Berwick upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival c r o s s i n g b o r d e r s

16 – 25 September 2005 Contents Introduction 1

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Published in an edition of 1000 as part of the BFMAF 16 – 25 September 2005 Artist Film & Video 33 The Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival is hosted by the The Big M 48 Berwick-upon-Tweed Community Development Trust. Charity No. 1109088 Company No. 5290088 a-n Symposium 52 © Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2005 Kids Club 52

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, Venues 54 or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or Programme Overview 58 otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Index 60 Map inside back cover The Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival started life as a chance pub conversation some two years ago, and over the intervening period has slowly evolved into this inaugural event. It was born out of a passion and enthusiasm for cinema and art, incorporated with the desire to use the extraordinary location of Berwick-upon-Tweed, with its rich historical and architectural heritage, as its setting. When we met with potential funders and supporters in the early days we spoke Funders about Berwick itself being transformed into a moving image installation – a visual and cultural spectacle – we hope that the essence of this vision is reflected in this programme.

The theme of this year’s Festival, Crossing Borders was an obvious choice. The town's position on the border between Scotland and England and the resulting violent history that came with this, has filtered through to the core of what Berwick has become. It is a proud and in some respects isolated town, that has a very real sense of itself beyond what it tells you in the guidebooks. It is a place that falls between countries but has the autonomy and self-regard of a separate state.

Berwick wants to celebrate itself and this Festival is partly to do with that. But as a place it also offers something quite unique, a contemporary culture wanting to redefine its relationship to Berwick Borough Local Strategic Partnership its historical legacy. We wanted to create an event that came from the Town and permeated Culture & Heritage Sector Board the core of it and not only helped people to discover the hidden Berwick, but also helped new audiences discover contemporary film and video. The Festival is adding to an already rich and long standing association with film, which is continuing as more and more filmmakers are seeing its potential as a location.

However, our interpretation of Crossing Borders has not just been limited to the local context. Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival These themes are wide-ranging and ever present, impacting on the work of many international Key Sponsors filmmakers and artists, both from a political and transnational perspective. They also more loosely Crossing Borders encompass issues concerning gender, life and death, economic difference and even aesthetic language – all of which have been incorporated into the themes of the Festival.

The ambition for the Festival has always been to stage a world-class event. With this in mind, we have brought together the work of filmmakers and artists from almost twenty countries over a ten-day period, some of which is being screened in the UK for the first time. In total over eighty films will be shown, as part of thirty programmes, in ten different locations. This includes moving Sponsors image work produced by internationally renowned directors and artists, as well as that of others who are just emerging in their fields. It crosses genres; from contemporary independent cinema and retrospectives of classic films, through to artists’ film and video and rare archival screenings. It includes work screened in unique settings; prison cells, icehouses and Elizabethan walls, as well as some more conventional cinematic locations. However, our aim was always to programme Robertson’s (Berwick) engaging, thought provoking and challenging work, which would nevertheless be accessible and capture the viewer’s imagination.

Berwick Chamber of Trade The realisation of the festival could not have been possible without the help, commitment, enthusiasm and sheer determination of a large number of individuals, all of whom we are totally indebted to. We are also reliant on the funding, goodwill and in-kind support of a whole range of public, private and cultural organisations and again our formal thanks go out to them. However, no festival is possible without its audience and our final thanks go to you - we hope that you will be as exhilarated as we are by the work represented in the programme. We also hope that your support will make the Festival a sustainable event – celebrating the best of cinema Supporters of The Festival The Sponsors Club and artists’ film in Berwick for many years to come.

ENGLISH HERITAGE for Arts & Business Marcus Coates & Huw Davies Co-Artistic Directors Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

Festival Host Marcus Coates is an artist filmmaker who has Huw Davies is an independent filmmaker based exhibited internationally, he lives and works in in Berwick-upon-Tweed. He has taught at various Berwick-upon-Tweed. His work will be represented universities and colleges in the UK and USA and is in the British Arts Show 6 and a solo show at currently Head of the School of Design and Media the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in 2006. Arts and Communication Arts at Napier University in Edinburgh.

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The Berwick upon Tweed Community Development Trust is proud to present our first International Film The Arts Council North East is proud to be supporting the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. The and Media Arts Festival. The Trust is a community owned and led force for regeneration in the historic inaugural festival has a strong and impressive line-up of artists and films, proving that it is possible to areas of Berwick, East Ord, Scremerston, Spittal and Tweedmouth. We decided to host this exciting bring a world-class event like this to Berwick, and sparking the hope that this will become an annual festival to showcase the town and the many opportunities it offers, to local people, artists, businesses, event, attracting national and international talent to Berwick-upon-Tweed. tourists and more. For those who are coming to Berwick for the first time because of the Festival: welcome, and let us know what you think. For everyone else: welcome back! James Bustard, Acting Director of Arts & Development, Arts Council England, North East. Arts Council England, North East Chris Anderson, on behalf of the board of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Community Development Trust You can find out more about us at www.berwicktrust.org.uk Growing up in the North, I spent a huge part of my childhood amongst the awesome scenery of the Borders and Berwick in particular, dreaming of raiders (Scots, Vikings, Aliens etc) and battle. It has The Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is a key part of the wider Regional Visual Arts programme been a long cherished dream of mine to return to the area and shoot a movie - making some of those designed to make our region a great place to visit, live learn and work. The quality of this innovative childhood fantasies come true. In the meantime, I believe the Berwick Film Festival is an excellent programme and the idea of using the fabric of Berwick as a backdrop for film and video installations and long-overdue idea, which could open up a truly breathtaking part of the country - one that has will ensure that this Festival lives long in the memory. been sadly overlooked and underused by filmmakers. It has always been my pleasure to introduce my friends to the area - Vadim Jean for example - and I hope the Festival helps to make this part of Carol Bell, Head of Programme Development for Culture10 for NewcastleGateshead Initiative. the country the magnet for filmmakers that it truly deserves to be. Berwick is an undiscovered gem. Together we can help make it shine.

The Northumberland Cultural Strategy aims to facilitate the development of new cultural activity and Paul W.S.Anderson, Director (Aliens Vs Predators, Resident Evil ) new cultural experiences for communities in County. We are very pleased to support the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in its first year as part of the Regional Visual Arts programme, alongside the British Arts Show, demonstrating that Northumberland’s unique physical and built environment can act The Film Festival is an exciting venture for Berwick, with a wide selection of films and other events in as an equal setting for cultural events. an intriguing selection of places. There is something for everyone, and I hope that the Festival will be a huge success. Zoë Bottrell, Northumberland Culture10 Coordinator for Northumberland Strategic Partnership Rt. Hon. Alan Beith, MP

The moving image is the most exciting and diverse art form in the world, yet for most of us, the cinema experience can be narrow, limited to the latest Hollywood offering. If you are a film lover and happen to live outside the urban centres, cinema-going can be even more frustrating. All this can change when there is a film festival and this is why Northern Film & Media is delighted to be supporting Berwick-upon-Tweed’s first such event this year. We look forward to seeing you there.

Lorna Partington, Audience Development Manager, Northern Film & Media For more information about NFM’s mission, log on to www.northernmedia.org

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • IINTRODUCTION •  UK PREMIERE One More Kiss

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Maltings Cinema 1 Saturday 17 16:00 Maltings Cinema 1 Friday 16 20:00 UK, 1999 95 min Colour 35 mm Canada / USA, 2004 90 min Colour 35 mm dir: Vadim Jean scr: Suzie Halewood dir: Vadim Jean prod: Vadim Jean, Paul Brooks scr: Martin Short, Paul Flaherty, dop: Mike Fox Michael Short editor: Joe McNally prod: Paul Brooks, Martin Short, Bernie sound: Mike Lax, Tommy Hair, Ian Wilson Brillstein, Peter Safran music: John Murphy, David Hughes dop: Mike J Fox cast: Gerald Butler, Valerie Edmond, editor: Matt Davis James Cosmo, Valerie Gogan sound: William Skinner music: David Lawrence production company: The Mob Film Co cast: Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda print source: The Mob Film Co Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, Elizabeth Perkins Director’s profile:see page 4

production company: Gold Circle Films international sales: Gold Circle Films

Director Vadim Jean will be present to introduce the film.

Director’s profile: Vadim started off as a runner on Mike Figgis’s Stormy Monday after graduating from Warwick University. In 1990, he set up a company producing everything from corporate videos to sports coverage. Three years later, he was directing Leon the Pig Farmer with next to no budget but plenty of "chutzpah". The film went on to win the Chaplin Award for best feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The opening film of the 1st ever Berwick Film and Media Arts In spite of his fawning sycophancy and utter cluelessness, Jiminy Aside from his award-winning debut Leon the Pig Farmer, Edmond and Butler (alongside James Cosmo, who plays Sarah’s His second feature film,Beyond Bedlam, is best Festival is, appropriately enough, a star-studded romp set during winds up hitting the big time after accidentally securing an One More Kiss is perhaps director Vadim Jean’s best-known and numb father) deliver great performances in this tender love story, known for being the first film in the UK to have one of the most prestigious international film festivals in the interview with reclusive megastar Ben diCarlo. Caught up in the best -loved film. It is a moving drama about a young woman who, which was – as you no doubt know – shot in Berwick-upon- its video certificate withdrawn in the light of the world (that’s Toronto, not Berwick). It stars comedian Martin insanity of instant celebrity, he wakes up the next day convinced upon being diagnosed with cancer, learns – and teaches those Tweed, taking full advantage of the town’s scenic setting. criminal justice bill and also for starring Elizabeth Short in fat suit and fine form as Jiminy Glick, a deeply earnest, he's murdered the alcoholic diva Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth around her – to enjoy life to the full. Such a theme can lend itself Hurley. It was followed by Clockwork Mice, Vadim's movie-obsessed interviewer from Montana who takes his wife and Perkins). The film then intersperses the murder mystery plot with to maudlin excesses of sentimentality, but One More Kiss cleverly third film in as many years, The Real Howard Spitz, twin sons Matthew and Modine to Toronto. Instead of the luxury Jiminy’s attempts at hobnobbing, allowing Short and some of his avoids such clichés to deliver a rewarding and intelligent take on starring Kelsey Grammer (Frasier, Cheers) and hotel Jiminy had expected, they are staying in an ominously dingy filmstar buddies (Kurt Russell, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg) to allowing one’s perceptions to change and being true to oneself. Amanda Donohoe was released in 1998. fleabag, where he meets David Lynch (also played by Martin give full rein to their knack for inspired improvisation and comic Short). Between cryptic mutterings, the director tells Jiminy that timing. Jiminy may be a bloated, incompetent buffoon, but he’ll Sam, a restaurant chef (Gerard Butler, seen most recently in Dear Vadim went on to direct One More Kiss, a love he is working on a film about an obscure celebrity interviewer take you on a fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and often clever ride Frankie and Phantom of the Opera) finds his marriage is sorely story set in the North East of England and Jiminy who becomes embroiled in a murder mystery. through the absurdities of star culture. tested by the sudden reappearance of his ex, Sarah (Valerie Glick in Lalawood, a comedy that reprises Martin Edmond). Diagnosed with a brain tumour, Sarah decided to leave Short’s Comedy Central character. New York to come back to her home town and to her only true love, whose heart she had broken seven years previously. She turns up Director’s filmography (features only): on his doorstep, expecting him to make time for her – and he does. 2005 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Selfish? Perhaps, but she is also extremely likeable and her gung- 1998 One More Kiss ho attitude (all kite-flying and skydiving) is proving a hit with Sam. 1997 The Real Howard Spitz 1995 Clockwork Mice 1994 Beyond Bedlam 1993 Leon the Pig Farmer

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • SPECIAL SCREENING •   • SPECIAL SCREENING • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 A Room with a View ENGLISH PREMIERE

Maltings Cinema 1 Bitter Dream (Khab-é Talkh) Sunday 18 18:00 Maltings Cinema 1 UK, 1985 117 min Saturday 24 16:30 Colour 35 mm Iran, 2004 87 min dir: James Ivory Colour & Black and White 35 mm scr: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (based on Persian the novel by E M Forster) prod: Ismail Merchant dir/scr/editor: Mohsen Amiryoussefi dop: Tony Pierce-Roberts prod: Rouhollah Baradari, Mohsen editor: Humphrey Dixon Amiryoussefi music: Richard Robbins dop: Bayram Fazli cast: Dame Maggie Smith, Helena sound: Mohammad Reza Delpak Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, music: Sorour Kasmaï Dame Judi Dench, Denholm cast: Abbas Esfandiari, Delbar Elliott, Simon Callow, Daniel Ghasri, Mohsen Rahimi, Safar Day-Lewis Ali Safari

production company: Merchant Ivory production company: Touba Films Productions international sales: DreamLab print source: Merchant Ivory print source: Dream Lab Productions Director’s Profile: Plus: Presentation by Paul Bardley, Executive Mohsen Amiryoussefi was born in Abadan, Iran, Producer, Merchant Ivory Productions. in 1972. He trained as a mathematician but abandoned this career path to focus on his first Company Profile – Merchant Ivory Productions: scope of their subjects is as broad as their range Young Lucy (Helena Bonham-Carter) is accompanied in Italy by her stiff but kindly aunt passion: cinema. He directed his first short in From Shakespeare Wallah, the bittersweet tale of of locations. They have explored India’s past and Charlotte (Maggie Smith). When the pair arrive at their hotel, they are disappointed to 1995; Bitter Dream is his first feature. a wandering theatrical company in India, which present in such features as The Householder, find that their room offers no view over the city of Florence. A gentleman by the name of established the company’s reputation in 1965, Bombay Talkie, and Autobiography of a Princess; Mr Emerson (Denholm Elliott) offers to swap his own, better appointed room with the two to the richly detailed comic masterpiece A Room the clash of cultures in Shakespeare Wallah, ladies, enabling them to benefit from the stunning vista they had anticipated. Lucy then with a View in 1986, and the poignant Oscar- Heat and Dust, and The Europeans; the conflicts meets his son George (Julian Sands), whose seductive allure unsettles her. She drops her winning filmHowards End in 1992, Merchant and anomie of a modern urban life in Quartet, guard and succumbs to a kiss, witnessed by her outraged aunt. Ivory has provided audiences around the world Roseland, and Slaves of New York; and the There is something truly jubilatory about discovering a film as surrealism, at its most visually striking when Esfandiar’s beloved with thoughtful and beautifully-crafted features, struggle for self-discovery in The Bostonians, A Whisked back home to the staid pace of rural England, Lucy gradually settles back into deliciously inventive and mischievous as this Iranian comedy by black & white television set starts broadcasting his own encounter documentaries, and shorts. Room with a View, Maurice, and Mr. and Mrs. a life of monotonous predictability, consenting to an engagement with Cecil (Daniel first-time director Mohsen Amiryoussefi. Since being selected for with death. Bridge. Day-Lewis), a bookish snob whose pompous buffoonery would dissipate any lingering Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2004, this low-budget production Merchant Ivory’s films have been praised for passion. This quiet is threatened when the Emersons rent a nearby cottage and Freddy, has been delighting festival audiences across the globe with its Amiryoussefi elicits terrific performances from his non- their visual beauty, their mature and intelligent Selected filmography: Lucy’s brother, becomes close friends with George. With a second kiss, George rekindles irreverent take on death and religious tradition. professional cast (who all play themselves) and, while poking themes, and the shrewd casting and fine acting 2005 The White Countess Lucy’s ardour and forces her to choose between the socially acceptable but untruthful life fun at such heavy-weight topics as religion and death, creates from which they derive their unique power. 2001 The Golden Bowl she was destined for and one that jeopardises all the values she has been taught. Filmed in a faux-documentary style, Bitter Dream is set in a a bittersweet comedy of such originality it defies all genre 1998 A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries small-town Iranian cemetery and focuses on several characters boundaries: part ethnological mockumentary, part fable, this Merchant Ivory is actually a collaboration of 1996 Surviving Picasso This sumptuous Edwardian romance became one of the most highly regarded literary whose profession as graveyard workers ostracises them from the resembles nothing you have ever seen before – unless you can three remarkable people from three vastly 1995 Jefferson in Paris adaptations ever brought to the screen (a success due in no small part to Merchant Ivory rest of society. They are supervised by grumpy old man Esfandiar, picture a Brechtian take on The Seventh Seal, scripted by Beckett, different cultures: Ismail Merchant, the producer, 1993 The Remains of the Day regular Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s screenplay) and came to epitomise quality British film who has been washing the bodies of the dead for so many years choreographed by Chaplin and filmed by Herzog. born in India; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the 1992 Howards End making. A witty comedy of manners contrasting the prim rigidity of English etiquette he seems ill-equipped to handle the living. A sullen and solitary screenwriter, born in Germany and educated in 1991 Street Musicians of Bombay with the lush luminosity of the Tuscan countryside, A Room with a View launched or man, he is not averse to dealing a few blows here and there to England; and James Ivory, the director, born in 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge consecrated the careers of some of the finest actors in British cinema, and gave rise to a assert his authority or nurse his pride. He is also very old and the United States. 1987 Maurice new generation of British tourists’ love affair with Tuscany. knows that, soon, his own lifeless body will be washed according 1985 A Room with a View to the ancient tradition he has been perpetuating. Eager to reach The diversity of Merchant Ivory’s cultural roots 1984 The Bostonians a peaceful eternity, he half-heartedly asks for forgiveness from is evident in the range of locations in which 1983 Heat and Dust his bullied workers, paving the way for some of the best comic their movies have been shot: Delhi, Bombay, 1981 Quartet scenes in the film. His attempts at striking a deal with Ezrael, the and Benares; London, Paris, and Florence; New 1979 The Europeans angel of death, suffuse the second half of the film with a haunting York, New England, and Texas. They capture a 1977 Roseland vital sense of place and often lyrical feeling for 1975 The Wild Party widely varying periods and landscapes, from 1970 Bombay Talkie Paris in the 1920s and Edwardian England, to 1965 Shakespeare Wallah nineteenth-century America and British India.The 1963 The Householder

