Index / Film and video
#39 - July 2017
Review
this scattering of minds; like seeds
Kirsty Hendry responds to a film screening and Q&A with artist Sulaïman Majali at Transmission Gallery
A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Eliel Jones reviews Arthur Jafa’s exhibition at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 8 June - 10 September
With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods
Fourth in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Jessica Ramm reflects on Shannon Te Ao’s installation in Gladstone Court, 27 July - 27 August
MULTIPLEXING II
A text by Mike Sperlinger in collaboration with MULTIPLEXING, a cinema event originally presented in south London in 2014 and restaged in Glasgow on 21 March 2017. The programme celebrates the legacy of artist, performer, curator and writer, Ian White (1971-2013) through his influential teaching position with LUX
DROSTE
A new film by Mairi Lafferty made on residency at no.w.here, London was made available as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive’.
The orphans of a GENERATION
Preserving the legacy of Margaret Tait. Essay by Sarah Neely
Nervous Skies
Nervous Skies is a transatlantic collaboration between Amelia Bande, Deborah Bower, Annette Knol and Mat Fleming. An installation of 16mm film, slides and text shown in multiple projections, it was first exhibited at the NewBridge Project, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in April and May 2015. Essay by Susannah Thompson
O.K. Rick [Review]
Jenny Brownrigg responds to the Florrie James work screened in February at the Glasgow Film Festival.
I, THE OTHER, THE SPACE BETWEEN: READING IN THE DARK
Essay by Suzanne van der Lingen
MAP Screen | READING IN THE DARK
Curated by Suzanne van der Lingen | Instalment 1: ‘Voice—Text—Screen’, Peter Rose, Torsten Lauschmann, Allan Hughes
Shoplifters Shopgirls
Glasgow-based artists Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson talk to Steven Cairns about their recent collaboration and how theatrical contexts have shaped it
Remarks: Lucy Skaer
Using the site of an abandoned cinema for display, the artist outlines her forthcoming project in Leeds
#37 - January 2016
edits-while-u-wait: Video Documentation
Video documentation of the second session of edits-while-u-wait, April 2015, ESW
#37 - February 2016
A conglomerate of voices rise up like hidden steam: Video
A video by Stephanie Mann
Vulpecula
A footnote by Suzanne van der Lingen, re-published in March 2019 as part of Issue #49, Couldn’t we just bee?
The bits of ourselves we leave behind
An essay in fragments by Sarah Neely, with extracts from the archive of Margaret Tait
How to Fake Your Own Death
The characters in this text are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Essay film by Suzanne van der Lingen
MAP Screen | READING IN THE DARK
Curated by Suzanne van der Lingen | Instalment 2: Gerard Byrne, Sarah Forrest, Laure Prouvost, Peter Rose | Readings by Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest and Suzanne van der Lingen | Screened 25 February. Event images online
#32 - September 2014
MAP at Platform
‘A Feminist Chorus’ film screening during 21 Revolutions exhibition at Platform, Glasgow, 7 November—7 December, 2014
‘A Feminist Chorus’ by Lucy Reynolds, curated by MAP
Glasgow International: ‘A Feminist Chorus’, one film, two sound works and a performance, spanning three venues, 5—21 April, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow School of Art & 5 Blythswood Square
Lucy Reynolds: Talks
Glasgow School of Art, Friday Event at the Glasgow Film Theatre, 11am—12:30pm, 14 February 2014 | Edinburgh College of Art, Friday Talk, Main Lecture Theatre, 11.30am—1pm, 28 March 2014
‘A Feminist Chorus’
Live at Glasgow Women’s Library, Saturday 5 April, Glasgow International 2014
#30 - November 2013
MAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect
For the second installment of MAP Screen, Karen Cunningham selects three works—two clips from vintage television documentaries presented by David Attenborough and John Grierson and a video piece by Glasgow-based artist David Sherry
MAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect
This new season of film and video selected by Karen Cunningham opens with Ravi Govender, ‘Localized’, 2013 and Adam Chodzko, ‘The Pickers’, 2009
and from then on we lived on blueberries for about a week
We are pleased to present two videos by Lisa Myers, one new for MAP and both part of ‘Blueprints for a Long Walk’, an ongoing piece that works through a family story of survival and resilience
The gatekeepers’ movements invent another language
Laura Edbrook’s text was written to accompany the video work ‘The End is the Beginning’
The End is the Beginning
MAP presents new work by Mhari McMullan & Urara Tsuchiya with score and video edit by Nick Packer
Clément Rodzielski
Joanna Fiduccia unravels enigma and invention in the work of this young French artist
In Production: Discoteca Flaming Star
Anita Di Bianco interviews Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer
#22 - June 2010
POOL Group: Deriving History from Hindsight
Steven Cairns discovers the humanity in the films of the overlooked POOL Group
#21 Spring - March 2010
Dispatches from Ben Rivers on location for his forthcoming sci-fi project
Filmmaker Ben Rivers discusses his latest project, which has taken him to Lanzarote, Japan, New Zealand and Tuvalu
Pulling Strings
Alessandro Rabottini falls for the work of Portuguese collaborators João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
Emerging: Anna Molska
Malgorzata Mleczko finds the unexpected at the heart of Anna Molska’s practice
Pinochet Porn in Progress
Artist Ellen Cantor sketches out the narrative beginnings of an ambitious film project
Production: Anja Kirschner & David Panos
Steven Cairns gets to the bottom of ‘The Last Days of Jack Sheppard’, a film based on inferred prison encounters between the eponomous 18th century criminal and Daniel Defoe, ghostwriter of Sheppard’s ‘autobiography’
Stephen Sutcliffe: Come to the Edge
Manipulating original broadcast material from his personal archive, Stephen Sutcliffe creates ‘surfaces which become the site of much-contested truth’. Michelle Cotton investigates these subtle ‘video collages’
Remarks: New Films In The Making
Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commission.
