Artists' Film Biennial 2014

A panel discussion unpacking the dynamic relationship between commissioning, collecting, curation and preservation of artists' film.

In this two-day seminar, curators Paul Perioni, Vivian Ziherl and Łukasz Mojsak share their experience and expertise in working with Moving Image and event based practices through a series of presentations and discussions.

Anti-Junkie-Light, selected by artist Nina Kӧnnemann, explores the use of coloured light in public spaces and experimental film.

Sam Smith has been selected by online video platform Vdrome to perform Notes on the Apparatus, his live video essay that takes the form of a stream of collaged audio-visual clips. Plus a Q&A with artist and Vdrome curator Filipa Ramos.

Cichocki’s programme The Day After Everyday explores the concept of a banal and mundane apocalypse ‒ an army of emancipated office machines, stray dogs, mutated plants and devils marching towards us.

In the first of a three-part retrospective, this programme draws on the absurdity that often arises when contexts are juxtaposed or realigned.

Artist Ken Okiishi selects a programme for the Artists’ Film Biennial 2014.

An associated screening of Matthew Noel-Tod and Benedict Seymour’s Can Dialectics Break Gravity? and Laure Prouvost’s after after (2014).

A panel discussion on the influence of late 20th and early 21st Century popular culture on artists' moving image and the recoded visual language used by artists.

This symposium, a collaboration between Birkbeck School of Arts and the ICA, examines how the non-visible may or may not be brought to light.

The second retrospective programme, Learning the Absurd, draws together a diverse selection of works that connect childhood with adult pursuits and vice versa.

Curator Vivian Ziherl has selected a programme of films for the Artists' Film Biennial that deal with themes of dance in translation to moving image, including the London premiere screening of two new works produced between artists and choreographer-dancers.

Selected from the Artists’ Film Biennial Curatorial Open Call, Avant-Noir surveys the work of contemporary film and video artists who are engaged with Africa and the African Diaspora, and is followed by a Q&A with curator Greg de Cuir Jr.

A panel discussion on recent developments in artists’ film and moving image, looking at the future of the artists’ feature film with Rebecca Shatwell, Shezad Dawood, Sarah Turner and Duncan Campbell with a contribution from Christian Jankowski

The final retrospective programme, Believe Me, takes a focused look at belief structures, in particular those of the art world, and is followed by a Q&A with Christian Jankowski and Steven Cairns.

London-based artist Hannah Sawtell gives a live collage presentation alongside a programme of short films and found footage selected by the artist.