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • SPECIAL SCREENING •   • NEW FEATURES • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 UK PREMIERE Le Grand Voyage

Earth and Ashes Maltings Cinema 1 (Khakestar-o-Khak) Wednesday 21 21:00

France / Morocco, 2004 108 min Maltings Cinema 1 Colour 35 mm Thursday 22 21:00 French, Moroccan, Arabic

Afghanistan / France, 2004 110 min dir / scr: Ismaël Ferroukhi Colour 35 mm prod: Humbert Balsan Pashtu dop: Katell Djian editor: Tina Baz sound: Xavier Griette, Julien Sicart dir: Atiq Rahimi music: Fowzi Guerdjou scr: Atiq Rahimi, Kambozia cast: Nicolas Cazalé, Mohamed Majd Partoviemarloei prod: Dimitri de Clercq production company: Ognon Pictures dop: Eric Guichard UK Distributor: Parasol Peccadillo editor: Ursula Lesiak sound: André Rigaut Director’s profile: music: Eric Aldea, Ivan Chiossone Ismael Ferroukhi was born on June 26th 1962 cast: Abdul Ghani, Jawan Mard in Kenitra, Morocco and moved to the South Homayoun, Tallosh Walli, Kader of France when he was three. He wrote and An old man waits by a dusty road track; Images from the bombing keep haunting directed his first short film,L’Exposé in 1993 production company: Les Films du Lendemain, a child follows him. The landscape Dastaguir, especially that of his which was followed in 1996 by another short, in coproduction with that surrounds them speaks of war and daughter-in-law, mad with horror and L’Inconnu with Catherine Deneuve. He has France 3 Cinéma and desolation, yet its beauty is riveting. panic, running naked to her death. He is written and directed two films for television Afghan Film Dastaguir and his grandson Yacine are convinced that Mourad would not be able and has worked as a screenwriter with director on their way to an isolated mine, where to bear this shame, nor can he bring himself Cedric Kahn. Le Grand Voyage won the Luigi de international sales: Mercure International Yacine’s father Mourad works. The to tell him that Yacine has gone deaf as a Laurentis award for best first film at the Venice story behind the long journey they are result of the bombing. As in many a fable, Film Festival in 2004. Director’s profile: undertaking emerges slowly: eleven days the weary traveller encounters a lone Atiq Rahimi was born in Kabul in 1962. He earlier, while Dastaguir and his grandson merchant who offers him a sympathetic ear left war-torn Afghanistan in 1984 to settle in were away at the mill, their village was and some wise words, encouraging him to Director’s filmography: Ismaël Ferroukhi’s award-winning The film offers breathtaking footage of the France. He studied cinematography at Rouen obliterated in a bombing raid. They got carry out his duty as a father. 2004 Le Grand Voyage directorial debut brushes a remarkable changing landscapes through which Reda and La Sorbonne Nouvelle. After working for a back in time to witness the devastation and 1996 L’Inconnu (short) portrait of father-son relationships and and his father travel, including hajj scenes PR company, he started making documentaries, now, having buried the dead and carried, Though the reality of the conflicts having 1993 L’Exposé (short) their incommensurate complexities. filmed in Mecca itself (a first for a fiction writing and directing plays. He has published alone, the burden of grief, Dastaguir must ravaged Afghanistan for more than twenty Reda is only weeks away from taking his film), but its particular beauty resides in two novels, including Terre et Cendres (April bring this terrible news to his son. His state years permeates every frame of his film, Baccalauréat when his father demands to the sensitivity with which the two men’s 2000), which he has here adapted for the of mind veers from anguish to doubt, as Rahimi never presents the war or its be driven to Mecca. The two men are so uneasy, enforced cohabitation is captured. screen. he questions his resolve to tell his son the victims as spectacle. Instead, he bears distant from one another they can scarcely Ferroukhi’s script allows for the unsaid to awful news. witness to the human cost of such tragedy, communicate: while Reda expresses make its weight felt, for awkward silences, building a deeply affecting portrait of a himself in French, his father will only sideways glances and mute exasperation Director’s filmography: majestic – and wounded – land. speak to him in Arabic and the father’s to express the clumsy emotions that 2001 Nous avons partagé le pain et le sel stern piety finds no echo in his leather-clad father and son grapple with – and the 2000 Zaher Shah, Le royaume de l’exil son’s aspirations. Yet together they embark inner journey they are undertaking. The 2000 À chacun son journal on a 3000-mile car journey from France to two lead actors’ formidable performances Saudi Arabia – from the western culture to further contribute to making this film a which the son was born and whose codes wonderfully accomplished work. he has internalised, to the culture that defines the father and in which Reda has never shown any interest.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • NEW FEATURES •   • NEW FEATURES • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 UK PREMIERE Tickets

Suburbs Maltings Cinema 1 Saturday 17 18:30 Maltings Cinema 1 Friday 23 21:00 Italy / UK, 2004 115 min Colour 35 mm Slovenia, 2004 90 min Italian, Albanian, English Colour 35 mm Slovenian dir / scr: Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi prod: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Babak Karimi, dir / scr: Vinko Möderndorfer Domenico Procacci, Rebecca O’Brien prod: Eva Rohrman dop: Fabio Olmi, Mahmoud Kalari, dop: Dusan Joksimovic Chris Menges editor: Andrija Zafranovic editor: Giovanni Ziberna, Babak Karimi, sound: Julij Zornik, Dragan Ceneris, Marjan Jonathan Morris Cimperman sound: Francesco Liotard, Maricetta music: Jani Golob Lombardo, Ray Beckett cast: Renato Jencek, Peter Museviski, Silvo music: George Fenton Bozic, Jernej Sugman, Maja Lesnik cast: Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis, production company: Forum Ljubljana Filippo Trojano, Martin Compston, international sales: Forum Ljubljana William Ruane, Gary Maitland, Blerta Cahani,Klajdi Qorraj, Aishe Gjyriq Director’s profile: Born in 1958 in Celje, Vinko Möderndorfer has production company: Fandango and Sixteen been one of the most prolific Slovenian artists Films since he graduated in theatre direction from the international sales The Works Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and television in 1982. In the last twenty years he has directed Unlike most of its neighbours in the ex-republic of Yugoslavia, Selected Filmographies more than 70 theatre and opera productions, Slovenia managed to achieve independence without any blood several radio plays and 12 television dramas and being shed. Its tourism trade has been thriving and it has Ken Loach documentaries based on his own scripts. He has successfully marketed itself as a small European paradise, keen Born: Nuneaton, UK, 1936. published 25 books in as many years (comprising to remain clearly distinct from the ever-explosive Balkans. Recent 2004 Ae Fond Kiss poems, novellas, novels, screenplays, essays and Slovenian films such as the Berlinale 2003 entry Spare Parts 1998 My Name is Joe radio plays). Suburbs is his first feature film. (Rezervni Deli) by Damjan Kozole and this directorial debut by 1990 Riff-Raff novelist, playwright and theatre director Vinko Möderndorfer 1986 Fatherland (featured in the Variety Critics’ choice section at last year’s Venice 1969 Kes Film Festival) have subverted this squeaky-clean image to explore 1967 Poor Cow the darker sides of the Slovenian psyche. Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach, three world- Setting a film on a train brings obvious narrative and practical Ermanno Olmi famous directors, each direct one segment of this film, which is constraints, yet the three directors found these liberating, Suburbs fixes its unflinching gaze on the moral alienation of four Born: Bergamo, Italy, 1931. set entirely on a train travelling from Austria to Italy. Though concentrating on isolated encounters to weave a portrait of seemingly benign middle-aged friends. Standing out amongst 2001 Il Mestiere delle Arm stylistically and narratively distinct, these segments are woven human interaction that resonates on a much wider level. In Olmi’s them is Marjan, who is finding it hard to get over his wife’s 1992 Lungo il Fiume together to form a coherent and affecting whole. In the first story segment, the elderly scientist’s reverie is disturbed by the obvious suicide – not that he would ever be able to express these feelings 1988 La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore’ (directed by Ermanno Olmi), a flight cancellation forces an elderly discomfort of less fortunate passengers, while the attitude of a to his alcohol-soaked buddies, whose squandered lives revolve 1978 L’Albero Degli Zoccoli scientist to take the train home; this inconvenience nevertheless bullish soldier causes much unease. This hints at two themes around their daily drinking sessions at the local bowling alley. 1965 E Venne un Uomo allows him to spend a fleeting moment with a young woman that will become central to the film: the persistence of a class Their chauvinistic banter, at first amusingly un-PC, soon reveals 1961 Il Posto whose kindness and beauty startle him, the memory of their system based on exclusion and inequality, and our relationship to the extent of the rampant misogyny and festering racial hatred meeting accompanying him along the journey. In the second story authority. The latter pervades Kiarostami’s understated, enigmatic that fires them. When Marjan tells them of his annoyance at his Abbas Kiarostami (directed by Abbas Kiarostami), a quiet Italian youth boards the segment, while the former is at the heart of Ken Loach’s piece. All new neighbours’ noisy sex life, they urge him to film the foreign Born: Teheran, Iran, 1940. train in the company of a cantankerous older lady. He remains three stories share a common fascination with the way our minds lovebirds’ intimate sessions. What starts up as a voyeuristic prank 2002 Ten oddly docile in the face of her outbursts until a chance encounter travel; as different as they are, each of these segments illustrates slides into sadistic obsession: washed-up and disillusioned, 1999 Bad ma ra Khahad Bord with a girl from his home town jolts him out of his passivity. the metamorphosing power of even the smallest journey and the unable to face up to their own mediocrity, these men bear the 1997 Ta’m e Guilass Further down the line (in a segment directed by Ken Loach), lasting effects of the briefest casual encounters, their narratives brunt of such ineffable frustration that their deflated sense of 1994 Safar three whipped-up Celtic fans struggle to contain their excitement and characters interweaving like passengers on a train. self implodes into extraordinary brutality. Veering between bleak 1983 Hamshahri as they near Rome for what will be the Champions League match humour and jolting bursts of poignancy, Suburbs thunders on to 1974 Mossafer of a lifetime. When one of their train tickets goes missing, their its shocking climax, delivering an uncompromising meditation on journey takes on a less jubilant turn. alienation and cruelty.

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Welcome Home Maltings Cinema 1 Sunday 18 21:30 Maltings Cinema 1 Saturday 17 21:00 UK, 2004 87 min Colour 35 mm Austria / Germany, 2004 98 min English and Punjabi Colour 35 mm German dir: Kenny Glenaan scr: Simon Beaufoy dir: Andreas Gruber prod: Sally Hibbin scr: Andreas Gruber, Martin Rauhaus dop: Toni Slater-Ling prod: Veit Heiduschka, Georg Feil, editor: Kristina Hetherington Frank Döhmann sound: Stuart Bruse dop: Hermann Dunzendorfer music: Stephen McKeon editor: Guido Krajewski cast: Archie Punjabi, Renu Setna, sound: Marc Parisotto Steve Jackson, Syed Ahmed, music: Peter Androsch, Hannes Köcher Shahid Ahmed cast: Georg Friedrich, Rainer Egger, Abdul Salis, Johannes Silberschneider production company: Parallax Independent UK distribution: Independent Cinema production company: WEGA-Film Wien, Office Colonia Media Köln international sales WEGA-Film Director’s profile: Kenny Glenaan worked for ten years as an actor Director’s profile: for television, film and theatre before becoming Andreas Gruber was born in 1954 in Wels, a director. He worked on episodes of Eastenders, Austria. After studying Screenwriting and Cops, Attachments and, most recently, Buried. Directing at the Academy of Music and His first feature,Gas Attack won the Michael Performing Arts in Vienna, he began freelance Powell Award for best new British film at the work for film and television. A member of his Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2001. hometown’s City Cultural Committee, he has Yasmin is his second feature. also been the director of its film festival, Kinova, since 1998. Director’s filmography: 2004 Yasmin Director’s Filmography: 2001 Gas Attack 1997 Die Schuld der Liebe 1998 Duck (short) Yasmin (Archie Panjabi – Bend it like at gunpoint, Feysal is held without charge 1995 Das verletzte Laecheln 1996 The Whirlpool (short) Beckham) is a headstrong woman who in a detention centre where Yasmin is 1994 Hasenjagd has learnt to live a double life: brash and refused admission. 1991 Erste Wahrnehmung Two Austrian policemen – Rösler, a vociferous bigot and the Basing his film on real stories of deportation, director Andreas outspoken at work, she has toned down 1989 Leichenreden mild-mannered Sarnhaber – have been instructed to deport Isaac, Gruber was determined to make a comedy, albeit of a very dark the teenage rebellion that had pitted her 1984 Unser Mann in Bangkok a black African, back to Ghana. Isaac, who in the short time he kind. His screenplay explores the realities of economic migration against her family and its values. She Glenaan and screenwriter Simon 1983 Drinnen & draussen has spent in Austria has already managed to find a girlfriend and with surprising subtlety, exposing the hypocrisy and fear at the agrees to an arranged marriage to appease Beaufoy spent months researching 1980 Ab morgen wird sich alles aender become the local football team’s star player, insists he’s not from heart of racism without ever patronising its audience, and this is her widowed father, but she dismisses and workshopping the script. Their 1979 Besucherdienst Ghana and his deportation is illegal. Rösler, however, is convinced achieved in no small part by the refreshingly nuanced portrayal Feysal, her husband, as a backward thoroughness resulted in a film that is that Isaac is not the victim of an African dictatorship or civil war, of its protagonists. Despite his clownish, decidedly un-PC racism shepherd and refuses to acknowledge him not afraid to tackle the very complexity of but that he is just scrounging off the Austrian welfare system. and overblown pride in carrying out his duty, Rösler’s character is as her spouse; this is 21st century Britain the issues it addresses. Wisely avoiding to While on the plane, Rösler loses his temper and is reprimanded allowed space to grow, to change slowly, at a pace that rings true. and Yasmin won’t be held to account by the apportion blame on one party and exonerate by passengers and crew alike for his brutal treatment of Isaac: the Isaac, in turn, is not the put-upon angel we might have expected, outdated customs of a religion she does not the other, it depicts the twin pillars of balance of power is shifting and, as soon as they arrive in Ghana, but a resourceful man ready to try anything in order to better his identify with. poverty and mistrust, the uncomfortable the two policemen find themselves at the mercy of the authorities, chances. Learning to survive in an unknown land with alien realities of a social climate in which who challenge the legality of the deportation and confiscate all rules, no money and no rights is a challenge the two policemen The events of September 11, 2001 and warmongering politicians foment fear three passports. Indignant, Rösler continues to behave as if he struggle with. As they squabble with Isaac, go hungry, get teased, their aftermath come as a shocking blow, and hate while some community leaders holds the cards but, stripped of his uniform and the power it humiliated, or beaten up by the locals, a streak of humour shines exposing the precarious nature of her instil an overblown sense of solidarity in confers, he is forced to accept his helplessness and, in time, open through, exposing and subverting commonly held prejudices balancing act as Yasmin witnesses the the disaffected and impressionable youth up his regimented world view. about economic and political migration alike. Welcome Home is collapse of the Western values of tolerance, to radicalise their discontent. This is a no doubt a film with a conscience, but it is first of all a warm and freedom and respect she had claimed her powerful reminder of the "War on Terror’s" entertaining comedy. own. She finds herself ostracised at work many ugly faces, made all the more (insidious at first, her colleagues’ racism resonant by the recent surge of hatred this soon expresses itself blatantly); her home is country has witnessed in the wake of the stormed by policemen in riot gear. Arrested London bombings.

