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Image: Devotional Cinema (2019) Steve Reinke

AMINI 19 Thursday 26th September 2019

Artists’ Moving Image Northern Ireland (AMINI) presents a day of screenings in association with the MAC and Visual Artists Ireland.

2.30pm

An AEMI touring programme curated on the occasion of ‘93% Stardust’, Vivienne Dick’s major retrospective at IMMA in 2017. A personal selection of films that inspire her internationally acclaimed experimental film work.

Delirious Rhythm

A Colour Box (1936) Len Lye, 3 minutes In The Street (1948) Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb + James Agee, 17 minutes The First Round Dance (2001) Masha Godovannaya, 3 minutes Trisha’s Song (2008) Vivienne Dick, 3 minutes Daybreak Express (1953) D A Pennebaker, 5 minutes American Dreams # 3: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (2002) Moira Tierney, 5 minutes Southwark Spring (2017) Bev Zalcock & Sara Chambers, 3 minutes Backcomb (1995) Sarah Pucill, 7 minutes Saute ma ville (1968) Chantal Ackerman, 13 minutes Two Little Pigeons (1990) Vivienne Dick. 4 minutes Untitled No. 1 (2005) Masha Godovannaya, 4 minutes

4.00 pm

Peter Taylor, Director of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), will present a special screening of contemporary works from this years Festival.

to feel the world again, trampled Devotional Cinema (2019) Steve Reinke, United States, Canada, 2min phenomenon (2019) Anya Tsyrlina & Sid Iandovka, Switzerland, Russia, 15min Vever (for Barbara) (2019) Deborah Stratman, United States, Guatemala, 12min the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered (2019) Onyeka Igwe, UK, 26min

7.00 pm

Jarman Award Screenings

A showcase of works from artists at the forefront of experimentation in filmmaking today. This year’s nominated artists are: Cécile B. Evans, Beatrice Gibson, Mikhail Karikis, Hetain Patel, Imran Perretta and Rehana Zaman. There will be a Q and A with one of the shortlisted artists as part of the event.

Entry to AMINI 19 is free, but booking is essential. AMINI 19 tickets allow admittance to the Jarman Award screenings that evening. https://themaclive.com/event/amini-19

AMINI is an artist led initiative for the promotion and critical discussion of artists' moving image in Northern Ireland. It was founded by artists Michael Hanna and Jacqueline Holt in 2015.

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Image: Clown (2016) Cian Donnely

New Work from Northern Ireland

Artists’ Moving Image Northern Ireland (AMINI) presents a day of screenings and discussion in association with the MAC, Visual Artists Ireland and supported by Belfast Film Festival. Free event, book here.

The event will explore Artists’ Moving Image production in Northern Ireland. It will feature a screening of New Work from Northern Ireland: a 2-part review of contemporary artists' moving image practice from Northern Ireland. This touring programme was created in consultation with curator Alissa Kleist.

2.00 - 4.00pm Screening - New Work from Northern Ireland Introduced by Alissa Kleist.

Programme A: Constructed Worlds Miriam (2013) 7 min - Myrid Carten Exhibit A (2018) 12 min - Julie Lovett Clown (2016) 1 min - Cian Donnelly Depression (2016) 3 min - Cian Donnelly Fantasy Flesh 2.0 (2018) 24 min - Jennifer Mehigan Running time: 47 mins


Programme B: Physical Touch Portrait of a Craftsman (2014) 6 min - Myrid Carten Can you Touch at That (2014/17) 12 min - Mike Harvey The Lost Acre (2018) 4 min - Laura McMorrow The Acute Disaster (2012) 12 min - Aideen Doran No More (2012) 16 min - Mairéad Mclean Running time: 50 mins

4.15pm - 5.15pm Talk - Do you want to produce Artists’ Moving Image?

The screenings will be followed by a conversation with artist Myrid Carten about her current project, reflecting on production structures both north and south of the border. Carten will be in discussion with Alice Butler and AMINI about how artists collaborate with producers and how this relationship can develop and inform the work. This afternoon programme will be followed in the evening by the Jarman Award Screenings: a showcase of works from artists at the forefront of experimentation in filmmaking today.  This year’s nominated artists, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Jasmina Cibic, Lawrence Lek, Daria Martin, Hardeep Pandhal and Margaret Salmon present innovative, entertaining and diverse films that tackle the world’s big topics. We will be joined in conversation by Jarman nominee Hardeep Pandh.

