Drawing on FVU’s extensive history of commissioning, producing and supporting artists’ film, White Screen enables important works to be accessed afresh by a generation who might not otherwise have encountered them. Reflecting on the changing role of artists’ moving image in the digital age – its production, consumption and dissemination – each new essay provides a contemporary response to a historical moment.

Marxism Today by Phil Collins

At the time of writing, Phil Collins’ Marxism Today, 2010 was up on White Screen. This film tells the stories of former Marxism-Leninism teachers in Communist East Germany. Nina Power Philosophy teacher at the University of Roehampton and Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art has written a response to Collins’ film, which you can read here.

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Join artists’ film and video legend John Smith, artist Stephen Sutcliffe known for his archive based film collages and designers Bespoke Atelier for a weekend of artist’s screenings, workshops, talks and conversations at Hospitalfield, Arbroath.

John Smith’s Home Suite 1993-94

On Saturday 26 June the influential artist filmmaker John Smith will screen his work Home Suite (1993-4) with a discussion and dinner. Artist Stephen Sutcliffe will be screening Our Mother’s House (1967) which will lead to a discussion with John Smith over brunch on Sunday 27 June. Sutcliffe will include in this brunch session an excerpt from Word for Word the 70s BBC book program presented by Robert Robinson in which Ian McEwan’s literary agent Tom Maschler, Auberon Waugh and Julian Gloag talk about the plot of McEwan’s ‘The Cement Garden’ and its notorious similarities to Gloag’s ‘Our Mother’s House’ which was published 15 years earlier.

You can book a workshop with designers Bespoke Atelier to print and make a bag inspired by the pattern and surfaces within Hospitalfield. This is also a chance to explore the house, its 1901 Studios and gardens.

It’s free to explore the house and attend the screening and discussion events. There is a materials cost for the Bespoke Atelier workshops. As the John Smith events run late into the evening and across two days Hospitalfield are offering some hospitality, camping and beds. Booking is strongly recommended and registration can be completed online here.

Hospitalfield Summer Open Weekend runs from 26 – 27 June in Arbroath, Scotland. For a full schedule of the weekend programme, please visit here.

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The third annual Tramway Artists’ Moving Image Festival will run from 15 to 16 November at Tramway. Steven Cairns who is Associate Curator of Artists’ Film and Moving Image at the ICA in London will be the guest programmer.

The festival includes programming from the ICA Artists’ Moving Image Network featuring work from Steven Claydon, Keren Cytter, Loretta Fahrenholz, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Agnieszka Polska, Hito Steyerl, and Ryan Trecartin.

In addition to screenings, there will be live events and discussions around two themes: Sound and Music in Artists’ Moving Image and Contemporary and Historical References in Artists’ Moving Image.

For more about the programme and festival passes, see The Tramway website.

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Nocturne by South Queensferry based artist, Ian Henderson.

Rapture by visual artist & filmmaker, Katri Walker offers a video portrait of Edinburgh bookshop owners. Watch the video here.

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Sublime by Emma Dove.

Artists, Stephen Hurrel and Mark Lyken discuss their residency in The Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty where they explored how sound and light within the physical spaces we inhabit affect behavioural patterns.

Pulp Fiction by Edinburgh College of Art Graduate, Andrew Mason.

Life As We Know It is a Visual Loop created for a harsh noise collaboration between Vickie McDonald and Laurie Pitt.

This video was shown at Mono, Glasgow at an event where artists and musicians created an interpretation of the end of the world.

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La Société du Spectacle by Italian moving image artist, Russosky.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat by London based Art Director & Motion Designer, Rebecca Rumble.

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