Saturday 18th August at Tate Britain

Excited to be returning to Tate Britain tomorrow to run two rooms between 11am and 2pm with a screening at the end of the day on site-specific temporary sculpture made within the same time frame.
We'll be posting pictures after the event so watch this space...

Derby Quad with Q-Club this week

Chris is joining in with the Derby QUAD Q-Club activities this week on Monday and Wednesday to produce work towards the Season of Light project to be shown in October and is looking forward to teaming up again with Sophie Powell and the QUAD Participate Programme.

Also, if in Leeds, be sure to check out Jo's residency at Leeds City Art Gallery. There are free film workshops running every Monday and Thursday until the 23rd August. More details on OKO's blog here.

RIP Chris Marker

Sadly, Chris Marker, another one of our filmic heroes passed away this week. He remains an inspiration to all of the individual members of Unravel. RIP.
http://www.ubu.com/film/marker_junkopia.html

Sunday 29th July at Nozstock in Herefordshire

As mentioned in the previous post, Chris was joined by fellow South Yorkshire bred artist and recent RCA graduate, Lucy Vann to run a workshop for the Wrong Directions Cinema Tent at Nozstock Festival in Herefordshire. It was a great weekend and the festival itself had a great family friendly and community spirit to its revelry.
We spent most of the weekend transfixed by the programming of the cinema tent which was curated by, brothers, Dan and Nick Brown (Mash Cinema and Big Telly Disco respectively) who had compiled over 56 hours of experimental films, animations, and innovative visual performances throughout the entire festival which climaxed with a visuals set that utilised parts of the filmic results of our workshop. Smashing to see some of the Kids for Kids UK animations in there too!

We salute the brothers Brown for their commitment and extreme lack of proper sleep whilst providing an inspiring programme filled with quality work. It was also a privelige to meet The Light Surgeons who were showing fantastic work that intersected between documentary and visual performance work and were genuinely lovely folks. Thanks again to Dan and Nick (and Lucy!) - Herefordshire was superb.

Nozstock this weekend

Chris and, special guest, recent RCA graduate Lucy Vann are running an Unravel workshop in the Wrong Directions Cinema Tent at Nozstock festival this Sunday from 4pm - 7pm which has been organised by Dan Brown as Mash Cinema. Acts include The Futureheads, Manchester's Dub Phisix, and errr... The Proclaimers (check out the link for arguably the most surreal Beckettian pop video featuring identical Scottish twins ever). Should be fun so if you are at the festival this weekend come down and say hi.
 
A Stand from Lucy Vann on Vimeo.

Upcoming

We've some great workshops coming up at the Mash Cinema tent at Nozstock music festival in Herefordshire in July, another prestigious date at Tate Britain in August and the sure-to-be-excellent Moston Festival of Film by North West film hero Sam Meech.

Check out Sam's amazing animation of the Muybridge horse soon to be knitted by Moston based Knit and Natter group

Looking forward to seeing some of you at all or any!

RIP Jeff Keen

We just wanted to pay our respects today to one of our collective film making heroes Jeff Keen who sadly passed away yesterday after a lengthy battle with cancer.
All of the individual  members of Unravel have been influenced by his frenetic style of film making that incorporated comics, pop-culture, humour and performance with highly sophisticated experiments in film and animation. Thankfully his work is now much easier to see thanks to the BFI's Box set released in 2009 and his own website  leaves a lasting legacy. RIP Dr Gaz.


Read William Fowler's obituary for Jeff Keen in The Guardian here.