Exhibition: Separate Systems: AMINI Graduate Award Showcase Golden Thread Gallery Tuesday 9th to Saturday 13th October 2018

AMINI is delighted to present Separate Systems, a showcase of work from our Graduate Award Winners. Since 2016 the award has been selected each year from moving image work presented at the Belfast School of Art Degree Show.

Image: History, Experience and Delusion (2018) - Joey O'Gorman

Tomorrow Still Blind Advances Slowly (2018) 4 min - Marta Dyczkowska History, Experience and Delusion (2018) 5 min - Joey O'Gorman Ensnare (2016) 8 min - Dara Flanagan Marta Dyczkowska (BA Fine Art, 2018). Marta’s practice explores the systems that we construct to help us confront and process loss and the human urge to create external receptacles for feelings, memories, and relationships. Dara Flanagan (MFA, 2016). Recurring themes in Flanagan’s work include the kitsch and postmodern notions of the sublime. His work is particularly focused on the combination of these two concepts with emphasis on Max Dessoir’s notion of the sublime.

Joey O’Gorman (MFA, 2018). Joey’s work explores the interpenetration of the human and nonhuman and considers what lies beyond the boundaries of perception and conception. He questions how the systems that people use to navigate the world are limited and biased, and how they relate to lived experience. AMINI is an artist led initiative for the promotion and critical discussion of artists' moving image in Northern Ireland. This event is part of the AMINI Professional Development Programme supported by Visual Artists Ireland, The MAC, Belfast Film Festival and Golden Thread Gallery.

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Images   above : Marta Dyczkowska     below: Joey O’Gorman

Delighted to announce the AMINI Graduate Award Winners 2018 are Marta Dyczkowska and Joey O’Gorman.

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Image: Black Code / Code Noir (2015) - Louis Henderson Consoling Ghosts: an afternoon of screenings and discussion around the theme of necropolitics Saturday 5th May 2018 - 2pm CCA Derry~Londonderry 10–12 Artillery St Derry Free entry but booking essential. Click here to book.

‘Let them bear witness to the process by which the living transform the dead into partners in struggle.’ -Handsworth Songs, Black Audio Film Collective A collaboration between Artists’ Moving Image Northern Ireland (AMINI) and CCA, Consoling Ghosts is a day of screenings and related events that considers the ‘necropolitical’, or the exercise of power as the ability to decide who can live and who is expendable. From war, famine and environmental degradation to the everyday, banal violence of austerity, routine brutality against queer & trans people and the racist algorithms that configure police Big Data, Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics provides us with an ‘insurgent vocabulary’(1) to connect disparate death-worlds. Consoling Ghosts asks how we can act in solidarity with the discarded, the martyred and the forgotten – and invite them to advise us on our course of action and resistance.

2pm Screening

Image: Rubber Coated Steel (2016) – Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Rubber Coated Steel (2016) – Lawrence Abu Hamdan – 21 min Set in a facility designed with one specific function – to fire ammunition and silence the sound of the bullets fired – Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Rubber Coated Steel (2016) is a video work which presents the fictitious trial of an actual murder case. Spectrograms appear where targets usually hang. They move back and forth in a way corresponding to the transcribed testimony of the witness, who testifies in front of a court that is not a court, about a crime that never was publicly acknowledged as a crime. The subtitles are a transcript drawn from a case focusing on an incident in May 2014, in which two unarmed teenagers, Nadeem Nawara and Mohamad Abu Daher, were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank (Palestine). The case never came before a civil court. Instead, it was made public by the human rights organization Defence for Children International. Black Code / Code Noir (2015) – Louis Henderson – 21 min BlackCode/CodeNoir unites temporally and geographically disparate elements into a critical reflection on two recent events: the murders of Michael Brown and Kajieme Powell by police officers in USA 2014. Archaeologically, the film argues that behind this present situation is a sedimented history of slavery preserved by the Black Code laws of the colonies in the Americas. These codes have transformed into the algorithms that configure police Big Data and the necropolitical control of African Americans today. Yet how can we read in this present? How can we unwrite the sorcery of this code as a hack? Through a historical détournement the film suggests the Haitian Revolution as the first instance of a hacking of the Black Code and thus as a past symbol for a future hope. Austerity is a Scam (2016) – The Artist Taxi Driver – 25 min (excerpt from 210 min film) Documentary Film by The Artist Taxi Driver.  A year in the making, the Artist Taxi Driver documents the effects of Austerity on the British Public, with interviews at protests, demos, in his cab and on the road; he exposes the scam that is Austerity. Mark McGowan the Artist Taxi Driver lives in London @chunkymark 3.15pm Talk: The Necropolitics of Drone Vision - Sarah Tuck The talk will explore how the necropower of drone technologies, specifically the ability to watch and kill at a distance reconfigures warfare and surveillance, by intimately linking the differential meanings of being seen and seeing, to the differential distribution of public grieving. Dr Sarah Tuck is an arts and cultural practitioner. She is currently the Director of Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest a research partnership between The Hasselblad Center in Sweden, NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation], Cyprus and Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery, at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, which will result in simultaneous exhibitions of Drone Vision in May 2018.

