved with Live Art
in London.
Space Place
London
www.spacestudios.com
Studio space for artists, professional development and digital art courses
and a reasonably priced digital production resource.
Training:
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City University Cultural Industries
London
www.city.ac.uk/conted/cicourses.htm
16mm film production, 16mm film animation, Introduction to DV, Documentary,
Film development, professional for visual artists and more
Four Corners Film Workshop
London
Tel: 020 8981 6111
Email: film@fourcorners.demon.co.uk
16mm film production, Avid editing
Glasgow Media Access Centre
www.g-mac.co.uk
Video Production, Avid Editing, 16mm camera and editing, Super 8 filmmaking,
lighting and more
Hoxton Bibliotech
London
www.biblio-tech.net
After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere
Hull Time Based Arts
www.timebase.org
Video production, AVID, sound design, web streaming
Oxford Film and Video Makers
www.ofvm.org
8mm, 16mm and video production, desktop editing
South Thames College
Wandsworth, London
www.south-thames.ac.uk
16mm filmmaking, final cut pro, scriptwriting
Space Place
London
www.spacestudios.com
Desktop editing
