A Hint of Salón – Film night and closing event

Recording

Sophie Gwynn / 01.27 min

The work responds to the impact of chosen and spoken context as individuals and a collective society. Initially inspired by an index created in lockdown to bring meaning to the blur of those days. To escape through visual synapses of thinking. Chosen sound and imagery correlates to pivotal events locally, globally and personally in reference to the index. Although shown as a self playing powerpoint the work is the recording of my perceived time. 

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Chelsie Dysart / 01.35 min

Exploration of reclaiming the female body, sensuality and sexuality. Dancing and movement with a deconstructed figurative body adornment looks at the shapes, layers, movement, body parts and limbs taken from layered drawings and reimagined in 3D.

Wearing this outfit whilst Pole dancing attempts to explore the movement of the body in a surreal form, looking at the monstrous femme and reclaiming from the male gaze. 

Postmodern Breakfast

Lauren Browne / 04.38 min

 ‘Redefine the Familiar’

Lauren is a conceptual/multi-media Artist studying Intermedia Art at Edinburgh University. She uses mediums such as video, performance, participation, sound, painting and photography within her practice. The themes Lauren explores are, connection through experience; beauty in the mundane; temporality, visual culture and individualism.

‘Postmodern Breakfast’ attempts to ‘Redefine the Familiar’.

Out

Sarah Calmus / 03.22 min

OUT is a short experimental moving image work from Sarah Calmus created in 2021 as part of her Connected Innovators project, supported by Creative Informatics. Using improvised audio to generate visuals within Ableton, this work is a live capture of this moment. Her work is usually installation based, and interdisciplinary. It often involves working and reworking layers of light, sound and interactive elements to build spaces for play and curiosity. This film was shown previously in the 2021 VAS Members exhibition ‘Surge’ in Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay. 

• Content note: Contains flickering imagery.

Poll na n-Amadán – the Fool’s Hole

Niamh Hughes / 14.55 min 

In a small hole within the landscape of Ceathrú Thaidhg in the west of Ireland, there is a being…

Chased into the earth by churches and men long, long ago, the being was dubbed ‘the Amadán’ – the fool. But far from it are they! Buried in the ground with the pointed hat of the wise, the Amadán traipsed through time witnessing the unbearable malarky of fools – real fools. 

Let the Amadán tell you its story.

• Content note: Contains explicit Language

You’re Living All Over Me

Gabriel Levine Brislin / 04.50 min 

‘You’re Living All Over Me’ (2022) is a short, two-channel film made entirely of found footage. In overlapping low-fidelity clips, a series of men use techniques of increasing complexity and extravagance to destroy wasps’ or hornets’ nests near their homes or out ‘in nature’. The collated footage forms a prism through which notions of property and dominion can be critiqued, as well as the spectacular ‘one-upmanship’ of white male violence and its proliferation online. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. 

• Content note: Contains gunshots, explosions, loud noises, violence to insects and strong, incendiary language.

Escape into blue

Pagan McKenzie / 02.45 min

‘Escape into blue’ – Abstract short film containing surrealist blue visuals to evoke dreamlike ambience. Imagery associated with the subconscious mind and dreams, through use of the colour blue for an immersive viewing experience.

lugworm

Esmé Haddrill Selman / 10.00min

Across the warp and weft of tape footage, we move through unclear landscapes and lost memories, frayed beyond familiarity. But there is something still alive at the centre, something that can sometimes be seen from moving trains, where images overlap and time with them.

• Content note: Contains strobe-like sequences with fast changing images/colours.