4.30pm Screening - The Radiant (2012) – The Otolith Group  – 64 min

Image: The Radiant (2012) – The Otolith Group The Radiant explores the aftermath of March 11 2011, when the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck the North East Coast of Japan at 2.46pm , triggering a tsunami that killed tens of thousands and causing the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the fissures opened by these catastrophes, The Radiant travels through time and space, invoking the historical promise of nuclear energy and summoning the future threat of radiation that converge upon the benighted present. Under these conditions, the illuminated cities and evacuated villages of Japan can be understood as a laboratory for the global nuclear regime that exposes its citizens to the necropolitics of radiation.

  (1) Queer Necropolitics, eds. Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, Silvia Posocco, 2014, Routledge

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Image: Country Grammar (with Sue Tompkins) 2017 - Luke Fowler

House Taken Over 21 | 22 April 2018

House Taken Over is an exhibition that has been organised as part of the Sonorities Festival. The exhibition weekend will include talks, performances and artist responses within a historical home in South Belfast curated by Hickey + Hickey. This exhibition is made in response to a recent discovery about the house, and its function as a secret intelligence centre for Northern Ireland during WW2.

As part of the the expanded programme of events, and in response to the layered history of the house, AMINI has been asked to present an artist work.

Sunday 22nd April 1pm Introductory talk followed by screening of Country Grammer (with Sue Tompkins) (2017) 18 min - Luke Fowler

To book and for location, please email hickeyandhickey2018@gmail.com 

For the full House Taken Over programme, click here.

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AMINI 17 Programme 29 | 30 September Festival of Artists’ Moving Image The MAC, Belfast Tickets here 2 day pass: £20 (£10 concession)

Friday 29th September 11am - Screening The Future is Another Country, curated by Rana Öztürk

Image: A Numbness in the Mouth (2016) Kevin Gaffney If a future exists, does it still offer a better world than the present one? How are we to imagine the future, if what has been promised in the past has already failed and dissolved into a present full of conflicts, ecological problems, injustice and inequality? This selection of films intends to present how artists respond to these questions through the medium of film. Each film presents a different perspective, hinting at possibilities that do not override, refute, nor necessarily affirm those presented in the others. Hence, the selected group of films suggest a multiplicity of futures that cannot be articulated through a single vision. 

Rana Öztürk is a lecturer, writer and curator from Istanbul, where she moved after completing her PhD in Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2015. She is currently 2017 curator-in-residence at MExIndex.

The programme is curated from the collection of artists’ films that are supported through MExIndex.

Programme Post-Fordlândia (2011) 20 mins - Tom Flanagan & Megs Morley A Numbness in the Mouth (2016) 17 mins - Kevin Gaffney American Dreams #5: Cruise Control  (2016) 7 mins - Moira Tierney In Death & Fiction ( 2013) 6 min. - Louise Manifold Sitting Room (2012) 16 mins - Patrick Jolley Ways to Speculate (2014)  4 mins - Michelle Deignan

12noon - Discussion  The role of archives and collections in artists’ moving image practice The screening will be followed by a discussion around the purpose of National and Regional archives and collections, and their relationship with the artist and their work. Panel: Ben Cook LUX, Fifi Smith MExIndex, Sarah Smith GSA, Michael Hanna & Jacqueline Holt AMINI. Discussion mornings are supported by Visual Arts Ireland.

2.30 pm - Screening She Speaks, curated by Catalyst Arts

Image: Saute Ma Ville (1968) - Chantal Akerman This curated programme will present a selection of film and moving image works produced by women artists, from 1968 to present. In different ways each artist and film-maker explores the transformation and (mis) interpretations of domestic routines, objects, images and narratives, translated whilst simultaneously subverting their symbolic meaning and reconfiguring female representation. Catalyst Arts is an artist-led space based in Belfast, formed in 1993 in response to a deep cultural vacuum. It is Belfast’s primary artist-led organisation, run by volunteer co-directors with the aim of promotion of contemporary art practices by large selection of artists and experimental projects from the widest possible range of disciplines.