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UK, 2003 60 min Maltings Cinema 1 Colour Beta SP Tuesday 20 21:00

Germany / UK / Argentina, 2004 92 min What drives otherwise rational adults dir / scr / dop / sound: Marc Isaacs Since the closure of Sangatte, the Red Colour Beta SP to focus all their mental and physical prod: Roy Ackerman, Cross holding camp at Calais, asylum German & English energies into a dangerous and exhausting Lynn Alleyway seekers trying to make it to Britain have pursuit with no guarantees of success? editor: David Charap had to survive on the streets. Most British dir / scr: Jörg Adolph Jörg Adolph’s documentary follows two tourists who travel to the town to stock prod: Gabriele M. Walther, Friedrich men in their attempt to cross the 33 km music: Mustafa Santic, up on cheap booze couldn’t care less Steinhardt stretch of water separating England from Michel Duvoisin about the fate of those they describe at dop: Luigi Falorni France, an arduous journey that will put best as undesirable visitors, at worst as editor: Anja Pohl their mental strength and physical fitness opportunists sponging off the welfare sound design: Tatjana Jakob to the test. Christoph Wandratsch is a high- production company: BBC2, Diverse state. Isaacs’s documentary could have sound editor: Alexander Schäfer school teacher and marathon swimmer Productions contented itself with contrasting these music: The Notwist, Console who has won some of the toughest races in international sales: Marc Isaacs two conflicting groups; instead, it eschews this discipline, but for whom crossing the easy shortcuts to weave the portraits of production company: Caligari Film GmbH in English Channel represents the toughest Director’s profile: various individuals into a tableau of the cooperation with ZDF challenge yet (he is not alone in this: more Marc Isaacs began working on documentary films town’s transient population: Ijaz, who international sales: Caligari Film GmbH people have climbed Mount Everest than as an assistant producer in 1995. After assisting lost his entire family in a bombing raid have swum all the way from Dover to Pawel Pawlikowski (whose latest feature, My on Kabul, one of many fighting not to give Director’s profile: Calais). Not only does Christoph aim to be Summer of Love, has met with considerable up hope of a better life across the channel; Born in Herford in 1967, Jörg studied Media successful, he also wants to beat the 7 hr 17 international acclaim) on the award-winning Steve, a young English bar owner trying to and Modern German Literature studies then min world record, and he has a dedicated Last Resort, he directed Lift, his first short, in rescue his fledging bar business and Tulia, gained an MA in film from the University of team to help him. Bryan Finlay, on the 2001. In the same year, he directed Lifters, two an extravagantly coiffed English eccentric Television and Film (HFF) in Munich, specialising other hand, does not presume to break documentaries for the BBC about the subculture whose company is teetering on the verge in documentary. He has worked as a teacher at any records: he is a veteran of the English of shoplifting. He is currently in production with of bankruptcy. the same university, as a film critic for a cinema Channel, having swum that treacherous Philip and His Seven Wives, a 75-min piece for programme on German television and as a stretch of water several times – but success the BBC’s prestigious Storyville strand. Marc Isaacs’s direction is both assured and freelance documentary director. is never guaranteed. discrete, allowing us to share moments of Director’s filmography: disarming intimacy with his protagonists Director’s filmography: With the help of cinematographer Luigi 2005 Some Day My Prince Will Come without ever veering into voyeurism. 2005 Houwelandt Falorni (whose recent feature documentary 2002 Travellers His camera captures Ijaz’s hopeful smile, 2004 Channel-Swimmers The Story of the Weeping Camel was a huge 2002 Calais: the Last Border his playful acceptance of the hardship 2001 On/Off the record success), Jörg Adolph has crafted a visually 2001 Lift of his situation and the moments of 2000 Klein, schnell und außer Kontrolle compelling tribute to the swimmers and 2001 Little Villain despair that cloud over him; without 1998 Menschen-modelle-module their environment, taking us into the water 2001 Everyday Thieves prying, it elicits candid confessions from 1997 Synaesthesie and inviting us to marvel at this gruelling Steve, who is keen to leave his life in (Co-Directed with Stefan Landorf) feat of endurance and determination. England behind, while it offsets Tulia’s melodramatic turns with her recollections of her wartime childhood experiences. At a time when the most insipid aspects of people’s lives are constantly paraded on our screens, it is sobering to find in the work of documentary filmmakers like Isaacs the power to derive such evocative significance from the quotidian worries of overlooked lives.

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UK, 1957 103 min UK, 1938 97 min Black and White 35 mm Black and White 35 mm

dir: Ken Annakin dir: Alfred Hitchcock scr: Guy Elmes and Denis Freeman scr: Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder (based on the story by (based on the novel The Wheel Spins Graham Greene) by Ethel Lina White) editor: Alfred Roome editor: R E Dearing prod: John Stafford prod: Edward Black dop: Reginald H Wyer dop: Jack Cox sound: Gordon K McCallum sound: Sydney Wiles music: James Bernard music: Louis Levy cast: Rod Steiger, Bill Nagy, cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael David Knight, Noel Willman, Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee Basil Radford

production company: The Rank Organisation production company: Gainsborough Pictures Print source: Winstone Films print source: Winstone Films

Director’s Profile: Selected Filmography: Ken Annakin’s promising career as a civil servant 1986 The New Adventures of Selected Filmography: was cut short by a lucky win on the Derby, Pippi Longstocking 1966 Torn Curtain which gave him enough money to embark on 1972 Call of the Wild 1963 The Birds On a snowy night in a central European for another director, Roy William Neill, a life-changing trip to New Zealand. Upon his 1969 Monte Carlo or Bust 1960 Psycho mountain resort, a hotel is full to bursting and was only passed over to Hitchcock return to Britain, he worked as a salesman and, 1967 The Biggest Bundle of Them All 1959 North by Northwest with rail passengers stranded while the after production was postponed. He when the war started, he enlisted with the RAF. 1966 The Long Duel 1958 Vertigo tracks are cleared. We are introduced to made clever use of transparencies, rear Injured during the Liverpool blitz, he joined the 1965 The Informers 1956 The Wrong Man some of the passengers, amongst whom projections and miniatures, disguising propaganda effort to work as a camera operator 1965 Battle of the Bulge 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much Iris, a wilful young heiress who has the almost non-existent budget and and honed his filmmaking skills. The Yorkshire- 1964 Those Magnificent Men in 1955 The Trouble with Harry renounced her wild ways to return to overcoming the limitations of the small born director’s extensive body of work is as varied Their Flying Machines 1955 To Catch a Thief England and marry. She meets Gilbert, studio he had to work in. as his life experience, comprising documentaries, 1962 The Longest Day (co.) 1954 Rear Window a student of music and dance, whose war epics (such as The Longest Day), Disney 1962 The Fast Lady 1954 Dial M for Murder nocturnal studies wake up all the guests; A cracking comedy-thriller that twists adventures (Swiss Family Robinson) and popular 1960 Swiss Family Robinson 1953 I Confess as stubborn as one another, the two feel and turns faster than a train through the comedies (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying 1957 Across the Bridge 1951 Strangers on a Train instant antipathy towards each other. Next Alps; this is a wonderful picture, with Machines). He was awarded the OBE in 2002. 1954 The Seekers 1946 Notorious door to Iris stays Miss Froy, a dotty English a witty and suspenseful script and well 1954 You Know What Sailors Are 1945 Spellbound governess who may have a lot to hide. -drawn, eccentric characters. Supplying 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His 1941 Mr. & Mrs.Smith Murdered minstrels, mysterious magicians a hefty does of comic relief as cricket- Merrie Men International financier Carl Schaffner (Rod the financial world in which he ruled, 1940 Rebecca and suspicious accidents lead up to her obsessed travellers, Naunton Wayne and 1951 Hotel Sahara Steiger in one of the best performances of Schaffner is stripped of all his power: 1938 The Lady Vanishes disappearance, but when Iris mentions Basil Radford stand out amidst a faultless 1950 Trio (co.) his career) is in New York negotiating a alone and on the run, he learns that his 1935 The 39 Steps the missing lady to the other passengers, supporting cast, but the picture belongs 1948 Miranda merger with a Manhattan company when propensity for manipulation and deceit, 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much no one will acknowledge she ever existed. to leads Redgrave and Lockwood whose 1948 Here Come the Huggetts he learns that he is being investigated far from serving him, will precipitate his 1930 Murder! performances give later, more glamorous 1947 Broken Journey by Scotland Yard on suspicion of fraud downfall. Like a protaganist in classical Hitchcock only made one more film in Hitchcockian couples a run for their 1946 Holiday Camp and that his offices have been raided. He tragedy, his attempts at thwarting the England (Jamaica Inn) before emigrating money. decides to flee to Mexico, where he has course of fate only bring him closer to to America and many regard The Lady stashed a million dollars of embezzled his demise: Paul Scarff, the man whose Vanishes as the most accomplished company funds. He boards a Texas-bound identity Schaffner has assumed, is a film of his British period. Though it train and, to increase his chances of criminal wanted by Mexican police for the features a number of themes that came to escaping the authorities, assaults a fellow murder of a provincial governor. He had define his work (the woman in peril, the passenger and assumes his identity. also been travelling with a dog, Dolores, antagonistic couple forced to endure each whom Schaffner can’t seem to shake, and other’s close company, the claustrophobic Nothing exceptional about this, you might whose unquestioning devotion may prove setting, unreliable memories and doubtful think, but Across the Bridge is more than his only chance for redemption. identity), the film was actually destined a chase movie, and its enduring appeal as a classic British thriller owes much to its sophisticated psychological study of alienation. By severing himself from

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USA, 1927 76 min Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany / Black and White 35 mm Switzerland, 1991 112 min Black and White and Colour 35 mm dir / scr: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman English and German editor: J S Kell prod: Joseph M Schenck dir: Lars von Trier dop: J Deveraux Jennings, Bert Haines scr: Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel music: Joe Hisaishi editor: Hervé Schneid cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, prod: Peter Aalbæk Jensen Glen Cavender, Jim Farley dop: Henning Bendsten, Edward Klosinsky, Jean-Paul Meurisse production company: Buster Keaton sound: Thomas Krag Productions Inc., music: Joachim Holbek United Artists cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Print source: MK2 Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow

