Artists' Filmmaking Symposium 2017

Presented by: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival

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0	HAWICK: Tower Mill
P	Thursday 2nd March, 2017
N	12:00pm

Event information

The 2017 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland’s international festival dedicated to experimental film and artists’ moving image, will open on Thursday 2nd March with the Artists' Filmmaking Symposium - an unique event that in its past 4 years has proven to be immensely successful. Open to all, and aimed at both aspiring and established filmmakers or artists working within moving image, the Symposium features talks and presentations by revered filmmakers and leading industry figures. It provides a rare opportunity to meet and mingle with a range of experts closely involved the making, funding, and distribution of experimental films and artists’ moving image, along with students and fans of the arts. This year’s schedule of high calibre internationally recognised speakers is:

SCHEDULE
12.00pm: Registration.
12.15pm: Welcome and light lunch (provided).
1.00pm: Screening: "#67" by Joost Rekveld
1.20pm: Joost Rekveld (Amsterdam, NL)
Artist motivated by the question of what we can learn from a dialogue with machines.
2.00pm: Patricia Pisters (Amsterdam, NL)
Professor of film at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
2.30pm: Break.
2.50pm: Violaine Boutet de Monvel, Jacques Perconte (Paris, France)
Violaine Boutet de Monvel is a French art critic and a member of International Association of Art Critics. Jacques Perconte is a leading figure on the French avant-garde film scene.
3.30pm: Erin Espelie (Boulder, CO, USA)

Click here for peakers biographies and talks desriptions:
http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/symposium/