Programme: Saute Ma Ville (1968) 13 Mins - Chantal Akerman   Chiara Fumai reads Valerie Solanas (2016) 10 Mins - Chiara Fumai After Picasso, God (2016) 42 Mins, Sophie Cundale

4.00 pm - Screening No Brakes, No Gears, No Fear, curated by Peter Taylor

Image: Konfessions of a Klaboutermann (2017) - Hardeep Pandhal

Peter Taylor is the director of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), a key date in the calendar for artists’ moving image in the UK. Fresh from the 2017 Festival, just the weekend before this year’s AMINI 17, he will present new films from Hardeep Pandhal, Charlotte Prodger and Margaret Salmon, all especially commissioned for Berwick.

"No Breaks, No Gears, No Fear" is the motto of the Berwick Bandits Speedway team. Peter Taylor has borrowed this sentiment to reflect the shared attitude between the BFMAF and the tenacious artists that they work with.

Through the open doors at Sheffield Park, the Berwick Bandits’ home, Margaret Salmon has created Mm a stunning 35mm direct cinema work, with grit, glowing light and the sounds of Sacred Paws. Mm’s feminist investigation into masculinity, language and speedway wasn't the only seat-of-the-pants collaboration at BFMAF 2017.

Artist in Profile Hardeep Pandhal’s Konfessions of a Klabautermann is a blisteringly chaotic new animation, scored by musician Joe Howe (Sunbutler, Ben Butler and Mousepad, Germlin), offering bold provocations on racial profiling, class and means of resistance.

With Charlotte Prodger's residency in Berwick marking the beginning of an open-ended period of research into an idea of ‘queer rurality’ and wilderness, Laura Guy has suggested that her new work LHB, asks ‘what happens to our sense of self when the only eyes upon us are animal ones?’.

Programme: Konfessions of a Klaboutermann (2017) 13 min - Hardeep Pandhal LHB (2017) 20 min - Charlotte Prodger Mm (2017) 23 min - Margaret Salmon

7.00pm - Artist Presentation Duncan Campbell

Image: The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy (2016) - Duncan Campbell Duncan Campbell is an Irish video artist, based in Glasgow. He was the winner of the 2014 Turner Prize. Falls Burns Malone Fiddles ((2004)  - “Campbell produced the enigmatic yet compelling Fall Burns Malone Fiddles by piecing together a series of black and white still images of young working class people and depressed neighbourhoods , sourced from a Belfast archive (Belfast Exposed) The soundtrack to this montage of photographs was the Edinburgh-born actor Ewan Bremner (perhaps best known as Spud in the film Trainspotting ) reading a rhythmic monologue , which combined excerpts of dense sociological theory with looser, stream of consciousness passages.” – Sarah Lowndes

The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy (2016) - Inspired by anthropological studies into the huge incidence of mental illness in rural Ireland in the 1960’s and 70’s (notably Paul Hockings and Mark McCarty’s 1968 production “The Village”), The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy, is a portrait of a society on the brink of irreversible change seen through the eyes of two American anthropologists who arrive to study this dying culture. The film revolves around the protagonist, Tomás, a speechless 10 year -old boy, whose life spans the cusp of the old world and the new. Meanwhile the anthropologists question their own methodology as they struggle to get beyond the opaque and ritualistic social relations that define this place.

Programme: Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2004) 33 mins - Duncan Campbell The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy (2016) 31mins - Duncan Campbell

Screening followed by Duncan Campbell in conversation with Ben Cook LUX and Jacqueline Holt AMINI

Saturday 30th September

11am - Artist Presentation Kate Davis

Image: Charity (2017) - Kate Davis Kate Davis, winner of the 16|17 Margaret Tait award will present a screening programme of her work. Working across a range of media, including film and video, drawing, printmaking, installation and bookworks, Davis questions how historical narratives are produced and perpetuated. This has often involved probing the aesthetic and political ambiguities of particular artworks and specific historical moments from a contemporary feminist perspective. Programme: Weight (2014) 11min - Kate Davis Disgrace (2009) 9 min - Kate Davis Charity (2017) 16 min - Kate Davis

12noon - Discussion How artists moving image differs to short film in terms of funding and production The screening will be followed by a discussion around the funding and production of artists’ moving image. Panel: Ben Cook LUX, Kate Davis, Marta Michalowska Film London, Christine Morrow NI Screen, Michael Hanna & Jacqueline Holt AMINI. Discussion mornings are supported by Visual Arts Ireland.

