Highlights from 25FPS
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Artists Moving Image
Interview: Edwin Rostron
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Artist and animator Edwin Rostron discusses automatic animation, exploring the process of painting, finding abstraction from template forms.
Read MoreInterview: Duncan Poulton
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Artist Duncan Poulton talks e-hoarding, the hyper saturation of contemporary image culture, co-opting online tropes, and creating texture in digital media.
Read MoreInterview: Daniel & Clara
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Artist filmmakers Daniel & Clara discuss working in different media, the uncanny portrayal of lived experience, and the impact of neolithic site of Avebury on their practice.
Read MoreInterview: Adonia Bouchehri
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Artist and filmmaker Adonia Bouchehri discusses creating worlds from objects, reincarnation through artificial intelligence, and Foucault’s heterotopias.
Read MoreInterview: Courtney Stephens
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Experimental filmmaker Courtney Stephens discusses secondary perspectives, the nature of emancipation, and the performance elements of her film Terra Femme.
Read MoreA Haunted Medium: On Charlie Shackleton’s The Afterlight
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A collage film that is both a memorial to those that have been lost and designed to one day be lost itself, Theo Rollason explores the nature of Charlie Shackleton’s feature film The Afterlight, which exists as a single 35mm print.
Read MoreCommunication Problems: revisiting Nam June Paik
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With Amanda Kim’s documentary Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV on general release, it seems the perfect time to reflect on the work of the “grandfather of video art” and how huis work remains so contemporary.
Read MoreInterview: Katharine Fry
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Artist Katharine Fry discusses casting her doll performers, constructions of the self, and finishing the script a few days before her film, When I’m with you, premiered.
Read MoreExperimental Highlights from the 2023 Berlinale
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Memorable images, moments, qualities, techniques and scenes from the 2023 Berlinale.
Read MoreMichael Snow: New Wave Heroes
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In 2019, Michael Snow world premiered a new audio performance called Waivelength at the Tate Modern in London. Later that year, for the film magazine Sight and Sound, ALT/KINO founder Ben Nicholson reflected on Snow’s various re-workings of his landmark film, Wavelength.
Read MoreImagination & Liberty: The films of Pierre Clémenti
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Pierre Clémenti may be more familiar to audiences as a magnetic on-screen presence, but from May 1968 onwards he was also a maker of underground films filled with psychedelic energy and radical leftism. On the occasion of a retrospective at MoMA, Ruairí McCann takes a journey into his unique visions.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #4: Interior/Exterior
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the fourth and final of these letters, Sophia reflects on internal and external geographies across several films from the Experimenta programme and beyond.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #3: Opaque and emerging narratives
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the third of these missives, Patrick reflects on the obfuscation and emergence of narratives within and around films screened.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #2: America, divided
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the second of these messages, Sophia discusses her experience(s) watching James Benning’s The United States of America.
Read MoreExperimenta correspondences #1: Dissolving Boundaries
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ALT/KINO is covering the Experimenta strand of this year’s London Film Festival via a series of correspondences between Patrick Gamble and Sophia Satchell-Baeza. In the first of these messages, Patrick discusses some of the films in the programme ‘Some Say the Devil is Dead.’
Read MoreCan The Girl Chewing Gum Save the World?
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In 2018, the film magazine Little White Lies asked a variety of its contributors whether movies can save the world and, if so, which one. ALT/KINO founder Ben Nicholson proposed John Smith’s avant-garde classic The Girl Chewing Gum.
Read MoreInterview: Ben Russell
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Artist and filmmaker Ben Russell discusses the realtionship between his two films Against Time and What Distinguishes the Past, the role of music in his cinema, “blueness” and the influence of Lee Friedlander.
Read MoreSilent Tongues: The Films of Christopher Harris
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At this year’s edition of the excellent experimental documentary festival Prismatic Ground artist Christopher Harris was the recipient of the 'Ground Glass Award. In celebration, several of Harris’ works were screened online for the festival’s duration.
Read MoreThe Work We Share: Sistren Theatre Collective’s Sweet Sugar Rage
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