Film Art

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Quakes and capitalism in Turning FACT Inside Out

A French duo turn the gallery into a fracking site and an installation turns the value of capitalism into a public referendum as Liverpool's FACT celebrates ten years of new media adventures.

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Aliens touch down in Preston for new film Piercing Brightness by Shewad Dawood

Set for a nationwide tour, a new feature film by London-based artist and director Shezad Dawood explores migration, ufology and race in UFO-hotbed, Preston Lancashire

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Museums at Night Report: David Blandy's Biter: Hip-Hop and Freud at the Whitechapel

In Freud’s study, amid an unblinking collection of classical and Egyptian artefacts, David Blandy delivers lines of broken Hip-Hop verse to the psychoanalyst’s unoccupied seat.

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Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public

Vitality, diversity and humour are the aims for curator David Thorp in a British Council touring show which brings the likes of David Shrigley and Martin Creed to West Bromwich.

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British artist Katy Dove explores how Thought Becomes Action at Exeter's Spacex

Drawings, watercolours, etchings, paintings, animations and musical interpretations in a show pondering our inner and outer workings at the Exeter gallery.

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Last Chance to See: Silvia Bächli and Eric Hattan: What about Sunday? at MK Gallery

The first domestic exhibition by a pair of Swiss contemporary artists explores notions of ephemerality, the ethereal and organic forms through videos, drawings and sculptures.

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Pink Floyd to Lady Gaga: The Art of Pop Video at FACT Liverpool

From dancers in Fatboy Slim videos to works directed by Andy Warhol, an extensive survey of pop videos past and present features Queen, Prince, Björk, Ladytron and Bob Dylan.

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Wideyed revisit mill observers with Therblig at New Art Exchange as part of Format photography festival

Observing a tissue mill in Northumberland, a pair of artists have used photography and film to reimagine some of the first techniques used to observe the inner workings of factories a century ago.

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Rosa Barba twins Manchester with Margate in Subject to Constant Change at Cornerhouse

Smoke, lighting, 60 years' of dust and a team of arts enthusiasts helped artist Rosa Barba create a film looking at the forgotten architecture of north and south.

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Stark beauty and minimalism: Rosa Barba, Carl Andre and JMW Turner at Turner Contemporary

A trio of exhibitions at Turner Contemporary makes for an interesting balance of moving image, sculpture and the surprising drawings of JMW Turner.

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Disappearing deep sea-diving island community portrayed by Mikhail Karikis at Arnolfini

Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis' installation follows the "haenyeo" - a vanishing community of elderly female sea workers on the North Pacific island of Jeju.

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Film in Space: Guy Sherwin's selection of Expanded Cinema arrives at Camden Arts Centre

The world of Expanded Cinema is flickering across the walls of Camden Art Centre where film, light and sound become materials to be constantly re-worked and manipulated.

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Jonas Mekas, film-maker, artist and poet at the Serpentine Gallery

The Serpentine Gallery is exploring the film, video and photographic work of avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas throughout his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career.

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Heidi Locher hears the music of hotels in Hotel Kalifornia at Londonewcastle Project Space

Slow-motion footage and ghostly lighting as artist Heidi Locher brings her intense Air Architecture to an exhibition of memory based around a short film shot inside a hotel.

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New perspectives on Jamaica in I is AnOther at New art Exchange in Nottingham

The second part of the Nottingham gallery's season to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence features a makeshift hairdressing salon.

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