Director’s profile: production companies: The Danish Film Institute, Born Joseph Frank Keaton in 1895, he was Eurimages, Gérard Mital Productions, Nordisk nicknamed Buster by Harry Houdini, who, along Film, PCC Productions, UGC Images, WMG Films with artists such as Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson, Print source: Winstone Films used to perform with Buster’s mother and father. Their act – renowned as one of the most Director’s Profile: dangerous in vaudeville – was a demonstration Lars von Trier graduated from the Danish Film on how to discipline a prankster and consisted School in 1983 and it didn’t take long for the of throwing their son around the stage. (Though world to take notice. His first feature,The allegations of child abuse were made, Buster Element of Crime, won the Grand Prix de la always insisted that he had trained to take trick Technique at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. His falls safely and never suffered any injuries.) No next film,Epidemic , was not so well received but matter how dangerous the stunt, Buster kept this was made up for by Europa, which earned from the start of his career the trademark ‘Great him three prizes in Cannes in 1991. (However, Stone Face’ that would later come to define he famously missed out on the Palme d’Or and, his understated comic style. His first movie role offended, showed the jury the finger). Whereas came in the 1917 Fatty Arbuckle vehicle The Europa was characterised by the virtuosity of its Director’s Filmography: Released four years before the Dogme He soon becomes entangled in a shadowy Butcher Boy, and the two went on to work sophisticated visual style, Lars von Trier’s next 2005 Manderlay 95 movement’s much-emulated Vow of pro-Nazi organisation’s scheme to sabotage together on a further fifteen two-reel comedies. Selected filmography (as director): This epic of silent comedy recounts the locomotive. In perfect symmetry, the chase films went in the opposite direction.Breaking 2003 Dogville Chastity, Europa is a visually dazzling the transport network and hamper the Keaton’s career was interrupted by the Great 1939 Hollywood Cavalcade Civil War misadventures of railroad is then reversed as Johnnie, his girl and his the Waves (which this time won the Prix du Jury 2003 The Five Obstructions (De Fem masterpiece that showcases the type of efforts of the occupying allied forces War, during which he served in France. Upon his 1935 Tars and Stripes engineer Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) and train rush back to Georgia with the Union at Cannes, in 1996) marked the beginning of benspænd) stylistic virtuosity Lars von Trier later but, clueless to the degeneracy of the return, he starred in his first full-length feature, 1929 Spite Marriage his valiant determination to protect the spies hot on their trail. These sequences an ascetic style that culminated in the Dogme 2000 Dancer in the Dark distanced himself from in favour of world around him, he hangs on to his The Saphead (1920), and became one of the 1928 Steamboat Bill Jr two loves of his life: his locomotive (The provide the comedic backbone of the film 95’s Manifesto; its ten rules, or Vow of Chastity, 1998 Idiots (Idioterne) naturalistic film making. This hypnotic unquestioning neutrality. As events draw most famous comedians of the era, alongside 1928 The Cameraman General) and his girl, Annabelle Lee. As and its most adrenaline-fuelled moments, aimed to rescue cinema from the throes of 1996 Breaking the Waves train ride across late 1940s Germany him further into a maelstrom of shame Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. He set up 1927 The General the film opens, war has been declared and, allowing Keaton to give full rein to his cosmetic illusion and individualist auteurs 1991 Europa is shot in sharp black and white, with and resentment, Leo is soon forced to his own production company in 1921 and was 1924 The Navigator despite his eagerness to serve the South, athletic prowess and inventive genius. (interestingly, only one of Von Trier’s features, 1988 Epidemic strategically inserted shots of colour that acknowledge that he has allowed himself soon writing, directing and starring in his own 1924 Sherlock, Jr Johnnie is repeatedly turned away by the He performs dangerous and extravagant The Idiots, is certified as a Dogme film). 1984 Element of Crime enhance its dreamlike narrative quality. to be manipulated by all sides. productions. After the success of The General 1923 Our Hospitality enlisting officer. Johnnie’s profession makes stunts with astonishing grace, overcoming (Forbrydelsens Element) Its central character is Leopold Kessler, (1927), Keaton signed a contract with MGM, 1922 Cops him much more useful to the war effort as all kinds of adversities with his trademark Dancer in the Dark, one of the first – and most an American of German descent who The plot may seem convoluted, entering the studio system and losing the 1920 One Week a skilled engineer than as a soldier, but no- Stone Face. successful – films to be shot entirely digitally, is convinced that Germany needs to be the characters’ shifting allegiances artistic freedom he had hitherto enjoyed. He did 1917 The Butcher Boy one cares to inform him of this. Annabelle’s won the Palme d’Or in 2000 and confirmed shown some kindness and dutifully comes bewildering, but this reinforces this not respond well to the change, lapsing into brother and father brand him a coward and The film, lauded by many as Keaton’s best, von Trier’s status while ruffling a few American to Frankfurt to do his bit to help rebuild haunting, labyrinthine film’s striking alcoholism and watching his career disintegrate. she shuns him, refusing to speak to him concludes with the dramatic crash of the feathers. Never shy of controversy, the Danish the country. visual touches, which seek to illustrate During the 1930s, he worked mainly as a gag until she sees him in uniform. pursuit train into the Rock River, for what loudmouth further angered America with the nightmarish repercussions of inactivity writer for the films of comedians such as The constituted one of the most spectacular Dogville, a portrayal of what he perceives as His uncle gets him a job as a conductor on – the guilt of delayed American response, Marx Brothers. Though he spent the next thirty A year later, Johnnie gets a chance to – and most expensive – scenes ever shot the country’s moral degeneracy (he has never one of the sleeper trains that criss-cross the the guilt of passive observance. It is a years in relative obscurity, he lived long enough redeem himself when Union spies steal at the time. Shown here in an impeccably set foot in the US). He also famously caused country in the dark, carrying the rich and visualisation of helplessness, a Kafkaesque to find renewed fame in the 1960s, when his his train – with Annabelle, on her way to restored print, which features a brand new, moral outrage with the explicit sex scenes and the poor, the victims and the perpetrators. struggle that owes much to influences early silent films enjoyed a revival. He also starred visit her injured father, on board. He sets off energetic score by Takeshi Kitano favourite uncomfortable depiction of faked mental illness Leo falls in love with Katherina, the as diverse as Fassbinder, the film noir in Samuel Beckett’s only film project,Film (1965). alone and chases them on foot, on bicycle, Joe Hisaishi. in The Idiots. seductive daughter of the rail company’s classics of the late forties and German by sidecar and, eventually, on another owner, who introduces him to her family. expressionism.

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Bodysong With the help of a close team of researchers, Extreme Animation A compilation of 24 shorts by the multi- Simon Pummell has woven together a award winning animator Phil Mulloy, Barrels Ale House 2 patchwork of footage illustrating the human Barrels Ale House 2 whose provocative work stands as a Monday 19 20:30 experience from conception to birth, growth, Wednesday 21 20:00 model of acerbic social satire unparalleled procreation and death, via the inescapable in British animation. The antidote to UK, 2003 83 min reality of war and violence but also religion UK, 1991 – 2001 153 min all that is kitsch and sentimental, these Black and white and Colour and, ultimately, hope for a better future. Black and White and Colour direct, witty and grotesque fables, drawn (screened from DVD) (screened from DVD) in brush and ink, question contemporary This kaleidoscopic look at the cycle of life Western values and provide a perceptive, dir / scr: Simon Pummell is made up of a wide variety of sources dir / scr / prod: Phil Mulloy if rather uncomfortable analysis of human prod: Janine Marmot spanning film, video and television archives behaviour. editor: Daniel Goddard from all over the world, as well as home source: The British Film Institute music: Johnny Greenwood movies, all set to a beguiling score by Radiohead guitarist John Greenwood. The production company: Hot Property Films absence of a guiding voice-over provides for source: Film Bank an intense and unique viewing experience, for the astonishing scope of this remarkable film reminds us that our shared humanity finds its roots in our most personal experiences.

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BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM / ANIMATION • 20 JJ Films – Rev John Jackson Screening 1:

The Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival is The Guildhall, Marygate 3 delighted to present highlights from the film Tuesday 20 18:30 collection of the Rev John Jackson of Coldstream. (Programme length 85 mins) This extraordinary family archive dates back to 1928 with films made by his father, who was East Coast North one of the first people in Edinburgh to own a 16mm, 8mins, 1928 cine camera and projector. More recently the collection has been augmented by John Jackson Edinburgh Glasgow & West Coast himself. He has had a lifetime interest in 16mm 16mm, 14mins, 1934-35 film and has made and shown films in the Borders and Central Scotland. Vintage Travel 16mm, 16mins, edited in 1987 from material The collection includes rare footage of 1920s shot from the 30’s onwards and ‘30s Edinburgh and Glasgow, vintage travel from the ‘40s and ‘50s and more recent films Look at Nevk documenting the architecture and heritage 16mm, 14mins, 1973 -74 of Berwick. Also screening will be the film Eyemouth Rediscovered, made by the Rev James Contrasting Centuries Massie Milnes in the early 1950s. It has unique 16mm, 17mins, 1998 sequences of the post war social life of the town and two striking storm sequences. Berwick Cine Note Book 16mm, 16mins, 1997 As a devoted cinephile, the Rev John Jackson has remained steadfastly non-digital, always shooting on ‘real film’ and editing traditionally Screening 2: with a splicing block and cement. Despite having been officially retired for a number of years, he The Guildhall, Marygate 3 continues to serve the ministry and the local Thursday 22 18:30 community. The films of the Jackson Collection Programme length 87 mins will be screened in the Berwick Guildhall over two evenings and the Rev John Jackson will Spanning the Tweed be present himself to project and provide 16mm, 14mins, 1992 commentary over the films. Ring of Gold 16mm, 15mins, 1996

Eyemouth Rediscovered 16mm, 58mins, 1948-55

Frame enlargement from Edinburgh Glasgow & West Coast. 1934, The late John V Jackson

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The poem ‘The Lark Ascending’ was written by George challenging and unorthodox way to produce a brave and evocative Meredith in 1895, and this work and title inspired the orchestral work of art. composition by Vaughan Williams, which Wallinger’s film project title directly refers to. It was composed at the start of World War I, Mark Wallinger is probably best known for his sculpture for the but not performed until after the slaughter was over. empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo (1999), which was later shown at the 2001 Venice Biennale, where Wallinger was The soaring bird rises to survey and mark its territory with Britain’s representative. its distinctive and frenetic blast of song. It evokes a clarity of purpose, an expression of this bird’s fullness of life. The skylark’s Recent Exhibitions include: song has become synonimous as a pastoral Romantic theme along Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, 2004 side the music and images that it has inspired. Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, 2004 Christmas Tree, Tate Britain, London, 2003 This work, created for the cinema re-visits this familiar Romantic The Sleep of Reason, The Wolfsonian, Florida, 2003 theme. A half-hour cinematic experience is reduced to its most basic elements - sound, light and a collective sensory experience. Courtesy of Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. This work takes you on a measured journey from darkness to light and from the extremes of slowed-down sub bass bird song to the gradual euphoria and intensity of the song's extraordinary full speed. Wallinger has taken the song back to a form from where he has eventually evolved it into its original self, the final song becomes an ultimate conclusion or a point that, beyond which is unimaginable. This project uses the cinema context in a

25 • ARTIST SHORT • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Programme 1 – Longer Shorts Maltings Cinema 1 Friday 16 17:30

July The Twelfth 1984 Hit Fuglinne (Birdess) 99 Years Of My Life Jordan Baseman Stuart Croft Anne Lise Stenseth Marja Mikkonen USA / UK, 2002/2003 13 min UK, 2003 21 min Norway, 2001 23 min Finland, 2003 33 min, Beta (English Subtitles) His video – July The Twelfth 1984 – is based on the actual Stuart Croft’s film projects observe and subvert the Memories are created by moments, but to audio recording of the State of Georgia’s execution of certainties of linear cinematic narrative. Two characters truly understand them we need to travel a Ivon Ray Stanley. We hear the voice of Willis Marabel, an played by three actors are caught in a circle of shifting Stenseth's work often creates a sense of insecurity and short distance in time. Based on the lives, assistant to The Warden, as we see his words flash before identity and noirish revenge. dissonance by pointing at the framework that defines memories, fears and expectations of four us. This work is stark, brutal, and uncompromising in Hit’s double-handed scenario features two ex-lovers who social convention. women of different ages, 99 Years of My every way. It is a tragic document depicting Government- exchange bitter recriminations and engage in an argument This film documents the artist Yngvil Teigen as she goes Life creates one fictional autobiography controlled-murder. about addiction and gambling. The film employs a about her daily business of caring for wild birds, for the that runs through one life through to structure in which the same seven minute script is well being of which she feels deeply. Her house has been death. An experimental but accessible Jordan Baseman is an artist. His practice investigates ideas shot three times, and each sequence features a different given over to the birds, where they fly around freely. This film, which offers a world of possibility. around contemporary portraiture, narrative structure, arrangement of actors, who shift and swap roles as the chaotic domestic scenario is intriguingly contrasted with the manipulation of recorded information, animation, piece loops continuously. A filmic impossibility is played her calm logic and authoritative knowledge of birds. This Filmography: authenticity and documentary. The resulting work seeks out against a thread of continuous bluff and double-bluff. is a warm and heartening account of human kindness, 2001 Hyrra to question: image, identity, trust, desire, power, faith, which also portrays an uncomfortable and unnerving 2002 Mindmap belief, love, responsibility, hate, work, passion, religion, Recent exhibitions include: disregard of conventional life. 2002 Novy Roky authority, aspiration, fear, life and death. Video Remix, Fiedler Contemporary,Cologne,Germany, 2005. Recent exhibitions include: 99 Years of My Life was a Prix de la Recent exhibitions include: State of Flux, online, State of Flux, 2005 "Get a grip, this is not exactly a Birthday Party", IKM, Cinefondation winner at the Cannes Film Festival don’t stop ‘til you get enough, Matt’s Gallery, London Los Retratos de Dorian Gray, Galeria Actual Mexicano, International Cultural Center and Museum, Oslo, in 2004. 2005. Mexico City, Mexico, 2005. Stenseth&Staurland, 2005 July The Twelfth 1984, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Video Box, White Box, New York, USA, 2005. "Vincent Lunge XV", Galleri Seilduken, Oslo, 2004. Stenseth&Staurland, 2005 Wonderful/Visions of the Near Future, Arnolfini, Bristol, Courtesy of Fred (London) Ltd. "Borders - A Journey and a Café", Kirkenes, Norway, 2004. 2004. La Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, 2003.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • LONGER SHORTS • 26 27 • LONGER SHORTS • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Programme 2 – UK Shorts 77 Beds Killing the Afternoon Programme 3 – International Shorts Allerleirauh Schicht Alnoor Dewshi Margaret Corkery Anja Struck Peter Keller Maltings Cinema 1 UK, 2003 10 min, Beta UK, 2004 10 min, Digi Beta Maltings Cinema 1 Germany, 2004 8min, Beta Germany, 2003 15min, Beta Sunday 18 14:00 Tuesday 20 18:30 Two machine workers share a wordless One sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban A group of beach dwellers on an overcast windy day. A girl without legs, a roe and a man with daily routine with a cash counter girl and nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has a fox head, in a scenery of subtle violence. dream… ever slept in. Adapted from a fairy tale by the brothers Perpetual Motion in The Land of Grimm. Take it Back Geometry and Gravity Milk and Honey Viko Nikci Tony Hill Al and Al Blind Ireland, 2004 10min, DVD UK, 2001 3min, 35mm UK, 2004 6 min, Beta Saskia Jell When an ordinary man’s entire world Germany, 2003 23min, Beta changes in the blink of an eye he finds An experiment with orientation, movement and shape. A sensual onslaught which explores science, the Lamb of himself in a moment where a split second A continuous rolling, tumbling motion determined by a God, a grandfather’s search for a unifying energy source Rena places her heart in the hands of decision will determine the rest of his life. geometric shape creates a visual rhythm and images that and… Britney Spears. Torben, a dashing young high diver. roll, dip and soar with the improvised soundtrack. Submerged in the fantasy of love, it takes a dive of her own for Rena to bare all and Two Cars, One Night Quicken bring Torben’s truth to light. Taika Waititi Gold Victoria Beattie New Zealand, 2003 11min, 35mm Rachel Davies UK, 2005 13 min, Digi Beta UK, 2004 10 min, Beta Die Liebenden (The Lovers) While waiting for their parents, two Quicken is about the atmosphere of a change within a Johannes Hammel boys and a girl meet in the car park of A magical world based in the everyday reality of a family unit. There is loss and there is cruelty, but also, Austria, 2004 7 min, Beta a rural pub. What at first seems to be London Suburb. A short experimental film exploring the the unequivocal grasping connections of love. Quicken is a relationship based on rivalry soon impressive skills and playful competitive ambition of two a story about silent isolation and how this is passed from The second part of a small trilogy, dealing develops into a close friendship. We young gymnasts. A celebration of motion, energy and the parent to child. Quicken is a circle, where the brutal and with the extinction of memories. Old find that love can be found in the most rich elegance of human movement. the glorious hold it all together. Super8 porn film is transformed into both unlikely of places. a tragic love story and a horror movie, and finally into a memory, that is being Half Life Suicide Angel destroyed in the inner world. We Have Decided Not To Die Matt Hulse Edward Jeffrey Daniel Askill UK, 2005 6 min, Digi Beta UK, 2005 5 min, Digi Beta Nord Magnetique Australia, 2003 12min, 35mm (Magnetic North) Isolated office workers perform gruelling and surrealistic Shot on location in Northumberland, Suicide Angel Miranda Pennell A modern day allegorical triptych, which routines in this intense, neurotic study of the desk-bound explores the concept of destiny and asks whether our Finland / UK, 2003 8min, Digi Beta tells the story of three characters’ journeys being, pushing Super8 filmmaking to new extremes. lives are already pre-determined for us. The film follows of transcendence through ritual; journeys a young girl who decides that the only way she can feel Adolescent rituals are played out across into a place where death is no longer truly alive is to experience death. the wintry landscapes of Northern inevitable. His Passionate Bride Finland. A teenage girl skates on a frozen Monika Forsberg The Tree Officer lake, while a teenage boy poses with a Top: 77 Beds UK, 2004 3 min, 35mm Neil Jacks guitar in his room; this magnetic northern Bottom: Gold UK, 2003 8 min, Beta landscape evokes an enigmatic world of This is truly the greatest, sexiest and somewhat shortest adolescent fantasy and yearning. love story ever told. Set in the Tree Officers Department of a town council, the Top: Allerleirauh film focuses on the day-to-day running of the office, in Bottom: Die Liebenden particular the Tree Officer, Gary Dremmell. Paternoszter (Pater Noster) Iota Daniel Beres Simon Dennis Hungary, 2003 7min, 35mm UK, 2004 11 min, Digi Beta Who Killed Brown Owl Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor A football player goes into hospital to get Reminiscent of the silent era, this is a powerful story of UK, 2004 9 min, 35mm a drug test done. He receives a phone call. loss and rediscovered communication within a remote He hangs up and steps into one of the voiceless family. Inspired by the classical paintings of village life, Who cabins of the pater-noster. There’s a camera Killed Brown Owl is about a Sunday afternoon that goes already set up in the cabin…. horribly wrong.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • UK SHORTS • 28 29 • INTERNATIONAL SHORTS • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 BERWICK-UPON-TWEED CHAMBER OF TRADE & COMMERCE

Berwick Chamber of Commerce are pleased to sponsor the inaugural Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Artist Film & Video Programme Selected by David Thorp

In this small selection of works for film and video by five artists, Crossing Borders occurs within a broadly humanist perspective. Diversity is the fluid with which the mechanism of a multi-cultural society operates. The exchange of ideas and cultures provides a sometimes problematic, often life enhancing richness to huge modern communities. Beneath the layer of multi-cultural diversity there are arguably other traits that are common to all and which overcome the limitations of spoken or written language.

