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Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
