Animate Projects

Salvage

A specially programmed screening of artists’ films curated by Animate Projects for Margate Rocks featuring:

Inger Lise Hansen | Sandra Lahire | John Parry | Semiconductor | Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley | Cordelia Swann | Run Wrake

On the opening night of Margate Rocks, Animate Projects present a programme of artists’ films that explore - directly and indirectly - our relationship with, and intervention in, the natural world. Including multi-award winning animations, and two longer films by artists at the forefront of experimental documentary.

Salvage is a scavenger film, reclaiming and re-presenting the by-products of commercial animation production. Rabbit is a perversely moral tale; greed and exploitation do not go unpunished, but in Who I Am and What I Want, Pete is more than at home with his friends in the forest. Proximity and Magnetic Movie make us re-think about how we see the world. In Uranium Hex and Desert Rose, ecological and political messages are forcefully integrated with experimental approaches to form.

This is a rare chance to see a mixture of Animate Projects’ commissions and some classic artists’ films, and kick off the Margate Rocks film programme in style!

Including:

Salvage (John Parry, 4’11”, 1998)
Uranium Hex (Sandra Lahire, 11’, 1988)
Rabbit (Run Wrake, 8’30”, 2005)
Who I Am and What I Want (Chris Shepherd, David Shrigley, 7’23”, 2005)
Proximity (Inger Lise Hansen, 3’53”, 2006)
Magnetic Movie (Semiconductor, 4’56”, 2007)
Desert Rose (Cordelia Swann, 24’, 1996)

Running time: 65 minutes

Animate Projects commissions artists to make work that explores the relationship between contemporary art and animation, for broadcast, gallery, cinema and online exhibition.

www.animateprojects.org

_{Image: Rabbit, 2005 (still) © Run Wrake}