Screening Event & Edition Sale
Artist Film Festival at east bristol contemporary
east bristol contemporary and The BF Artist Film Festival present ‘Wherever I go, I’m in a movie’ — a screening event and edition sale at east bristol contemporary, Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, Bristol, on Friday December 7th.
The programme
The programme was selected via an open call from current east bristol contemporary members, bringing together moving image works made by artists based within the gallery’s community.
| Film | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Long Friend | Marie Dutton | 3.04 |
| Introspective | Jennifer Mason | 6.45 |
| 11_10_2018 | Izzy McEvoy | 4.27 |
| Aklumda (part.2/2) | Mar |
Alongside the screenings, the event included artist editions, prints and objects for sale in the gallery space.
Admission. Free admission, with a cash-only bar at the venue.
About the festival
The BF Artist Film Festival is a critical platform for artists working with moving image, providing screening opportunities to early and mid-career artists nationally and internationally. Established in 2016 and curated by Beth Fox, the festival gives films a cinema setting in which they can be seen in their entirety.
Screenings are held in partnership with artist-led spaces across the UK and abroad, with selections made through an international open call.
Elsewhere in the archive
Other festival editions
Past programmes and partner screenings from the festival’s history, including partnerships in the UK and abroad.
- Festival VII — a programme selected from over 500 applicants, split into two parts around differing thematic concerns.
- Art Week Exeter — a screening of the back-catalogue at AWEsome Art Space, 27 Paris Street, Exeter.
- nodoCCS, Caracas — a partnership for the IV Festival Video in November 2018, co-screening with the Miami New Media Festival.
Artist film festivals serve as critical platforms for artists working with moving image, offering screening opportunities to early and mid-career practitioners nationally and internationally. This edition brought together works selected through an open call, curating moving image pieces made by artists based within the surrounding community and giving them a shared room in which to be seen. The programme spanned short narrative, documentary, essay, animation and collage forms, with video and set-based works included, allowing the audience to encounter a wide range of approaches to contemporary media practice in a single afternoon of screenings.