Blank Media Collective

Blank Media Film Screenings, Axis Festival

27th April 2008, Fat Cat Cafe Bar, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Blank Media Film Screenings, part of Creationism, Axis Festival ‘08 (http://www.axisfestival.co.uk).

Date: Sunday 27th April 2008
Location: Fat Cat Cafe Bar, Trinity Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Blank Media were invited to take part in Creationism, Axis Festival ‘08 by Airspace Gallery. The event also included live music provided by Rachel Rimmer, Donovan Wrench, Subrosa, Tom Harley (Spectrum Fires) with tunes from DJ Digital Interference, short films by Junction 15, plus artworks and installations by Anwyl Willis Copper, Pete Smith, Joseph Booker and Darren Washington.

Blank Media would like to introduce you to:

Daryl Eaton
A New Home

The story of a young man’s journey from war torn Yugoslavia to eventually becoming settled in England.

Robin Clare
Spot

Robin Clare’s film Spot is a stop animation about the adventure of a lowly spot as it gingerly ventures outside its cave for the first time and discovers the world. Lighting up, pulsing and growing to a musical score titled Cold Water Buffaloes by Laurent Rochelle. Interested in working with low–tech methods Robin combines hand drawn line drawings along with open source music and software to create her moving images.

Thom Coffey
Underground

A documentary about the day to day workings of the London tube network.

Stuart Redfearn
Redeveloped

Previously a part of Stoke-on-Trent’s industrial past, Hanley Forest Park was an area long ignored. This film tells of the recent revival of the park and how it has been brought back in to active public use and improved the image of the area.

Nadine Patterson

This experimental piece, showing 2 mannequins performing ballet moves, was made using still images taken with a 35mm pinhole camera. Nadine enjoys the idea of when one leaves a room, the items in the room come to life; here she has depicted the figures practising their movements, pirouettes, bras bas and pointe work while the proprietor is away. They are dancing to an old vinyl recording of Volare (nel blu dipinto di blu), which has the sound of the needle scratching against the vinyl, in keeping with the stuttering, old movie visual style of the animation.

Craig Griffin
London Makes Me Wonder

Craig Griffin started producing video-works in 2004 as part of his Masters degree in International Practice. Initially influenced in how the moving image reacted when overlaid with a still picture, and inspired by the works of Grant Gee, Krzystof Kieslowski and Bill Viola, Craig began moving into quasi–abstract realities, exploring alternate dualities and visual association.
Craig’s subjects combine a unique collection of disaffection, endeavor and universal law within dream–like perspectives. With little in the form of concrete statements or clear direction, but rather an otherworldly glance at life through a glass brick, Craig’s work is certainly a personal and sometimes intimate experience; much like how memory has that distant hazy quality while at the same time evoking such distinct sentiments.
Craig’s work is shown throughout the country and has exhibited in Canterbury, London, Stoke, Leicester, Bradford and Maidstone.

Anne Guest
Free Range

Free Range explores issues related to when the familiar becomes unfamiliar and how this relates to our perception of a particular place.
Place, movement and sound all play a part in changing the viewer’s awareness of what is going on here and although humorous there is an underlying dark side.

Iain Goodyear
Copy Space

Copyspace is a film based on my experience as a teacher. The film is a representation of the hectic and ever changing nature of something I do with alarming regularity. The film is also an excercise in audio / visual mirroring. Each element seen on screen has a matching sound. This creates certain patterns or rhythms which represent the fluid and sometimes uncomfortable nature of a learning environment.

Nicki Rolls
Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage by Nicki Rolls converts the mundane act of commuting into an extraordinary journey, perhaps of destiny and reckoning. It presents commuting as ritual, uniting commuters in a collective emotional experience of journey across the city. The work attempts to disrupt and challenge perceptions of the day-to-day, the mundane and the urban.

Adam Brock
Red

What do you think about when stopped waiting at traffic lights? This short observational documentary explores themes of control, waiting, and pauses in our lives.

Mind Mangle

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