Back Page: Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane and Louise Wilson, film still from ‘Unfolding the Aryan Papers’, 2009
The Way In
Luke Fowler’s films exist on the margins of documentary. Martin Herbert examines the artist’s archive
Emerging: Stina Wirfelt
Alhena Katsof explores Stina Wirfelt’s suburban portraits
Remarks: New Commission for Threshold
In his first solo show in the UK, Igor Krenz creates new work for Threshold artspace’s permanent collection. Here, he talks about the commission ‘Circles and Squares’ and his YouTube Mix.
Residency: Jordan Baseman
Ilsa Colsell discovers power and honesty in the films of Jordan Baseman
Hayley Tompkins: Hypothetically Seeing
Joanna Fiduccia visits Glasgow to meet Hayley Tompkins, in whose work she discovers abstraction of an extended, visionary nature
#16 Winter - November 2008
Remarks: Katy Dove
Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community groups has reflected on her practice.
Duncan Campbell: Telling Stories
Ken Neil examines the existentialist core of Duncan Campbell’s prize-winning new film ‘Bernadette’
Craig Mulholland: Viral Transmissions
Craig Mulholland talks to Susannah Thompson in the run-up to a series of exhibitions showcasing a major new body of work, Grandes et Petites Machines. A re-edited version of his new film ‘Peer to Peer’ has been commissioned for MAP and can be viewed in the Commission pages of the website or by clicking below
#13 Spring - March 2008
Wilhelm Sasnal: Deluxe Punk
‘You are telling me things, but what do you actually mean by that? Whats your point? Lukasz Ronduda digs deep into the work of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal
Emerging: Ann Bowman
Hollywood to Glasgow, this young American artist explores fantasy and glamour with a sharp film-maker’s eye
Report: Expanded Cinema: Time/Space/Structure
Luke Fowler reports on the history of expanded cinema
Aernout Mik: Deadlock
Barry Schwabsky examines the truths behind the video work of renowned Netherlands artist Aernout Mik and wonders just how close we all are to being extras in one of his videos
Report: Can Video Thrive as a Marginal Activity?
Isla Leaver-Yap reports on the state of video art in Scotland
A Watchful Eye
Victoria Miguel interviews artist Rosalind Nashashibi about her recent residency in New York and making films
Songs in the Key of Life
Music is the escape, the anger, the boredom, the sadness, the sex, the affirmation, the madness and sense that takes us out of the daily grind. Neil Cooper celebrates the whole beautiful, blurred shebang as it morphs into art in the exhibition ‘Pass the Time of Day’
Journey Two: Tours
Continuing his series of artistic wanderings especially for MAP, Duncan McLaren takes off to France to climb a mountain of the imagination—despite the language barrier
Dub Rabbie: Graham Fagen
Neil Cooper mixes with Glasgow artist Graham Fagen, reggae king Adrian Sherwood and Ayrshire bard Robert Burns
Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World
28 October–1 November, various venues, Berlin
Andreas Bunte
7 November–9 December, 2009, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Allan Sekula
12 December 2009–28 February 2010, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
13 November–20 December, 2009, Extra City, Antwerp
Matthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, London
Bill Viola
19 June–5 September, 2009, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
Michael Smith
16 January–20, 2010, February Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Rewind + Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art
LUX, DVD, 2009, £30
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was
17 September–25 October, 2009, The Drawing Room, London
Dance With Camera
11 September 2009–21 March 2010, ICA, Philadelphia
Expanded Cinema: The Live Record
6 December 2008, BFI Southbank, London
Langlands & Bell
25 October–13 December, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
#24 - November 2010
Review
Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
David Hominal
11 June–15 August 2010, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Dundee: Moving Images from the Attic Archive
19 March–18 April, 2010, Cooper Gallery
The Hidden / Lars Laumann
19 January–24 February 2008, Maureen Paley, London
Books: Video: The Reflexive Medium
Yvonne Spielmann www.mitpress.mit.ed ISBN: 978-0-262-19566-9
Wilhelm Sasnal: The Other Church
11–27 April 2008, 66-68 Osborne Street, Glasgow
Ulla von Brandenburg
18 January–24 February 2008, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Rosa Barba
18 November 2007–6 January 2008, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Luke Fowler & Charlie Hammond
19–24 January 2008, Buccleuch Street, Glasgow
Broadcast Yourself
28 February–5 April 2008, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Rosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines
Part 1, Scotland and Venice, 10 June–2 November 2007, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice Part 2, Art Statements, 4–8 June 2007, Art Basel
Marc Bijl, Gerard Byrne, Valerie Jouve
21 April–23 June 2007, Aliceday, Brussels
Books: 40 Years Videoart.de
PART1: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany 1963 to the present Rudolf Frieling/Wulf Herzogenrath www.hatjecantz.de English edition ISBN 978-3-77571-717-5 £24.95
Killing Time
9 September–5 November 2006, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE 23 APR EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19/20 AUG, 2006, Cannes
There Where You Are Not
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 31 May–9 July 2005
Elizabeth Ogilvie: Bodies of Water
DCA, Dundee, 16 December 2005-12 February 2006
#4 - December 2005
Review
Robert Smithson
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 22 June-16 October
Country Grammar
Ruth Barker reviews ‘Country Grammar’ by Sue Tompkins (featuring work by Luke Fowler) at The Modern Institute Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, 30 September - 4 November
Circumstantial Evidence
Kirsty Hendry responds to ‘Every contact leaves a trace’ curated by Naomi Pearce, a LUX screening at Glasgow Film Theatre, 1 October
Civil Rites
Fiona Anderson on Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film at Tyneside cinema, Newcastle, part of Freedom City festival, 8 December 2017 - 22 January 2018
Something for the Boys
Eliel Jones reviews a new film work by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings at Two Queens, Leicester, 30 June - 1 September
Make Me Up
Victoria Horne reviews the new feature-length film by Rachel Maclean
Intentionally Unsent Letters or Letters Forgotten Unintentionally
The first in a series of letters written by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow, 7 Dec 2018 to 27 January 2019
You, my dear beloved boy, Honza Vee, 8 February, 1985
The second in a series of letters written by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow, 7 Dec 2018 to 27 January 2019
Letter to my cats, Prague, 5 July, 1985
The third in a series of letters written by Ester Krumbachová, published in conjunction with the exhibition and film programme of the Czech artist’s work at CCA Glasgow, 7 Dec 2018 to 27 January 2019
Pinochet Porn — Ellen Cantor’s dark feature at Glasgow Film Festival 2019
A MAP screening curated by artist Georgia Horgan
Spaces, Places
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, 2-6 May, 2019. Review by Ben Nicholson
Sunday Fantasy, an exhibition and film by Zoe Williams
Mimosa House, London, 25 May–27 Jul. Review by Ari Níelsson
Against dialogue, or, we need to sing to mountains
Notes from the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 19–22 September 2019. By Marcus Jack
you, there, are you there? | MAP at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Event over. A programme of short film, artist moving image and performance curated by Rosie Roberts and including work by Rhea Storr, Jessica Higgins, Alex Culshaw and Alison Scott. Wednesday, 4 March, 6pm. CCA Cinema
Tongues
MAP screens a new film by Màiri Lafferty, alongside ‘Polyphonic Repentance’, a text by Holly Yeoman
Seizing the means of projection
Marcus Jack considers thirty years of artists’ moving image exhibition in Glasgow
Gay Bond
A film by Lauren La Rose: an estranged father asks his daughter to help him make a homoerotic action movie. The resulting film, which includes interviews with family and former lovers, touches on issues of identity, immigration and social justice. In this special presentation MAP screens Gay Bond online and interviews the artist
Why, They Call it Idlewild
Erica Scourti remotely reviews Helen Cammock’s exhibition ‘They Call It Idlewild’ at Wysing Arts Centre, affirming a vision where respecting the human need for downtime is a vital act of care.
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
CAST by Jamie Donald
A response to Sharon Hayes’ ‘Fingernails on a blackboard: Bella’ which was screened at the launch of the year long GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW—Artist Moving Image Festival 2021
We Leave Together
Matt Turner views two films by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
They lay on the floor like starfish
Ben Nicholson looks into Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2021, Thu 29 Apr-Mon 3 May
The intimate boundaries of Istanbul
Helen Mackreath explores the city through three films
Tax the Rich
Caitlin Merrett King visits Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2021 and considers the economics at play in the work of Ane Hjort Guttu, Rehana Zaman and Jordan Lord
Little Palestine
Elhum Shakerifar reflects on Abdallah Al-Khatib’s poetry and film