2.30 pm - Screening Defensible Space, curated by AMINI

Image: Birth of a Nation (2017) - Jem Cohen The term Defensible space refers to "a residential environment whose physical characteristics - building layout and site plan - function to allow inhabitants themselves to become key agents in ensuring their security." Architect Oscar Newman proposes that a housing development is only defensible if residents intend to adopt this role, which is defined by good design: "Defensible space therefore is a sociophysical phenomenon". Both society and physical elements are parts of a successful defensible space. Programme:

Assumed Position (2005) 5min - Michelle Deignan A Visitor (2017) 14min - Jamie Buckley Intro-Bee-ing Sequential Spectrum [cold open] (2014) 1min - Seamus Harahan Electrical Gaza (2015) 18min - Rosalind Nashashibi Birth of a Nation (2017) 9min - Jem Cohen

4 pm - Talk Slurs, Stutters and Screams: Articulations of Hollywood’s Unconscious in Artists’ Found Footage Films - Presented by Sarah Smith

Image: Him and Her (2008) - Candice Breitz This talk briefly explores three examples of artists’ films from the past twenty-five years that use various methods of sampling to uncover latent meanings or values in the original texts they cite: Douglas Gordon’s 24-Hour Psycho (1993), Martin Arnold’s Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) and Candice Breitz’s Him and Her (2008).   Dr Sarah Smith is a Reader in Visual Culture and Head of Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art, where she has taught since 2001.

7 pm - Screening Jarman Award Screening + in conversation with Marianna Simnett

Image: The Needle and the Larynx (2016) - Marianna Simnett

The 10th anniversary edition of the Jarman Award celebrates an eclectic group of artists who resist being placed in a singular, defining box. Their practices are as diverse as the field of moving image itself. Each speaks with their own voice from their own place with their own visual style. These artists’ works are the result of sharp observation, complex intellectual and aesthetic inquiry, and depth of thought, but this does not make them devoid of humour and playfulness. They do not shy away from ‘big’ subjects, and they do so without beautifying, simplifying or turning to clichés. They touch on human fragility, the limitations and boundaries of the body, mental health, death in the digital age and the legacy we leave behind, gender stereotypes and sexuality. PART 1 The Needle and the Larynx (2016) 15min - Marianna Simnett Revisiting Genesis – Episode 2 (2016) 8min - Oreet Ashery Rubber Coated Steel (2016) 22min - Lawrence Abu Hamdan Out of Bounds (A) (2016) 5min - Melanie Manchot During the interval there will be a conversation between Jarman Award nominee Marianna Simnett and researcher and writer Maeve Connolly. PART 2 Out of Bounds (B) (2016) 12min - Melanie Manchot BRIDGIT (2016) 32min - Charlotte Prodger Janus Collapse (2016) 10min - Adham Faramawy

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Mm (2017) Margaret Salmon

Bursaries for AMINI 17 ALL BURSARY SPOTS HAVE NOW BEEN FILLED

We are offering a limited number of bursaries to artists who would like to attend AMINI 17.  

Bursary participants are given a festival pass for the event, and are required to attend a short meeting with AMINI after the festival to share their thoughts about the festival.

Please contact artistsmovingimageni@gmail.com to take part in this programme.

Bursaries cover free entry to the festival only and are offered on a first come first served basis. Unfortunatly, there is no fee and we cannot cover travel costs or accomodation.  .

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AMINI 17 29 | 30 September Festival of Artists’ Moving Image The MAC Belfast Tickets here 2 day pass: £15 Early Bird until 10 Sept (£20 thereafter) £10 concession.

AMINI 17 is Northern Ireland's first festival dedicated to artists’ moving image. Hosted in partnership with the MAC this September, the festival will be a 2-day event featuring screenings, discussions and artists’ presentations.

We will be presenting a selection of international film and video work that expands upon our understanding of what moving image can do and be. Highlights include the return of the Jarman Award screenings showcasing work by this year's shortlisted artists, including Marianna Simnett who will be joining us to discuss her work. And we are delighted to be welcoming Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell, who will present his new film The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy.

AMINI is an artist led initiative for the promotion and critical discussion of artists' moving image in Northern Ireland. It was founded by artists Michael Hanna and Jacqueline Holt in 2015, more info at artistsmovingimageni.tumblr.com. AMINI 17 is supported by The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Visual Artists Ireland, Belfast Film Festival, LUX and the MAC.

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image: Candice Breitz, Her, 1978 - 2008 AMINI 17 Slurs, Stutters and Screams: Articulations of Hollywood’s Unconscious in Artists’ Found Footage Films A talk by Sarah Smith

4pm Saturday 30th September MAC Belfast Tickets here 2 day pass: £20 (£10 concession)

Since the mid-1990s there has been a persistent tendency in artists’ films to enlist both textual and contextual aesthetic attributes of conventional narrative cinema.  Such borrowings often include direct sampling either from a single film or from multiple films, which are then recombined to form a new whole.  Critical appraisals of this work diverge; some lament its cynical collusion with the glamorous dream-factory while others argue for its criticality.  

