Artist films refers to movies or videos made by artists, usually with a focus on creativity, experimentation, and artistic expression rather than traditional storytelling or commercial appeal. These films often employ unconventional techniques, styles, or subjects to reflect an artist's unique perspective and vision.
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Con artist films always work best, when they are short and sweet, played at a pace almost too quick for the audience to keep up with.
S1 / salon is curated around material selected from an open call with the intention of creating a platform for
presenting artist film and video without prescribed themes or categories.
Frieze Film is a programme
of artist films screened to coincide with Frieze London.
Within this context, the exhibition «Roberte Ce Soir» is accompanied in the Schinkelklause by a film program curated by Marc Glöde, including
artist films by Willard Maas and Carolee Schneemann as well as more recent works such as those by Leigh Ledare.
A series of
new artist films premiered at Frieze London and broadcast on national television, Frieze Film is curated for the first time by Raphael Gygax as part of Frieze Projects, the fair's celebrated non-profit programme.
Frieze London have announced their 2013 line - up
for artist films commissioned by Frieze Foundation and screened to coincide with the fair this October.
Luke Fowler and Mark Fell: Computers and Cooperative Music - Making Until 7 February 2016 (Free Entry) Glasgow -
based artist film - maker Luke Fowler and Yorkshire - based multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell collaborate on a new exhibition exploring technological advancements in music history.
In addition to commissioning these five new works, the programme will also explore the process and conditions of commissioning
artist films with a think tank (16 October 2013) and a panel discussion (18 October 2013) in the Frieze London auditorium.
Prior to this, she worked as Programme Coordinator at Picture This, managing the production of new
artist film commissions and exhibitions, and as a freelance curator and project manager.
ART.FAIR Cologne will present the Cinema of Artists, a selection of
artist films featuring important figures from the international art scene.
The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami is hosting its 14th annual
emerging artists film and video showcase, Optic Nerve.
The selection
includes artist films and videos that explore how we see and how we react to the world via the imagery, aesthetics, icons of mountains, snow and ice and indeed their ever ending mutations.
By juxtaposing work across time the display will highlight unexpected affinities between works by artists as various as Lucian Freud and Victorian agricultural painter Thomas Weaver or
contemporary artist film - maker Tacita Dean and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Brett.
The
winning artist film was announced at the closing night ceremony and was awarded to Brazilian filmmaker Danilo Godoy for his work Forgotten Memories From The End Of The World.
In The Flesh is a 5 - min black - and -
white artist film by Adeline de Monseignat inspired by Alison Leitch's text «Visualizing the Mountain» (2007) about the marble quarry as being «alive», «weeping at night» and having a «soul».
Dedicated to showing work made by leading and emerging Estonian contemporary artists, as well as
international artists films and features made in or supported by Estonia.
She is included in Assembly:
recent artists film and video 2008 - 2013, Tate Britain and has forthcoming group exhibitions at Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; De Hallen, Haarlem.
«Art & Anarchy» provides a dedicated platform for
artist film unprecedented at EEFF — and as this strand of screenings reflects the interlocking pieces of Aesthetica's own creative heart, here's a sneak preview of what's to come!
In 2011, Sarah set up
HOME Artist film (then Cornerhouse Artist Film) as a means of investigating new methods for the production, distribution and exhibition of artist feature film.
Lu Chunsheng The first man who bought a juicer bought it not for drinking juice, film still 2008 copyright the artist
Over the course of five years Schum worked as producer and cameraman to broadcast and
distribute artist films and videos by John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, Michael Heizer, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Ulrich Rückriem, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, among others.
An evening event
mixing artist films, snippets of TV, interjections from YouTube, and conversations exploring domesticity, conventionalism, aspiration and the absurdity of performance of the everyday.
The artists are selected by the Whitechapel Gallery as part of Artists» Film International, a showcase for
artists film with 16 partner organisations worldwide, which this year explores the theme of conflict.
Over the years, there have been some very entertaining
con artist films, and they range from outright comedy (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) to cheeky (The Sting) to dramatic (The Grifters).
He has previously won the inaugural Jarman Award
for artist film - makers, a Paul Hamlyn Award in 2010, and, aged only 25 in 2004, a # 25,000 Donald Dewar Arts award, named in honour of the first Scottish First Minister.
Samson Kambalu, Rachel Maclean, Shana Moulton and Ming Wong will present
new artist films, premiered at Frieze London and broadcast on national television.
Eleanor Wright and Sam Watson: Tuned Cities Wednesday 18 September — Sunday 22 September 2013 Tuned Cities presents, among other works and a symposium with The Department of Things to Come, a series
of artist films that explore themes of architecture and transformation.
- Bob [DISAPPOINTED] Beautiful but oh so empty, the latest picture from Park Chan - Wook is a superbly constructed con -
artist film that is weighed down by its «dirty - old - man» central story involving a secret society of pornographic literature.
There will also be
an artist film series at HOME (Manchester) and a symposium hosted by Tate Research Centre: Asia (London).
As
the artist filmed each statue, he moved his camera gently up and down, so that in the resulting footage, the statues appear to trot along like cowboys in a western or horses on a carousel.
The artist films her work on a green screen, carefully directing her cast of characters to make movements, perform dances, or spell out her «video alphabet.»
Nadja is an independent producer, specialised in the field of art films and
artist films, a curator and writer and has worked as a journalist for press and television (Conde Nast, Canal +).
I look forward to bringing my knowledge of contemporary art and
artists film to the incredible expertise of the board,» said Julien.
The artist filmed Precarity on location in New Orleans, where it is featured in Prospect.4.
American filmmakers Nathaniel Dorsky and Larry Gottheim have been very influential to me in terms of
artist film.
Launching in February 2018 in partnership with the China National Art Fund and Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, the programme includes exhibitions at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (Manchester), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Nottingham Contemporary and Turner Contemporary (Margate)
an artist film series from HOME (Manchester) and a symposium hosted by Tate Research Centre: Asia (London).
In 2007 he organized
an artist film and video program / installation, conceived and co-curated with Paul Chan, entitled Change our fates, hobble the plague, start with time, at the Lyon Biennale.
Butz also started her Fireplace Project series in which
the artist filmed herself in meditative, endurance - based performances in and around the fireplaces of Wave Hill.
While it's debatable whether a film can ever truly convey an artist's creative process,
the artist film can surely teach us something about the medium they depict, or people who create it.
«I look forward to bringing my knowledge of contemporary art and
artists film to the incredible expertise of the board.»