December 2010
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Artur Zmijewski (Poland) - 80064 (2004) (11 minute...
I don’t create entertainment for the mass public. Seeing to the well-being and comfort of viewers isn’t my intention. I don’t care if someone gets a headache after watching this film. The world isn’t a safe place…
Artur Zmijewski’s re-staging of the Stanford Prison Experiment Repetition was one of the three films presented in Part 1 of The Ethics of Encounter. The disturbing film 80064, the...
November 2010
4 posts
The history of documentary
The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere are credited with the world’s first public film screening on December 28, 1895. The showing time of approximately twenty minutes in total was held in the nasement lounge of the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris and would be the first public device they called the CINEMATOGRAPH which effectively functioned as camera, projector and printer...
The Man with the Movie Camera
The Man with the Movie Camera, is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova. Vertov’s feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with...
September 2010
2 posts
Q & A with Song Tao
This question and answer session between curator Hannah Conroy and artist Song Tao, regarding his work My Beautiful Zhang Jiang took place just before the Castle & Elephant screening of the film, in the Elephant.
HC Can you give a synopsis of My beautiful Zhong Jiang? What are the main ideas behind this work? ST Sorry, I don’t want to answer these questions. HC Do you feel that My...
August 2010
3 posts
Me ++ by William J Mitchell
The movement of the physical body throught and between the constructed enclosures and spaces of the city in Song Tao’s My Beautiful Zhang Jiang highlights similar themes to those in this text by William J Mitchell:
The Elephant
Song Tao at the Elephant Building
Song Tao My Beautiful Zhang Jiang, 2006 The Elephant Building Coventry Sports Centre Fairfax Street CV1 5RY Private view Thursday 2nd September > 6pm - 8pm Open Friday 3rd - Saturday 4th September > 11am - 6pm Admission free Castle & Elephant is pleased to present a short film by Shanghai based artist Song Tao. My Beautiful Zhang Jiang is a poetic portrait of the...
June 2010
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May 2010
5 posts
This conversation took place between artist Damir Očko, curator Hannah Conroy and researcher Ruth Scott on Friday 7th May.
HC: Glad we can all make it; I want this to be a brief chat to create some additional information about the work you will be presenting for Castle & Elephant. As well as discussing previous work and ideas that parallel your practice.
DO: So, let’s talk.
HC: Ruth is...
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April 2010
8 posts
An extract from a conversation between Elizabeth Rowe (E) and the Classified department at Coventry Classifieds (C). E - How are you? C - Yeah not too bad, errrm, obviously I’d spoken to your friend is it Hannah – E – It’s Hannah yes the curator of the project. C - Once we’d got to the bottom of the problem, well not problem but once we’d got to the bottom of what you wanted to do – my collegues...
