Venue: Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin 2
Date: Saturday May 3, 2008: 10.30am – 17.30pm
Cost of Workshop: €45 euro per person. To book please contact Maeve Connolly, MA in Visual Arts Practices at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The MA in Visual Arts Practices will host a one-day practical workshop on Saturday May 3rd for artists and curators interested in curating or programming 16mm film screenings for gallery and non-gallery spaces. The workshop will be led by Pip Chodorov (Re:Voir / The Film Gallery) and it will provide an introduction to working with experimental film co-ops and labs, sourcing and programming of films. It will include hands-on experience with projection equipment and provide an overview of practical issues such as insurance, transport, maintenance and the use of film loopers.

Schedule
10.30 Introduction to Experimental Film Co-ops and Labs
12.00 Threading 16mm film projectors: Demo and Practical session
13.00 Break
14.00 Discussion on Programming: Cinema vs  Gallery
15.30 Using a 16mm film looper: Demo and Practical session
16.30 Overview of Costs/Insurance/Transport/Maintenance
17.30 End

Research Resources for Artists and Curators: Experimental Film
The resources lists are intended to provide some general background information on Experimental Film culture for artists and curators. This is a starting point for research, rather than a definitive list and further information will be provide during the workshop.

Online Resources
Flicker http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/flicker.pl (with extensive list of links at http://www.hi-beam.net/links.html¬)
Frameworks mailing list http://www.hi-beam.net/fw.html
Cinovid database http://www.cinovid.org/
Luxonline (British artists’ film and video) http://www.luxonline.org.uk/
Video History Project http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/

Journals
Afterimage http://www.vsw.org/afterimage/about.html
Filmwaves http://www.filmwaves.co.uk/
Jumpcut http://www.ejumpcut.org/
Vertigo http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/
Millenium Film Journal http://mfj-online.org/

Resource Organisations for Filmmakers
Collectif Jeune Cinema (Saint Ouen, France) http://www.cjcinema.org/
Lux (London) http://www.lux.org.uk/
Anthology Film Archives (New York) http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Distribution Organisations (Film/Video)
Lightcone (Paris) http://www.lightcone.org/
New York Filmmakers Co-op http://www.film-makerscoop.com/
Electronic Arts Intermix (New York, artist’s video) http://www.eai.org/eai/index.htm
Canyon Cinema (San Francisco) http://www.canyoncinema.com/
Video Databank (US) http://www.vdb.org/

Experimental Film Labs
L'Abominable (Asnières-sur-Seine, France) http://www.l-abominable.org/
Metamkine (Grenoble) www.metamkine.free.fr
Nowhere Lab (London) http://www.nowhere-lab.org/
Exploding Cinema (London) www.explodingcinema.org

DVD/Video Sales
Re: Voir http://www.re-voir.com/
Sixpack Film http://www.sixpackfilm.com/
Microcinema http://www.microcinema.com/

Scholarly Research Resources
British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection (London) http://www.studycollection.co.uk/
Future Histories of the Moving Image Research Network http://www.futurehistories.net

Festivals
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/
Madcat Women’s International Film Festival http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/
New York Film Festival (Views from the Avant-garde section) http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.html
See extensive festival list at http://www.hi-beam.net/links.html#Festivals

Books and Journal Articles
Baker, George Matthew Buckingham, Hal Foster, Chrissie Iles, Anthony McCall, Malcolm Turvey, “Round Table: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art”, October 104, Spring 2003: 71-96.
Connarty, Jane and Josephine Lanyon,(eds) Ghosting: The Role of the Archive within Contemporary Artists’ Film and Video, (Bristol: Picture This, 2006)
Fowler, Catherine ‘Room for Experiment: Gallery Films and Vertical Time from Maya Deren to Eija Liisa Ahtila’, Screen, vol. 45, no. 4 (2004), pp. 324 – 343.
Frampton, Hollis. Circles of Confusion: Film, Photography, Video: Texts 1968-1980. Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983.
Gidal, Peter. Materialist Film. London: Routledge, 1989.
Iles, Chrissie and Mark Webber. Programme notes for The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fall 1999. Hi-Beam: An Online Magazine for Experimental Film and Culture. April 23, 2002. <http://www.hi-beam.net/org/whitney/part1.html>
James, David E.  Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Knight, Julia (ed) Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art. Ed. Julia Knight. Luton: University of Luton Press, 1996.
MacDonald, Scott. Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Mellencamp, Patricia. Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video & Feminism. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Muller, Matthias ‘The Cinema of Difference’, Millenium Film Journal (MFJ) No. 30/31 (Fall 1997) [http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ30,31/MMullerCinema.html]
Nichols, Bill (ed) Maya Deren and the American  Avant-garde. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.
O’Pray,  Michael (ed) The British Avant-garde Film 1926-1995: An Anthology of Writings. London: Arts Council of England/John Libbey Media/University of Luton, 1996.
Rees, A.L. A History of Experimental Film and Video, London: BFI, 1999.
Sitney, P.A. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde. New York University Press, 1974.
Sitney, P.A. (ed) Film Culture Reader. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970.
Skoller, Jeffrey Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-garde Film, (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2005)
Willemen, Paul. Looks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory. London and Bloomington: BFI and Indiana University Press, 1994.
Wollen, Peter. Readings and Writings: Semiotic Counter-Strategies, London: Verso 1982