Monday 25^th March 2013

Seminar, 11am – 6pm. Social event with film screenings and bar, 6-8pm.

g39, Oxford Street, Cardiff, CF24 3DT. www.g39.org

Four guest speakers will share their exceptional knowledge and experience of moving image practice against a backdrop of commissioned work from the O:4W Festival.

• GARY THOMAS

Film Advisor for the British Council and Associate Director of Animate Projects.

• DR LUCY REYNOLDS

Lecturer, Film Curator and Features Editor for MIRAJ, Moving Image Review and Art Journal.

• GERALD CONN

Animator, Filmmaker and Managing Director of Gritty Realism productions.

• JAYNE PARKER

Artist, Filmmaker and Lecturer at The Slade School of Fine Art.

The first seminar of it’s kind in Wales, aimed at artists, filmmakers, animators, students, curators and academics. O:4W will create a space for individuals with an active involvement in moving image media to share research, ideas and experience, discuss practice and connect with each other in a sense of collaboration.

Ticket price:          £20.00                  /         £15.00 student concessions*

Ticket price includes lunch and invitation to the social event. Tickets are strictly limited.

*Students will be expected to present a valid NUS card on arrival.

Diolch / Thanks

from

the O:4W team.

We’ve booked the Coal Exchange in Cardiff for Saturday 1 December from 7pm, entrance is free.

The Earth will tickling our eardrums in their inimitable style and there’ll be dancing, performance, artyness and general jollity for all of our friends and fans.

It’s a free event and the first 150 to sign up get goodies too (that’s how much we love you)

Georgie Grace: Clashes / two shifts, 2012 / Yuki Kishino: The Distance Between One and Another, 2011-2012 / Paul Harrison: Away From The Unknown, 2011 / Anna Lucas: Gustav, Graham and Lee, 2011 / Rehana Zaman: Fig2. Where The Workers Get A Taste, 2012 / Matthew Ferguson: hfdkbj (prototype), 2012

Vicki Thornton: The Centre And The Circumference, 2011 / Adam Knight: The Polittante (Part 1), 2011 / Inez de Coo: Gaze Of The Void, 2012 / Ian Giles: The Clarinet Player, 2011 / Lucy Pawlak: During Action, 2012 / Peter Harris: Self Portrait by Proxy 6: Are You Real? 2009.

This programme has a running time of 2 hours 17 minutes minutes and will loop twice daily.

Plus we have Richard Powell’s Moth-man Orbits screening in the window.

The Dark Sounds For A City series of films form part of a larger body of live performance and lens-based works, inspired by 1970’s and 80‘s BBC Sound Effects LPs (on vinyl and in mono, for amateurs). Commissioned by BBC Wales as part of Mad, Bad & Dangerous, its ‘artists-make-films-for-tv-transmission’ scheme, the intention was to create a number of micro-length narrative ‘dramas’ to be screened in the gaps between the channel’s scheduled programming.The results appear as incidents that could be seen to have been lifted from part of a larger project, at a point immediately ‘post-impact’, where we can only guess at what has been and what will potentially follow.

These films were some of the earliest shot on HD by BBC Wales (although never screened in HD) by Bafta Award Winning cinematographer, Rob Hardy.

John Rowley has worked as an artist and an actor for the past 20 years. He makes work across a wide range of media including theatre, performance, film, sculpture and illustration. Reared in Essex, he has now been resident in Wales since 1990, initially working for the renowned site-specific theatre company, BRITH GOF. In addition to his solo practice he also makes art and performance works with colleague, Richard Huw Morgan as part of good cop bad cop and is an associate performer with the Sheffield-based experimental performance group, Forced Entertainment. In the summer of 2012 he was cast in a National Theatre of Wales’ production of Coriolanus and is about to develop his second children’s book for a well known publisher.