28.02.2008
Mobile Cinema

29 Feb-2 March, Northumberland St, Newcastle Gateshead
3-5 March, outside BHS, Corporation Road, Middlesbrough
and 7-8 March, Market Square, Sunderland

2 March, 4.30pm, part of the Broadcast Yourself in Person and on Screen event, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Free entry
10am to 4pm daily

Short artist film and video works made for TV. Experience late night TV during the daytime in the region’s smallest and cosiest travelling cinema.

In the 1990s, when there were only four channels on UK TV, if you stayed up late enough you could expect to see art on your TV. Artists' work found its way onto UK television screens - sporadically - from around 1970 with works like This is a Television Receiver, by pioneering video artist David Hall, broadcast unannounced. The subject - like most artistic engagements with television in the 1970s and 1980s - was television itself.

These works were co-commissions for the Arts Council of Great Britain/England, with the BBC or Channel 4, through schemes such as Animate and Experimenta. Works for Television is programmed for AV Festival 08 by Gary Thomas, Co-Director, Animate Projects.

The films showing are:
As Good as a Nod, Matt Hulse, 1992, 1’00", One Minute TV
Hermaphrodite Bikini, Clio Barnard, 1995, 5’00", Experimenta
Jaunt, Andrew Kotting, 1995, 5’00", Experimenta
Valtos, Patrick Keiller, 1987, 11’00", 11th Hour
Lost Images, Paul Bush, 1990, 1’00", One Minute TV
Flat Earth, Thomson & Craighead, 2007, 7’00", Animate
Luminous Portrait, Judith Goddard, 1990, 1’00", One Minute TV
Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey, AL and AL, 2004, 7’00", Animate
Save Me, Stuart Hilton, 1992, 6’00", Animate
Magnetic Movie, Semiconductor, 2007, 5’00", Animate
Gift, Mike Stubbs, 1997, 14’00", Sound on Film
Upside Down Minutiae, George Barber, 2002, 4’00", Slot Art.

The AV Festival takes place in Newcastle Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. It consists of concerts and performances, exhibitions, film screenings, seminars, symposia, workshops and other special events at many venues across the three urban centres of the north east of England.

Films