In brief
Date - 21 August 2023
Venue - Vue Cinema Omni Centre
Tickets - £10 (Concessions available)
Festival - Edinburgh International Film Festival (hosted by the Edinburgh International Festival)
About the event
Programmed by Lydia Beilby, Teaching Fellow in Film, Exhibition and Curation at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, this screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival features eight short films by artists.
Centralising tactility, collaboration and playfulness, these short films interrogate photochemical film as repository for experience and memory.
The dynamic current running through the programme is the boundless visual and conceptual possibilities within contemporary artisanal, small-gauge filmmaking practice.
Offering a mode of image-making as a politically charged, collaborative endeavour, these eight works reimagine aesthetic possibilities through the quietly radical acts of close looking, collaboration and care.
Films in running order
Home Spells (Tom Chick)
rough cut botanical (Wendy Kirkup)
Excuse Me, Miss! (Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu)
NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid)
In a Nearby Field (Laida Lertxundi and Ren Ebel)
Exterior Turbulence (Sofia Theodore-Pierce)
Shifting Bodies to Fluid (Daniela Gutmann)
Sight Leak (Peng Zuqiang)
Browse the full Black Box programme on the festival website
About the curator
Lydia Beilby is an artist, curator and educator whose practice focuses on analogue film media, public programming, collaborative community projects, and educational work with groups of all ages.
Lydia is interested in creative ways of imparting knowledge around analogue processes and small-gauge filmmaking.
As a curator, Lydia has held roles with Edinburgh International Film Festival since 2009, taking the role of Short Film Programmer in 2010, and since 2019 as programmer of the prestigious Black Box strand, which brings together short and feature-length experimental and artists’ film from around the world.
Visit Lydia Beilby's staff profile
How to attend
This event is part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, this year hosted by the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).
The event is costed, and tickets are available through the EIF website.
Book your ticket on EIF's website
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