Looking specifically at the moving image, and at artists whose work has used the model of moving image production, with its inherent sense of performance and participation as a framework for projects which in some sense involve communities, this discussion session also considers those who work to exhibit the moving image in a different way and, by freeing it from the clutches of both commercial cinema and gallery space, make exhibition itself a community act. And, with that in mind, could the way in which we consume the moving image be freed from the very fact that it refers to us as consumers? That is, could we as the audience play a rather more active role too; become participants ourselves — and from there agents of change?

This discussion unites artists Beatrice Gibson (whose film A Necessary Music shows as part of the Festival Weekend) and Shezad Dawood, whose practice often includes, and works with the concept of, communities; with Graeme Hogg (Cube Cinema, Bristol), who has created a vital alternative to the usual mode of film exhibition; and Mark Wilsher (chair), whose practice is fundamentally performative in nature and, alongside his curatorial work, addresses socio-political issues in playful, absurdist ways.

Shezad Dawood's Feature will be screened immediately before this discussion session, at 9.00.

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This event is part of the Festival Weekend