Artists’ Films & Videos 2013

Drawing MusicMark Morreau, 4 mins, 2010. Featuring the work of Naomi Kendricks, set to the soundtrack of Ugandan Krip Hop Artist Ronnie Ronnie’s DaDaFest Anthem. Commissioned by DaDaFest International, and shown on the BBC Big Screens throughout the UK in 2010. Together! with DaDaFest.

I Know My PlaceStill No Excuses, 5 mins, 2009. An hilarious take on the classic sketch from a disability perspec- tive. Written by Mandy Redvers-Rowe, performed by Mandy Redvers-Rowe, Ali Briggs and Mandy Colleran, and produced by Asta Films. One of the four films that formed part of DaDaVisions and was shown on the BBC Big Screens throughout the UK. Together! with DaDaFest.

Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, Alison Jones, 4.5 mins, 2009. Animation. What happens when the artist’s gaze is redirected by the audience? One of the four films that formed part of DaDaVisions and was shown on the BBC Big Screens throughout the UK. Together! with DaDaFest.

Pixie Dust, Gina Czarnecki, 3.5 mins, 2009. Plays with ideas about the plastic, cyborg body. Funded by DaDa and the Wellcome Trust. One of the four films that formed part of DaDaVisions and was shown on the BBC Big Screens throughout the UK. Together! with DaDaFest.

The Rose, Caroline Parker, 3.5 mins, 2009. Animation is mixed with performance by sign-song queen Caroline Parker. One of the four films that formed part of DaDaVisions and was shown on the BBC Big Screens throughout the UK. Together! with DaDaFest.

Wandering Star, Transmitter, 4 mins, 2012. Made in Graz, Austria, the work is about dreaming, loving and traveling – and loving the traveler. Transmitter Band: I Ate the Percussion; Music: Lila Shwammerlin; lyrics: David Bower; voice: Isolte Avila; Signtheatre: Laura Goulden.

Fellow Traveller, Ju Gosling aka ju90, 6 mins, 2011. An explorer comes across a magical machine in an abandoned library, waiting for a human to bond with it so it can fly again. Sputnik by Eduard Bersudsky & Sharmanka in association with Garry Robson and Fittings Multimedia. Music by Julie Newman.

A Poem About College, Sterre Ploeger, 2 mins, 2013. I made this poem using signs and words. It is about why I want to go to college.

Liz Crow, Reflections from the Bed, 9 mins, 2012. With captioning. Reflections from the Bed draws on audio recordings and timelapse photography from artist-activist Liz Crow’s Bedding Out performance in which Liz took to her bed in a public gallery to highlight the impact of benefits changes introduced by the UK government. Says Liz, “I wear a public self that is energetic, dynamic and happening. I am also ill and spend much of life in bed. The private self is neither beautiful nor grownup, and I conceal it carefully. But the benefits system demands a reversal, my private self paraded to justify support. Through Bedding Out I want to make a twilight existence visible. But more, I want to show that what many people see as contradiction, what they call fraud, is only the complexity of real life.”

A Fistful of Froth, Katherine Araniello, 5 mins, 2013. ‘A Fistful of Froth’ manages to be one of Araniello’s funniest films but also one of the most intriguing ones, with a really well-written screenplay.

Pity, Katherine Araniello, 3 mins, 2013. In the 1970s the original collection boxes were a common sight outside Scope charity shops (formerly known as The Spastics Society). Pity is a performance piece made into a film. Runner up to Shape Open Submission 2013.