NEW YEAR.....NEW VOC!

Hello Video Friends!

VOC is back in January on a new day....SUNDAY! Come along to Corsica Studios, London on the 16th Jan for a Sunday of films and videos by some of the most exciting artists in our midst! 2011...HERE WE COME!

For the new year we'll be showcasing more great video, film and performance! Artists are invited to talk about their work and share the inspirations behind their creation. All screenings will be followed by group discussions so GET INVOLVED and let us know your thoughts on what you've seen, ask the artists questions, debate and ENJOY!

In January we have…

London and Germany based visual artist MAX HATTLER coming in to screen a couple of his videos and talk about his experiences!http://www.maxhattler.com/


Plus films and videos by:

MORGAN BERINGER, SMPTE Violence, 3:00, UK, 2010

GIADA GHIRINGHELLI, Newly Risen Decay, 7:00, UK/Switzerland, 2011
http://www.giadaghiringhelli.com

ABDUL HYE , Apophenia 6.2, 2:16, UK, 2010
http://www.abdulhye.co.uk/

IAN PONS JEWELL, video for Crystal Fighters' 'Follow'
http://www.ianponsjewell.com/

ANDERS WEBERG, Dualism, 2:15, Sweden, 2010
http://www.recycled.se/

DAVID TERRANOVA, Spooker, muic by JPLS, 9:00, 2010
http://blog.davidterranova.com/

OLGA KOROLEVA, Unbelievable, 7:31, UK, 2010
http://www.olgakoroleva.com/

SHIRA KLASMER, Successions, 4:19, UK, 2009

VOLKAN ERGEN, Small Octopus, 3:37, Turkey

There will be installations by film artist RACHEL RAYNS www.rachelrayns.com and Manchester based artist MAGNUS QUAIFE will be exhibiting work fresh from the Liverpool Biennial!!

Get creative with MARIA ANASTASSIOU who will be coming in and continuing UNRAVEL. The project which aims to create the longest hand painted film in Britain!! UNRAVEL was formed by Maria Anastassiou and Chris Paul Daniels whilst studying at the Royal College of Art, Unravel is also comprised of OKO Lab of Leeds (Mark Pickles and Jo Byrne) and, Manchester based, Kelvin Brown.

We also have a special DJ and drumming performance by FARI B and MORG!! Plus visuals by old VOC friends!

Read up on some of the great artists involved in January's VOC here: Video Is The Only Constant Sunday 16th Jan 2011

Brain train

Some wise words from Maya Deren.

Enjoy and be inspired.

Bathtubs and Desert Islands

Bathtubs and Desert Islands from Christina Millare on Vimeo.

Video Is The Only Constant 29th Sept 2010

SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR SEPTEMBER VOC at CORSICA STUDIOS!

We are now open for submissions for our September Video is the Only Constant at Corsica Studios, 29th September, London!

Each month we are in search of fascinating videos and films of any genre up to 10 minutes in length. Artist/filmmakers are invited to talk about their work and answer questions from the audience. We want to know what has inspired you to create your work, what you aim to achieve with your moving imagery and ultimately understand the very essence behind your CREATION! Or something along those lines...

If you would like to get involved please send your submissions to: theonlyconstant@ymail.com

Please include the following:

Title of the work:
Running time:
Genre:
Country:
Synopsis/description:
Stills/bio attached or link to download
Format: PAL or NTSC (PAL preferred)
Aspect ratio:
Preview url (for us to review):
Screening Copy: A download link to the video file or on a data DVD (.mov, .avi etc) via mail to: Morgan Beringer, Flat 2, 38 Dunlace Road, London, E5 0NE, UK. Direct downloads MUCH preferred.

The deadline to be included in our September event is Friday 10th September!

Please note we are unable to return dvds so please do not submit your master copies!

We look forward to hearing from you

- The VOC Crew

The Golden Fleece

DREAMING OF...

I have made a blog about my current video projects, rants and inspirations.

You can read all about them here: http://christinamillareisdreamingof.wordpress.com/

I've also popped on there some stills from a new video project I am working on which I will be screening at a forthcoming VOC!

6 MONTHS...

since my last video and I've finally finished filming my next video project. It would be good to know how everyone else gets out of a creative slump. ...I can't seem to get out of the fog sometimes. For the next couple of weeks I will be editing until my eyes give out and sleep takes over.

I'm one of those people who find it only possible to work towards some sort of deadline. The last was, a 3 week finish or my thumbs fall off. Thumbs intact, this time round it's 4 weeks max or bad luck for 7 years. Will I make it in time?

Stills coming soon!

VIDEO IS THE ONLY CONSTANT - WEDS 23RD JUNE @ CORSICA STUDIOS

Read all about the artists involved in this month's VOC here!

Video Is The Only Constant- Weds 23rd June 2010

She's really clever and intelligent but she kinda like failed her GCSE's

Insightful, painful and humorous.

Mum, I heart you but...'now go in and make me my dinner'.

Behold, Gillian Wearing's '2 Into 1'.

The short video projection 2 into 1 (1997) features a mother and her two sons, one generation lip-synching the dubbed words of the other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WUgFMDY-M

BLANK SPACE (Y)OUR SPACE @ TOGETHER OUR SPACE GALLERY, OLD ST.

Caught me completely off guard...

