Further Film Talks

AD HOC 59: Further Film Talks, with Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne

Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, edited by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne, is a collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema, involving a range of international film and video makers from the United Kingdom, Europe and North America. The book represents a snapshot of diverse ways that several practitioners have come to think about the field of experimental cinema, in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large, and wider social issues.

The touring film programme, presented in Toronto by the TIFF Bell Lightbox and the Ad Hoc Collective on May 8 and May 16 respectively, features over twenty 16mm films and video works by several of the artists who feature in Film Talks, drawing out new ideas and connections that span different visions of cinema.

Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne will be present to introduce the screenings. Copies of Film Talks will be available for purchase. For details of the book please see here.

Film Talks is supported by the Arts University Bournemouth and Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

AD HOC aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non- commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.

AD HOC = Stephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Tess Takahashi, Bart Testa.

Thanks to James Leo Cahill, Charlie Keil, Karen Reid, Eyan Logan, Sean Rogers, Robert Trevisan, Denise Ing, and the audio-visual staff of Innis College.

Programme:

Leaving and Arriving, Lynn Loo (UK, 2017, 16mm digital transfer, colour, silent, 1 min)

Animal Studies, Guy Sherwin (UK, 1998-2023, digital, b/w and colour, sound, 9 min)

Strontium, Malcolm Le Grice (UK, 2021, digital, colour, sound, 9 mins)

Oxygen, Chris Welsby (Canada 2021, digital, colour, sound, 12 mins)

Not (a) part, Vicky Smith (UK, 2020, 16mm, b/w, sound, 6 mins)

Cornish and Faroese Knitting Pattern Series, Jennifer Nightingale (UK, 2016–17, 16mm, colour, silent, 3 mins)

Clippy, Alia Syed (UK, 2016, 16mm digital transfer, b/w, sound, 3 mins)

The Oblique, Jayne Parker (UK, 2018, digital, colour, sound, 11 mins)

Intervals, Simon Payne (UK, 2023, digital, colour, sound, 10 mins)

Available Light, William Raban (UK, 2016, digital, colour, sound, 9 mins)

A State of Grace, John Smith (UK, 2019, digital, colour, sound, 3 mins)