ARTISTS TALKING

# 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

# 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

# 4 [7 May 2010]

Reviewing

# 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.

# 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

# 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