Curator of Film at Tate Modern, Stuart Comer talks about developing the screening programme and the challenges of managing into a artistic and not just contextual element of gallery.
Artist filmmaker Steven Eastwood discusses the art collective OMSK and their many events combining film and video with performance and installations. The opportunities offered to audiences and artists’ by OMSKs’ open ethos and passion for experimentation are discussed.
Barry Esson and Bryony McIntrye talk about their extensive experience in working with artists involved in music and the development and programming of Instal and Kill Your Timid Notion festivals in Scotland. The discussion focuses on how they structure and facilitate a rich dialogue between sound and image in KYTN.
Filmmaker and founder of Kino Club talks with artist’s filmmaker Emily Richardson about his extensive experience installing artists films in galleries and other spaces. The interview focuses on the technical issues and particularly how to tackle the requirements of 16mm film.
Will Rose, programme director of arts organisation Lumen and curator and co-director of Evolution festival in Leeds, discusses the establishment and development of the festival from a side bar to the Leeds International Film Festival to a week long series of events.
Mark Aerial Waller is a practicing artists working with the moving image and the way people engage with its’ presentation. He talks about showing his own work in a variety of contexts as well as the project ‘The Wayward Canon’ though which he seeks to provide “a shifting platform for the re-evaluation of cinema.”
Two participants in the Side Cinema, an independent collectively programmed cinema in Newcastle, discuss the challenges and motivation for their distinct model of cinema management. They reflect on their past programmes and the development for their future cinema, The Star And Shadow Cinema, that they are building in Newcastle
Independent curator Mark Webber discusses his many projects, their development and management as well as challenges posed to free-lance curators of film.
Artist, curator and writer Ian White discusses the intersection of these disciplines and his many projects including The Artists Cinema at Frieze Art Fair and his programmes as Adjunct curator of film at Whitechapel Gallery, London.