The art of film & TV title design

The latest installment of web series, Off Book, looks at artists working on film and television title sequences. Karin Fong and Peter Frankfurt discuss their Mad Men title sequence, as well as their well-known opening credits for David Fincher’s Se7en.

Ben Conrad explains how his title work integrated into the physical world of Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland, allowing zombies to rampage right through floating letters announcing things like “Columbia Pictures” and “Produced by Gavin Polone,” and spelling out the numbered rules of post-apocalyptic survival even as the protagonists observed, bent, and broke them.

Remote Control

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, SW1Y 5AH.
Until 10th June 2012
FREE

Remote Control surveys the enormous impact that television has had upon contemporary culture through a range of artistic engagement with the medium and offers a look at how the next generation are responding to digital convergence. The exhibition includes many important works that reveal the power and influence of television broadcasting on politics and society. Remote Control coincides with the digital switchover in the UK and marks the end of analogue broadcasting, representing a milestone in the evolution of the medium.

The exhibition includes work by Adrian Piper, Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler and Ant Farm.  For further information, please visit the ICA website.

uScreen filmmaking workshops

uScreen is a fully accessible website which aims to provide young deaf and disabled (alongside non-disabled young people) aged 14-25 years the opportunities to share, learn and collaborate on film-making.  The uScreen website already includes hundreds of films made by young deaf and disabled people in Kent and the rest of the UK.  A great example is the film, Deaf Mugger, featured below…

uScreen workshops for young people across the South-East are now taking place! Using www.uscreen.co.uk to storyboard, edit and share films, young people are gaining hands on filmmaking experience and support. 

To find out more, or to book a uScreen workshop, please contact julie.larner@future-creative.org

Molly Dineen in conversation

Award-winning documentary film director Molly Dineen was recently interviewed by Mark Lawson at the BFI.  In the video below, Dineen recalls working with one of her most famous subjects, Tony Blair, reveals why Geri Halliwell stormed off camera, and discusses how other documentary makers have adopted her vérité style.

Film Screening : early video in the USA

South London Gallery, London SE5 8UH
25 January 2012, 7 pm

This screening focuses on works by video artists who began to experiment with video as an art form in the 1970s, including Vito Acconci, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Chris Burden and Cynthia Maughan. These artists made performative films and TV intervention pieces which introduced a critique of television as a powerful new medium.

Book online or call 020 7703 6120.

Dara Birnbaum exhibition

South London Gallery, London SE5 8UH
9 December 2011 – 12 February 2012

American artist Dara Birnbaum was one of the first to subvert the language of television and is internationally recognised for her pioneering video works made over the past three and a half decades. For her South London Gallery exhibition she presents the UK premiere of her recent work, Arabesque.

The show also includes the seminal work, Attack Piece, 1975, Birnbaum’s first surviving installation, and a series of her earliest single channel video works from the 1970s.

eStream online TV recordings

eStream is the University Library’s system for digitally recording television and radio broadcasts. You can view programmes via a web browser similar to the way you would watch YouTube.

Access eStream on and off campus at http://www.estream.ucreative.ac.uk

For off campus use, please use your standard UCA computer login.
On campus you should not need to log in unless you are using Firefox or Safari.

If you have any comments or questions about eStream, or would like to recommend any TV or radio programmes that you would like us to record, please contact the Visual Resources team at libraryvr@ucreative.ac.uk

Jarman Award winner Lindsay Seers on Channel 4’s 3 Minute Wonders

Four new works by the winner of the 2009 Film London Jarman Award, Lindsay Seers, will air on 27,28,29 and 30 September at 10.55 pm on Channel 4′s acclaimed 3 Minute Wonders.
Seers, who won the commission as part of the Award last year, uses a dark combination of performance, film and installation to interweave history, literature and philosophy in works founded on strange truths. For her 3 Minute Wonders commission, Seers has produced four films that chart aspects of her life and artistic practice, related through a myriad of tales told by those who have known her.

Radio Times covers

The Radio Times website includes a themed gallery of covers, covering subjects as diverse as football and the Royal family,  taken from the magazine from the 1930s until the present day.  The magazine covers are a snapshot of British culture over the last 80 years.