15 May 2010
Tramway
Bleu Shut
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
UNINSTAL
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21 April 2013
Tramway
WordMusic
Amiri Baraka Henry Grimes
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
22 January 2012
GFT
B-52
Hartmut Bitomsky
Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
27 February 2010
DCA
Screening Room & Teatro Amazonas
Morgan Fisher Sharon Lockhart
A double bill. A simple first person, Dundee-specific tracking shot that approaches the cinema/ screen/ space the film will eventually be shown in and in Brazilian opera house, a fixed camera gazes at a local audience from the stage: a choir, hidden in the orchestra pit, sings and gradually fades to silence.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
12 December 2004
DCA
Film Programme 4: Pop
Various Artists
A riot of 60’s psychedelia, magick, ritual and tight black leather, this programme highlights underground innovators who use and subvert pop music for their own experimental ends; and be warned, in Anger, there’s real darkness.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
11 – 15 November 2026
Episode 12
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
15 February 2008
Stereo
Blood Stereo
Blood Stereo Heather Leigh Murray
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
INSTAL 08
10 October 2008
DCA
Micro Notions
Judith Goddard Mike Leggett Mineo Aayamaguchi Peter Donebauer Tony Sinden
Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
26 September 2014
Tramway
Waywardness
Saidiya Hartman
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
18 April 2013
Tramway
A story that cannot be told, yet must be told. Zong! and its context
Fred Moten M. NourbeSe Philip
A conversation between Philip and Moten: how do we read NourbeSe’s anti-narrative poetic lament in Glasgow today, given the city’s role in the history of slavery?
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
9 December 2001
The Arches
Koji Asano
Koji Asano
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
INSTAL 01
11 December 2004
DCA
Film Programme 2: Celluloid
Bill Morrison Guy Sherwin Jürgen Reble Thomas Köner Various Artists William Basinski
Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04