Projections

15/03/2020

The final event of our current Projections series is the launch of Laura Harrington's new film Fieldworking on March 26th at Tyneside Cinema

Six artists, an ecologist and two filmmakers spend five days together in an off-grid location surrounded by moorland and blanket bog. Camping on the former site of an important scientific field station in Moor House, Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve, they collectively explore ways to comprehend, inhabit and work within the context of this remote and ‘wet’ location.

Fieldworking meditatively interweaves footage and field recordings from this journey – the direct interactions and spontaneous encounters between the meeting of artists and land – to capture the multiple adaptations and shared moments that occurred.

Created in collaboration with Chris Bate, Ludwig Berger, Sarah Bouttell, Luce Choules, Simone Kenyon, Fiona MacDonald (Feral Practice), Lee Patterson and Meredith Root-Bernstein.

JOIN US FOR THIS FREE SCREENING
6pm, Thursday 26 March
Tyneside Cinema
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Launch of new work by artist Laura Harrington at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle). Thursday 26 March 2020, 6pm. Free.

06/03/2020

"Lutz’s project is worldbuilding, and each of his films contributes to an overall visual universe of common motifs, costuming, colour palette, strategies of movement and atmosphere. Eyeballs, swirling globes, clouds, stars, cones and the colours black, white, red and blue dominate."

Read more about the the 'magnanimal' work of Klaus Lutz ahead of our Performances for Screen event Tyneside Cinema next Thursday 12 March in this essay by Herb Shellenberger: https://buff.ly/2TJ1G2L

05/03/2020

Next Thursday 12 March we will be hosting 'Performances for Screens' by Swiss artist Klaus Lutz (1940-2009) as part of the Projections tour which marks the first time these works have been seen in the UK.

Shot almost entirely in Lutz’s tiny East Village apartment in the 1990s and 2000s, the films – which harness performance, animation and intricate multiple exposure on 16mm film – speak to the earliest origins of cinema, while folding in the legacy of twentieth-century performance work. For this special event we present both single-screen films and Lutz’s unique double-projections onto both screen and a large white balloon, creating convex, circular images.

Don't miss this totally unique cinematic experience and a chance to learn about the enigmatic work Klaus Lutz.

THURSDAY 12 MARCH
Tyneside Cinema
6PM, £6/4
(very limited capacity, booking essential)

For this special event at Tyneside Cibnema we present both single-screen films and Lutz’s unique double-projections onto both screen and a large white balloon, creating convex, circular images.

29/02/2020

Join us on Thursday 12 March for a presentation of Swiss artist Klaus Lutz' perspectives for screens 'Arabia' (1991) & 'Titan' (2008) plus a documentary about the artist's life and work, 'The Beauty of My Island' (1999).

Inspired by writer Robert Walser and artist Paul Klee, Lutz' experiments with language and drawing through moving image.

"Throughout the 1970s Klaus Lutz almost exclusively focused on printing and fabricating booklets and accordion folders with motifs he adapted from Robert Walser’s writings. Robert Walser, the Swiss writer who was born in 1878 and died in 1956, known for his short prose pieces, has a way of allowing us to witness, sentence by sentence, the ongoing process of writing. His meandering form is full of digressions and arabesques. The stories he wrote tell as much about their own writing as they usher us through a plot, and thus we seem to share, miraculously, as long as one sentence follows upon the next, the intimate space of the writer’s mind and his trails of thought." (Hannes Schüpbach, 2016)

BOOK NOW (very limited capacity)

For this special event at Tyneside Cibnema we present both single-screen films and Lutz’s unique double-projections onto both screen and a large white balloon, creating convex, circular images.

21/02/2020

1 WEEK TODAY - Artists in the Cinema launches at Tyneside Cinema

This year Projections have commissioned artists Nicola Singh & Helen Collard, Duncan Marquiss, Onyeka Igwe and Karrabing Film Collective, along with Graduate Artist in Residence Sian Hutchings, to make new short films for cinema. The new films will screen before features at Tyneside Cinema with more venues to be confirmed.

Friday 28 Feb, 6pm, Tyneside Cinema, free - book your ticket now to see all five films and join us for a post-screening party

Launch of 5 new films by artists commissioned by Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle). Friday 28 February 2020, 7pm. Free.

16/02/2020

Tickets are going fast for the Artists in the Cinema launch on Friday 28th February!

A screening of new films by Onyeka Igwe, Karrabing Film Collective, Duncan Marquiss, Nicola Singh & Helen Collard and Sian Hutchings, followed by a party in our Pop Up space.

Book your free ticket now before they're all gone.

