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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What:
Kurt Schwitters’ art is an inspiration to many artists. He named his distinctive found material ‘Merz’, after a fragment of the German word ‘Commerzbank’. MerzBank is an online repository of artists’ works who have all taken inspiration from Schwitters.

Newly commissioned works by Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Alec Finlay can be found on the site. Reflecting Schwitters’ style, these works combine and communicating images, texts and sounds. Using various different social media platforms such as Pinterest to find and assemble material, or experimenting with other digital media such as downloads and apps, the pieces demonstrate how Schwitters’ practice continues to inspire today’s artists.

MerzBank is produced by Film and Video Umbrella and supported by Arts Council England.

Why we like it:
The website is full of mixed media artworks including sound pieces, dowloadable pdfs, films, posters and more. Go explore here.

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