A TIME FOR INVENTION: a symposium of radical filmmaking
13 June 2013 · 10:30 to 18:00
The Void, Owen Level 2, Sheffield Hallam University
Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences · Media Arts
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The late 60’s and 70’s saw the development of documentary film collectives in the UK that addressed the burning political issues of their day. They developed radical forms of independent film production and distribution prior to digital or the web and produced a large body of work, from short agitational cinetracts to sophisticated essayistic features. The symposium seeks to re-ignite the work of this radical wave, to ask how they engaged with politics and film and how this might inform politically engaged filmmaking today. It will feature films, and filmmakers, from the 70’s generation alongside radicals of today.

Keynote Speaker: Federico Rossin (Critic and Curator)
Panelists include: Holly Aylett (Vertigo & ‘In the Spirit of Marc Karlin’ project) · Luke Fowler (Artist, Turner Prize Nominee 2012) · Ann Gueddes (Founder of Cinema Action) · Lina Gopaul & David Lawson (Black Audio Film Collective – Smoking Dogs Films) · Dan Kidner (Writer and Curator, recently published ‘Working Together: Notes on British Film Collectives in the 1970s’) · Christine Molloy (Artist, Desperate Optimists) · David Panos (Artist, Jarman Award Winner 2011) · Steve Sprung (Cinema Action/Poster Film Collective/Lusia Films)

The symposium is supported by: Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Doc/Fest
Producers: Virginia Heath, Esther Johnson, Steve Sprung

Enquiries:
Tel: 0114 225 6918
E-mail: k.a.christer@shu.ac.uk
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