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Stop.Watch. screening at GreenSpace, University of Plymouth
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thursday 19 November 12.0pm - 3.00pm
CrossPoint, Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth
As part of Peninsula Arts' Darwin Celebrations, GreenSpace brings several organisations together for an afternoon of films, talks and discussions about ecological concerns.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group, and the Centre for Sustainable Futures, will also be present, with publications and stands, together with displays on loan from Plymouth City Museum.
12:00-12:30 STORYTELLING
Storyteller Clive Fairweather is one of the Westcountry’s leading traditional storytellers. He has worked with English Heritage, National Trust, and Early Music duo Misericordia.
Clive will be telling stories of the atmosphere of change that swept through Victorian society in the 19th century, an era when tales of strange creatures from distant lands and a certain theory unsettled a whole society… how many felt during these radical times draw obvious parallels with the difficulties questions our society faces with climate change.
12:30-1:00pm SCREENING + TALK
Kelvin Boot introduces The Other CO2 Problem, a powerful clay animation by students at Ridgeway School on the threat and environmental implications of ocean acidification. The film won the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication.
“As only children can, the young animators combine delightful humour with a sense of awe at the huge challenge facing life in the ocean” John Nixon, Royal Institute.
Following the film Plymouth Marine Laboratory’s Kelvin Boot will talk and answer questions on the film and PML’s work.
1:00pm-2:00pm STORYTELLING
Expert storyteller Clive Fairweather returns to weave more strange tales.
2:00-3:00pm SCREENING + TALK
Screening of the Stop.Watch. collection of artists' animations introduced by Kayla Parker of the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group at the University of Plymouth. Followed by Phil Coy, one of the Stop.Watch. artists, who will present his new film Wordland; and will answer questions after the screening.
Stop.Watch. is a collection of seven short films addressing ecological themes by upcoming and established artists; a collaboration between Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology. The result is a highly inventive range of approaches which are witty, provocative, disturbing and wise in their comment on the unprecedented environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Wordland is Coy's response to the eroding east coast of England and the effects of floods on this area, particularly the devastating flood of 1953. Filmed in and around the small villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, Coy’s film combines interviews, field recordings, archive footage and a specially commissioned sound score from musician Alexander Tucker.
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=27823
Teign Spirit at Tate Modern
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
My new film made with Stuart Moore will be shown at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Bankside, London, SE1 Thursday 3 December, from 6.30pm:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/20696.htm
http://www.animateprojects.org/events/events_2009/tate_modern
Teign Spirit: "a film ‘séance’, where modern day Teignmouth is haunted by joyous summers past, conjured up though archive footage.”
One Minute volume 3 screening - Merrion Centre Leeds Dec/Jan
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Lumen are presenting the One Minute collection of artists' film: "a snapshot of some of the exciting work being produced by UK artists" in two media spaces at the Merrion Centre, Leeds, as part of the 'Art in Unusual Places' initiative: http://lumen.org.uk/?p=1265 December 2009 - January 2010
Artist's residency at Plymouth Arts Centre
Saturday, October 24, 2009
I'm here in Studio One for four days, Friday 23 to Monday 26 October, developing a new animation film. Got some 16mm black leader and a scalpel. Plymouth Arts Centre: http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/education/studioone.html Studio One blog: http://www.kaylaparker.co.uk/index_files/category-studio-one.html
One Minute volume 3 at PRISM Sheffield Fri 23 Oct from 8pm
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
There's a screening of the One Minute programme of 60 second moving image art on Friday 23 October at PRISM, Bank St Arts Sheffield, 8pm onwards: http://www.artsheffield.org/listings/?p=2289
Teign Spirit on iTunes
Friday, October 16, 2009
"In Teign Spirit, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore conduct a film ‘séance’, where modern day Teignmouth is haunted by joyous summers past, conjured up though archive footage." (Animate Projects newsletter 16 October 2009)
You can download the new film Teign Spirit from iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=29683
More info on Animate Projects site:
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/cards/cards
Essay by Gareth Gardner: "Coastcards: A response to the three films" (13 October 2009):
http://www.animateprojects.org/writing/essays/g_gardner
One Minute volume 3 in Melbourne
Monday, October 12, 2009
One Minute volume 3 will be screened at The BAck doOR in Melbourne on 27th February 2010:
http://www.suek-artist.co.uk/thebackdoor
Teign Spirit - new film released
Monday, October 05, 2009
My new film 'Teign Spirit' is released online at Animate Projects: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2009/teign_spirit
The film is a collaborative project with Stuart Moore, commissioned by Animate Projects to "celebrate the heritage of England's seaside resorts and explore the unexpectedness of the seaside." For CABE's SeaChange initiative (CABE is the government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space).
