Turner nominated artists The Wilson sisters, Louise Wilson and Jane Wilson, have been in Rotterdam this weekend for the international premiere of their new piece Undead Sun, originally presented in London’s Imperial War Museum last year.
Undead Sun sees the Newcastle-born sisters investigating the uses of disguise and camouflage in war. They regard the film as a natural successor to their 2011 work, Face Scripting: What Did the Building See. This was about the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh by Mossad agents in a Dubai hotel.
“It was looking at CCTV and looking at covert imagery,” Jane Wilson says of a film which explores how contemporary warfare has moved from old fashioned battlefields into the luxurious confines of a modern, upmarket hotel. “What we were thinking about was how technology has developed through facial recognition and through use of CCTV.”
When the First World War started, the sisters note, there were still...
Undead Sun sees the Newcastle-born sisters investigating the uses of disguise and camouflage in war. They regard the film as a natural successor to their 2011 work, Face Scripting: What Did the Building See. This was about the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh by Mossad agents in a Dubai hotel.
“It was looking at CCTV and looking at covert imagery,” Jane Wilson says of a film which explores how contemporary warfare has moved from old fashioned battlefields into the luxurious confines of a modern, upmarket hotel. “What we were thinking about was how technology has developed through facial recognition and through use of CCTV.”
When the First World War started, the sisters note, there were still...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Film London has been awarded almost £1m ($1.7m) to continue to deliver the Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin), offering artist filmmakers funding, training and mentoring.
National Portfolio Organisation funding will see the Film London Jarman Award continue, the annual prize which awards £10,000 ($17,000) to an artist who demonstrates exceptional creativity and resists conventional definition embodying the legacy of Derek Jarman.
Film London will again run Flamin Productions, a commissioning fund offering up to £40,000 ($70,000) production funding, plus development support for large scale, single screen works which represent a major step in an artist’s practice.
The Arts Council England funding will also enable Flamin to continue to develop partnerships with other organisations to deliver events, advice, training and other opportunities for artists, including international and domestic exhibition of their work.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “Over the past nine years we have established a successful framework, including core activity...
National Portfolio Organisation funding will see the Film London Jarman Award continue, the annual prize which awards £10,000 ($17,000) to an artist who demonstrates exceptional creativity and resists conventional definition embodying the legacy of Derek Jarman.
Film London will again run Flamin Productions, a commissioning fund offering up to £40,000 ($70,000) production funding, plus development support for large scale, single screen works which represent a major step in an artist’s practice.
The Arts Council England funding will also enable Flamin to continue to develop partnerships with other organisations to deliver events, advice, training and other opportunities for artists, including international and domestic exhibition of their work.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “Over the past nine years we have established a successful framework, including core activity...
- 7/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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