Highlight: Recycled Film
Bruce Conner, CROSSROADS, 1976. Courtesy of the Conner Family Trust
‘Access is a spectrum, openness a practice’ – Rick Prelinger
Garbage dumpsters are the archive of our times, according to filmmaker Craig Baldwin. Places where you find discarded film footage that can be lovingly recycled, to create an entirely new history and meaning.
The Festival film programme focuses on artists who produce new work by recycling found film footage and archive material. These artists use a range of sources such as historic newsreels, home movies, feature films, advertisements, industrial or educational films, originating from institutional archives, commercial stock-footage houses, online collections, family attics or even dumpsters.
Bringing neglected, forgotten or unseen archive film to life relies on the work being shared, re-circulated and sometimes altered. Without such openness, the archives are doomed to wither into oblivion. Recycled Film is about the creative possibilities that come from digital technology coupled with this spirit of openness.
The programme presents work by artists who have pioneered this cut-and-paste culture. It includes screenings of films by Craig Baldwin, Bruce Conner, Johan Grimonprez and Christian Marclay; a national symposium keynoted by Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives); and a live performance night including People Like Us, Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb) and Felix Kubin.
In the run-up to the Festival writer and filmmaker Iain Sinclair and visual artist Graham Dolphin have been in residence at the Northern Region Film and Television Archive.
Click images below for further details and to book tickets (where required) for screenings and events featured in this programme.
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Archive Newsreel: Operation Crossroads British Gaumont, 1946
26th February - 26th March
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