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# 1 [17 March 2010]

Open Call for Submissions - Deadline: 31st May 2010

WHAT: Open call for screen-based art; film, video, animation. No thematic criteria. No limit on number of submissions per artist.

WHO: Anyone can submit to FAFF2010; all nationalities, all career levels including students

DURATION: no limit

FORMAT: Films should be supplied in digital format only: avi, mpg or mov

A film still (jpg at 300dpi) is also required.

LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES: Films with non-English dialogue do not have to have English subtitles but it is recommended.

COST: No submission or participation fee. Postage for postal submissions is payable by the applicant. Postal submission cannot be returned. Please note that only FAFF2010 is only able to notify successful applicants.

POSTAL SUBMISSIONS: DOWNLOAD FORM (PDF): http://bit.ly/FAFF2010

POSTAL ADDRESS: FAFF2010, Halifax Festival 2010, Square Chapel, 10 Square Road, Halifax, HX1 1QG, UK (Non-EU submissions: No commercial value, for cultural purposes)

ONLINE SUBMISSIONS: We can accept most email / file sharing submissions to dice.fundada[at]yahoo.co.uk (10MB max) or via yousendit.com etc

DEADLINE (Receiving date not postmark date): 31st May 2010

# 2 [17 March 2010]

About Halifax Festival:

The Halifax Festival began life in 2007 as The July Project, a festival for the children and young people in Calderdale. The event was hugely successful with over 35,000 children turning up, tuning in and taking part. This video was recorded during the 2009 festival which will give you a flavour of what we have achieved and a feeling for what we would like to do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5sQwlKC3GY

The organising committee for The July Project met soon after the 2009 event and began to consider the route forward. They decided that they wanted to move the date to August and open the event out to everyone not just the children and young people of Calderdale.

Halifax Festival are looking for performers, venues, volunteers and sponsors. Please contact Lucy Burnett on lucy.burnett@halifaxfestival.co.uk 01422 353073 for a list of opportunities.

Follow Halifax on Twitter www.twitter.com/HalifaxFestival

Become a fan on facebook www.facebook.com/HalifaxFestival

# 3 [17 March 2010]

Film Festival Technician Required

Film Festival Technician Required (Unpaid Experience)

FAFF2010 requires a film show reel producer/technician to prepare film show reels of selected artists’ films with consistent title sequences for digital DVD projection. We require you to have your own software and hardware to produce high quality film show reels DVDs from a variety of digital formats under the direction of the festival curators. The film festival will run 14th – 20th August 2010 and availability to test-run the final show reels in advance of the launch is essential. Knowledge and skills of show reel production and AV equipment is essential but previous festival experience is not essential.

FAFF2010 is a zero budget film festival and is regrettable unable to offer financial reward for work but will provide enjoyable and creditable experience working as part of a creative team.

To apply, email: dice.fundada[at]yahoo.co.uk outlining your working knowledge of film, your software of choice, your availability in August and any other additional festival roles you may be interested in.

# 4 [7 May 2010]

Reviewing

# 5 [6 June 2010]

FAFF2010 submission deadline has gone and Fundada is now wading through the amazing quantity of post we have received from all over the world.

Fundada has taken to the quiet corners of bars and cafes across the Pennines for the reviewing process. 22 hours of videos have already been reviewed and we have already shortlisted some very exciting contemporary video art.

''agreeable beyond belief''

Not without technical hitch (isn't it always the case?)... windows vs mac causes problems yet again and the windows laptop takes a serious dislike to the mov files, even wafer thin mov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk

Not to let that deter us, we have delegated the mov reviews to the mac, vowing to change to linux asap.

Fundada has also confirmed the launch programme line up and will be announcing shortly (very, very exciting).

A little taster of what's to come, here are some reviews of one of the acts:

'Wow, great stuff!' - Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine

'I love this so so so much' - Robert Popper, Writer; Peep Show, Look Around You, IT Crowd

'British people like to act superior to their colonial cousins, thanks to video wizards Eagle & Feather we know that thats just bollocks.' - EverythingisTerrible.com

'Holy shit, that's ridiculous.' - Joe Pickett, Found Film Festival

'Unnerving Fun' - Headpress Magazine

'Made me double up. Am I wrong?' - Matt Tiller, Comedian

'Like speed injected into the eyeballs.' - BlackLab

# 6 [7 June 2010]

Inaugural Fundada Artists' Film Festival Launch Programme Announced!

Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age

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You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks

Saturday 14th August, 2-4pm

Square Chapel, Halifax, UK

FREE ENTRY

FAFF continues 16th - 20th August

Part of Halifax Festival 2010

You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks

The special guest performing with Splitty McCheeks at the FAFF Opening Event will be Hollywood based NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino. Barry plays 10 VHS video players hung round his neck projecting the mixed images through a digital projector strapped to his head. Barry will be flying over from his condo on Mulholland Drive, Hollywood, straight to the Halifax Square Chapel. Don't miss this unique performer in his first UK gig.

http://www.youpigs.com/

Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age

Kipple: A term borrowed from Phillip K Dick referring to the detritus of modern living that will one day overwhelm us.

