From Brisbane and San Fransisco respectively, Sally Golding and Kerry Laitala are very special guests for what promises to be a memorable night of expanded cinema and celluloid alchemy.

Sally Golding 's projection performances use reprinted archival and found footage, colour theory, flicker, multiple projections and projections onto her own body to investigate perceptual states, illness and mortality.

Whilst Kerry laitala's hand crafted films evoke a gothic trip into the soul via early cinema influences (technical and visual) and raw structural elements.

The Glass Delution Season (29 Sept - 3 Oct)

‘The Glass Delusion’ is an artists’ film programme organised in association with the National Glass Centre (in Sunderland), to coincide with the exhibition of the same name (until the 3rd of October).

‘The Glass Delusion’ was the name given in the late Middle Ages and Baroque times to a form of depression. The syndrome evokes a psychological separation between reality and imagination. Sufferers were obsessive, compulsive, driven by irrational fears and envisioned themselves to be made of glass, hence delicate and vulnerable to scrutiny.

The events at the Star and Shadow feature artists who use film to investigate altered mental states. All three nights are absorbing experimental excursions into the potential of film for psychological exploration.

3 nights programmed:

Wed 29 Sept, 7.30pm: Film: Sally Golding and Kerry Laitala

Thu 30 Sept, 8pm: Film: Paul Sharits (1966 - 1976)

Sun 3 October, 7.30pm: Film: Invisible Adversaries (1976)

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