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WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS Peter Miller, Ten Minutiae, Germany, 2012, 5 min Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia, I am Micro, India, 2011, 15 min Kevin Jerome Everson, Rita Larson\u2019s Boy, USA, 2012, 11 min Erin Espelie, True-Life Adventure, USA, 2012, 4 min Nick Collins, Dark Garden, UK, 2011, 9 min Robert Todd, Within, USA, 2012, 9 min David Gatten, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesques of Foraging, USA, 2012, 8 min Ben Rivers, The Creation As We Saw It, UK-Vanuatu, 2012, 14 min Erin Espelie will give a talk and screening at The Natural History Museum on Mon 22 Oct 2012, at 2:30pm.<\/em><\/p>\nPROGRAMME NOTES<\/a> WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS TEN MINUTIAE I AM MICRO RITA LARSON\u2019S BOY TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE DARK GARDEN WITHIN BY PAIN AND RHYME AND ARABESQUES OF FORAGING THE CREATION AS WE SAW IT
\nSunday 21 October 2012, at 7pm
\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT 3<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>A series of brief exercises in cinematographic magic.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2018Shot in an abandoned optics factory and centred on the activities of a low budget film crew, I am Micro<\/em> is an experimental essay about filmmaking, the medium of film, and the spirit of making independent cinema.\u2019 (SG\/SH)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>In one of a trilogy of works based on personalities from the filmmaker\u2019s parents\u2019 hometown, actors audition for the role of sitcom character Rollo Larson. As they attempt to inhabit the character, subtle variations in delivery bring a hypnotic dimension to disconnected lines and repetitive actions.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Espelie trains her camera on the myriad life forms that coexist within a small area around a mountain creek. \u2018When nature writes the screenplays, she doesn\u2019t abide by crescendos.\u2019 (EE)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Contours of light define the flowers and plants of a winter garden, filmed against the black expanse of the night sky.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2018A film that sustains a complex condition: keeping the inner world alive as the camera looks \u2018out\u2019 upon the world.\u2019 (RT)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>An \u2018experiment touching colours\u2019 inspired by 17th Century scientist Robert Boyle, bringing together exquisite images shot over a 13-year period. Its title, from a sonnet by Jorie Graham, <\/em>encapsulates the process and infers its poetic consequence.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Unexpectedly given the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world, Ben Rivers chose Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Amidst the villages and landscapes of this remote archipelago, he sought out the creation myths and folktales of a distant culture.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sunday 21 October 2012, at 7pm
\nLondon BFI Southbank NFT 3<\/p>\n
\nPeter Miller, Germany, 2012, 16mm, b\/w, silent, 5 min
\n<\/strong>Minutiae are \u2018little things\u2019. Here are ten. These little things comprise an exhibition exalting the cinema. (Peter Miller)
\nwww.petermiller.info<\/a><\/p>\n
\nShumona Goel & Shai Heredia, India, 2011, 35mm, b\/w, sound, 15 min
\n<\/strong>I Am Micro<\/em> is an experimental film portrait of an anonymous filmmaker struggling to make films against innumerable odds. A stream of consciousness voiceover describes the film artist as a fragile, amorphous being, working in isolation, within a competitive film industry built by businessmen. The film was shot on black and white 16mm at National Instruments Limited, a now defunct factory in Calcutta which once produced cameras. I Am Micro<\/em> combines lyrical tracking shots of obsolete machinery and dismembered cameras, with behind the scenes footage of an independent film production in Bombay. (Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia)<\/p>\n
\nKevin Jerome Everson, USA, 2012, video, b\/w, sound, 11 min
\n<\/strong>Rita Larson\u2019s Boy<\/em> portrays ten actors auditioning for the role of Rollo Larson in the 1970s TV sitcom Sanford and Son<\/em> (the American remake of Steptoe and Son<\/em>). It is one of three films included in the Tombigbee Chronicles Number Two<\/em>. The series of films is based on famous people and objects from Columbus, Mississippi, hometown of Everson\u2019s parents (the Tombigbee is the river the runs though the city). The actor Nathaniel Taylor, raised in Columbus, portrayed Rollo Larson \u2013 Rita Larson\u2019s boy. (Kevin Everson)<\/p>\n
\nErin Espelie, USA, 2012, video, colour, sound, 4 min
\n<\/strong>When nature writes the screenplays, she doesn\u2019t abide by crescendos but makes up each adventure as she goes along. A rivulet of time encased in a sliver of space reveals an abundance of life, an expression of persistence, and a vision of a world expanding beyond the limits of human attempts to contain or conclude. (Erin Espelie)<\/p>\n
\nNick Collins, UK, 2011, 16mm, b\/w, silent, 9 min
\n<\/strong>Dark Garden<\/em> is a short film that captures the ghostly images of the artist\u2019s garden in wintertime, a silent world of ghostly apparitions. Skeletal and silvery plants and their supports are conjured out of the black of the screen as a series of filmic epiphanies. (Cinecity)<\/p>\n
\nRobert Todd, USA, 2012, 16mm, colour, sound, 9 min
\n<\/strong>Within<\/em> is a film that sustains a complex condition: keeping the inner world alive as the camera looks \u2018out\u2019 upon the world. The film, edited mainly in-camera, dives into an interior that drifts increasingly internally, seeking a sort of cave-like milieu that dissolves into abstraction (forms seen in the dark, lacking firm definition, confusing both scales and distances), and then employs real-time complications to bring this internally-directed way of feeling space along with us as it moves into the outside world, or is it an imagined outer world? The film is a further complication of the perspectival explorations present in my film Undergrowth<\/em>: rather than looking either at a figure or what some imaginary figure might be looking \u2018at\u2019, Within<\/em> lives in a state that seems to resist perspectival definition, hovering somewhere between what is \u2018out there\u2019 and an internally defined image space that sees along with it. The film exists in a space that is at once shallow and deep, layered and reflective, barely there and yet very much alive. It is twilight. (Robert Todd)
\nwww.roberttoddfilms.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDavid Gatten, USA, 2012, video, colour, silent, 8 min
\n<\/strong>Fourteen years of foraging, repeated attempts at rhyming, painful process of pruning. A love letter of sorts to Robert Boyle, FRS of The Invisible College and the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, in a visual embodiment of an obscure poetic form known as an \u2018exploded Petrarchan sonnet.\u2019 Lines by Jorie Graham in \u2018Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness\u2019, after Sir Thomas Wyatt, informed both the impulse for the journey itself and destination I ultimately sought. (David Gatten)
\nwww.davidgattenfilm.com<\/p>\n
\nBen Rivers, UK-Vanuatu, 2012, video, b\/w, sound, 14 min
\n<\/strong>Three mythical stories from the island nation of Vanuatu, South Pacific, concerning the origin of humans, why pigs walk on all fours, and why a volcano sits where it does. (Ben Rivers)
\nwww.benrivers.com<\/a><\/p>\n