“Kipple drives out nonkipple………No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot………the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Eagle & Feather: Julian Butler, aka Eagle, and Stephen Earl Rogers, aka Feather. Stephen is an artist working mainly as a painter. He is held in permanent collections in the UK and United States and has exhibited many times at the National Portrait Gallery. Julian is a film-maker and television producer. His work has appeared on BBC2, Channel 4, Sky, ITV and at the Edinburgh, London and Cannes film festivals.

Collaboratively, Eagle & Feather have been putting their own interpretation on the term kipple for a number of years. Through regular visits to charity shops, public libraries and jumble sales they have amassed a collection of absurdly peripheral and esoteric videotapes, selected for their distinct peculiarity.

Theirs is an attempt at alchemy, taking base material and transforming it, by various means – editing, manipulating, combining and reducing - into something that is imbued with new qualities - humour, drama, pathos and poetry. Turning kipple into non-kipple, at least temporarily.

http://www.smileorangefilms.co.uk/film_kipple.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/smileorange3

# 7 [7 June 2010]

About Eagle & Feather

Before meeting each other Feather had previously trained as green berets under the legendary Colonel Trautman, Eagle and had MC'ed for John Virgo on his UK tour. And Feather was very aware of being a jew.

Whilst saving the beaver and with Grey Owl in Canada they both went foraging for food (things like mashed bread and Robin Morley's smelly cheese). But instead they uncovered a nuclear bunker where the US government had dumped video tapes, saved for future generations.

The first tape they played featured Cleethorpes Rastafarian and Bob Marley chancellor Irie White singing ‘Bye Bye Dobbin’. The second tape was an incontinence self help video ’Out and about and dry’. They were hooked. Returning from the bunker as prophets to The Midlands and Slaithwaite, they set up a monastery to spread the gospel of what they called KIPPLE.

They were ignored for many years until, by chance, Melvyn Bragg was introduced to KIPPLE by Gail Porter. He immediately got them involved in the filming of the Granada show 'An Audience with Cliff Richard Possessed' and choreographing the fight scenes for Cliff Richard's Heathcliff.

Eagle and Feather were now unstoppable going on to start their own fashion label for tractor drivers (Brotherhood Fashions) endorsed by celebs like Peter Fonda and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. They also sponsored Jan Johnson in his failed 'Portraits from Space' and Olympic pole-vault bid. The duo's range of cuddly toys based on the 'furry' (the incredible Japanese headless dogs) is launched this fall. They also got themselves a pizza ad out of it.

Catch them here in Halifax for their warm up show before their London Palladium live parade, starring Paul Wheater (Paul has always been a drinker), the 'better than Jolson' sounds of Clive Baldwin and Timothy Dalton's performance with his trained wolves ('A Wolf-able experience' - Peter Ustinov, Daily Telegraph). The young Jonathan Pryce may also make an appearance with the Florida Jets display team.

Eagle and Feather also gain inspiration from the following works of VHS art:

Fish for a Quid, The Bream Machine, Carp on the Long Pole, Introducing the new Velux Roof Window System, Electronic Monitoring for Offenders, How to Hang Wallpaper, Creative Routing for the Home Craftsman, How You Can Win Competitions, The Legion Players Present The Wind in the Willows Gaiety Theatre 8th to 10th November 2001, Born 2B Gangsta?, Egyptian Belly Dancing for Intermediates, Get to Know God Video, Happy to be a Muslim, The Kingdom of Ticky Tack, The Story of the Red Mason Bee, Ceramic Tiling, The Making of ‘Seasonal Gardening’, Ray Reardon Master Class, Food Processor Cooking: Tasty Tips from the Craft Cook, Traction Engines: The Millers Trail Vol 1, Learn the Skills of Rugby League, Tom’s River, Master Bakers: A Golden Opportunity, Start the Day with Great Taste: Exclusive video from Nescafe featuring Susannah & Trinny, Tony Allcock’s Art of Bowls, Get That Job, Game for a Job, Is Work for Me?, Learning Tenor Banjo, Darrin’s Dancing Grooves, British Rail Today, Kleeneze: What does Success Mean to You?, Horse Sense for Riders, Super Tours in Super Somerset, Discover Fish, Learn to knot Vol 1, Retailing, Resources in Training and Education Ltd, Sports Boat, Tile it Yourself, The Fun of Cake Decorating, Fimo Modelling Projects: Fill your Doll’s House / Shop / Market Stall, Jersey Battle of Flowers, Safe Moving and Handling for Carers at Home, Breastfeeding: A Gift for Life, What you Really Need to know about Problems with Fertility, Out and About and Dry.