Non text based visual art and music provide Artist Film & Video vehicles for language that makes crossing borders between people and cultures more flexible. The subtle messages of facial expression, sound or music have qualities that frequently seem to express ideas and feelings to people who otherwise might share no other common language.

The films shown in Berwick are not all recent. Arts Festivals, Biennales etc. usually place an emphasis on programming the latest works. Some are seen once, acclaimed, but rarely seen again. Opportunities are missed by potential audiences as the next wave of new work takes centre stage. The pieces selected for this programme stretch back over nearly ten years. Still recent enough to make relevant observations about contemporary life but not constrained by a requirement to show the 'new.'

In some of the films, crossover takes place between visual image and music. In others borders are geographical. With one exception, all the works originate to the East of Europe. Others cross over in physical language; the formality of staged movement or the gestures and facial David Thorp expressions that acknowledge the inherent Curator dignity of people and portray underlying aspects of humanity that transcend difference.

33 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Hu Jie Ming One Minute Soulful Touch China, 2002-03 Video on DVD, 1 min

From Architectural Immanence China, 2002 Video on DVD, 6 min

Prison Cells, Town Hall 3 Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00

These two short videos from the Shanghai based artist Hu Jieming both address playfully the relationship between image and sound. One Minute Soulful Touch shows the tightly structured hand movements of a performer from the traditional Beijing Opera. Superimposed on the hands are drawn the five parallel lines of the musical staff. From finger tip to finger tip, as the hands move through Josef Dabernig The Austrian artist Josef Dabernig makes Laila Pakalnina Papagena is a short black and white film the prescribed motions, dances a coloured Wisla films that employ narrative devices to Papagena by Latvian filmmaker Laila Pakalnina. spot. As the spot hits the staff it sounds Austria, 1996 16 mm b/w film, 8 min develop common place situations into Latvia, 2001 b/w video film, 10 min It was commissioned in 2001 by the a note and a musical score is randomly sites of consequence. His film‘Wisla’ Republic of Latvia to coincide with created. Prison Cells, Town Hall 3 begins as two men take their places in a Prison Cells, Town Hall 3 the Latvian National Opera’s major Adrian Paci Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 football stand to watch a match. The black Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 production of Mozart’s opera ‘The Magic In From Architectural Immanence the Turn On Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 and white images add to the prosaic and Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 Flute’ produced to celebrate Riga’s 800th same procedure applies but, in this Albania, 2004 Video film on DVD, colour Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 somewhat desolate nature of the landscape Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 anniversary that year. The commissioner instance, the point of contact between the 3 min 33 sec Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 around them. Shots of urban blocks and Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 of the work, Helena Demakova, has staff and the dot, and hence the instigator old fashioned neoclassical buildings fall described the film as dealing ‘with the of sound, is governed by the Ice House at Bank Hill 5 away to reveal a football stadium and links of official culture with people for architectural forms of rooftops in Beijing. Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 Josef Dabernig was born in 1956. He lives and the characters as, presumably, football Laila Pakalnina was born in 1962 in Liepaja, whom this culture is completely alien’, its Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 works in Vienna. coaches. Background noise begins to build Latvia and currently lives and works in Riga, initial intention was to create a contrast Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 in anticipation of the start of the game. Latvia. She graduated from the Department of to the official celebrations.Papagena Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 The ‘coaches’, who for most of the film are Television Journalism at Moscow State University features a cross section of people who Hu Jieming was born in Shanghai in 1957. After Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 solely focussed upon by the camera, follow in 1986 and began making documentary Pakalnina stops on the streets of Riga graduating from the Fine Art Department of its progress. We, the audience for the film, films the following year. In 1991, Pakalnina and asks to listen to snippets of the opera the Shanghai Light Industry College in 1984, become spectators of the match by default. graduated from the Moscow Film institute on headphones. The film examines their Hu won numerous prizes as a student and then Adrian Paci was born in Shkoder, Albania The game is mediated for us through the having studied film direction. She continued reaction to the music and reveals the went on to pursue a highly successful career as in 1969 and trained at the Art Academy in For Turn On Paci returned to his often humorous gestures, expressions and to make documentaries until 1998 when she effect that sounds of great beauty can a painter. In the 1990s Hu turned to video and Tirana. He now lives and works in Milan and hometown of Shkoder to produce an actions of these two men, deeply absorbed, made The Shoe, her first full-length feature film. have on ordinary people even when installation art, experimenting with different much of his work in video presents an account elegiac account of a group of men sitting involved and committed to its outcome. But Pakalnina’s Papagena was produced in the Hargla conveyed in a such a basic way. We as the media to comment on contemporary society. His of his thoughts about his homeland and the together on steps in a town square. the arena, at the Wisla Stadium in Krakow, Film Studio. Director of Photography, Gints secondary audience for the music are not interactive video installation shown at the 2004 changes he and his family and friends have As the piece starts, the face of each is empty. The noise of the crowd comes from Berzins. only able to experience for ourselves the Shanghai Biennale Go Up, Go Up consisted of encountered moving away. Although this man is shown close to, their character original sound recordings from two Series A enjoyment of hearing Mozart’s music but a twenty two metre tower made from twenty movement has occurred from the east to the seemingly testifying to a tough life. In the football matches played at the Stadio Friuli also see the creation of this experience for five video monitors. The image of a climbing west of Europe, from an old world to a new, background is a droning sound. Gradually in Udine. The body language of the two the listeners in the film as many appear to figure can be seen, spread over 3 monitors, Paci’s journey is as much a journey of the heart the camera pulls back to reveal the men characters (one of whom is played by the be hearing the music for the first time. scaling the tower. Whenever someone shouts, as it is geographical. As Massimiliano Gioni as a group. Each holds a light bulb on artist, Dabernig) creates the reality of an non- claps or produces a loud sound, the figure stops explains in his catalogue essay for this year’s the end of a flex attached to a generator existent game. “The unostentatious gestures or falls down. Venice Biennale in which Paci’s Turn On was that is making the sound. The light bulbs of the two actors”, says the artist, “which are shown, ‘The sense of loss presented by Adrian are illuminated creating a powerful but nevertheless distinct in their expressiveness, Hu Jieming has exhibited in Japan, Hong Paci is not the nostalgia of the migrant or the casually theatrical presence for the men are the catalyst for the incidental patterns Kong, Norway, Canada, and the U.S.A. Last uprooting of the exile. It is rather the sense each lit up by his light bulb. The effect which are given meaning by the incidental year, his work was included in “010101: Art of a painful distancing from tradition and the is an acclamation of human strength and framework of the football match. As such In Technological Times” at the San Francisco intimacy of home - the break between a world dignity. they become a metaphor of social activity, Museum of Modern Art. He currently lives in immersed in the past and a new world with an ambivalent expression of power and Shanghai. which to try to come to terms.’ impotence”.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 34 35 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Jayne Parker is an artist filmmaker whose Artist Film & Video Programme work displays a purity of execution and conception. Using pared down images, Selected by Chris Byrne & Iliyana Nedkova Parker has rigorously explored the internal dimension of human activity As our curatorial practice is based in both Scotland and Bulgaria, we are acutely aware of the for more than twenty years. In Foxfire significance of national borders. In this era of trans-global mobility and cultures, it is pertinent that Eins, the collective title for a group of the first ever Berwick film and media arts festival focuses on crossing borders. Berwick’s oft-contested, four short black and white films, Parker hybrid identity spans two cultures and is still mysterious to the outsider. has worked with the musician Anton Lukoszevieze producing something that The fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of the is as much about watching music as it Internet led some to proclaim borders obsolete. is about listening to it. In the process of However it’s a fiction that all frontiers have watching the performance the viewer is been crossed, rendered moot. Those unexplored presented with the opportunity to reflect realms beyond one’s familiar geographic upon the abstract foundation of art and and conceptual borders still abound across its relationship with life. Describing her the planet. Even in the age of total media approach Jayne Parker has said, ‘There interconnectivity, there remain vast unknowns. is a strong element of performance in all my work – the body in action, in relation With that in mind we tried to reflect how the to an object, musical instrument, or to crossing of borders affects meaning, perception another body.’ The four films inFoxfire of landscape and our sense of identity. How Eins consist firstly of the work of the same boundaries and shifting topographies are used name by Helmut Oehring where the cellist in artworks to understand the relationships must play with both hands plucking between time, space and knowledge, individuals and striking the strings; Projection 1 and institutions. by Morton Feldman which Parker has described as a ‘film about form, sound and Anri Sala’s very personal and poignant work Jayne Parker Prison Cells, Town Hall 3 space – un-gestural’; Blues in B-flat which occupies a territory somewhere inbetween Foxfire Eins Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 takes its name from a cello solo composed the present and the past, a temporal “border Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 by Volker Heyn in 1981 in which zone” of sorts. Luchezar Boyadjiev takes us to Foxfire Eins Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 Lukoszevieve plays on the underside of the geographic and cultural edge of Europe, UK, 2000 original 16mm film, b/w, 10 min Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 the cello’s strings and, finally, John Cage’s Istanbul. His wry commentary on the “visual Blues In B-flat 59 1/2 Seconds. Parker has said of Cage, irregularities” he found there makes a comment UK, 2000 original 16mm film, colour, 8 min ‘ Can Cage’s view of what can be music on the process of EU integration from an Projection 1 (versions 1-2) challenge my view of what can be film?’ external perspective. Zoë Irvine invites us to UK, 2000 original 16mm film, b/w 6 min explore the Berwick ramparts on foot. While 59½ Seconds (versions 1-3) Jayne Parker was born in Nottingham in 1957. doing so, the sounds of a French village transport 2000 original 16mm film, b/w, 3 min She studied at the Slade in London where us, metaphorically to the world of Proust’s UK, she now teaches. Her films have been shown childhood. Music: internationally, in major art institutions, on Foxfire Eins (1993), composed by Helmut Oehring television and in both film and music festivals. Richard Fenwick suggests that the Internet Blues in B-flat (1981), composed by Volker Heyn Foxfire Eins was commissioned by Film and Video transcends all boundaries, yet reminds us that Projection 1 (1950), composed by Morton Feldman Umbrella in collaboration with Spacex Gallery, humans still yearn for physicality and property. 59½ seconds for a String Player (1953), composed by John Cage Exeter. Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon literally cross international borders: except they do so without Cellist: Anton Lukoszevieze identity papers, meaning they need to keep one step ahead of officials and guards. Mare Tralla Director of Photography: Belinda Parsons tests our knowledge of European geography, Sound: Greg Bailey at the same time causing us to ponder the Camera Assistants: Mick Duffield, Kirsten Priebe, Judith Goddard Chris Byrne & Iliyana Nedkova differences still present in our shared European Gaffers: Mitch Spooner, Colin Thwaites Curators culture. Production Assistant: Chantel McKenzie

Thanks to Bridgewood and Neitzert Produced by Christopher Collins Executive Producer: Film and Video Umbrella

Directed and Edited by Jayne Parker

Foxfire Eins was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in collaboration with Spacex Gallery. Supported by the National Touring Programme of the Arts Council of England.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 36 37 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Luchezar Boyadjiev This double screen work was made Anri Sala While moving house, Anri Sala discovered Zoë Irvine A sound walk for the Berwick ramparts. Richard Fenwick Richard Fenwick created RND#91: 51st Visual Operative during the artist’s residency in Istanbul, Intervista an old newsreel film, portraying a congress Illiers-Combray Inspired by the two walks in Marcel RND#91: 51st State State as one of an evolving series of Bulgaria, 2005 Video, 25 min a city on the border between West and Albania, 1998 Video, 26 min of the Albanian Communist Party. In the UK, 2004/5 Sound walk Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”, the UK, 2000 Video, 5 min experimental shorts, which according East, straddling two continents. The artist film a young woman makes a speech, sound recordings were made in France, to the artist “investigate the question Crawling Carpets assumes the persona of an ‘operative’ Gymnasium, Town Walls 6 and is interviewed. The film soundtrack Gymnasium, Town Walls 6 in the village that Proust used as the Black Hole, Main Guard 7 of our weird and wired reliance on 2005, Video, 7 min gathering data on behalf of the European Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 was missing, so what she was saying was Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 model for the landscape of his childhood Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 technology”. RND#91: 51st State responds Union, in this still exotic, but changing Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 unclear. The young woman was the artist’s Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 recollections. The village re-named itself Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 to the entrepreneurial spirit of dot- Gymnasium, Town Walls 6 city. His mission is to evaluate the Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 mother. She could not remember what she Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 to try and fit with Proust’s fiction and Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 com, satirising the culture of venture Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 visual environment of Istanbul ahead Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 had said. Sala visited former party leaders Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 even changed street names. Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 capitalism and 24/7 telephone support Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 of Turkey’s negotiating process for Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 hoping they might recall, but details of the Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 lines. The work also raises in a humorous Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 accession to the EU. Always on the alert speech eluded them. He met the newsreel’s A map shows a trail around the imposing way the question of the borderlessness of Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 for visual irregularities, the operative Anri Sala has won widespread acclaim for his film sound recordist, but could not find the Zoë Irvine’s practice includes installations, audio fortifications of Berwick upon Tweed, Richard Fenwick’s career has been active primarily the Internet. Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 shows us images of familiar landmarks, and video works: ‘Intervista’ won several awards original sound. Finally lip readers at a publications, net works and broadcasts which transposing place names from Illiers- in film and design. Design clients include Channel Westernised shops, and street bazaars, set for best documentary. He exhibits internationally: school for the deaf deciphered Anri Sala’s reflect her fascination with the medium of sound. Combray onto familar landmarks. Whilst 4, Sony, and the BBC. He has created music Placing 51st State in the Black Hole, a Luchezar Boyadjiev trained as an art historian to a beguiling voiceover which conveys recent solo shows include Museum Boijmans mother’s words. ‘Intervista’ captures the Her pieces often use episodes in literature or undertaking the walk, sounds from France videos for well known bands including Death Georgian era military cell, plays up the and theorist, and became an artist after the the operative’s findings. Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; DAAD Galerie, moment when Sala shows his mother history as points of departure. Zoë is currently are superimposed onto another terrain. in Vegas, Teenage Fanclub. For his experimental tensions and contradictions between changes in 1989. He is a founding member Berlin; ARC Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; The Art the film. With her words recovered, she developing a series of new voice works with the The audio track uses the conventions of films he has worked with WARP, Rephlex records, this intensely confined space and the of the Sofia Institute of Contemporary Art. He Boyadjiev is addressing the different Institute of Chicago, Chicago. confronts her younger self. Her Communist support from a Scottish Arts Council Creative film sound design to conjure a cinematic and Creative Review. expansive, borderless, “everywhere” has as exhibited and lectured internationally cultural expectations and attitudes that ideals and the current chaos in Albania Scotland Award. ambience. A poetic reflection on rhetoric of the artwork’s soundtrack. including Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Migros lie at the heart of the difficult relationship collide, offering a moving reflection on the landscape and memory, Illiers-Combray This extends the central message of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; between Europe and Asia. The artist country’s (and one woman’s) history and crosses boundaries between the literary artist, to question our assumptions about Manifesta 4, Frankfurt; Documenta, Kassel. suggests with dead-pan irony that present state. and the factual, building upon the the supposedly liberating potential of perhaps Turkey should be integrated resonances of place. Real and imaginary computer networks. into the EU in three stages, gradually topographies intermingle to create a and progressively extending Europe’s hybrid experience: part life, part fiction. standards and systems ever Eastwards .

