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Wolverhampton Art Gallery presents a season of exhibitions showcasing the best in Film and Video Art. Featuring films which explore the strange to the sublime, from the emotional landscapes of Balnakiel to the haunting footage of a maverick Glaswegian psychoanalyst in What you see is where you're at. Explore everyday American life in Midwest, take a glance through the artist's window in Holylands and meet the Syrian housewife who claims to bear the stigmata wounds of Christ's crucifixion in The Gates of Damascus. In a wide range of film making styles: home movies, news media, black and white archive footage, TV documentary and mainstream cinema, this season of exhibitions challenges preconceptions of Film & Video Art and celebrates this rich and diverse medium.
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Winter Film & Video Wolverhampton Art GalleryDecember 2009 - May 2010
Event
Launch of Balnakiel &
Now Showing
Wednesday 17 February
5.30pm – 8pm
Wolverhampton Art Gallery presents a season ofexhibitions showcasing the best in Film and VideoArt.
Featuring films which explore the strange to thesublime, from the emotional landscapes of Balnakielto the haunting footage of a maverick Glaswegianpsychoanalyst in What you see is where you're at.Explore everyday American life in Midwest, take aglance through the artist's window in Holylands andmeet the Syrian housewife who claims to bear thestigmata wounds of Christ's crucifixion in The Gatesof Damascus.
In a wide range of film making styles: home movies,news media, black and white archive footage, TVdocumentary and mainstream cinema, this season of exhibitions challenges preconceptions of Film &Video Art and celebrates this rich and diversemedium.
Mark Boulos, The Gates of Damascus, 2005. Courtesy the artist. Copyright the National Film and Television School.
Surrealist and Experimental Cinema1 Dec 09 - 29 Jan 10
The Surrealist movement paved the way for a suddeninflux of experimental and avant-garde creativeapproaches in art, film and literature.
In these films, disjointed sequences and repetitions of patterns and objects were often used alongsideexperimental lighting and basic special effects tocreate abnormal dream-like scenes.
This series of experimental films highlights some ofthe artists, directors and actors who collaborated tocreate these iconically powerful and classic films.
For full programme information go towww.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou. Courtesy of Contemporary Films London.
Now Showing: New Film and Video12 Dec 09 - 6 Mar 10
Now Showing celebrates the important media of film and video, demonstrating how it has becomesignificantly utilised by artists over the past decade.
12 - 21 DecMark Lewis Children's Games, Heygate Estate (2002)29 Dec - 8 JanMark Boulos The Gates of Damascus (2005)9 Jan - 22 JanLuke Fowler What You See is Where You're At (2001)3 Jan - 05 FebIdris Khan A Memory… After Bach's Cello Suites (2006)6 Feb - 19 FebRosalind Nashashibi Midwest (2002)20 Feb - 6 MarchThe Otolith Group Otolith (2003)
A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre,London on behalf of Arts Council England.
Rosalind Nashashibi, Midwest, 2002. Courtesy the artist. Copyright the artist and Sinibad Films Ltd.
Balnakiel by Shona Illingworth6 Feb 10 - 1 May 10
A single-channel video and three-dimensional sound installation, accompanied by drawings andphotographs, Balnakiel is a complex investigation of memory, history and spirit-of-place set in thevillage (and former Cold War radar base) of Balnakielin the far North West of Scotland, where the artistgrew up.
Balnakiel was co-commissioned with John HansardGallery. Funded by the Wellcome Trust with supportfrom The Highland Legacy Trust and Danish Embassy.
Still from Balnakiel, Shonal Illingworth. Copyright the artist.
Holylands by Seamus Harahan20 Mar 10 - 3 Jul 10
Event
Seamus Harahan in
conversation followed
by drinks reception
Wednesday 17 March
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Shot in Belfast through the artist's window and on the streets occupying a 20 yard radius from hishouse, Holylands is the name of the neighbourhood,formed from a collection of street names - JerusalemStreet, Palestine Street, Damascus Street, CarmelStreet and Cairo Street. Holylands is also a district of the city that combines a transient studentpopulation with more long-term residents.
The film in part depicts these people going abouttheir every day lives, showing fragments of theirnegotiations through this territory but it firmlyresists either a documentary or narrative approach.A bag lady rummages in a bin, young boys play witha water pipe, and a delivery van unloads out side ashop. It is an ordinary snapshot of an extraordinaryarea, defined by its history of religious divide andsocial unrest.
Purchased through the Contemporary Art Society'sAcquisition Scheme 2009.
Seamus Harahan, Holylands, 2004, single channel video installation, colour with sound, 32.30 mins.
Purchased through the Contemporary Art Society's Acquisition Scheme 2009.
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