Unfortunately I had my camera on manual focus without realising so no good photos of us partying but you can watch most of the films embedded below:

KEVIN KELLY – DIRECTIONS

Directions from Kevjn Kelly on Vimeo.

FELEK WERPACHOWSKI – The Man Who Married the Sea

The Man Who Married The Sea from Felek on Vimeo.

SEAN VICARY – Sea of Glass:

Sea of Glass from Sean Vicary on Vimeo.

DONA KHUN – Mailman, Moron, Superman

mailman, moron, superman from donna kuhn on Vimeo.

JESSE REDING FLEMING:

http://graylightstudio.com/GLS2010/It.html

+ VIDEOS FROM ARTSIDE EVENTS:

LOIS ELIZABETH TAYLOR:

ANN HARVEY

NATASHA CARSBERG

BATHSHEBA SPORLE

NATASHA VICARS

BIRGIT DEUBNER

MORE ABOUT ARTSIDE - http://www.artside.org.uk

MORE SHORT FILMS coming up: LAST FRIDAY SHORTS screening resumes in September – if you have a short film to submit, send a link to michaela at idea13 dot org

I am looking for works that are about settling in and living in another country. The call is open to British and Czech artists with experience of living in the opposite country.

The exhibition is called LOST IN TRANSLATION and will open at Riverside Studios on 1 November 2010.

Due to the nature of the venue we can only accommodate medium-sized 2D works (photography, drawing, print etc.) including a literary works. Please send two examples and your proposal to lostintranslationexhibition (at) gmail.comby 22 AUGUST 2010.

The artists are: Karen Apps, Claudie Bastide, Katy Beinart, Dominic Bradnum, Natasha Carsberg, Frankie Charles & Ashley Gallant, James Clarkson, Debora D’Auria, Birgit Deubner, Kelda Free & David Brazier, Jessica Fuller, Seth Guy, Ann Harvey, Tom van Herrewege, Will Jennings, Laura Keeble, Sally Kidall, Grace Lau, Hayley Lock, Liz Murray, Madelaine Murphy, Alex Pearl, Grant Philpott, Jonas Ranson, Paul Russell, Elaine Smith, Bathsheba Sporle, Helen Sturgess, Lois Elizabeth Taylor, Natasha Vicars, Caroline Wright

More information is on http://www.artside.org.uk

http://chocolategirl64.blogspot.com/2010/06/please-touch.html

3 Filmmakers from Southend show and introduce their films:

AARON FOSTER – Lucy Lolly
FRAN WILDE – Handed
GONCALO NASCIMENTO – White
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GEORGE SHELBOURN – Factory Defaults / Lance the Seahorse

JACKSON 2 BEARS – 10 Little Indians

AMANDA WASILIEWSKI – Supervision: Wawina, MN / Tralowarren-Wardenclyffe Part I – Entreprise

LEE BERWICK – Yatra

KEN CHAPMAN – Taking the…

ANJA M KIRSCHNER – Polly II – Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (from Fresh Moves Selection)

ANDREW KOTTING – Of an Ode to a Deadad

+ LA JETEE – Chris Marker (1962) – a 29-minutes long film consisting mostly of black and white stills which inspired the film by Terry Gilliam – Twelve Monkeys

Suitable for a couple of friends, but individual players are also encouraged to apply.

Date: 3rd June 2010
Time: 7PM – 9PM

Players don’t need to use their own phones (2 phones with software will be available)

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PIECE:

A free game for mobile phones, which turns people to social viruses with unpredictable behavior. MORE: http://flirtman.com/
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Computer games are based on simulation. In the gaming world, the player can experience dangerous situations without actually risking bodily harm. But what happens when we take this simulated reality out of the box and introduce it to the real world? Suddenly, binary code gains the power to toy with people’s emotions, and an unpredictable game will ensure…

Taking the avatar from computer game and bringing him back to real world is kind of a revolt towards increasing phenomenon of simulation in our everyday life. We just reverse the principle of computer game. We turn the simulation back to reality, we expose the avatar to real pain of life. What happens with social games then? How do people relate to the live avatar?
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J2ME client software is running on the player’s mobile phone. This allows him to send basic commands through an Internet server to the avatar’s mobile phone, which is kept hidden. The avatar client software written also in J2ME understands the commands and translates them to audio messages. They are played discretely via headset to the avatar’s ear.
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More about Flirtman: http://flirtman.com/about and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flirtman/142272205958

The performers will work with dance artist Lizzy Le Quesne to rehearse and perform a live, structured movement improvisation amongst and involving the viewers at the exhibition, moving with them in the shared space of the gallery.

Extensive dance experience is not required as movement is extremely simple, but an understanding of performance presence, an interest in spatial and social relationship is essential.

Lizzy Le Quesne is a dance artist working in live performance, film and photography. Her work has been presented in galleries, theatres and non theatre spaces worldwide. She lectures on the BA Dance and Visual Art at Brighton University and also performs for other artists including Ricochet Dance Productions and Rosemary Lee.

There will be a 2 evening or weekend sessions leading to the performance on the evening of the 3rd June.

Please write a short statement giving your age and gender, and describing your experience and reasons for wanting to take part to michaela_freeman@yahoo.co.uk

More information about Please Touch exhibition: http://www.michaelafreeman.com/pleasetouch

FOR MORE INFO and IMAGES – go to http://www.michaelafreeman.com/pleasetouch

FULL POST IS HERE: http://idea13.org/2010/04/io/

Next in the series of screening I’ve curated for TAP took place last Friday with the following films:

LIZZY LE QUESNE – Reflections on Shop Window – A video about a performance which sought to challenge the stereotypes of female body as portrayed by the media.

GILLIAN MCIVER – Tarkovsky’s River –  Tracing a river journey along the Upper Volga to Yureyvits, Tarkovsky’s birthplace, “journey into landscape, into the deep heart of a place where the river is as wide as a sea, where skies are vast and time stands still.”

CATHIE COX – Midnight Encounter

RODRIGO REIS – Omulu – A woman. Different realities. Present, past and future. Inspired by the Afro-Brazilian religions and their archetypes, and 1970’s Midnight movies.

+ Screening of TANK.TV – Fresh Moves anthology with works by: David Blandy, Ben Callaway, Duncan Campbell, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Spartacus Chetwynd, Kate Cooper, Ann Course, Katy Dove, Max Hattler, Runa Islam, Kevin Heavey, Anja M. Kirschner, Zineb Sedira, Andrew Kötting, Torsten Lauschmann, Daria Martin, Alexander Heim, Ben Rivers, Samuel Stevens, Stephen Sutcliffe, Mark Aerial Waller, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans

Thanks to TANK.TV – click here for their WEBSITE.

For more information about LAST FRIDAY SHORTS and how to submit a film – see the ARCHIVE.

Organised in collaboration with The White Bus.