Launch of 5 new films by artists commissioned by Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle). Friday 28 February 2020, 7pm. Free.

15/02/2020

On Thursday 12 March at Tyneside Cinema Hannes Schüpbach will present the works of Swiss artist Klaus Lutz (1940–2009), along with a documentary about the artist's life and work 'The Beauty of My Island' (1999).

"All of Lutz’s work is and has to be genuinely autobiographical. He is drawing and writing down himself. Everything that should become a visible part of his universe has to go through the tip of his drawing cone. Thereby, at times, he himself becomes the omnipotent creator of
hieroglyphs. At other times he can fall back into being just a figure trying to understand its own trajectory... Like no other artist
I know, he searches and finds the means to create and re-create a pictorial and
ultimately philosophical language in which he remains incorporated." (Hannes Schüpbach, 2016)

Klaus' performances for screens include single and double projection works 16mm and we are really excited to be hosting them at Tyneside as part of a Projections coordinated tour that also includes BFI London and

Klaus Lutz: Performances for Screens
Thursday 12 March 2020
18.00
Tyneside Cinema
£6/4 (limited capacity)

For this special event at Tyneside Cibnema we present both single-screen films and Lutz’s unique double-projections onto both screen and a large white balloon, creating convex, circular images.

13/02/2020

We're really excited for the launch of Sian Hutchings' film at Tyneside Cinema today!

Following a three-month residency with Tyneside Cinema, Siân will present Quietly Beneath alongside a live sound performance and Q&A with Angus Carlyle.

Quietly Beneath looks at painting as acoustic material, opening the cracks behind the seemingly mute surface – and transforming the cinema into a space of listening.

4pm, Tyneside Cinema
Free (everyone welcome)

Book your free ticket now before they run out!

Launch of a new film by Graduate Artist in Residence at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle), Sian Huthcings. Thursday 13 February 2020. 6pm. Free.

08/02/2020

We're really excited that writer and artist Angus Carlyle will be joining Graduate Artist in Residence Siân Hutchings this Thursday for the launch of Siân's new film 'Quietly Beneath' at Tyneside Cinema

Angus' book 'On Listening' is a collection of forty multi-disciplinary perspectives drawn from anthropology, bioacoustics, geography, literature, community activism, sociology, religion, philosophy, art history, conflict mediation and the sonic arts including music, ethnomusicology and field recording.

'Quietly Beneath' combines the materials of painting, choreography and sound to re-imagine the cinema space as a listening environment. The launch will include a live performance and an artist Q&A chaired by Angus Carlyle.

Launch: Graduate Artist Commission—Siân Hutchings
Thursday 13 February 2020
16.00
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Launch of a new film by Graduate Artist in Residence at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle), Sian Huthcings. Thursday 13 February 2020. 6pm. Free.

07/02/2020

OPEN CALL FOR CURATORS:

What are we looking for?

✅ proposals that investigate particular contemporary currents or concerns which might be articulated by artists’ moving image practice.
✅ proposals which respond meaningfully to the site of the cinema
✅ proposals which are sympathetic to the specific experience of viewing artists’ moving image in the cinema space

Deadline is Friday 28 February, read the guidelines here and get in touch if you have any questions.

https://buff.ly/2UyS9xy

31/01/2020

TOMORROW we're hosting a matinee screening Parajanov's 1985 film The Legend of Suram Fortress, presented by artist Sophio Medoidze.

The film tells the story of an archaic Georgian legend in which the inhabitants of a remote mountain region build a fortress to protect themselves however, according to prophesy the construction can only be successful completed if a young warrior allows himself to be built into one of the walls while still alive.

Parajanov’s penultimate film was made in Georgia, after a 15-year filmmaking ban and lengthy periods in prison and work camps.

Born in the USSR, brought up in the Republic of Georgia and now living in London, Sophio Medoidze was commissioned to make her recent film 'Xitana' as part of the 2019 Artists in the Cinema Projections programme.

BOOK NOW Saturday 01 February, £6/4

28/01/2020

We have not one, not two, but three opportunities as part of our latest open call and they all close in one month, Friday 28 February.

Opportunities include:

✅ proposals to create new performance or live events
✅ curating and presenting an original programme
✅ City Limits opportunity for artists working with the moving image in partnership with Newcastle University

Deadline is Friday 28 February, read the guidelines here and get in touch if you have any questions.

Open Call Artist cocktails, 'Loving Attention', 19 May 2019Six Projections events per year are selected from open calls. The twice-yearly Open Call asks for proposals from curators and artists to present new moving image programmes or create live work for the cinema space. In this round we are partn...