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Artist Film And Video

Tuesday 6th February: 7:30 p.m. - Film: HEXEN 2039 the Movie (2006)

New military-occult technologies for psychological warfare. A Rosalind Brodsky research programme. More Info

Friday 9th February: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Presenting Filmmakers: Guy Sherwin (1970's-present day)

For the first in our series of 'Presenting Filmmakers' we have the great privelege of hosting Guy Sherwin. More Info; 7:30 p.m. - Film: Presenting Filmmakers: Guy Sherwin (1970-present)

For the first in our series of 'Presenting Filmmakers' we have the great privelege of hosting Guy Sherwin. More Info

Tuesday 13th February: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Single Shot (2006)

Artist Video Compilation More Info

Wednesday 14th February: 7:30 p.m. - Film: XXX - Another History of the Avant Garde (The Sixties, Yeah!)

A little bit of arty crumpet for Valentine's night - not the athena poster of the man holding the baby, but some psychadelic 16mm closeups of people getting it on, including macho bikers and bohemian couples. More Info

Saturday 17th February: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Eyes Wide Open (open submission night)

Eyes Wide Open - This is the night for you to submit your films and for the audience to submit to the films you have submitted. They can of course vocalise their feelings because we run a participatory cinema, so heckling and shouts of approval are encouraged. If your film will slice across the audiences eyes like Un Chien Andalou, or make eyes close through boredom or lack of endurance, we the anti-seletors donmt care, because as long as the film is shorter than 15mins we'll take it. On this first EWO at the Star and Shadow, watch out for opportunities to win FREE super 8 and 16mm film and processing. We encourage movie-maker's hollywood attempts and avant-garde ramblings, commonly known as Artist's Film and Video. (£3, free for film makers) More Info

Wednesday 21st February: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Bata-ville (2005)

We are not afraid of the future More Info

Wednesday 18th April: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Films from the Civic Life Series & Daydream (Various)

The Civic Life series began in July 2003 and includes seven films, each one shot in a day, that capture different places and communities in daring long takes. Daydream follows on from the Civic Life series and is a half hour film shot over four days using multiple locations. More Info

Thursday 19th April: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Lone Productions aka Simone Bennett

Simone Bennett is a filmmaker/video artist from the Netherlands. Since graduating in audio-visual art from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, she has made severals shorts in Berlin and the Netherlands. She'll present and talk about 10 works that combine experimental film with narrative story telling, from 70s gangster movies with women dressed as sleazy men, to 'Trilogy' which uses as source material dark, sensational stories from tabloids. More Info

Friday 8th June: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Home Suite (1993)

By John Smith More Info; 7:30 p.m. - Film: Home Suite (1993-4)

A personal video work that starts in a humorous post structuralist analysis of video making and John Smith's dank bathroom, and soon becomes a beautifully measured protest film about the M11 motorway developments. More Info

Wednesday 5th September: 6:00 p.m. - Film: No More Pictures Babe (2006-07)

Reception & screening of autobiographical films. By artist, secret photographer, writer and filmmaker Zuzana Lola Hruskova. The author’s films speculate about the desperate feelings of photographer to satisfy her needs, which are unlike the real world in various important ways are insane or hysterical. More Info

Thursday 13th September: 8:00 p.m. - Film: light bulb 08 presents: Love and Anarchy - The Wild, Wild World Of Jaimie Leonarder

Filmed over a six year period, this film explores the life and multi-layered passions of Sydney counter-culture personality, Jaimie Leonarder. More Info

Wednesday 26th September: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Basement Basement

Basement Basement is a collection of films celebrating Ayton Basement, the artist run space that opened on the Quayside in 1976. More Info

Sunday 9th December: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Cory Arcangel: Untitled Translation Exercise (2006)

New York-based artist Cory Arcangel will give a special performance / lecture at Star and Shadow Cinema on Sunday 9 December 4:00pm followed by a UK film premiere of a new work at 7:30pm. More Info

Wednesday 29th October: 7:00 p.m. - Film: She Should Have Gone to the Moon (2007)

The astonishing story of the pilot and pioneer, Jerri Truhill, who trained in NASA’s top secret Mercury 13 programme, 1961, to become one of the first women astronauts. The film will be introduced by artist-filmmaker Ulrikke Kubatta. More Info

Wednesday 29th April: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Beyond Language: The Films of George Barber (1983-2008)

Beyond Language presents a broad selection of Barber's influential video work from past 30 years from proto-Scratch works of the early ’80s to his 90's lo-tech 'slacker' videos and his recent return to assemblage and appropriation. Narrative is at the centre of much of his work, whether deconstructing it as in Scratch, or creating humorous and absurd situations to find existential meaning in the margins of modern life. We are very fortunate to have George Barber in person, in conversation with the programme's curator Matthew Noel-Tod. More Info

Thursday 29th October: 7:30 p.m. - Film: The short films of ANNA BILLER

American feminist film-maker Anna Biller is a true auteur. Writer, producer, director, actor, musician and art director. When we showed her sexploitation feature, VIVA, earlier in the year, it was one of our most controversial nights. Tonight we show Anna's short films, and she joins us in conversation from Hollywood (via the miracle of Skype). More Info

Wednesday 11th November: 7:30 p.m. - Film: The Wooden Lightbox - Alex MacKenzie

"the wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing" is a hand-processed black and white film created partially with some hand-made emulsion, and presented on a hand-cranked 16mm projector which Alex constructed out of cast off pieces of projectors and rewinds and then encased in wood. Image of projector and info on the piece: http://www.alexmackenzie.ca/lightbox.html You can see a sample of it here: http://www.alexmackenzie.ca/lightbox_sample_clips.html and stills here: http://alexmackenzie.ca/images/lightbox_1.jpg http://alexmackenzie.ca/images/lightbox_2.jpg http://alexmackenzie.ca/images/lightbox_3.jpg More Info

Wednesday 2nd December: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle (1974-1981)

Film-maker and writer Kenneth Anger was a seminal figure in both gay and experimental film, and influenced rock and roll, theatre and dance almost as much as film. More Info

Friday 22nd January: 7:30 p.m. - Film: CGI Fridays! King Kong (2005)

Come for the launch of the first in a series of Friday night screenings celebrating the wonder and horrors of computer-generated imagery! Tonight: King Kong, the 2005 remake of the 1933 classic. More Info

Friday 9th April: 7:30 p.m. - Film: CGI Fridays!

Come for the second in a series of Friday night screenings celebrating the wonder and horrors of computer-generated imagery! A handful of short films by local selected contemporary visual artists will be followed by a feature film they have chosen. Curated by Sarah Cook. More Info