Place Memory
Friday 22th June 8pm
Saturday 23rd June 4pm

Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

tel: 01453 751440

A two-part event of video screenings,
16mm film projection and performance
brings together internationally recognised film-makers with artists from Stroud and the South West.
Performance is central to much of the
work: walking backwards as a way of
remembering; re-enacting the painting of a wall onto the projected image; playing the piano as an act of remembrance. Many of the films use song or music: a film with live accompaniment on the saxophone;
poetry set to song as the starting point
for a sequence of shor t films.
From digital archive to recollections
recorded on film, this event explores ideas of memory and its association with place.
As part of the Trial Pit Cinema series.

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Place Memory (Place)
Friday 22nd June 8pm

Winterreise by Mariele Neudecker was
made in collaboration with Opera North.
The twenty-four short films were shot in
locations on the sixtieth degree of
latitude in response to Schubert’s song
cycle: a tale of unrequited love, despair
and travel into a frozen landscape.

From the diminished engagement with
place that occurs through web cam
technology, Susan Collins’ Glenlandia
paradoxically creates profoundly beautiful images of Loch Faskally, the landscape slowly shifting as the image accumulates a pixel per second. (Showing over both days of the event.)

Phil Coy’s Cataract takes us on a journey through the glossy images and saccharine language of estate agents and
property developers. The view drifts
through a landscape of perfection, the
broken narration dictating a language of
never-ending potential.

Simon Ryder’s Market Report
chronicles the Foot and Mouth crisis with
a softly spoken monologue set against the hand-held video image of a burning
landscape.

In Dominic Thomas’ Retreat, a nostalgia for place is the catalyst for his performance to camera. Inaccessible by
road, he treks across hills to revisit a
remote farmhouse in the Lake District:
walking backwards as an act of
remembering.

Length of programme: 114 minutes
• £2.50

Place Memory (Memory)
Saturday 23rd June 4pm

Tacita Dean is well known for her compelling 16mm films and more recently her series of film portraits. The Uncles documents a conversation between her two uncles who recollect their fathers, Basil Dean and Michael Balcon, and their involvement in the early days of the Ealing Studios.

Jayne Parker’s Stationary Music features the pianist, Katharina Wolpe playing her father Stefan Wolpe’s music which she prefaces with a short introduction. The film was awarded the ARTE Prize at the 51st International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen 2005.

In No More Painting, Colin Glen reenacts the painting of a wall, his projected image a memory-mould into which he, the artist, attempts to cast his physical presence. In Glen’s transformation from artist-painter to painter-decorator, he hints at Marcel Duchamp’s statement:
‘Marcel, no more painting, go get a job’.

A process of remembering and
transcribing is central to Cattle Market
Song by Sean Borodale & Louisa
Fairclough; with live accompaniment by
Tim Hill on the saxophone, the film
documents the rituals and social gestures of a livestock market.

Curated by Louisa Fairclough. With
thanks to Colin Glen.

Length of programme: 110 minutes
• £2.50

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