Philip Warnell, the Course Director for the BA (Hons) Filmmaking course, has been commissioned by FACT/Channel 4 to produce a short three minute piece for ‘Random Acts’.

‘The Scales and Stripes’ will be broadcast on Channel 4 later in 2013 and is a trailer for a longer form film he currently has in production entitled ‘Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air’.

Along with appearing on Channel 4, ‘The Scales and Stripes’ will also be screened at Kino der Kunst, Munich this month as part of an event screening 25 ‘Random Acts’ films by artists including Marina Abramovic, Johan Grimonprez, Martha Rosler, Palme d\’Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Turner Prize winners Mark Wallinger and Mark Leckey and James Franco.

For more information about ‘Random Acts’ please visit:

http://randomacts.channel4.com/

For more information about Kino der Kunst vist:

http://www.kinoderkunst.de/web/en/random-acts/___eventId/34/event-detail.html

‘ANON’ is an exhibition showing collaborative works through different mediums by five students from Kingston University; Felix Martin, John Carney, Eva Lekaj, Jack Thomspon and Sadegh Ad.

Throughout modern and contemporary art the notion of authorship and identity has been questioned rigorously, ranging from Roland Barthes essay ‘The Death of the Author’ to Grayson Perry’s exhibition, ‘Tomb of the Forgotten Craftsmen’ the ownership/abandonment of material created by the self is an important theme in today’s society. By creating a picture to pass onto the next collegue to work over we the nameless artists are expressing the collective ownership whilst spontaneously declining any possessive claims of the work, thus sacrificing our art and ourselves to be altered through the manipulations of another entity.

There is no better location to demonstrate this than the police cells where dignity, identity, respect and pride are lost and the subject is made the caged lion of the concrete zoo. By exhibiting art in such a location we aim to prove that art isn’t a spectacle to be observed behind velvet ropes or in hushed silence but to be encountered in a dynamic and expressive environment – true art is as wild and infinite as nursery for life our species was once born into.

The exhibition can be seen on the opening night of Friday 22nd, 7-10pm and all day Saturday 23rd.

The Old Police Station
114 Amersham Vale
London
SE14 6LG

(A 5 minute walk from New Cross station)

This May will see work from some of the students from our BA (hons) Filmmaking course screening at the prestigious BFI Southbank. Following on from last year’s success, where 27 films in five short programmes were shown, the curated programme will run from 6.30pm until 10pm on Monday 20th May. The event provides an opportunity to see the some of the excellent films made this year, with brief introductions by some of the filmmaking staff.

Kingston lecturer Tom Morton, who teaches onto our suite of postgraduate Fine Art courses, has curated a new exhibition: The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old.

Being held at five different venues in Lincoln from the 2nd February to the 7th May 2013, The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old is an exhibition that brings together objects from the County of Lincolnshire’s archaeological holdings with works by over twenty emerging and established contemporary artists. Taking its title from a description of the age of the Earth found in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the show extends across five venues in the city of Lincoln, a site of human habitation since the Paleolithic era. At is centre is a critical awareness of the mutability of the material record, of how objects may be mobilized to speak of multiple histories, both credible and fabulous.

Featured artists: Rupert Ackroyd, Charles Avery, Anna Barriball, Martin Boyce, Edwin Burdis, Anthony Caro, Gillian Carnegie, Dan Coopey, Keith Coventry, Matthew Darbyshire, Nicolas Deshayes, Jacob Dwyer, Jess Flood-Paddock, Roger Hiorns, Jan Ijäs, Sarah Lucas, Jeremy Millar, Adrien Missika, David Musgrave, Karen Russo, Alexander Tovborg.

Venues across Lincoln: The Collection Museum, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln University Greestone Building, Greyfriars Building

For more information visit:

http://tinyurl.com/ago89qm

Celebrating the Eclectic

6 February 2013 – 8 February 2013
Private View: 6 February 2013, 5.00pm – 8.00pm

The Centre for Useless Splendour
Kingston University
Knights Park Campus
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2QJ

Three of our current students on the BA (hons) Filmmaking have been given the fantastic opportunity to work at the BFI as festival interns. 

Amanda Greenwell, Jack Needell and Danny Helme are working at the BFI for three months to prepare for the Future Film Festival. The annual Future Film Festival takes place over a weekend in February every year, with a packed line up of workshops, masterclasses, networking opportunities, screenings and Q&As at BFI Southbank.

To read more about their experience please visit their blog at:

http://bfiworkplacement2013.tumblr.com/