# 8 [7 June 2010]

Previous KIPPLE Events

TV

'The BBC: Budget Broadcasting Corporation'. Pilot for Channel K for Channel 4. 2008

'Headgasm'. Pilot with Shine productions for Bravo Channel. 2006

'Top Ten Kipple Moments'. Pilot for Granada TV. 2005

Exhibitions

2010

A Night of Kipple, Blacklab, Manchester

Video Progetto, Grand Union & 26CC, Birmingham and Rome

2009

Knowing me Knowing you, Vivid, Birmingham

Endless Supply, Eastside Projects, Birmingham

Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds Film Festival, Leeds

Popcorn Comedy, Roxy Bar & Screen, London

Supersonic Festival 09, The Custard Factory, Birmingham

Everyday Film & Photography, Temporary Art Space, Halifax

Flatpack Festival 3, Kino, Birmingham

Antifreeze - art car boot sale – Manchester

Exploding Cinema, London

Everything is Terrible, LA, USA

2008

Conjunction 08, Stoke-on-Trent

Supersonic Festival 08, The Custard Factory, Birmingham

2007

Kipple Night, Periscope, Birmingham

Aurora, In association with 7inch Cinema, Norwich Arts Centre

Supersonic Festival 07, The Custard Factory, Birmingham

Capsule & Cake - Gigbeth, Birmingham

Video Gumbo, Hare & hounds, Birmingham

Flatpack Festival 2, Birmingham

New Generation Arts Festival, The Electric Cinema, Birmingham

Reviews and Features

'Wow, great stuff!' - Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine

'I love this so so so much' - Robert Popper, Writer; Peep Show, Look Around You, IT Crowd

'British people like to act superior to their colonial cousins, thanks to video wizards Eagle & Feather we know that thats just bollocks.' - EverythingisTerrible.com

'Holy shit, that's ridiculous.' - Joe Pickett, Found Film Festival

'Unnerving Fun' - Headpress Magazine

'Made me double up. Am I wrong?' - Matt Tiller, Comedian

'Like speed injected into the eyeballs.' - BlackLab

http://www.smileorangefilms.co.uk/film_kipple.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/smileorange3

# 9 [9 August 2010]

FAFF2010 artists:

Kevin Boniface (UK), Alice Bradshaw (UK), Adam Brandon (UK), Sara Brannan (UK), Sarah Buckius (USA), Jane & Mike Chavez-Dawson (UK), Çağlar Çetin (TR), David Cochrane (UK), Robert Crosse (UK), Keren Cytter (DE), eddie d (NL), John Deller (UK), Doplgenger (SRB), Eagle & Feather (UK), Sarah Filmer (UK), Şinasi Güneş (TR), Maggie Hall (UK), Sarah Harbridge (UK), Clare Harris (UK), Max Hattler (UK), Sam Holden (UK), Robin Kiteley & Samuel Stocks (UK), Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK), Lemeh42 (IT), Lernert & Sander (NL), Sarah Lüdemann (DE), Rä di Martino (BE), Joanne Masding (UK), Fumiko Matsuyama (DE), Kit Merritt (UK), Vincent Meessen (BE), Milk, Two Sugars (UK), Lin de Mol (NL), Marlanna and Daniel O'Reilly (UK), Elodie Pong (CH), Sara Rajaei (NL), Thomas Rummelhoff (NO), Manuel Saiz (IT), Sebaldo (UK), Semiconductor (UK), Tory Smith (UK), Splitty McCheeks (UK), Jacki Storey (UK), Saskia Takens-Milne (UK), Paul Tarragó (UK), Tether / Grin & Slutsky (UK), Kathy Toth (UK), Jenny Triggs (UK), Barry Valentino (USA), Jorge García Velayos (ES), Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (BE), Tom Walker (UK), Roland Wegerer (AT), Tomoyuki Yago (JP), Gerald Zahn (AT)

# 10 [9 August 2010]

DIGPreview: FAFF2010

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"This not-for-profit, artist-led art festival will be taking place in the beautiful setting of the Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, as part of the wider Halifax Festival. It's a chance to see some of the finest in contemporary screen-based art, and promises to deliver a wide range of artworks, all inclusive and engaging." - Rachel Jeffcoat

DIGPreview: Fundada Film Festival

Fundada Artists’ Film Festival (FAFF) is a non profit, contemporary film and video event run by artists. The aim is to allow artists to show their full potential and show the best in contemporary screen-based art from across the globe. At this year's event the art will be selected from the international open call by Alice Bradshaw and Nancy Porter. This free event based at Square Chapel, Halifax will take place 14th - 22nd August 2010. During this period Fundada aims to show art is not only fun and inclusive but conceptually strong and critically engaged as well.

The wonderfully-acronymed FAFF will be starting off with an inaugural event dedicated mostly to the all-but-forgotten medium of VHS. “VHS VJ” Barry Valentino will be making his first ever UK appearance with his unique act in which he plays ten VHS players strung around his neck, mixing the images and projecting them through a digital projector strapped to his head. Of course.

The festival will continue throughout the week with screenings and performances each day. Check the blog for more details: http://fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

- Ruth Peacock