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 38 39 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Artist Film & Video Programme Selected by Marcus Coates & Huw Davies Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon The BorderXing project explores and Mare Tralla A humorous take on European identity, in BorderXing Slide Show documents methods of crossing borders Europa the form of an interactive game. UK, 2004 Video loop within Europe without legal papers or Estonia / UK, 2005 Digital interactive official permissions. The artists delineate The work presents an outline of the map 43 Bridge Street 9 the tactics and materials necessary for Maltings Bar 1 of the European continent: scattered Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 crossing several dozen international Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 around the edge are the shapes of Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 borders. Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 various countries, as defined by their Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 international borders. Viewers can drag Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 At times, the photographs portray idyllic Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 these pieces and try them for fit, rather Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 scenery surrounding sun-dappled hikers. Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 like a jigsaw puzzle. If one successfully At others, cautionary advice about the gets all the countries in the right place, Heath Bunting’s practice embraces independent dangers of ice-crossing or the more Mare Tralla works primarily with video, digital the game moves on to a new level. There and altenative media, social contexts, defensive border patrols is given. In and interactive media, often tackling issues of the artist allows the audience to select collaborative working and a commitment to the world of Brandon and Bunting, the identity. She has been dubbed “Estonia’s answer and play back songs which represent grass roots democracy. He has produced many necessities for navigating national borders to Tracey Emin” by some critics. She exhibits different nations. internet projects, some highly recognised. are rugged equipment, high-protein internationally, recent shows have included Recent exhibitions include New Museum of food, water, maps, and knowledge of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; By turns both light-hearted and engaging, Contemporary Art, New York; Tate Modern, outdoors and tracking. For most of us, European Commission, Brussels; ICA, London; Europa also points towards the continued London; Spike Island, Bristol; Fundacio la Caixa, papers (visas or passports), fingerprints, Edinburgh International Film Festival. existence of nationalism and borders Barcelona. or iris scans suffice. within Europe: physical and cultural.

BorderXing’s fluid relationship to notions of country is part of a great tradition of outdoor culture and historic exploration, traditions that rely on the body, survival skills, and instinct. These skills are now highly controlled, replaced by the official conventions and limitations that define convenient, modern travel.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 40 41 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Semiconductor The first in a series of short films where Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie Living with Tudors is part of a work in Sue Giovanni A visual documentation of emigration, love, Zoë Walker – Walker and In Love Cannon, Walker invites people to Inaudible Cities: Part 1 cities are made up of and controlled by Living with Tudors progress by artists Pope & Guthrie, which Immortal Muse strength, creativity and old age. Bromwich Projects join in the Friendly Frontier Campaign UK, 2002 6 min 40 sec sound. In this episode, every detail of UK, 2004/5 10 min looks at the phenomena of historical re- UK, 2005 26 min Love Cannon for peace friendship and open borders by an urban landscape is built by the sonic enactment. The film follows the artists Annette Eick is the elderly woman we all UK, 2005 9 mins offering flowers to launch from the Love Coxon’s Tower, Town Walls 8 pressures of an oncoming electrical storm. Maltings Hall 1 during their first week spent within the Maltings Hall 1 walk past every day without giving her a Cannon. The People of Les Arques France Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 The very fabric of this isolated world is Friday 16: 16:00 – 17:30 UK's largest Tudor re-enactment. It charts Friday 16: 16:00 – 17:30 thought, as if she were invisible. Her life Maltings Hall 1 join the parade of flowers and follow the Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 defined by the noises and frequencies Saturday 17: 10:00 – 12:00 their first impressions and - not without Saturday 17: 10:00 – 12:00 began in liberal Berlin in 1909. Now, nearly Friday 16: 16:00 – 17:30 cannon to the launch area. The flowers Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 that surround a space in another aural Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 humour - subsequent psychological Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 one hundred years later, she is living in Saturday 17: 10:00 – 12:00 are tied to helium balloons and loaded Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 dimension. Semiconductor have written and physical decline via a sequence Devon. Annette is philosophical about her Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 into the Cannon. They are ceremoniously Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 a digital program which listens to the Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie work both as solo of confessional and covertly acquired Featuring: Annette Eick migration from Nazi Berlin, via Hampstead fired into the skies, as a celebration of life various parts of the soundtrack and artists and as a collaboration. They launched their footage. Voice of muse: Heike Brinkman to Devon. At 95 years of age she is not Zoë Walker works both as a solo artist and with and love, and an act against the follies of Semiconductor are UK artists Ruth Jarman and constructs the animated environments. creative organisation Somewhere in 2002 and Original music: Johannes Konecney concerned about fitting in. “Berlin, I was Neil Bromwich as the collaborative team ‘Walker war. Crossing International Borders Love Joseph Gerhardt. have led diverse projects with an emphasis on Sound Design: Tim Barker a stranger there, but I am still stranger and Bromwich’. Their work explores the space Cannon is part of the Friendly Frontiers new audiences and innovative technology. Producer: Jules Hussey here!” Immortal Muse looks at the detail between the real landscape or physical world, Campaign. In 2001 they released a debut Art DVD ‘Hi-Fi Director and editor: Sue Giovanni of Annette’s existence to reveal a life that and an imagined location. Rise’ one of the first independently produced Recent Exhibitions include: spans countries, cultures and communities. DVD-Videos/ROMs. Recently they have received Bata-ville, Feature Length Film, Edinburgh Film A sculptor by education, Sue Giovanni now Immortal Muse traces Annette’s fragmented Recent exhibitions include: numerous fellowships and awards including Festival, 2005. works entirely with video. Her work is sometimes thoughts and memories through images Panacea (with Neil Bromwich) CCC Tours, and a future residency at The Space Science Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, USA & collaborative as with performance artist Stacy gathered over 4 years using Super 8, DV, Hotel de Ville de Chinon, Chinon, France, 2005 Laboratories at UC Berkeley. touring to Q (Derby), Folly (Lancaster) & Chapter Makishi on their two year long project ‘On digital movies and stills manipulated with and John Hansard, Southampton, 2004 - 05. (Cardiff), 2004. the Street Where You Live’. More frequently photoshop. The result is a tapestry of words Celestial Radio (with Neil Bromwich) A Pirate Recent exhibitions include: London Underground Platform for Art, 2003 she works as video editor for artists such as and images, a portrait of this independent Radio Station broadcasting from a mirror tiled Venice Biennale, ICA London and ZKM Karlsruhe. It's an East End Knockout, Bow Festival, London, Emmanuelle Waeckerle (on her gallery piece creative spirit. yacht off the Essex Coast, 2004. All the Time in the World, Berwick Gymnasium, 2003. ‘Truce’) and for artists Zoë Walker and Neil Limbo-Land, Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery, 2005 Bromwich on several of their video works. Berwick-upon-Tweed, 2002 www.somewhere.org.uk Immortal Muse was selected for the 2005 My Island Home, Victoria and Albert Museum, www.semiconductorfilms.org London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. London, 2000.

Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich live and work in Berwick-upon-Tweed

Photograph by Colin Gray

www.walkerandbromwich.org.uk

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 42 43 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Marcus Coates Finfolk offers us a modern day version of Calum Stirling 100psi is a split screen video piece. Simon Faithful Escape Vehicle no.6 records the journey John Wood & Paul Harrison John Wood and Paul Harrison are a double Finfolk a traditional tale from Northern Scotland, 100psi The footage, all shot on one day, shows escape vehicle no. 6 of a domestic chair as it travels from the Board act, using their bodies in very simple UK, 2003 7 min Iceland and Norway. Finfolk or Selkies UK, 2002 3 min 50 sec two different streets in the east end of UK, 2004 10 min ground to the edge of space (30km up). UK, 1993 3 min ways to test out and negotiate the physical are seals that can come ashore as humans, Glasgow where water hydrants have been As the chair dangles in space beneath parameters that define us all. InBoard Maltings Hall 1 often being held responsible for creating 43 Bridge Street 9 vandalised. In both images the spray 43 Bridge Street 9 an unseen weather balloon, the footage 3-legged the two artists move across a space in a Friday 16: 16:00 – 17:30 storms, unaccountable pregnancies and Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 of water takes on the appearance of an Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 shows it rushing away from the fields 1996 3 min 39 sec choreographed 'dance' with a sheet of Saturday 17: 10:00 – 12:00 disappearances. Coates has filmed himself Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 ornamental fountain, yet becomes a source Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 and roads, ascending through clouds wood. In this meticulous performance Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 as a contemporary Selkie, dragged up from Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 of amusement for the local communities, Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 and finally (against the curvature of 43 Bridge Street 9 they realign our expectations of the the cold North Sea up onto the pier. As he Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 who play, attempt to surf and even wash Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 the earth and the blackness of space) Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 relationship between our physical selves Recent exhibitions include: strolls up and down, dressed in ill-fitting Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 their cars in these unlikely urban springs. Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 beginning to disintegrate. The chair's Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 and a familiar object. British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Adidas sportswear and clip-on shades, journey was recorded using a small video Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 Contemporary Art and touring 2005-2006. he engages us in a ranting monologue. Stirling has presented work widely in the UK Faithfull's practice is increasingly concerned camera that relayed the images live to an Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 In 3-legged, the artists have tied Hilchot Shechenim, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, This is all in an invented language as and abroad including The Venice Biennale, The with displacement, absence and flux - often audience below. The chilling nature of Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 themselves to each other in the classic Holon, Israel, 2005. presumably the seal might not speak Design Museum in London, The National Gallery sending back ‘dispatches’ from elsewhere. For the film is that the empty chair invites 'sports day' manner. They stand in a Disguise, Manchester Art Gallery, 2004. English. There is something very ordinary, of Australia, CCA in Glasgow and The Generali example the 2005 project Antarctica Dispatches the audience to imagine taking a journey John Wood and Paul Harrison have worked enclosed area being fired at with tennis Un-becoming, Berwick Gymnasium, 2003. and chav-like about this mythical being. Foundation in Vienna. continued an exploration of both the extremities to an uninhabitable realm where it is together since 1993 producing video works for balls by an automatic tennis serving Coates assumes that he is a seal and as of the world and its relation to the everyday or impossible to breath, the temperature single screen and installation. machine. As we look down the swaying Marcus Coates lives and works in such is impersonating a human. Filmed in Recent exhibitions include: mundane by transmitting drawings, text and is minus 60 below and the sky now barrel of this gun we see the artists Berwick-upon-Tweed. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mobilette, Vivid, Birmingham, 2005. photos back from a two-month trip to Antarctica. resembles the blackness of space. Selected works, Space Gallery, Bratislava, attempting to dodge these fast moving Transgressed landscape at Fundacio Espais d'Art Slovakia, 2005. balls with humorous and occasionally Photo by Mark Pinder Contemporani, Genoa, 2005. Recent exhibitions include: Notebook, Middlesbrough, Institute of Modern painful results. This is a contest between Organismos: esto es vida, Espaii Cultural Caja, Antarctica Dispatches, CCA. Glasgow, 2005. Art, 2005. their unspoken co-operation/intuition and Madrid, Barcelona, 2004. East05, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, 2005. Art Now, Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, 2004. the pre-programmed random setting of an Recording Angels, Project Room, Glasgow, 2003. Hard Drive, ICA (media-lab), 2004. Selected works, MOMA, Queens, New York, alarmingly powerful machine. The Future Is Stupid, MAMA, Rotterdam, 2004. 2004. www.modelcitizen.org.uk www.simonfaithful.org

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 44 45 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Nigel Atkinson & Huw Davies Reconfiguration UK, 2005 4 Screen Installation

War Memorial, Castlegate 4 Friday 16 - Saturday 24: Dusk - 23:30

Nigel Atkinson and Huw Davies have worked collaboratively as filmmakers / artists for over twenty years operating through Berwick based company Cliffhanger Films. Their work has included commissions for the Arts Council, Scottish Screen, BBC, and the Discovery Channel, which have been network broadcast and screened extensively at international film festivals. Previous films have included:Five Prospects of the Jealous Wall, (1996); Folly Obscura (1999); Reflections upon the Origin of the Pineapple (2000) and, most recently, The Perpetual Twilight of Gregor Black (2004), which won awards at Barcelona and Houston.

Susanne Christensen Strip Off is a game between body, garments Matthew Walmsley So you’ve settled into your seat and Strip Off and space, where the artist fragments and Popcorntrontastic the crunching begins. Yes, it’s the vital Norway, 1999 4 min equalises all three parts in the reflected UK, 2005 Installation ingredient to any cinema experience - Soundtrack : Pål-Asle Pettersen image of a large distorting mirror. Popcorn. To accompany the films in the Cristensen employs an amorphous visual Shop Window Berwick festival, Matthew Walmsley has 43 Bridge Street 9 language to distract the audience and create created a scenario that appears to be a Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 a different approach to the traditional Matthew Walmsley has a history of making shop totally filled with popcorn. Situated Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 reading of the female body. large-scale sculpture installations, which playfully in the centre of Berwick, this popcorn Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 incorporate or adapt existing architectural spaces. phenomenon waits to be discovered Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 by shoppers and filmgoers alike. This Sunday 25: 10:00 - 16:00 Recent exhibitions include: installation uses an illusion to create a Splash, Pyros Gallery, London, 2004. humorous, playful and theatrical piece Reconfiguration is a meditation upon the experience of Reconfiguration was commissioned for the Berwick Film and Susanne Christensen’s recent performance work Interface, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2002. of work. The creation of a fun, colourful, commemoration. Cocteau reminded us that the function of Media Arts Festival by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big investigates the relationship between space and Beach Party, Aroma Gallery, Berlin, 2001. textured surface alludes to something that art is to render the familiar unfamiliar; to transform everyday Lottery Fund, under the Home Front Recall Programme, as part of body. This work lies on the borderline between Half-Baked, Stuff Gallery, London, 2000. doesn't actually exist, an empty promise. experience so that it is seen or witnessed as if for the first time. the commemorative events to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the interpretations of ‘nature’ and ‘society’. Ironically however, all permanent site-specific public art suffers ending of the Second World War. from death through familiarity. Artworks which are designed and Recent exhibitions include: sited very specifically to evoke a particular response, eventually Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, 1999. cease to do so for those who witness them on a daily basis. International Art Symposium, DANAE, France, This phenomenon is particularly problematic in the case of 1999-2001. commemorative public sculpture, whose sole purpose is to evoke E.T.4.U, Denmark, 2001-2005 "LA COLLECTE" a permanent sense of remembrance. Apart from on specified days -Konschthaus "Beim Engel" Luxenburg ,"Galleri of the year, it would appear that for many residents of Berwick, Romein", Holland ,"Akademia Serbien", the War Memorial retains a certain invisibility as people go about Beograd, Sao Paolo , Quebec, "Kedelhuset" their everyday business (particularly of course at night because Danmark, 2004-2005. it is not illuminated). By cloaking the sculpture itself, while DANAE- international Art Symposium, France, simultaneously drawing attention to the function that it exists 2001. to perform, we hope that we will encourage the viewer to reflect upon the nature of public art and the specific purpose for which this structure was erected.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • ARTIST FILM & VIDEO • 46 47 • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Big M 10

The Parade Greens Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 10:30 – 18:30 Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 15:30 – 18:30

17 artists / 20 pieces

Presenting a new programme of short films and videos selected for the Festival from an international open call. This programme will go on to tour throughout the UK and Europe.

