Day: 22 October 2024

Link to short extract/Frieze

Link to Guardian review

Jeremy Deller has generously given us authorisation to screen his excellent film 

Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992s currently on show at 180 the Strand as part of the The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition. 

Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 is not a film about climate change, but it is a film about lateral ways of thinking about modes of resistance: It can also be understood as it is a great introduction to the entanglement of capitalist structures at the root of the cliamte emergency and cultural production. 

The film dives into the world of music; examining the socio-political history of the 1980 rave culture and positioning it as a form of resistance to dominant powerstrucures and the miner’s strikes. This work is a film of a lecture Deller delivered to a class of A-level Politics students, it combines rare archive footage with an oral history tracing house music from its Chicago and Detroit origins to its political presence in post-Miners’ strike Britain. 

INTERVIEW

First Animation Forum workshop/advice session of the term!

24 OCT (THURSDAY) 10am – 1pm in the Media Suite (upstairs near printmaking)

Want to learn some new skills? Troubleshoot an ongoing project? Figure out how to make your moving image dreams come true? Want to make a game/VN? Interested in video but don’t know where to start?

Next up on the Animation Forum agenda is a loosely structured workshop/coworking session in the Media Suite, where you can come to learn new skills and/or develop existing work and receive feedback + help. There’s also drawing tablets to use. Bring your own tablet/laptop if applicable!

Come scan in IRL work to digitize it and try and make it move; come edit videos; come to learn about and experiment with AfterEffects; come draw some animation; come to talk and think about anime/games you enjoy and moving image at large; anything is possible.

Everyone is welcome, no experience needed. Bring your ideas and your enthusiasm.

Please sign up on the noticeboard bc space is limited, but you can come along anyway, and we shall try and make it work. The sign-up sheet will be up from today (Tuesday) late afternoon onwards.

If you’re curious about what the Animation Forum is all about generally, you can read stuff on the blog (link in my email signature below).

All the best,

Petra

Petra Szemán