nashashibi/skaer
cooper gallery, djcad, dundee P1 and Pt2, 3 November 2022 and 17 November 2022
Thinking through the lenses of Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer’s individual practices in film, installation, painting and sculpture as well their collaborative films explored in the Chimera exhibition at Cooper Gallery, this practical 16mm camera workshop and a follow-up reading group offer an expansive, reflective introduction to 16mm film through a series of practical and theoretical exercises. Facilitated by filmmakers Alex Hetherington and George Finlay Ramsay, the workshop will connect film to ideas of care, experimentation, contingency and collaboration. The workshop will use Bolex and Canon Scoopic cameras, different lenses and film stock to guide participants through the essentials of film before undertaking an explorative and collaborative film shoot. It will most benefit early career practitioners interested in analogue film and students in moving image, film and photography.
Thinking through the lenses of Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer’s individual practices in film, installation, painting and sculpture as well their collaborative films explored in the Chimera exhibition at Cooper Gallery, this reading group is an open event, which will screen the raw rushes from the first 16mm camera workshop, and consider analogue film through a broad spectrum of experiences, observations and cultural, theoretical and political contexts. The event will explore, through collaborative group reading, texts, observations and provocations from a number of filmmakers and artists including Luke Fowler, Catherine Sullivan, Beatrice Gibson, Rosalind Nashashibi, Nathaniel Dorsky, Rhea Storr, Steve McQueen, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Tacita Dean, Margaret Salmon, Margaret Tait and Chris Marker and conclude on recent experiences in 16mm film productions by Alex Hetherington and George Finlay Ramsay.