The Big M is a futuristic inflatable screening space that functions as a temporary and mobile venue for the presentation of video and digital media.

Selected by Isis Arts & Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

Photographs: Lindsay Duncan, Sharon Bailey & Stan Gamester

Francesca Steele Jaygo Bloom Nadja Schrade Martin Hamblen Alan Smith Meera George Semiconductor Le Fleurs du Mal pan-outs The Issue rNr Sky Ophelia The Sound of Microclimates UK, 2005 4 min UK, 2005 2 min 13 sec Germany, 2004 1 min 29 sec UK, 2005 45 sec UK, 2004 4 min UK, 2004 4 min UK, 2004 4 min 30 sec

Employing the compositional values tabla-pong Schrade takes issue with men’s public rNr is a party political broadcast. Our eyes We live in an era when issues of This work revolves around the idea of The Sound of Microclimates reveals of a memento mori and of vanitas, the UK, 2004 1 min 18 sec urinating habits. A demonstration of male are our borders, out of sight, out of mind, globalisation and global terror are being eternal sleep. Inspired by the painting of the sights and sounds of a series of viewer is drawn from an initially optical dominance perhaps? After confronting but "once you’ve seen you can’t unsee" broadcasted at high speed and silently Ophelia by Millais, the video performance unusual weather patterns in Paris. Here, and aesthetic encounter, into one that is An audiovisual series that combines a man urinating in the street, the artist unless we choose to turn a blind eye. Our across borders in to the intimate and shows Ophelia (the artist) as a woman architecture has become interwoven with qualitatively different – one experiential traditional secular instruments with the decided that it might actually be a choices are lead by the examples we see personal surroundings of our homes and of the 21st century trying to choose her the natural processes of the geographical in nature. 8 bit graphics and gaming techniques personally liberating experience. "I chose in our media. It is up to us/them to cross local environment. Smith explores the final place of rest. She wanders through landscape. Set within the un-noticed employed by some of the earliest of Princes Street in Edinburgh on a Saturday psychological borders and empathise. uncomparable significance of his every different locations – a bathroom, a moments in time, extreme microclimates computers. Within each selection the afternoon. And yes, it did feel good. I am day encounters and tragic world events. supermarket, high street, a garden and are presented as the future in city Yu-Chen Wang gaming platform is used to represent not going to do it again." finally a river, as in the original painting. accessories, revealing the unseen urban Struggle for Existence and preserve the fundamentals of each Tanya Axford Her search is accompanied by an terrains of tomorrow. UK, 2004 1 min 58 sec instrument, for future game playing The Waltz Indian lullaby – a hypnotic drone that generations to enjoy. Arnaud Ganzerli, Laurent UK, 2004 3 min Erica Scourti accentuates her dislocation. Children’s battle-field game. By linking Bourdoiseau, Jerome Blanquet Trailer Truths 111 Nisha Duggal Darwin’s ‘The truth of universal struggle The Waltz captures the beauty of a UK, 2004 25 sec Make up forever for existence’ with a Taiwanese children’s Kelly Richardson Electronic Performers fly fishing line as it is skilfully cast Neil Bromwich UK, 2003 1 min 8 sec game, the video represents a simplistic Ferman Drive France, 2003 4 min continuously across the surface of the Text taken from movie trailers is collaged drawing exploring two individuals’ Canada, 2005 1min 20 sec river Teviot on the Scottish Borders. Its together to create a new text that charts Walker and Bromwich projects The artist applies a layer of lipstick to slaughter in the virtual battle field. Can emotion be represented physically? arabesque line creates innumerable and the crossing over from a critique of Lightwave her face. The footage is speeded up, Wagons Roll The path of an emotion, like a hot vibration, constantly animated linear drawings in society to ominous direct action. The film UK, 2004 3 min 27 sec reversed and looped to create a repetitive Canada, 2003 2 min 30 sec which spreads through your body. the space between the two riverbanks. By parodies the notion of a Hollywood-style action of the layering and removal of Rob Kennedy constantly seeking to ever improve on the call to arms by using the language and Dots of light move across the screen in colour. It reflects the repetitive nature of Eden The Sequel last gesture made in time with the rhythm form of mass entertainment. radiating patterns rhythmically tied to modern life, the acts of camouflage and UK, 2004 1 min 15 sec Canada, 2004 1 min 9 sec Richard Mosse of the waltz, the fisherman’s designs the sound of a recorded heartbeat. The assimilation; crossing borders between Ya’ni Intiafada become increasingly complex. As the work appears at once both universal how we present ourselves to the rest of the A fragmented city of extraordinary light The Sequel features a car tyre lying UK, 2005 4 min 30 sec music itself builds to a climax, his own and microscopic. As it proceeds, we world, and who we actually perceive our penetrates a brief staccato bombardment suspiciously in the middle of an idyllic exertions diminish rapidly until finally Jose Pedro Cortes discover that the specks of light are in true selves to be. of words. Snatched glimpses of private country lane. A sense of dread hangs The work portrays meanings of the word he relinquishes control consumed with Platforms fact the movement of 50 cheerleaders worlds, drenched in the sulphur flood of in the air, until the tyre rights itself and Intifada not generally known in the west. exhaustion. Portugal, 4 min 33 sec with lightsticks and the sound is their city night light, fight with these words to gently rolls out of shot. Knowing where Interviews conducted at Birzeit University heartbeats, recorded as they dance. tell a tale of waiting and desire. A story of the tyre came from or where its ultimate near Ramallah are punctuated by footage This video presents a continuous narrative Lightwave connects the individual to the maladjusted scale, set amidst the auditory destination is, is superfluous to our shot whilst driving in Gaza. about a transparent and untouchable line larger universe and conveys a feeling of fizz and crackle of electronic construction. wonderment. that separates reality from fiction. optimism drawn from the collective action of a group of people, signaling to the skies.

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This chaired discussion will focus on the disciplines and cultures that define filmmaking, its contexts of production and presentation and the potential for artists in particular, to position their practice in relation to these.

There will be a cinema presentation of Mark The Mobile Cinema Filmmakers at Schools Young Filmmakers - Education Screening Wallinger’s The Lark Ascending, 2004 to During the course of the festival The Mobile Cinema will visit The Film Festival has linked up with Berwick Community High accompany the discussion. a number of towns and villages on both sides of the border. School, as part of their Business and Enterprise Programme. Film Maltings Cinema 1 Bringing cinema to people who would not normally have access and media teacher, Martin Paterson, will chair a series of events Sunday 25 15:30 This event forms part of a-n Magazine’s Artists ISIS ArtsEducation Programme to it. Seahouses, Wooler, Coldingham and Allanton will all see a to involve all students at the school. For years 9 and 10, Nigel R Events Programme which supports the critical specially selected programme from this years Festival. Smith and Zam Salim will show and discuss a selection of their Various and professional development of artists in North We have been the Arts in Education Agency for Northumberland for the last four years, providing short films, while there will be a screening of Lukas Moodysson’s East England. opportunities for schools to work with professional artists. For the Festival we are running workshops This programme will also visit the Belford Community Film Project feature Show Me Love for Year 11 and the sixth form, followed by A screening of films made by local young people. Experimental for pupils from Berwick High School, and teachers from across the County. We are also supporting the operating from the Erskine United Reformed Church. This unique a debate. work made during this years Film Bee will be complemented by The programme has a number of strands ranging exciting Film Bee project. project came into existence in 2004 when donations from the screenings from a project which has run concurrently – The Fight from studio visits, peer critique, networking congregation and money from grants allowed the purchase of a Nigel R Smith for the Fish. events and critical discussions. Events are en-quire – Inspiring learning in galleries projector and sound system now installed in the church hall. Edinburgh-based film and television producer Nigel R. Smith is organised in collaboration with artist-led groups, en-quire is an exciting new national action-research programme with the aim of exploring, assessing a graduate of the Media Business School’s prestigious European The Fight for the Fish projects and organisations, to provide support and articulating the special learning benefits to young people of working with contemporary art and Dates, times and exact venues to be announced. Masters programme and received further training at Metro- Chrissi Cairn for the development of art practice and activity the gallery space. Goldwyn-Mayer in Los Angeles. His credits include Intergalactic UK, 2005 15 min within both regional and national contexts. Kitchen, a 13-part sci-fi adventure sitcom for CBBC; short comedy As part of the national en-quire programme we are using the Big M as a temporary gallery space to The Return of Peg Leg Pete for Fox Searchlight; and BBC Tartan Performed by pupils from Tweedmouth Middle School, four offer young people the opportunity to experience this contemporary and unusual environment. They Short Cry For Bobo, the most widely successful Scottish short versions of this film were made. Set in 1876 the film contrasts will view the work being shown and learn the skills of video art themselves. They will be working with film to date, with 24 awards from over 200 film festival and the fate of the local fisher-folk, terrorised by the heavy-handed Kids’ Club some of the artists showing work in the Big M to produce their own piece of video art, inspired by event appearances in more than 30 countries. Nigel also lectures methods of the Tweed river bailiffs, with that of rich factory owners what they’ve seen. The artists will then run a series of workshops in schools, arrange visits to other in the film departments of both Edinburgh College of Art and polluting the river and escaping prosecution. Made in the style of a Maltings Cinema 1 galleries including the British Art Show. The work they produce will be shown in the Big M early next Napier University and delivers the Writers’ Factory Introduction to silent 1920s agit-prop movie, the children themselves devised most Sunday 18 10:30 year. The impact of this experience will be monitored and researched by the University of Newcastle. Screenwriting course for Edinburgh Mediabase. of the scenes. The film was funded by Culture10 as part of the North East SeaBritain Festival. A screening of a great childrens film (yet to be Teacher Training Zam Salim announced). Fun for all the family including There will also be an opportunity for teachers from the County to have a digital training session in the Glasgow based filmmaker Zam Salim has written, directed and More films to be announced. a show by Northumbria’s greatest Martin the Big M. Over the last four years we have found that a key to the success of any Arts in Education work produced a number of award-winning low/no-budget films. One Magician. Supplying comedy, magic and balloon has been the engagement of the teachers. By offering teachers the opportunity to gain some hands- of these is Cold Light of Day, a no-budget comedy which won the modelling for kids of all ages. on experience of working with new media we hope to lay the foundations for a more inspired and prestigious Jim Poole Scottish Film of the Year award in Edinburgh creative use of technology. Teachers will have time to reflect on the work being shown in the Big M and was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA. Zam has won awards and learn the skills to start doing it for themselves. as a producer and editor, and has recently been commissioned by the Glasgow Film Office to make a feature film. He also directs Film Bee TV commercials and teaches. Zam is currently shooting a children’s Film Bee are a collaborative group of filmmakers based in the Tyneside area who create and run film short film for Tartan Smalls (CBBC/ Scottish Screen).Bad Brown projects and educational workshops. They will be working with the Berwick Youth Project on a 5-day Owl concerns a crack outfit of seasoned bank robbers – who just mobile film lab production. Young people will use all the technology needed for processing, printing, happen to be 8-year old Brownies. editing and projecting black & white 16mm films. They will work with Film Bee to script, shoot and produce a film to be included in the Education/Youth Screening Programme to be shown at the Maltings Cinema.

Film Bee artists include: Christo Wallers, Debbie Bower and Matt Fleming.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • a-n SYMPOSIUM / KIDS CLUB / EDUCATION & OUTREACH • 52 53 • EDUCATION & OUTREACH • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 The Maltings Theatre & Arts Centre 1 Barrels Ale House 2 The Ice House 5 The Gymnasium 6 The ‘Black Hole’ at the Main Guard 7 Venues Opened in April 1990, Berwick’s Art Centre was built on the site of A cosy free house serving real ale, specialist spirits and world Bank Hill Ice House was one of several built in Berwick in the early Berwick Barracks was built in 1717 to house the town’s garrison. The Main Guard is the last of four such buildings which were built an original old maltings that was almost completely destroyed by wines, the Barrels Ale House is undeniably one of the best pubs in 18th century. The ice was sourced locally if the winter had been The Gymnasium was added to the complex in 1901. It was built, to house the officers and soldiers guarding the gates of Berwick’s fire in August 1984. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Over two nights during the Film and Media severe enough, but usually was imported from Norway. The blocks not only to maintain fitness, but as a recreational facility to keep walls to enforce the curfew. The Main Guard was originally Arts Festival, the Barrels’ Bedouin-style basement will take on even were carefully stored in layers with sawdust laid between the the soldiers occupied and keep them out of the local hostelries. It positioned in Marygate near the top of Eastern Lane. It was moved The Maltings is the hub venue of the Festival. The Arts Centre more excitement than usual, playing host to two screenings of blocks to prevent them from freezing into a solid mass. Without retains many of its original features and is now the contemporary to a site in front of The Berwick Advertiser offices in 1741 and houses the Maltings Cinema, Hall and Bar screening venues. specially selected works. The pub will of course also be open as this facility, much of 18th century Berwick’s wealth may not have art studio and venue for the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship. then to Palace Street in 1815. It consists of three rooms. On the Also located here are the Box Office, Festival Bar and Festival normal for merry-making. been created. The ice was used for packing fish, particularly right is the officers room; to the left, a larger room for the soldiers. Information Point. salmon, in crates to be transported to London. Ice houses were still Between them is the ‘Black Hole’, a cell to hold the drunk and being used in the 1930s, and Bank Hill was designated an air raid disorderly. The Main Guard is now used by Berwick Civic Society for shelter during the Second World War. meetings and as an exhibition space.

The Guildhall 3 War Memorial 4 Coxon’s Tower 8 43 Bridge Street 9 Big M 10 The Guildhall is the largest room in the townhall and is located in The War Memorial was officially unveiled on November 11th 1923 Dating from the 14th century, Coxon’s Tower is part of the medieval A mid-18th century shop, with distinctive ‘bowed’ windows, The Big M is a highly-stylised inflatable structure that functions the part of the building built between 1750 and 1754. The Guild by field Marshal Earl Hague. It was sculpted by Alexander Carrick fortifications started by Edward I in 1296. The lower chamber is restored by the Berwick Preservation Trust in 1990. as a temporary venue for the presentation of video and digital of Freemen used to meet here when they governed the town. and forged by the former Frome Art Metals Works, now Morris 3 metres wide and contains two casemates, one of which retains media. Films are projected onto a three-screen arrrangement with It was also used as a civil and criminal courtroom. Until 1842 Singer Foundries. It is not clear how the Memorial was paid for evidence of its original arrowloop. In the early 16th century, a stone stereophonic sound. During the first half of the Festival the Big M all crimes committed in the borough were tried here including only that the Memorial Committee, which was led by Colonel bulwark, serving as a gun platform, was built out from the east will be sited on the Parade Greens opposite the Barracks. murders. The Town Hall Prison Cells cells occupy the second W.B.Mackay, commissioned its production. The pedestal is made casemate. The ravages of the sea and river took their toll, and the floor of the Town Hall, completed in 1761. The first cell on the of finely polished Doddington stone and holds a bronzed figure of bulwark was abandoned in the 17th century. The Georgians rebuilt right was built for high security risk prisoners: the walls and floor winged Victory. the walls around the estuary and Coxon’s Tower was modified, incorporate iron bars. The second room was for women and has thickening the walls by 2 metres and raising the top platform. a bed to accommodate four. The third cell was for short-term prisoners, mostly sailors and soldiers of the garrison. This has many examples of carved grafitti, including ships and gallows. Opposite is the drunkards cell with a sloping bed to drain bodily fluids. The condemned cell was last occupied by Grace Griffin who was hanged in 1823. The gaol was in use until 1849, when a new prison, now the Council Offices, was built.

