Big M

17 artists / 20 pieces

Big M
Saturday 17 & Sunday 18: 10:30 - 18.30,
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20: 15:30 - 18:30

Presenting a new programme of short films and videos selected for the festival from an international open call. This programme will go on to tour throughout the UK and Europe.

The Big M is a futuristic inflatable screening space that functions as a temporary and mobile venue for the presentation of video and digital media.

Selected by Isis arts & Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.

Francesca Steele

Le Fleurs du Mal
2005 4 min

Employing the compositional values of a memento mori and of vanitas, the viewer is drawn from an initially optical and aesthetic encounter, into one that is qualitatively different - one experiential in nature.

Yu-Chen Wang

Struggle for Existence
2004 1 min 58 sec

Children's battle-field game. By linking Darwin's 'The truth of universal struggle for existence' with a Taiwanese children's game, the video represents a simplistic drawing exploring two individuals' slaughter in the virtual battle field.

Rob Kennedy

Eden
2004 1 min 15 sec

A fragmented city of extraordinary light penetrates a brief staccato bombardment of words. Snatched glimpses of private worlds, drenched in the sulphur flood of city night fight with these words, to tell a tale of waiting and desire. A story of maladjusted scale, set amidst the auditory fizz and crackle of electronic construction.

Jaygo Bloom

pan-outs
2005 2 min 13 sec

tabla-pong
2004 1 min 18 sec

An audiovisual series that combines traditional secular instruments with the 8 bit graphics and gaming techniques employed by some of the earliest of computers. Within each selection the gaming platform is used to represent and preserve the fundamentals of each instrument, for future game playing generations to enjoy.

Kelly Richardson

Ferman Drive
2005 1min 20 sec

Wagons Roll
2003 2 min 30 sec

The Sequel
2004 1 min 9 sec

The Sequel features a car tyre lying suspiciously in the middle of an idyllic country lane. A sense of dread hangs in the air, until the tyre rights itself and gently rolls out of shot. Knowing where the tyre came from or where its ultimate destination is, is superfluous to our wonderment

Nadja Schrade

The Issue
2004 1 min 29 sec

Schrade takes issue with men's public pissing habits, an appalling demonstration of male dominance, or at least an attempt towards it. After confronting a male street pisser, she decided that it might actually be a personally liberating experience. "I chose Princes Street in Edinburgh on a Saturday afternoon. And yes, it did feel good. I am not going to do it again."

Arnaud Ganzerli, Laurent Bourdoiseau, Jerome Blanquet

Electronic Performers
2003 4 min

Can emotion be represented physically? The path of an emotion, like a hot vibration, which spreads through your body.

Richard Mosse

Ya'ni Intiafada
2005 4 min 30 sec

The work portrays meanings of the word Intifada not generally known in the west. Interviews conducted at Birzeit University near Ramallah are punctuated by footage shot whilst driving in Gaza.

Martin Hamblen

rNr
2005 45 sec

rNr is a party political broadcast. Our eyes are our borders, out of sight, out of mind, but "once you've seen you can't unsee" unless we choose to turn a blind eye. Our choices are lead by the examples we see in out media. It is up to us/them to cross psychological borders and empathise.

Tanya Axford

The Waltz
2004 3 min

The Waltz captures the beauty of a fly fishing line as it is skilfully cast continuously across the surface of the river Teviot on the Scottish Borders. Its arabesque line creates innumerable and constantly animated linear drawings in the space between the two riverbanks. By constantly seeking to ever improve on the last gesture made in time with the rhythm of the waltz, the fisherman's designs become increasingly complex. As the music itself builds to a climax, his own exertions diminish rapidly until finally he relinquishes control consumed with exhaustion.

Alan Smith

Sky
2004 4 min

We live in an era when issues of globalisation and global terror are being broadcasted at high speed and silently across borders in to the intimate and personal surroundings of our homes and local environment. Smith explores the comparative and uncomparable significance of his every day encounters in the context of tragic world events.

Erica Scourti

Trailer Truths 111
2004 25 sec

Text taken from movie trailers is collaged together to create a new text that charts the crossing over from a critique of society to ominous direct action. The film parodies the notion of a Hollywood-style call to arms by using the language and form of mass entertainment.

Jose Pedro Cortes

Platforms 4 min 33 sec

"This video presents a continuous narrative about a transparent and untouchable line that separates reality from fiction, or to put it in other words, experience from memory. Everything that we see is familiar, but, at the same time, almost inexistent. We stand then on the border of urban memory."

Meera George

Ophelia
2004 4 min

The work revolves around the idea of eternal sleep. Inspired by the painting of Ophelia by Millais, the video performance shows Ophelia (the artist) as a woman of the 21st century trying to choose her final place of rest. She wanders through different locations - a bathroom, a supermarket, high street, a garden and finally a river, as in the original painting. The sound of an Indian lullaby plays as a hypnotic chant in the background.

Neil Bromwich - Walker and Bromwich projects

Lightwave
2004 3 min 27 sec

Dots of light move across the screen in radiating patterns rhythmically tied to the sound of a recorded heartbeat. The work appears at once both universal and microscopic. As it proceeds, we discover that the specks of light are in fact the movement of 50 cheerleaders with lightsticks and the sound is their heartbeats, recorded as they dance. Lightwave connects the individual to the larger universe and conveys a feeling of optimism drawn from the collective action of a group of people, signaling to the skies.

Semi-conductor

The Sound of Microclimates
2004 4 min 30 sec

The Sound of Microclimates reveals the sights and sounds of a series of unusual weather patterns in the Paris of today. Here, architecture has become interwoven with the natural processes of the geographical landscape. Set within the un-noticed moments in time, extreme microclimates are presented as the future in city accessories, revealing the unseen urban terrains of tomorrow.

Nisha Duggal

Make up forever
2003 1 min 8 sec

The video has a performative element: "I apply a layer of lipstick to my face. The footage is speeded up, reversed and looped to create a repetitive action of the layering and removal of colour. It is about the repetitive nature of modern life, the acts of camouflage and assimilation; crossing borders between how we present ourselves to the rest of the world, and what we actually perceive to be our true selves."

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