The Image and Its Image
NKFS Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole, Kabelvåg, Norway
14-18 October 2019
Festival catalogue edited by George Clark, 47 pages, 2019
Author: George Clark
The Image And Its Image, NKFS, 14-18 October 2019
THE IMAGE AND ITS IMAGE
14-18 October 2019
Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole, Kabelvåg, Norway
I curated this festival of moving image for Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole in Kabelvåg, Norway. Taking trajectory from the writings of Manny Farber, the screenings draw together many works which have helped me think through cinema, its potential and multiple futures.
“How can we grasp the elusive nature of an object or an idea? Images can be means of capture but then how do we contain the image itself? The thirty work assembled here draw on a wide array of subjects but are linked in their exploration of the elusive quality of the image. Doubles, reflections, echoes and ghosts populate the works which each seek to find their own way to approach contemporary reality and the cosmic assemblages of images in which we live. The works provide models for how thought can be contained in what we may call after Ursula Le Guin, the carrier bag of images, which we know under its other name; cinema.” – George Clark
Featuring 30 works by Ayo Akingbade, Martha Mayet Atienza, Tanatchai Bandasak, Mariano Blatt, Duncan Campbell, George Clark, Shirley Clarke, Jatiwangi Art Factory, Humphrey Jennings, Joan Jonas, Barbara McCullough, Chris Marker, Vincent Meessen, László Moholy-Nagy, Ismal Muntaha, Kira Muratova, Ogawa Productions, Juanita Onzaga, Charlotte Prodger, Morgan Quaintance, Alain Resnais, Miko Revereza, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Francisco Rodríguez Teare, Raúl Ruiz, Taiki Sakpisit, Danech San, Kidlat Tahimik, Shannon Te Ao, Tito & Tita (Shireen Seno) Harry Watt and Eduardo Teddy Williams.
Double Ghosts at New York Film Festival, October 2019
DOUBLE GHOSTS
North American premiere
New York Film Festival, USA
5 & 6 October 2019
Honoured to have the North American premiere of Double Ghosts as part of the New York Film Festival. Screening in the Projections section curated by Aily Nash and Dennis Lim. Double Ghosts was shown in programme together with work by Luise Donschen, Ryan Ferko and Luke Fowler.
“Inspired by an unfinished film by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz, George Clark’s globetrotting short retraces Ruiz’s ill-fated production from the beaches of Viña del Mar and the port of Valparaiso to the cemeteries of New Taipei City. Framed around a conversation with Ruiz’s widow, the filmmaker Valeria Sarmiento, Double Ghostschannels the spirit of this unrealized project into a poetic reflection on the creative process and the power of influence.” – NYFF
https://www.filmlinc.org/…/shorts-program-4-beginnings-and…/
Thanks to British Council for filmmaker’s travel grant to attend the premiere.
Double Ghosts, opening, 19 September 2019
GEORGE CLARK: DOUBLE GHOSTS
19th September – 27th October 2019
The Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
Double Ghosts is a multi-part exhibition which traverses the Pacific drawing on historical fragments, traces and ghosts from the coasts of Chile to a mountain cemetery in Taiwan. Exploring the status and potential of unrealised and fragmented histories, the exhibition draws together 35mm film, sound recordings, script fragments, photography and archival material filmed and gathered in Chile, France and Taiwan.
The project draws on research into temple film projectionists and an unfinished film made in Taiwan by prolific filmmaker Raul Ruiz (1941-2011) who made most of his films nomadically after his political exile from Chile in 1973.
The exhibition was accompanied by a series of events and workshops that reflect upon the themes of the exhibition and provide a variety of exercises to improve the circulation between the real and the virtual, drawing on animist practice, Taoist philosophy and ecological approaches to life of all kinds.
Double Ghosts is presented by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in partnership with Berwick Visual Arts and is supported by Berwick Welcome Visitor Project. With support from Arts Council of England and Connections Through Culture grant from British Council Taiwan – Arts and Education.
Remang-Remang, Pavilion, August 2019
Remang-Remang
Sunday 25 August & Tuesday 27 August 2019
Pavilion, Leeds
42 New Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6NU
as part of West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement
Over two days, 42 New Briggate became a Remang-Remang a functioning open studio and meeting place. Taking its name from the dimly lit rest areas common on the Pantura Road, the longest road in Indonesia, we invited musicans, poets, artists, filmmakers and members of public to join at any time to meet, talk, and play music with Indonesian artists Tedi Nurmanto and Ahmad Sujai.
The open studio was culmination of the two artists residencies as part of West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement which incorporated numerous events, site visits, collaborations and encounters across West Yorkshire. Remang Remang involved wide range of local artists including Khemi Shabazz, Erik Schelander, Anna Peaker, Ahmed Kaysher, Lulia Togara, Abdullah Adekola, Rowland Thomas, Jamshed Folad and Daoud Al-Janabi.
