9 April 2016: Seminar on film and narrative in St Ives for professional artists, led by Dr Anya Lewin

Installation view of Anya Lewin's Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip (2013) at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth.

Professional Development Seminar: Artists’ Film and Narrative

April 9 @ 2:00 pm4:00 pm 

at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives

This professional development seminar for artists will explore the use of narrative in artists’ moving image work and will be led by artist and filmmaker Anya Lewin. Although there has been a trajectory of artists working with moving image in the gallery going into theatrical feature filmmaking, the seminar concentrate on how narrative can sit un / comfortably within the gallery space.

Participants will explore the use of multiple narratives through multiple screens; how the viewer might become situated or implicated as part of the narrative; and the spatial construction of narrative, including how the gallery can function as an extension of cinematic time and space. Anya will also consider simple logistics, such as comfortable seating, and why this sometimes goes against the aesthetics of the gallery environment. Participants will view work, discuss and develop ideas together.

Installation view of Anya Lewin's Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip (2013) at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth.
Installation view of Anya Lewin’s Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip (2013) at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth.

Anya Lewin is an artist and lecturer whose research interests include moving image practices in the cinema and gallery and constructions of narrative. Her work often reflects her own personal history, which includes stories of immigration, translations from multiple languages, and fictional connections to real events. She has completed two parts of a triptych of moving image installations, which explore her Jewish family history of immigration as well as their connection to screen history, from silent cinema of the German Expressionist Era through to 1950s & 60s Hollywood. Her works, both individual and collaborative, have been exhibited and screened at venues in Beijing, Bristol, Bulgaria, Cuba, Siberia, Belfast, New York, San Francisco and London. She is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Art and Moving Image and Associate Head of the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University.

This seminar is being run and organised by LUX Cornwall’s professional development programme, supported by the BFI Diversity Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

The workshop is free to attend, but places are limited.
You can reserve your place by booking via Eventbrite.

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