If you have about 5 minutes. Best thing I've found on Vimeo in ages.

http://www.vimeo.com/6671502

Video Is The Only Constant @ Corsica Studios - April 7th 2010

The Only Constant 20100407 Catalog

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Wiracha Daochai

'Meditation', UK/Thailand, 6:00

Meditation is mind contemplation. A holy Buddhist monk is approaching death with a contemplated mind and eventually comes to the conclusion of his spiritual journey, even when he encounters the sacred sin of commitment suicide.

Wiracha Daochai:
"I spent my childhood as a Buddhist monk for 8 years. During which time, I had to meditate for 8 hours per day. I had to imagine one circle in my body and looked fixedly at it. My master told me, Buddha said that meditation is process of mind into wisdom. In this state of my life, I seriously question this process and really want to show this piece to both Buddha and my master."

http://www.wiracha.com

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Sarah Carrea

'Petrella Tifernina'

Petrella Tifernina is a short documentary exploring my romanticised view of Italy and contrasts this with my grandmother’s stories of the country and her reasons for moving to England. I travelled to Petrella, the village where my grandmother was born, to discover more about my Italian heritage and to understand why she left.
The film explores the struggle of Italy’s poor agricultural workers, as there were many Italians that came to Britain in search of work in the late 1950s; many later returned to Italy, but for her own reasons my grandmother did not.

The film begins with a letter which my grandmother wrote for me after she found out I was making this film. As she could not travel with me, my gran sends a message to her brother in Italy, who she has not seen for twenty years. The film combines moving image with still photography, black and white with colour, and old with new, to compare my perceptions with my grandmother's memories.

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Morgan Beringer

The Yud, 9:38, UK

A short document of abstract painter Xiana Wolfram's installation / performance in Highgate Wood last Autumn. The Yud is an ongoing project revolving around the installation of a massive canvas in various contexts. This video documents the Yud at a particularly playful halfway point in its overall development.

Morgan Beringer is an American video artist based in East London. Having spent and continuing to spend much of his life in transit between different countries, the thrust of his creative concern stems from the dilemma of living in-between cultures. An academic background in both philosophy and art pushes these concerns further into the realms of linguistics, performance, and film/video art.

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Paul Kindersley

Star, installation

'Star' consists of hand made screenprinted cushions of a random womans face, the way it is done and the Warhol references make her look like a famous person allowing each viewer to have their own interpretation...is it Yoko Ono, is it Sharon Tate Etc....It shows the stalker, obsessive nature of fandom, and the saturation of popular culture in our lives. What we see on the cinema screen, becomes part of us, and we can no longer separate between reality and fantasy. The 'star' becomes an empty vessel for us to project our fantasies onto.

Paul Kindersley is an artist and curator based in London. After having lived and worked in Berlin, Cambridge and London, Paul graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design with a First Class Hons BA in the summer of 2009 and was awarded the Transition Gallery Prize which resulted in a solo show, 'She wanted his soul, but he could only give her his blood', last October. He has exhibited widely in London and Europe.

http://sites.google.com/site/paulkindersley/

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Michael Marczewski

14.7 Metre Psycho, 4:40, UK

14.7 Metre Psycho is a redelivery of Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller; stills from the film have been reconstructed into a long three-dimensional set,which has then been filmed with an unedited tracking shot.

http://www.mmarczewski.com

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Monica Elkelv

KAOS, 3:48, UK

'Kaos' is a film based on the earliest condition of the Universe, before matter and the lower atmosphere that surrounds the earth: the great void of emptiness within the Universe. The film symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, and shows the relationship between the body and the natural environment representing the extremes of emotion by the loss of the body. Kaos is a paradox, between body and nature, and universe and matter: the space or gap between heaven and earth.

Monica Elkelv combines dance and film as an art form, pushing the art of modern dance into the forefront of the experimental film world. Movement and its manipulation enable her to create a space, which has no reference to time, transforming the body in a depersonalized figure. Through her films, she approaches the relation between the human and the natural world upon a metaphysical level, exploring the connection between mind and matter and the transcendental state of consciousness. In her dance films, we see the limits of the dancer’s body in contrast to the unlimited experimentations the filmmaker can have by using the body as a material, as an object. As an object, the body can be accelerated, without limits. The result is the creation of another imaginary space through a multidimensional perspective, resulting into an impossible dance.

Video Is The Only Constant April 7th 2010: Dustin Grella

Prayers for Peace, 7:38, 2009, USA

Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion animation confronting the memory of the artist's younger brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq. Drawn entirely with pastels on a slate chalkboard, the materials used to create the animation become a metaphor for the impermanence of life.

Dustin Grella was born in North Carolina, grew up in Ohio and lives in New York City. In May 2009 he graduated from the School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art, having received scholarships from the department and the Alumni Association as well as the Paula Rhodes Award for Excellence in Computer Art. His animated short, Glimpse, won awards in international underground festivals including Best Animation, Audience Choice and Best Experimental film. Dustin’s first solo show, in 2007 at Summit ArtSpace in Akron, OH, was the first solo show in ArtSpace’s history. His work is the subject of a documentary film scheduled for release in July 2009.

Grella develops artifacts and events that explore the human experience through the passage of time. His work focuses on the design and creation of systems that gather the thoughts or feelings of individuals at particular moments. Through animation, installation, and even the postal services, Grella combines equal measures of sincerity and absurdity, structure and improvisation. By highlighting seemingly mundane tasks, he focuses on the importance of the moment. Notes To Self [2002-], is a ongoing series of over twenty-five hundred letters that he writes and mails to himself daily. These letters occasionally surface as objects in his work.

http://www.dustystudio.org