Tedi spent the residency researching music across region, meeting and playing with numerous musicians from producer and artist Mark Fell to Colne Valley Male Voice Choir. Building a new composition from field recordings across the post-industrial landscape, Tedi worked with this as basis for recording with musicians during the Remang-Remang open studio. Tedi is the music director of Jatiwangi Art Factory and plays a custom built electric guitar made from a ceramic roof file. His most recent musical project is Lair, a group inspired by classical tarling music explored in a typical Pantura style, raw and open to passing influences.
Ahmad Sujai spent time gathering stories of West Yorkshire to help him create a local response to the mythic figure of Jante Arkidam. First imagined in a famous 1967 poem by Ajip Rosidi, Jante is an archetypal man from Jatiwangi – a charismatic rogue continually evading capture by the authorities.
Kindly supported by the London Book Fair Fringe Programme through funding from BEKRAF (the Creative Economy Agency of Indonesia). Organised by the National Organising Committee of the 2019 London Book Fair (NOC-LBF) and Virtuago.
Loudest Voice In Meanwood, West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement,
Loudest Voice In Meanwood
Sat, 24 August 2019, 6pm
Meanwood Institute, Leeds
Part of West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement
Invited to respond to the idea of his village as part of the 10th Village Video Festival, Leeds based artist Joe Geoff made new film documenting the Meanwood Urban Farm and organised special screening at the Meanwood Institute. The programme featured selection of short works by local filmmaker Doreen Wood, as a partial celebration of her 99th birthday and decades-long interest in documenting Meanwood, Leeds and beyond on film. The programme included selection of Doreen’s films including subjects such as the formation of the Meanwood Urban Farm and the destruction of the former Capitol Cinema.
Including guest performance by Tedi Nurmanto and screening of Prabowo Setyadi’s short documentary on the Supernatural Farming project of Jatiwangi art Factory.
Kindly supported by the London Book Fair Fringe Programme through funding from BEKRAF (the Creative Economy Agency of Indonesia). Organised by the National Organising Committee of the 2019 London Book Fair (NOC-LBF) and Virtuago.
Double Ghosts / Bóng ma kép – Hanoi Doclab, July 2019
Double Ghosts / Bóng ma kép: Screening & Talk with George Clark
Hanoi Doclab, Vietnam, 2 July 2019
“With great pleasures, Hanoi Doclab presents a program with artist/curator George Clark who will talk about his expanded practice with film from projection performances to exhibitions and show his new film Double Ghosts. George Clark is in Vietnam as part of the British Council’s Heritage of Future Past project doing research for new project and preparing for a future workshop with artists and filmmakers in Vietnam.”
Thanks to everyone at Hanoi Doclab for invitation and special thanks to Nyugen Trinh Thi for making new Vietnamese subtitles for my films!
Supported by the British Council under the FAMLAB fund. More information on new project coming soon
The Scent of Jati Trees / Jatiwangi – Punto De Vista – March 2019
The Scent of Jati Trees / Jatiwangi
13th Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain
International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra
11-16 March 2019
The Scent of Jati Trees / Jatiwangi was part of the official selection of the Punto De Vista festival. Featuring 30 films, the official selection formed the most international edition of Punto de Vista with works from Canada, Chile, Argentina, Germany, the UK, the USA, Ireland, Indonesia, Belgium, Zambia, France, the Dominican Republic, Uzbekistan, Mexico, Iran, Spain, Portugal and India.
Double Ghosts premiere – International Film Festival Rotterdam – Jan 2019
Double Ghosts
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
25 & 27 January 2019
World festival premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019. Double Ghosts was shown as part of special programme The Laboratory of Unseen Beauty curated by Olaf Möller.
“In 1995, Raúl Ruiz went to Taiwan, where he shot La comédie des ombres at Jīnbao Shān cemetery; he never got around to editing the material. George Clark wonders what this work, rooted in Luigi Pirandello’s Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore and fables by Zhuāng Zhōu, could have been like. ” – IFFR
https://iffr.com/en/2019/films/double-ghosts
XTC Majalengka x George Clark – Jatiwangi Art Factory – Dec 2018
XTC Majalengka X George Clark
10 Village Video Festival
Jatiwangi Art Factory
15-16 December 2018
What can we do to bring the body closer to the place where we live? Walking may be one of them….
The XTC Majalengka motorbike enthusiast club collaborated with George Clark to take part in a mass walk following the hiking route from a group of grandfathers from Marsden in West Yorkshire. We invited more than 100 local members of XTC, to put aside their motorbikes and set out on foot across Majalengka’s land, to experience their locality through new prism and observe the continuing changes towards its future as new industrial centre.
Screening and planning meeting
15 December
Walking Dad hike
16 December
