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Contexts for Production
12.00 – 13.00
The New Cinema Forum begins with an open conversation between participants and attendees considering the contexts we are all working in. Join a conversation considering the challenges, contradictions, and persistent sites of possibility that emerge. Anchoring the day with a shared framework, we will discuss support mechanisms, alternative structures, and new orientations to take in light of ever-changing circumstances.
Image Credit: Language of the Entrails • Luciana Decker Orozco • Bolivia, United States • 2024
Mutual Support
13.30 – 14.30
Working locally and collaboratively has always been essential for developing and sustaining creative communities in the arts. Such an outlook has increasingly opened up to participation, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds into conversation with arts and culture. How can we uphold these spaces, communities and practices in trying times? Join artists, curators and organisations nurturing contexts for collaboration and exchange.
With:
- Lydia Honeybone (Co-founder, OFFLINE Glasgow)
- Adam Pugh (Director, Art Network North East)
- Harry Lawson (Artist and Documentary Filmmaker)
We will be announcing a facilitator soon!
Image Credit: RELAX BE CRUEL • Marion Scemama • France • 2024
Working with Archives
15:00 – 16:00
Archives present a sometimes confusing terrain for artists and curators to navigate. Archival documentation, film and ephemera also offer an opportunity for histories to become renegotiated and entangled in the present. Is preservation just a matter of preserving formal objects, or also a question of retaining this ability to engage with multiple temporalities? To keep history in view from the perspective of a fast-moving present? Join artists, curators and archivists working with an expansive view of what the archive can offer.
With:
- Hope Strickland (Artist and filmmaker)
- Conal McStravick (Artist, programmer and writer)
- Facilitated by Charlotte Procter (LUX, Cinenova)
Image credit: Black Glass • Adam Piron • United State • 2024 • UK Premiere
Thinking Through Practice
16:30 – 17:00
At a moment of generative reciprocity between the arts and academia, research-based practice has gone beyond traditional circumscribed territories – developing research that might be practically undertaken, presented and engaged with anew. Join a conversation with artists and researchers to consider the formal and structural nature of research-based practice, how it finds a place in the world and where it stands in relation to the two institutions it straddles.
With:
- Philip Rizk (Filmmaker)
- Omar Hmidat (Artist and Researcher)
- Facilitated by Viviane Saglier (Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St. Andrews)
Image Credit: An Oscillating Shadow • Celeste Rojas Mugica • Argentina, Chile, France • 2024
Not a Question, More of a Comment
Saturday 29 March • 12:00 – 13:00
Informal space to continue conversations, start new ones and collectively explore themes and ideas related to the programme and Festival experience. Questions also welcome 😉
Image Credit: Oceania • Valentin Noujaïm • France • 2024