Echoes from the Static is a five week film programme curated by Nicole Atkinson and showing artists' moving image works associated with Channel 4 between 1982-1992. These five screenings delve into the channel’s first decade, spotlighting lesser known and rarely shown experimental film and video art that was once broadcast on Channel 4. Each event will be introduced by Nicole Atkinson, and followed by a post-screening discussion with artists and practitioners from, and involved with, this history.
The third screening, Visible Women on Channel 4, interweaves video, 16mm, and animation from women artists creating work for television, embracing the platform as a way to challenge and provoke representations of women on broadcast television. Themes of motherhood and female sexuality run throughout the programme, from Sarah Downes visual adaptation of the work of Sylvia Plath in Winter Trees (1993), to Kayla Parker's lyrical display of menstruation in Cage of Flame (1992).
Full programme notes distributed on the night, alongside the accompanying zine Echoes from the Static.
The programme is as follows:
Cage of Flame (Kayla Parker, 1992) 9 mins, LUX
Naked (Yasmine Ramli, 1991) 12 mins, LUX
Medusa (Katharine Meynell, 1989) 20 mins, LUX
Winter Trees (Sarah Downes, 1993) 7 mins, LUX
A Call to Arms (Cordelia Swann, 1989) 22 mins, LUX
Bhangra Jig (Pratibha Parmar, 1990) 4 mins, REWIND
Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start. The total programme running length is approximately 74 minutes, followed by a post-screening discussion TBC.
Please note: Farr's basement bar is not wheelchair accessible.
Images courtesy of Kayla Parker, LUX, and Animate Projects.
