Dream Sequence #1
Thu, 5 Sep 2024 19:00 - 21:30 BST
SET Social
55a Nigel Road London SE15 4NP
Join us at SET Social for Dream Sequence, an anything-goes experimental film night.
From surrealist animation to analogue video synthesis and everything in between, expect a kaleidoscopic night of experimental shorts from a whole host of exciting filmmakers and artists. No theme. No rules.
Lepidoptera (Edd Carr, 2022)
UK - 3’37”
A moving image work depicting the interwoven narratives of insect extinction, the life cycle of a butterfly, and childhood trauma. Each scene was hand-printed using a different method, incorporating natural elements including rain, soil, and leaves.Edd Carr is an award-winning artist and researcher based in the UK. His films - exhibited globally - explore the adaptation of photographic processes into moving image. Carr is also co-director of the Sustainable Darkroom, an organisation committed to developing and advocating for eco-friendly alternatives in analogue and digital photography.
To Do (Saul Pankhurst, 2022)
UK - 3’14”
A reflection on productivity and the self-improvement industry, explored through the filmmaker’s attempts to participate in a modern mindfulness exercise.Saul Pankhurst is an artist and filmmaker working within creative non-fiction. His practice adopts highly collaborative approaches that scrutinise both the role of the filmmaker and the complex ethics involved in representing the stories of others. Based in London, Saul works as a director of photography, animator and editor within artists’ moving-image. His work has shown at festivals worldwide, including Alchemy Arts Festival (UK), Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Raindance Film Festival (UK), London International Animation Festival (UK), Glasgow Short Film Festival (UK) and Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK).
Coiled Fall (Sergej Vutuc, 2018)
Unknown - 7’49”
A music video for Coiled Fall by Zaïmph, comprising Sergej Vutuc’s Super 8 film Tourné Monté. Edited in-camera, the film is a hypnotic and disorientating visual poem in which places and figures never fully emerge. Sergej Vutuc is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans photography, filmmaking, book making, expanded cinema, and live performance. Working between Rakalj, Heilbronn, and Paris, he explores the materiality of film and photography by physically manipulating and destroying his footage and images. Vutuc’s work has been exhibited internationally.
Seashells from Yalova, Penzance and Rye (Ela Kazdal, 2024)
Türkiye/UK - 4’57”
A visual poem that meditates on the interconnection of memory and place.Ela Kazdal is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of materiality, image, and personal history. Working primarily with physical film formats, she utilises contemporary technologies to push the boundaries of the film strip. Her work is deeply engaged with the dual nature of moving images as both physical objects and projected experiences.
they will bury us in code (Autojektor, 2023)
UK - 3’59”
Deepfake technology is used to replace the faces of the past with uncanny digital replicas.
Autojektor is a London-based experimental filmmaker and sound artist. Her films, often exploring themes of identity and gender, emerge from her exploratory cameraless filmmaking practice. Working with found Super 8 and 16mm footage, her films are pushed to their material limits as a result of various destructive analogue and digital processes.
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USA - 6’17”
Rythmic and chaotic textures emerge from this datamoshed televised performance by jazz musician Bill Evans and his band.Autumn Green is US-based artist and musician. Utilising VHS technology, Green’s vibrant abstract video artworks explore the boundless visual possibilities of video synthesis.
PIXELA-ZZZ (Lucy Ellis, 2024)
UK - 1’48”
Abstracted figures dissolve and merge into one another through the filmmaker’s use of datamoshing and databending techniques. A VHS transfer process further enhances the imagery, introducing grain and colour distortions that add textural complexity to the work.Lucy Ellis is a London-based experimental animator. She creates video art by repurposing scrap and found materials into new identities and narratives that diverge from their original purpose or intent. The textures of these materials play a vital role in her practice, evoking themes of memory and the passage of time. Ellis was recently selected as the winner of the inaugural DAZED and Rabanne arts factory, culminating in the exhibition of her work at Miami Art Basel 2024.
The Domesticated Cat (Benny Douet, 2024)
UK - 1’20”
Audio from a 1980s PBS documentary is repurposed in this comedic animated short, exploring the magical and mysteriously sinister intentions of domestic cats.Benny Douet is a London-based visual artist who specialises in illustration and animation. Through his artistic practice, he seeks out new ways to tell stories through a strange and unconventional lens.
Cyborgian Monologue: Exploring Analog and Digital Consciousness (Egle Saka, 2023)
UK - 1’20”
Produced using a combination of LIDAR, AI and audio and visual video synthesis technologies, Cyborgian Monologue... presents the first-person perspective of a malfunctioning cyborg as it contemplates its own consciousness.Egle Saka is a London-based video artist, working with new media and analog technologies. Through video, sound art, site-specific projections, and live performances, her work explores the beautiful imperfections she discovers in audio-visual noise and glitches. Her work has been exhibited internationally and at renowned London galleries such as Saatchi and Jealous.
Bouquet (Sam Brewster, 2024)
UK - 1’48”
A death knell tolls and a transition begins.Sam Brewster is a London-based filmmaker and illustrator whose films seek to probe and recontextualise banal and habitual aspects of everyday life. His films have been exhibited at Cannes Film Festival, PÖFF, and the London Short Film Festival. He recently won the Canal 180 competition 9:16, which led to an invitation to complete a residency in Aveiro, Portugal.