Silophone
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Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
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Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
Gravitational Feel is an engine for intensifying the differentiation of our entanglement, which you continually reprogramme in the mutual rub, shift and lap of its sonic, wooden, steel, textile and human material.
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
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.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Ever wondered about the roadside festoons which are the innards of discarded cassette tapes? All will be revealed in this methodical and insightful documentary by UK luminary John Smith and sound artist cohort Graeme Miller.
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.