‘It’s taken 5-6 months just to do 6-7 days of shooting. And those were short 4 hour days, on a normal 12-14 hour schedule we’ve accomplished what would amount to TWO days of filming (on say a TV schedule) in 6 months! This is what it’s like working with no money’ - Damon Packard

05.09.09 - 26.09.09 {...}

The Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius is widely celebrated on the international art scene for his uncompromising yet poetic film and video works, which often take the communist experience as a starting point. Winner of the 2008 Vincent Van Gogh award for contemporary art, he was described by the jury as an artist who has an immense impact on his audience and who ‘shows us that the only way we can possibly grasp the contemporary socio-political situation in Europe is by re-examining {...}

Mariele Neudecker’s piece of work (Winterreise, 2003) is a collaboration with Opera North where Schubert’s song cycle ‘WINTERREISE’ (A WINTER’S JOURNEY) has been used as a basis for a film-project using locations along the 60th parallel north. It is a compilation of 24 short films that exists both as a live performance version and in this context as {...}

Episode III – ‘Enjoy Poverty’ is the second in a series of three films by Martens in which he raises issues
regarding contemporary image production. The films prompt the viewer to think about the construction of a
documentary and the role of the maker in it, and the responsibility of the viewers themselves. Martens filmed the first part {...}

Wednesday October 29 2008 9pm Mathieu Copeland presents the DVD launch
and special screening of THE SAINTS,
a collection of 6 films by Amy Granat with
Jutta Koether,Fia Backström,Mai-Thu Perret ,Angel Turner,Amy O’Neill
A unique screening of all films together and special performances at the Swiss Institute.
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Saturday 18 October – Saturday 15 November Exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery, 34 Cork Street, W1
A pole dancer called Shahnoza is the subject of a new series of nine, life-size works by Julian Opie, titled ‘This is Shahnoza in 3 Parts’, and featured in the exhibition of the same name at Alan Cristea Gallery from 18 October 2008.

The depiction of Shahnoza has been a recurring theme in Opie’s work, and the Alan Cristea Gallery has commissioned a short film {...}