Pavilion Present: Artists’ Moving Image Network Screening Weekend

Pavilion present:

Artists’ Moving Image Network Screening Weekend
Guest curated by Herb Shellenberger
5–7 July 2019, Leeds

The inaugural Pavilion Artists Moving Image Network Screening Weekend is a cinema-based group exhibition focused on bringing the work of Yorkshire-based artists in dialogue with international artists and filmmakers. It’s my hope that screening the films of these 13 selected artists will contribute towards ongoing efforts to sketch an increasingly rich picture of creative filmmaking and visual arts in the region, both contemporary and historical. At the same time, placing these works in conversation with artists from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain and USA will create connections between themes, forms, contexts and aesthetic techniques, as well as hopefully some wild juxtapositions.

This is not meant to be a tidy survey of ‘the best works’, but is admittedly—and unashamedly—a subjective response to films submitted by members of Pavilion’s Artists Moving Image Network, a monthly critical forum for local artists.

Over three days and seven screening programs, there will be films warm and familiar. Unapologetically provocative, unceasingly strange, unabashedly erotic and unquestionably pleasurable delights await the curious viewer. I hope you will join myself, Pavilion and the featured artists (who will be in conversation) for an exciting weekend.

—Herb Shellenberger*

Screenings

Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil with Black by Anouk De Clercq
Fri, 5 July, 18:15, Hyde Park Picture House, Tickets £7.50

Theme From ‘The Gentle Touch’
Sat, 6 July, 14:30, Hyde Park Picture House, Free

Nobody’s Child
Sat, 6 July, 17:15, Pavilion, Free

It’s Only a Paper Moon
Sat, 6 July, 20:15, Pavilion, Free

Designer Collection
Sun, 7 July, 13:00, Hyde Park Picture House, Free

Sail the Summer Winds
Sun, 7 July, 15:30, Hyde Park Picture House, Free

Counterspy
Sun, 7 July, 19:30, Pavilion, Free

*Herb is a curator and writer originally from Philadelphia and based in London. He has curated screenings at institutions such as Arnolfini, Light Industry, Lightbox Film Center, LUX, New York University and Taipei Center for Contemporary Arts. Since 2016, he has been Associate Programmer for Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. He curated the series Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s + 1980s which premiered at Tate Modern and is touring internationally. In 2018, he curated an exhibition at The Maslow Collection (Scranton, USA) and co-programmed the Flaherty Seminar series Common Visions at Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Free. Booking essential (Pavilion is a small venue)