This talk briefly explores three examples of artists’ films from the past twenty-five years that use various methods of sampling to uncover latent meanings or values in the original texts they cite: Douglas Gordon’s 24-Hour Psycho (1993), Martin Arnold’s Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) and Candice Breitz’s Him and Her (2008).  Subjecting the original films to obsessive scrutiny, each of these works can be said to inscribe a range of ‘neurotic symptoms’ on the film surface that reveal Hollywood cinema’s unconscious assumptions.  Far from being critically apathetic, this talk suggests that such artists’ films effect a pointed critique of Hollywood cinema and popular culture in general.

Biography

Dr Sarah Smith is a Reader in Visual Culture and Head of Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art, where she has taught since 2001. She has a BA in Fine Art Painting from Ireland’s National College of Art and Design, an MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin and a PhD in artists’ moving image from University of Glasgow. Sarah research interests cover a broad range of visual culture, that spans contemporary art to media studies. She frequently writes for academic, gallery and magazine publications and is currently completing a monograph titled Cinema in the Gallery: The Movies in Artists’ Film & Video for I.B. Tauris. Alongside her writing practice, Sarah also often curates and programmes related artists’ moving image exhibitions and screening events.

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AMINI 17 - 1 on 1 sessions with Ben Cook from LUX Thursday 28 September 2017 - 12 noon - 6pm MAC Belfast

NOW FULLY BOOKED

Places are free but booking is essential Please note that places are extremely limited and will be allocated on a strictly first come first served basis. To book, email artistsmovingimageni@gmail.com

As part of AMINI 17,  we are really pleased to announce that Ben Cook director of LUX will be conducting a number of one-on-one advice sessions with artists who work with moving image.

These will be 1hr, individual, informal sessions aimed at developing a wide-ranging dialogue around your practice and can involve any or all of the following areas:

Looking at and discussing your work

Advice on developing your practice and looking at other works that may be interesting in relation to this

Advice on exhibition possibilities, appropriate organisations and events to approach.

Self-promotion advice

Funding advice

Production advice

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image: The ASMRtist, 2017, Megan-Cáitlín Dallat We are pleased to announce Megan-Cáitlín Dallat as the AMINI Graduate Award recipient for 2017. We look forward to working with her over the coming year. 

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Castle 3.0 (2011) Matthew Noel-Tod

Matthew Noel-Tod screening + In Conversation Sunday 2nd April, 7.30pm 17th Belfast Film Festival, Beanbag Cinema, 5 Exchange Place Belfast BT1 2NA

As part of the 17th Belfast Film Festival, AMINI is proud to present a screening of the work of Matthew Noel-Tod. Noel-Tod was part of the recent exhibition, Containers and Their Drivers (curated by Mark Leckey), MOMA PS1. His work has been exhibited and screened widely, including Rotterdam, EMAF and solo shows at Pro Numb, Chisenhale Gallery and Picture This. He currently teaches at the University of Brighton.

Programme Jetzt Im Kino (2003) 11mins Foreign Actors (2006) 46 mins Castle 3.0 (2011) 9 mins Bang! (2012) 24 mins

+ In Conversation with Matthew Noel-Tod

‘…it becomes obvious that Noel-Tod’s practice is about cycles. The cycle of a piece of information recurring through something as insular as art history, like a Latin palindrome, dropped here in reference to Debord’s film of the same name, or Cerith Wyn Evan’s 2006 neon sign, or the cycle of life through the trilogy of works - sex and birth, coming of age and adolescence, death and purgaotry. Most potent across Noel-Tod’s practice,though, is the cyclical oppressive nature of the capitalist object and its appropriation into popular culture, and more specifically into the arts. Using the visal language of advertising and marketing the artist animates, re-animates and anthropomorphises the object as both conceptual and post-conceptual so that Gaultier’s bottles, Koon’s Balloon Dog and Trump’s globe become central protagonists in the unfolding and daedalian drama that, literally, encircles them’ Matthew Noel-Tod Artist Profile - Nick Warner Art Monthly March 2014

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I-Be Area |  Ryan Trecartin  2007

Ryan Trecartin Screening Thursday 30th March 6pm Catalyst Arts 5 College Court Belfast  BT1 6BS Free entry

Responding to the ventriloquised, mediated  explorations of personal testimony in the current Catalyst exhibition,  ‘As The Story Was Told’, AMINI presents Ryan Trecartin’s feature length film ‘I-Be Area’. The screening will be followed by a performance lecture by Glasgow based artist Jamie Crewe.