The film premiered on 2 October at SeaScape, an international conference exploring culture as a regenerative force for coastal communities, which took place in Skegness, and will be downloadable through iTunes shortly.
Synopsis: The Jones family holidayed in Teignmouth on the south Devon coast from 1934 to 1939, their summer activities captured forever on black and white film. A lifetime later the town is still here: ships in the docks, bathers on the beach, people promenade.
Teign Spirit celebrates this continuity, mixing these monochrome home movies with new waves: a twenty first century stroll along the Back Beach, evoking the optical entertainments of the Victorian pier: the flickering still-moving images of the mutascope, a figure seen for a moment, held in the mind, then gone. Silent memories, coloured by the present.
One Minute volume 3 at Hull School of Art and Design
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
There will be screenings of One Minute volume 3 (running continuously on a loop) in the Foyer Gallery Space, Hull School of Art and Design from 26 October to 12 November 9am - 5pm; preview evening 26 October 5pm -7pm:
http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-news/post/one-minute-volume-3-screenin
The Other CO2 Problem DVD wins prize, reviewed in the Ecologist
Friday, September 04, 2009
'The Other CO2 Problem' wins the Royal Society of Chemistry Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication 2009, and Kate Herbert reviews the DVD in the Ecologist (1 September 2009): http://www.theecologist.org/reviews/films/312143/the_other_co2_problem
Dr Carol Turley: "the European Geosciences Union liked it so much they have ordered 10,000 copies for all their members and it will be part of their education web site."
Media Arts Festival
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Media Arts at the University of Plymouth is launching its first annual festival in September. This dynamic blend of arts practice and media technology embraces photography, video, film, animation, sound art, digital arts and more.
The festival features work from current BA Media Arts students, including collaborations with local businesses and community groups; presentations from graduates; and work from award winning Media Arts staff including artist film-maker Kayla Parker and PRS award winners Jane Grant and John Matthias.
The Media Arts Festival is FREE and open to anyone with an interest in Media Arts, however space is limited and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Saturday 26 September 11am - 6pm
Sunday 27 September 12pm - 4.30pm
Peninsula Arts Jill Craigie cinema
University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8PR UK
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=26967
One Minute on all the Big Screens
Friday, July 31, 2009
One Minute volume 3 is being shown on all the Big Screens in the UK this week 27 July - 2 August; and the programme is being screened at the Marseille Project Gallery 19 September: http://marseille-project-gallery.intrit.com/project-paradise.html
The Apollo Opening Night
Thursday, June 04, 2009
One Minute volume 3 programme with White Body and Verge: Nocturne films screening at The Apollo Opening Night Thursday 4 June 2009:
http://www.liveattheapollo.org/?p=212
Apollo launch 6pm - 10pm
29 Norwood Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24
http://www.timeout.com/london/big-smoke/blog/7852/Live_at_the_Apollo_t
One Minute
Monday, May 25, 2009
Two of my films are included in the new One Minute touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
Verge: Nocturne 2009 / Super 16mm / 1min
Collaboration with Stuart Moore
White Body 2008 / HD / 1 min
Sound design: Stuart Moore
Directors Lounge (Berlin) will present the One Minute volume 3 collection at Contemporary Art Ruhr 5 - 7 June 2009 at the Zollverein World Cultural Heritage Site, Essen, Germany: http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/post/117064572/one-minute-at-the
One Minute volume 3 is also showing on the Hull Big Screen throughout June and July 2009: http://www.kerrybaldry.moonfruit.com/#/one-minute/4530939672
A Women in Film event
Monday, May 25, 2009
In response to the absence of feature films directed by women in the Peninsula Arts programme this year, I invited Dr Bernadette Casey to present a film of her choice at the University of Plymouth's Jill Craigie cinema. Bernadette chose Lynne Ramsay's acclaimed Morvern Callar, and will be introducing the film on Thursday 28 May at 6.30pm. More details here:
http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event&event=12311
Trace and Transience
Thursday, May 07, 2009
An exhibiton of photography, video and painting from Land/Water & the Visual Arts at Chelsea College of Art, Millbank, London. SW1P 4JU
5 May - 15 May 2009
10am - 6pm Monday - Friday
10am - 4pm Saturday
http://www.arts.ac.uk/newsevents/1098/trace-land-water-visual/
'Trace and Transience' is a reciprocal research collaboration between University of the Arts London and the University of Plymouth. The exhibition in Triangle Space follows 'Between Land and Sea' held at Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, January to March 2008.
