Echoes from the Static - Emerging Voices: Work from Dazzling Image

Echoes from the Static is a five week film programme curated by Nicole Atkinson and showing artists' moving image works associated with Channel 4 between 1982-1992. These five screenings delve into the channel’s first decade, spotlighting lesser known and rarely shown experimental film and video art that was once broadcast on Channel 4. Each event will be introduced by Nicole Atkinson, and followed by a post-screening discussion with artists and practitioners from, and involved with, this history.

The fourth screening, Emerging Voices: Work from Dazzling Image, focuses on the work commissioned for the Channel 4 series Dazzling Image (tx. 2.7.1990 - 30.7.1990) and Dazzling Image II (tx. 8.6.1992 - 20.7.1992). The series was co-commissioned with the BFI New Directors fund and the Arts Council England, and commissioned works from new and emerging artists working in Britain. Each programme was thematically based, from personal essay, religion, the body, and queer identity, and introduced by a different figure each night. The works in this programme reflect the range of experimentation, both narratively and formalistically, that this programme encouraged, including artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, and Cordelia Swann.

The programme will be followed by a post-screening discussion with Rod Stoneman. Rod Stoneman is the Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Chief Executive of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board until September 2003 and previously a Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 . He has made a number of documentaries, including Ireland: The Silent Voices, Italy: the Image Business, 12,000 Years of Blindness and The Spindle, and has written extensively on film and television.

Full programme notes distributed on the night, alongside the accompanying zine Echoes from the Static.

The programme is as follows:

New York Conversations (Vivienne Dick, 1990) 21 mins, LUX

The Citadel (Cordelia Swann, 1992) 13 mins, LUX

A Nosegay (Maggie Jailler, 1986) 15 mins, LUX

Lady Lazarus (Sandra Lahire, 1991) 25 mins, LUX

Many Scars (Sophie Outram, 1992) 9 mins, LUX

The Pecking Order (Vicky Smith, 1989) 5 mins, LUX

Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start. The total programme running length is approximately 88 minutes, followed by a post-screening discussion with Rod Stoneman.

Please note: Farr's basement bar is not wheelchair accessible.

Images from A Nosegay, New York Conversations, and Lady Lazarus. Courtesy of LUX.