"Ryan Trecartin has established a singular video practice that in form and in function advances understandings of post-millennial technology, narrative and identity, and also propels these matters as expressive mediums. His work depicts worlds where consumer culture is amplified to absurd or nihilistic proportions and characters circuitously strive to find agency and meaning in their lives. The combination of assaultive, nearly impenetrable avant-garde logics and equally outlandish, virtuoso uses of color, form, drama and montage produces a sublime, stream-of-consciousness effect that feels bewilderingly true to life." Kevin McGarry - Writer and curator based in Los Angeles.

Trecartin was born in 1981 in Webster, Texas and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. He rose to prominence in 2006 when, at the age of 26, he became the youngest artist to be included in the Whitney Biennial. Since then he has exhibited work prolifically including solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and MoMA P.S.1, New York. Trecartin is based in Los Angeles, and represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery.

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Image: Promotional postcard for Over Our Dead Bodies, Stuart Marshall, 1991. Courtesy of Mayavision

Learning in a Public Medium: global faith, queer protest, and video activism in the AIDS crisis and the present. 1-4 PM, Saturday 25th March 2017. The Lab, MAC, Belfast

In 1989, video artist, writer, arts organiser, educator and activist Stuart Marshall wrote:

'the visual domain has an extraordinary importance to gay politics and gay experience. For example, the gay pride march is the only political demonstration which automatically achieves its own political ends. Unlike any other political demonstration which attempts to demonstrate – to make visible – the extent of public disapproval in the hope of an eventual political effect. It demonstrates that lesbians and gay men exist, that we insist on being visible and that we refuse to be confined to the private domain by which we have been consigned by law. The Gay Pride march takes up and makes public the forms of display- carnival theatre, pantomime, 'exhibitionism'- which have been the only forms through which gay men have been allowed to 'appear'.'

This workshop will explore Stuart Marshall's writings and works for sound and video that configure queerness, visibility and sound in the context of a reflection on the intersection of faith, activism and protest by comparing queernesses in the context of sectarian conflict and the influence of faith in queer politics and culture in the global north - Northern Ireland- and the global south - Aceh, Indonesia -,to consider what it means to march in a context where marching is already a contested kind of public protest or where queerness leads to corporal punishment or state sanctioned violence and brutality. Acknowledging the role that radical theatre and street performance played in the genesis of pride as a form of political protest, the workshop will also seek to explore movement, spatial exploration and sound as evidenced in Stuart Marshall's 1971 sound-mapping work titled Idiophonics, that uses the body, sound and language as a way to consider alternative paths of resistance to spatial domination and/ or the visible in this and other queer cultural activist works and practices.

The workshop is lead by London-based Northern Irish artist Conal McStravick, co-conceived with Indonesian activist and academic Ferdiansyah Thajib from KUNCI Queer Cultural Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia who is currently on a DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. All workshop screening materials have kindly been provided by Cinenova, LUX, and Frameline in recognition of Stuart Marshall's singular contribution to HIV/AIDS activism.

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Image: The One With All The Subtitles, On Repeat 2016 Nathan Crothers

AMINI In Conversation - 3 emerging artists present their films R-Space Gallery, Lisburn Saturday 4th February 2017 3 - 5 pm Free event Rosemary McMillen graduated from Ulster University in 2016 BA (Hons) Fine Art and has embarked on an MFA at the renamed Belfast School of Art. She describes herself as an ethnographer, field worker and observer, collecting digital imagery and sound recordings from the natural environment on the Ards Peninsula where she lives, and on her frequent travels abroad.  Through the use of post production editing her work aims to explore the relationship between reality, perception and social disengagement.

Puffin Meadow, 2016, 1 min Death is Elsewhere, 2016, 2 min Geyser, 2016, 3 min

Nathan Crothers is an artist based in Belfast, currently studying his Masters in Fine Art at the University of Ulster.  His current work investigates the potential of moving image within the white cube environment.  Challenging how this approach to image is constructed, encountered and interpreted. The work aims to offer alternative ways of experiencing narrative beyond the more passive-viewing conventions of cinema and theatre. Within his work he often appropriates popular culture, specifically using film, television and web media, as a vehicle to explore ideas of authorship and copyright. His work critiques institutions, political systems, and social and cultural hierarchies, questioning the complacency of how the world is viewed.