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • VENUES • 54 55 • VENUES • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Berwick Community Film Festival Steering Committee Chris Anderson (Chair) Berwick Borough Council Shona Alexander Individuals and Organisations Thomas Baldwin Development Trust Marcus Coates with special thanks to David Cook Martin Baylis Huw Davies Liam Henry John Bell Helen Grayshan Liz Hope Paul Bradley Emily McElroy Fiona McMurray Zoë Bottrell Ian McGregor Jane Pannell David Brittell Genni Poole Lorna Suthren Liz Breacons Ditte Solgaard David Wilson Jane Blackburn Philip Stanbury Paul Collard Ross Weddle Julia Davies Napier University Edinburgh Jim Goodlet Peter Dixon School of Design & Media Arts Alex Mclarren Carol Ann Fields Thanks, credits & Festival Staff Festival Directors Marcus Coates & Huw Davies School of Communication Arts Annie Ross Stuart Garratt Festival Manager / Development Ditte Solgaard Helen McCue Chris Green acknowledgements Festival Administrator / Finance Emily McElroy Euan Winton Chris Hardie Volunteer & Guest Co-ordinator Genni Poole Rob Walker John Henderson Festival Programmer Tamara Van Strijthem Willie Duff Michael Herriot Print Traffic Co-ordinator Antony White Iain Mackay Dave & Diana Herbert Festival Office Team (volunteers) Helen Bell Jim Herbert Laura Coates Liz Hope Iona Davies Film Companies, Organisations & Animus Films Judith King Sue Hargreaves Distributors Caligari Film Adam Lopardo Marion Smailes The Co-Production Office Mango Douglas Small Dazzle Films Will Mapplebeck Fay Thirlwell DreamLab Philip Miller Claire Ward The Finnish Film Foundation Lorna Partington Maurice Ward HFF Munich Martin Paterson KHM Cologne Dave Rammage PR & Marketing Barbara Huddart Kolik Films John Roberson Adriana Marques Lux Rotary Club, Berwick Clark Dunn Machine Molle Bernard Shaw Persuasion PR Magyar Filmunio Budapest Chris Shaw Merchant Ivory Productions Margaret Shaw AV Technician Matt Stokes The MobFilm Co Derek Sharman Electricians Berwick Electricals Naked Eye Film Production Rebecca Shatwell Nasrine dard de Chardon Bryony Slater New Zealand Film Commission John Smithson Film Selection & Curation Artists’ Programme David Thorp – Guildhall Prisons & Ice House Picture This Gerry Taylor Chris Byrne & Illyana Nedkova – Gymnasium, Bridge St & Maltings Bar The Slovenian Film Fund Matthew Walmsley Marcus Coates & Huw Davies – Maltings, Coxton’s Tower & Bridge St WEGA-Film Craig White Feature Film Programme Tamara Van Strijthem & Huw Davies Diane Wright Restrospective Film Programme Tamara Van Strijthem Short Film Programme Huw Davies & Marcus Coates Amaryllis Restaurant Big M Programme Sharon Bailey, Clymene Christoforou, Marcus Coates & Huw Davies Berwick upon Tweed Corporation (Freemen) Trustees Berwick Preservation Trust CARA Design Programme Production Manager Emily McElroy The Civic Society, Berwick Programme & Catalogue Design Humphrey Weightman Double Image, Glasgow Web Design Sam Urquhart English Heritage Postcards, Posters & Advert Design Marcus Coates Isis Arts Map John Henderson P&B Building Co Rotary Club Tyneside Cinema Maltings Staff Acting Manager Maureen McLeod Tweeddale Press Marketing Manager Helen James Front of House Managers Gill Moor & Shona Hamnon Thank you to Joan and John Burn at Technical Manager Bruce Lindsay The Playhouse for 30 years of movies Technician David Digby Box Office Staff Jan Robotham, Janet Ross & Wendy Payn A Big Thank You to all our wonderful volunteers. Thanks also to those that came on board after the catalogue was printed

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • THANKS, CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • 56 57 • THANKS, CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW – ARTIST FILM & VIDEO PROGRAMME OVERVIEW – FILM

Times (unless otherwise stated): Friday 16: 12:00 – 18:00 Saturday 17, Sunday 18: 10:00 – 18:00 Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 10:00 <> 14:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 Saturday 24: 10:00 – 18:00 Sunday 25: 10:00 – 16:00 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER Prison Cells, Town Hall 3 Laila Pakalnina (Latvia) Papa Gena Not Sunday 25 Josef Dabernig (Austria) Wisla Maltings Cinema 1 17:30 Longer Shorts (sugg 18) 20:00 UK PREMIERE Hu Jie Ming (China) One Minute Soulful Touch / From Architectural Immanence Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (sugg 18) Jayne Parker (UK) Foxfire Eins SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER Ice House at Bank Hill 5 Adrian Paci (Albania) Turn On Maltings Cinema 1 13:00 The Lark Ascending 16:00 SPECIAL SCREENING 18:30 Tickets (sugg 15) 21:00 UK PREMIERE Gymnasium, Town Walls 6 Anri Sala (Albania) Intervista One More Kiss (12) Welcome Home (sugg 12) Luchezar Boyadjiev (Bulgaria) The Visual Operative / Crawling Carpets Zoë Irvine (UK) Illiers – Combray Maltings Hall 1 13:45 a-n conversation

Black Hole, Main Guard 7 Richard Fenwick (UK) RND#91: 51st State SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER

Coxon’s Tower, Town Walls 8 Semi-Conductor (UK) Inaudible Cities Maltings Cinema 1 10:30 Kids’ Club Film 16:00 Calais: The Last Border (sugg PG) 18:00 SPECIAL SCREENING 21:30 Yasmin (15) 14:00 UK Shorts A Room with a View (PG) Maltings Bar 1 Mare Tralla (Estonia/UK) Europa MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER Maltings Hall 1 Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie (UK) Living With Tudors Friday 16: 16:00 – 17:30 Zoë Walker - Walker & Bromwich projects(UK) Love Cannon Maltings Cinema 1 RETROSPECT – DOUBLE BILL Saturday 17: 10:00 – 12:00 Sue Giovanni (UK) Immortal Muse 18:30 Across The Bridge (PG) :00 The Lady Vanishes (U) Monday 19 to Friday 23: 12:00 – 18:00 Marcus Coates (UK) Finfolk Barrels Ale House 2 20:30 Bodysong (18) 43 Bridge Street 9 Calum Stirling (UK)1 100psi John Wood & Paul Harrison (UK) Board / 3-legged TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER Simon Faithful (UK) Escape Vehicle no. 6 Heath Bunting & Kayle Brandon (UK) Borderxing Slide Show Maltings Cinema 1 18:30 International Shorts (sugg 18) 21:00 UK PREMIERE Susanne Christensen (Norway) Strip Off Channel Swimmers (sugg PG)

Shop window TBA Matthew Walmsley (UK) Popcorntrontastic The Guildhall 3 18:30 JJ Films Part 1

War Memorial 4 Nigel Atkinson & Huw Davies (UK) Reconfiguration WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER Friday 16 – Saturday 24: Dusk – 23:30 Maltings Cinema 1 RETROSPECT 21:00 Le Grand Voyage (sugg 15) 19:00 The General (U) Big M 10 A futuristic Inflatable cinema screening short film Artists include: Francesca Steele, Yu-Chen Wang, Rob Kennedy, Jaygo Bloom, Nadja Schrade, Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 and video selected from an international open call. Kelly Richardson,Nisha Duggal, Martin Hamblen, Tanya Axford, Richard Mosse, Alan Smith, Barrels Ale House 2 20:00 Extreme Animation (18) 10:30 – 18:30 The first location on its 2005 UK tour. Erica Scourti, Jose Pedro Cortes, Meera George, Neil Bromwich – Walker & Bromwich Projects, Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 Semi-Conductor, Electronic Performers. THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 15:30 – 18:30 Maltings Cinema 1 21:00 UK PREMIERE Earth and Ashes (sugg 12)

The Guildhall 3 18:30 JJ Films Part 2

FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

Maltings Cinema 1 18:30 RETROSPECT 21:00 UK PREMIERE Europa (15) Suburbs (sugg 18)

SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

Maltings Cinema 1 16:30 ENGLISH PREMIERE 19:00 Berwick’s favourite film Bitter Dream (sugg PG)

SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

Maltings Cinema 1 15.30 Young Filmmakers – Education Screening

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 • PROGRAMME • 58 59 • PROGRAMME • BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2005 Artist film & video by artist Short films by director Feature films by director

Nigel Atkinson Reconfiguration 47 Al and Al Perpetual Motion in 28 Jörg Adolph Channel Swimmers 15 Tanya Axford The Waltz 49 The Land of Milk and Honey Mohsen Amiryoussefi Bitter Dream 7 Jordan Baseman July The Twelfth 1984 26 Daniel Askill We Have Decided Not To Die 29 Ken Annakin Across the Bridge 16 Jerome Blanquet Electronic Performers 48 Jordan Baseman July The Twelfth 1984 26 Cylde Bruckman The General 18 Jaygo Bloom pan-outs 48 Victoria Beattie Quicken 28 Ismaël Ferroukhi Le Grand Voyage 9 tabla-pong 48 Daniel Beres Paternoszter 29 Kenny Glenaan Yasmin 13 Laurent Bourdoiseau Electronic Performers 48 Margaret Corkery Killing the Afternoon 28 Andreas Gruber Welcome Home 12 Luchezar Boyadijev Visual Operative 38 Stuart Croft Hit 26 Alfred Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes 17 Kayle Brandon BorderXing Slide Show 40 Rachel Davies Gold 28 Marc Isaacs Calais: The Last Border 14 Neil Bromwich Lightwave 49 Simon Dennis Iota 28 James Ivory A Room with a View 6 Heath Bunting BorderXing Slide Show 40 Alnoor Dewshi 77 Beds 28 John Jackson JJ Films 22 Chrissi Cairn The Fight for the Fish 53 Monika Forsberg His Passionate Bride 28 Vadim Jean Jiminy Glick in Lalawood 4 Susanne Christensen Strip Off 46 Johannes Hammel Die Liebenden 29 One More Kiss 5 Marcus Coates Finfolk 44 Tony Hill Geometry and Gravity 28 Buster Keaton The General 18 Jose Pedro Cortes Platforms 49 Matt Hulse Half Life 28 Abbas Kiarostami Tickets 11 Stuart Croft Hit 26 Neil Jacks The Tree Officer 28 Ken Loach Tickets 11 Josef Dabernig Wisla 34 Edward Jeffrey Suicide Angel 28 Vinko Moderndörfer Suburbs 10 Huw Davies Reconfiguration 47 Saskia Jell Blind 29 Phil Mulloy Extreme Animation 20 Nisha Duggal Make up forever 49 Peter Keller Schicht 29 Ermanno Olmi Tickets 11 Simon Faithful escape vehicle no. 6 45 Marja Mikkonen 99 Years Of My Life 27 Simon Pummell Bodysong 20 Richard Fenwick RND #91: 51st State 39 Christine Molloy Who Killed Brown Owl 28 Atiq Rahimi Earth and Ashes 8 Arnaud Ganzerli Electronic Performers 48 Viko Nikci Take it Back 29 Lars von Trier Europa 19 Meera George Ophelia 49 Miranda Pennell Nord Magnetique 29 Sue Giovanni Immortal Muse 43 Anja Sruck Allerleirauh 29 Karen Guthrie Living with Tudors 42 Anne Lise Stenseth Fuglinne 27 Feature films by title Martin Hamblen rNr 49 Taika Waititi Two Cars, One Night 29 Paul Harrison Board 45 Mark Wallinger The Lark Ascending 25 A Room with a View James Ivory 6 3-Legged 45 Across the Bridge Ken Annakin 16 Zoë Irvine Illiers - Combray 39 Bitter Dream Mohsen Amiryoussefi 7 Hu Jie Ming One Minute Soulful Touch 35 Short films by title Bodysong Simon Pummell 20 From Architectural Immanence 35 Calais: The Last Border Marc Isaacs 14 Rob Kennedy Eden 48 77 Beds Alnoor Dewshi 28 Channel Swimmers Jörg Adolph 15 Richard Mosse Ya’ni Intiafada 48 99 Years Of My Life Marja Mikkonen 27 Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi 8 Adrian Paci Turn On 35 Allerleirauh Anja Sruck 29 Europa Lars von Trier 19 Laila Pakalnina Papagena 34 Blind Saskia Jell 29 Extreme Animation Phil Mulloy 20 Jayne Parker Foxfire Eins 36 Die Liebenden Johannes Hammel 29 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Vadim Jean 4 Nina Pope Living with Tudors 42 Fuglinne Anne Lise Stenseth 27 JJ Films John Jackson 22 Kelly Richardson Ferman Drive 48 Geometry and Gravity Tony Hill 28 Le Grand Voyage Ismaël Ferroukhi 9 Wagons Roll 48 Gold Rachel Davies 28 One More Kiss Vadim Jean 5 The Sequel 48 Half Life Matt Hulse 28 Suburbs Vinko Moderndörfer 10 Anri Sala Intervista 38 His Passionate Bride Monika Forsberg 28 The General Cylde Bruckman, 18 Zam Salim Various 53 Hit Stuart Croft 26 Buster Keaton Nadja Schrade The Issue 48 Iota Simon Dennis 28 The Lady Vanishes Alfred Hitchcock 17 Erica Scourti Trailer Truths 49 July The Twelfth 1984 Jordan Baseman 26 Tickets Abbas Kiarostami, 11 Semiconductor Inaudible Cities : Part 1 42 Killing the Afternoon Margaret Corkery 28 Ken Loach,Ermanno Olmi The Sound of Microclimates 49 Nord Magnetique Miranda Pennell 29 Welcome Home Andreas Gruber 12 Alan Smith Sky 49 Paternoszter Daniel Beres 29 Yasmin Kenny Glenaan 13 Nigel Smith Various 53 Perpetual Motion in Al and Al 28 Francesca Steele Le Fleur du Mal 48 The Land of Milk and Honey Callum Stirling 100psi 44 Quicken Victoria Beattie 28 Anne Lise Stenseth Fuglinne 27 Schicht Peter Keller 29 Mare Tralla Europa 40 Suicide Angel Edward Jeffrey 28 Zoë Walker Love Cannon 43 Take it Back Viko Nikci 29 Mark Wallinger The Lark Ascending 25 The Lark Ascending Mark Wallinger 25 Matthew Walmsley Popcorntrontastic 46 The Tree Officer Neil Jacks 28 Yu-Chen Wang Struggle for Existence 48 Two Cars, One Night Taika Waititi 29 John Wood Board 45 We Have Decided Not To Die Daniel Askill 29 3-Legged 45 Who Killed Brown Owl Christine Molloy 28

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