BEEF (Bristol Experimental Expanded Film) curated screening for Strangelove Festival

The Screening features artists: Niyaz Saghari, Vicky Smith, Katie Davis, Dani Landau, Laura Phillips, Melanie Clifford and Marcy Saude

Vicky Smith works with direct-on-film experimental animation to explore the vulnerable and vital body. Her work has screened internationally in galleries and festivals. Recent publications include Experimental & Expanded Animation: Current Perspectives and Practices, co-edited with Nicky Hamlyn.

Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF) is a film and sound collective supporting experimental practice in Bristol since 2015. BEEF provides an independent platform and much needed resource for artists’ production, distribution and critical engagement, predominantly focusing on experimental and analogue practices. BEEF members collaborate and work together to organise a regular programme of events, screenings, performances, exhibitions, residencies, and film & sound workshops.

This is a one hour screening that we be played at 1.30pm and 2.30pm.

At 2.30pm Vicky Smith with be in conversation with Cathy Rogers in The Clearing.

Cathy Rogers is an artist and programmer of Analogue Ensemble a bi-monthly experimental film night in Ramsgate. Cathy works with Super 8 and 16mm film within expanded cinema contexts with a project based MPhil from the Royal College of Art ‘Film Outside Cinema’ exploring Expanded Cinema and Paracinema. Her work has been published in Sequence 2, 2011, London, written about by Nicky Hamlyn in Medium Practices, Public Journal, Issue 44, 2010, Toronto and cited in A.L Rees essay Physical Optics: a return to the repressed, Millennium Film Journal, Fall 2013, New York.

Saturday 23 March, 1.30pm
Auditorium, Free