Untitled (Painted Room), 2016, 10 min The One With All The Subtitles, On Repeat, 2016, 21 min

Myrid Carten graduated from BA Fine Art & History of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2014. Her practice includes moving image, photography, public engagement incentives, site-specific screenings and installations. Obsession and rupture are reoccurring concerns within her arts practice.Do contemporary mythologies of the self, popular culture and collective memory connect or distance us? What types of stories enfold in our drives for family, home, love and beauty?

Portrait of the Craftsman, 2014, 6 min Landscape of Bealtaine, 2014, 4 min I’ll Tell ye a True Story, 2013, 7 min

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Image: Manufactured Britishness 2013

Kristina Cranfeld screening + in conversation with Rose Baker Thursday 15th December 7pm Beanbag Cinema, 5 Exchange Place Belfast BT1 2NA Tickets £3/2 Eventbrite AMINI in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland presents the third of our autumn screenings at the Beanbag Cinema. Born in Uzbekistan (formerly USSR) Cranfield is a London based artist and filmmaker. She took her Bachelors degree at Goldsmiths and went on to obtain a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art. Her work is a combination of speculative narratives, performances and social experiments, which investigate and challenge societal and political systems and their impact on human lives.

Learn more about Kristina Cranfield here.

Programme: Dukes Rise (2014) Manufactured Britishness (2013) TBC + Kristina Cranfield in conversation with Rose Baker

Rose Baker is a freelance film programmer with a background in special events. She has created her own initiatives (Filmgoer, Late Night Art Film) and worked with existing organisations (Belfast Film Festival, Belfast Photo Festival, Film Hub NI, NI Screen). Working alongside individual filmmakers has enhanced her focus on exhibiting experimental film and artist’s moving image.This event is supported by Belfast Film Festival and Belfast City Council

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Image: One. Two. Three. 2016 Vincent Meessen

Screening X

Thursday 24th November 7pm Beanbag Cinema, 5 Exchange Place Belfast BT1 2NA Tickets £3 Eventbrite

AMINI in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland and with the support of the Belfast Film Festival presents the second of a series of 3 autumn screenings at the Beanbag Cinema.

Peter Taylor, director of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) will present two films from the 2016 Festival’s New Cinema Competition—Cilaos, the award winner from Camilo Restrepo and Vincent Meessen’s One. Two. Three.—plus the added bonus of Ears, Nose and Throat, a recent film from Kevin Jerome Everson that originally escaped the Festival’s reach. With programming this year around the purposefully ambiguous theme of ‘X’, BFMAF's New Cinema Competition featured 'resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation’. In the accompanying catalogue essay from Chloe Thorne and Herb Shellenberger, they write of  'A drive towards a liveness and agency—produced through an opening to the foreign or the unanticipated’ providing a critical framework for selections. This evening’s films effortlessly capture these potentials: timeless yet deeply invested in the moment, they're punctuated with urgency and the power of rhythm, song and testimony.

Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 2016, 11 min 'In Kevin Jerome Everson’s deeply affecting Ears, Nose and Throat, a woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical examinations before she recites a tragic story, whose horrors we don't see, hear, or smell, but can imagine far too easily.’ - Toronto International Film Festival

Whitney Exhibition Trailer

Cilaos Camilo Restrepo, France, Columbia 2016, 13 min To keep a promise made to her dying mother, a young woman goes off in search of her father, a womanizer she has never met. Along the way, she soon learns that he is dead. But that doesn’t change her plans, she still intends to find him.   Carried by the spell-binding rhythm of the maloya, a ritual chant from Reunion Island, Cilaos explores the deep and murky ties that bind the dead and the living.

Full film synopsis and credits

MUBI Review

Trailer

One. Two. Three. Vincent Meessen, Belgium, 2016, 35 min Beginning by circumventing the trap of Situationist mythology, One. Two. Three. revisits a forgotten part of its history: the lyrics to a protest song composed by Congolese Situationist Joseph M'Belolo Ya M'Piku in May 1968. Working with M'Belolo and young musicians in Kinshasa, Meessen produces a new rendition of the song. Created for the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Jubilee Art Review

Art Review

Born in Belfast, Peter Taylor is the Director of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. Previously based in Rotterdam he was a programmer and researcher for International Film Festival Rotterdam between 2006-2016, and curated over 300 film programmes and performances at WORM, the city’s self-styled Institute for Avant Garde-istic Recreation. Additional recent activities include: a research-based residency at AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz; programmes for PLASTIK, Ireland’s festival for artists’ moving image in 2015; and Opacities, a series of screenings and discursive workshops co-curated with Kathryn Elkin for Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2016.