Artists Films

This specially selected series of artists' films at the Camden Arts Centre will feature a different artist every week and is running in conjecture with the current Thomas Scheibitz exhibition.

The exhibition of films includes work by AK Dolven, Katy Dove, Boris Gerrets and Clunie Reid.

Beginning and ending with a series of film trailers brought together by Scheibitz, this is a chance to find out about visual references for his own work.

The programme of films is as follows:

17 - 23 March
Katy Dove , 'Stop it', 2006
The image follows the music in its unpredictable and uncertain path, dealing with strange unforeseen moments as they arise. The combination of sound and image create a brooding tension with an openness for the viewer to enter the work, and experience the creative decisions unfolding.

24 - 30 March
Borris Gerrets, 'Driving Dreams', 2006
preceeded by 'ZERO', 1996
A woman motorist was killed by a stone, hurled down deliberately from an overpass. it happened one night somewhere in the Netherlands. The incident becomes a looming presence in Boris Gerrets' exploration of the anonymous world of the car-zone: motorways, petrol stations, parking-lots and cars. These peri-urban spaces generate a particular form of emptiness and desolation - where its inhabitants are confined in a world of glass, steel, speed and aural and mental noise.

31 March - 06 April
A K Dolven, 'His shirts (Tilts only)', 2007
Brasília, the 'city of hope', 'the ultimate utopia of the 20th century' (Umberto Eco), is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as old as the filmmaker. The utopian city as represented in Vacancy is a place abandoned from its inhabitants, a museum kept alive by its staff only.

07 - 13 April
Clunie Reid, 'Life as you like it', 2007
Each half of 'Life as you like it' is made up of five images which are double exposed in a digital camera and put in a sequence of AB/ BC/ CD etc. This creates the transparent flicker as there is an oscillation between two images at any one time and the sequencing smoothes out the transition from one image to the next. This piece is part of an ongoing exploration into how to present a static photographic image without ending up with a photograph.

14 - 20 April
Thomas Scheibitz (1999-2006)
Not an artist's film, rather a collection of visual references for his work; Scheibitz is interested in design, typography and the relationship between the letters and the moving image. He sometimes uses interesting names from the credits for the titles of his paintings.

All films are being screened in the Reading Room on a loop. The Camden Arts Centre is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm and 9pm on Wednesdays.

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How to get there

The closest tube stations are at Finchley Road and Hampstead. If travelling by bus the 13, 268, 82 and 113 all stop nearby.