North America, Kenya, Singapore: the artists represented in this year’s Artist Film & Video programme spirit us away down their very own personal paths leading to distant climes both real and imaginary. 

In the process, the award-winning and by all means political films provide insights into the current state of international media art.

FULL PROGRAMME:

THE SWEETNESS OF MOTHER'S HAiR (Germany 2011, 18‘, colour, English, by Jana Debus)

An alchemy of one man‘s image and another man‘s words. A portrait that maintains its right to stay a mystery. A song, a riddle, an owl, a frozen shoreline, urban savannah: fragments of brief encounters with wild and urban creatures and tender gestures in unsettling environments. A tribute to man, that mysterious creature.

APPLiED THEORiES OF ExPANDiNG MiNDS (Sweden/Kenya 2011, 33‘,  colour, English, Kiswahili, Mandarin with English subtitles, by Lena Bergendahl, Jennifer Rainsford, Rut Karin Zettergren)

A fanatic group of individuals in Kenya has created an alternative to the existing society by making the earth‘s magnetic fields run their lives. The film follows their rituals in a society that for a long time has been controlled by China.

SOuNDiNG GLASS (Germany 2011, 10‘, b/w, no dialogue, by Sylvia Schedelbauer)

A man in the forest: inner and outer worlds of images overlay each other.

JALAN JATi (Teak Road, Singapore 2012, 23‘, colour, English, Malay, by Lucy Davis)

Part magic, part science, part eco-historical investigation, this animated film traces real and imagined journeys of a teak bed found in Singapore across SEAsia to the original tree, using DNA. A film on memories of wood, trees and people.

TICKETS:

£5 / £3.50 (CONCESSIONS)