A festival of experimental film and video showing the work of over 70 artists/ filmmakers, featuring single-screen films, multi-screen/performance-related works and site-specific installations. Accompanied by a publication including discussion pieces by Luke Aspell and collective-iz (on collective practices), Sally Golding, James Holcombe and Cathy Rogers (on different manifestations of contemporary expanded cinema), and short essays by Maria Palacios Cruz (LUX, Deputy Director), William Fowler (BFI, curator of artists' moving image) and Nicky Hamlyn (filmmaker and writer), plus complete listings.
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The Contact festival is programmed by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne.
The Contact festival is programmed by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne.
The festival opens on Friday 6th of May at 6pm.
Installed works exhibited throughout the weekend:
Ian Bourn’s Cornered–2 Mirror Self Portrait; David Cunningham’s CMY; Louisa Fairclough’s Can People See Me Swallowing; Riccardo Iacono’s All For The Captured Time Of Our Being; Jamie Jenkinson’s Oscillating Fans; Conor Kelly’s Room Sound; Gareth Polmeer’s Field/Relation; Cathy Rogers' Between Here, There and This II, Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith’s The Network Ensemble; Mark Watson’s Protomoto CCTV; and Ian Wiblin’s City Circular 2016.
On Friday from 6pm, Saturday from 2pm and Sunday from 2pm we are showing single-screen films and expanded cinema/performance pieces at the following times.
Programme of single screen/performance/expanded works for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
Friday
6pm
Laura Hindmarsh Exposure Test
6:45
Kerry Baldry Mumble and Punch
David Leister Blinder
Oliver Bancroft Sunday School with Rev'd Alfred Bissette
7:30
Bea Haut Passage
Jenny Baines Insertional
8:00
Karolina Raczynski and Anita Konarska Body Scan: [A]live Screening
8:30
John Smith Steve Hates Fish
Nick Collins Three Little Pieces
9:00
Sally Golding and Spatial
Saturday
2pm
Emily Richardson Beach House
Patti Gaal-Holmes Liliesleaf Farm Mayibuye: Double Take
2:40
Jennet Thomas The Unspeakable Freedom Device
3:30
Steve Littman The Enlightenment – New Variations
Nicky Hamlyn Gasometers (Part 2)
Simon Payne Reason’s Code
4:15
George Barber Akula Dream
5:00
Maria Anastassiou Lightning Strikes
Jayne Parker and Joan Key Piano Performance for Tania Chen
Jennifer Nightingale Rectangle Window Arch Window
5:45
Amy Dickson North, South, East, West
6:15
Mary Stark Film As Fabric
7:00
Małgorzata Drohomirecka Untitled
Samantha Rebello Midas (I)
Anna Thew Prometheus’ Stolen Time
7:45
Malcolm Le Grice The Probability of God is About Zero
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler Everything for Everyone and Nothing for Us
8:15
James Holcombe and Secluded Bronte Against Cinema
9:00
Lynn Loo Washi # 2 (extended version)
Guy Sherwin Looped Leaders
Sunday
2pm
Hilary Koob-Sassen Transcalar Investment Vehicles
3:00
Luke Aspell Alexander Berkman
Marek Budzynski A Little Bathroom Film
Adam Kossoff Fragmented Forest
3:30
Savinder Bual Agni
Matthew Noel-Todd Untitled (iPhone)
Heather Phillipson FINAL DAYS: UNDERWEAR
4:00
Daniel Brackenbury and Joe Gilmore Under Glass
Andrew Vallance Commonwealth Archipelago
Ben Rivers Things
5:00
Duncan Reekie Over and Over Again
William Raban Time And The Wave
Deniz Johns Media Blackout I
5:30
Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith The Network Ensemble
6:00
Steven Ball and Martin Blažíček More Speakers
6:45
Andrea Luka Zimmerman Towards Estate
Lis Rhodes Journal of Disbelief
7:30
Laura Wilson 800 Lights in 177 years
8:00
Karel Doing Pattern/Chaos
8:30
Vicky Smith and Bouche Bée Primal 1
9:00
Greg Pope and Kostis Kilymis Cipher Screen 16