Artists: Caroline Burke, Christopher Cook, Susan Derges, Andy Klunder, Heidi Morstang, Liz Nicol, Kayla Parker, Jem Southam, Steve Thorpe, Stephen Vaughan.
I'm showing 'Poppies': Super 16mm film loop (silent) [as DVD] with triptych of photographs.
Petals gathered from wild flowers pressed onto a clear strip of 16mm film.
The flowers were growing in the roadside verge where the south west coastal path meets the industrial waterfront Cattedown area of Plymouth on 27 May 2006. The filmstrip retraces the steps of a short walk when I left the path, drawn towards the intense saturated crimson of the poppy flowers colonizing the waste ground that had been scraped bare earlier in the year.
The viewer is prompted to consider the transient relationship between time and place, past and present, through the hypnotic flow of petals as they spin in an endless stream of moving images and the film stills of the pressed poppy petals, their intimate folds frozen in a series of photographic moments that frame the rupture between then and now, there and here.
The Other CO2 Problem
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
The clay animation 'The Other CO2 Problem' produced by Sundog Media about the dangers of increasing ocean acidification was previewed last month at the recent International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen, and then premiered at The Royal Institution, London.
The film was made with children and teachers at Ridgeway School, Plymouth; Dr Carol Turley and Helen Findlay of Plymouth Marine Laboratory; commissioned by EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification), with support from University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, and National Marine Aquarium.
Watch the film: http://www.vimeo.com/3800275
Read Kelvin Boot's article in Devon Life 'Helping Planet Ocean': http://www.devonlife.co.uk/main-menu-search-helping-planet-ocean--1869
Animation artwork for sale
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
We're holding an auction of work by staff and students to raise money for the 2nd and 3rd year Media Arts End of Year Shows; 10% goes to charity. The catalogue of items is now online and you can put in bids by email: http://www.uppress.co.uk/auction.htm
There's an exhibition in the Cube3 Gallery in the weeks leading up to the auction at 5pm on 28 April 2009 (the night I'm doing my Film Academy thing on Kelly Reichardt's new film Wendy and Lucy, so I'll be at Plymouth Arts Centre from 6pm). I've donated a large framed print from my film 'Sunset Strip':
Title: ‘Sunset Strip: Blood Red Sun’
Print size: 24 x 16 inches / Frame size: 30.5 x 23.5 inches
Description: Artist’s Proof. Large colour photograph printed from the 35mm film frame; window mounted, behind glass with gold frame. Professionally mounted and framed.
The image is a single frame selected from the film ‘Sunset Strip’. Created by artist Kayla Parker for The Arts Council and Channel Four Television in 1996, the film is the visual music of 365 sunsets observed across Britain, from Norfolk in the east to Land’s End in the far south west, over the course of a year.
The artwork for ‘Blood Red Sun’ is a Polaroid photograph of clouds at sunset taken from Plymouth Hoe, looking toward Mount Edgcumbe in south east Cornwall. A section of the Polaroid has been cut to the size of a 35mm frame and mounted onto the filmstrip (bleached black leader); the artist has then overprinted the photograph with red lacquer. The image also carries the fingerprint of the artist and has been engraved with a circle.
The film ‘Sunset Strip’ was broadcast on Channel 4, and featured in a Channel 4 documentary. ‘Sunset Strip’ has been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, the ICA, the Lux, and the Barbican Gallery in London; the Norwich Gallery and Plymouth Arts Centre; and has received numerous screenings around the world from France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, to North America and Brazil.
More information about Kayla’s film ’Sunset Strip’ on the Animate Projects website:
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/1995_97/sunset_strip
Watch the film on Sundog Media on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/1063213
Media Innovation Award 2009: There 2 Care
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sundog Media, the production company I co-founded, has won the Media Innovation Award 2009 in the Collaboration Between Business and Young People category for the clay animation 'There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers', made with children and care workers. The Media Innovation Awards celebrate the innovative use of screen-based media and design across South West Britain. See 'There 2 Care' on Vimeo and please leave a comment:
http://vimeo.com/1232258
Young carers are children who have to look after members of their family, because a parent is ill, has had an accident or is disabled, or cannot be the head of the family for other reasons.
What the young carers say in the film: “I never feel that I am a 10 year old girl.” “Because my brother’s disabled, my mum and dad put loads of pressure on me to do well at school.” “I wish dragons were real, so they could eat up all the bullies.”
A young carer takes on the responsibilities for their family, often in very difficult circumstances, and ensures that siblings and parents are fed, that the home is cleaned, that bills and rent are paid; and, in many cases, young carers are responsible for administering prescribed medicines and other medical needs. A young carer does all this as well as studying at school, and, typically, has little or no time for simply ‘being a child’, playing, or focusing on their own needs.