Award Winning Independent Cinema

Moving Waters – curated by A Sometimes Project

These short films will be played before selected films in our October programme. An emerging, experimental arts initiative that aims to create opportunities for artists and audiences, at different locations, some of the time. Instagram: asometimesproject.

My November Guest (Georgie Gentile, 3 mins 28)
Thursday 10 October, 8.30pm (before The Outrun)

Shot on 16mm Tri-X film, hand-processed, and hand-toned with exhausted copper toner the film was then edited on a Steenbeck. The director wanted to explore movement in nature, specifically how wind subtly affects the environment and to show how diverse the environment can be through rhythmic editing.

Georgie Gentile is an experimental filmmaker who primarily works on 16mm film, focusing on the materiality of the medium and how it can be manipulated.  She adds to film through painting and gluing, as well as removes through scratching and bleaching. Georgie is currently receiving her MFA in Cinema at Binghamton University (USA).

√ (Root) (Till Gombert and Gesa Kolb, 4 mins 44)
Saturday 12 October, 5.30pm (before The Critic)

Partnerships often manoeuvre somewhere between turmoil and reconciliation, distance and togetherness. In this experimental silent film, partners Kolb and Gombert reflect on complex process of growing together within long-term relationships.

Kolb studied Fine Arts at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe in the class of the painter Erwin Gross. Gombert studied at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe with a major in Media Art / Film and as post-graduate at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln.

Ida (Simon Coates, 3 mins 31)
Wednesday 16 October, 6pm (before Sing Sing)

Filmed on location in the swamps near Jean Lafitte in Louisiana, USA, Ida takes its name from the hurricane that decimated large areas of the US state in 2021.  Flooding affected the surrounding areas and the bayous around Jean Lafitte increased in size as a result.  The work was created to reflect the resilience of the Louisiana people in the face of disaster.

Simon Coates is an artist, writer and curator based in London, UK. Coates’ practise is predicated on societal mores and behaviours as communicating modes, and he uses digital media, live and recorded production, and curated events as tools for exploration.

Three Waters: Tears, Tea, Sea (Alma and Brett Studholme, 5 mins)
Saturday 19 October, 8pm (before Girls Will Be Girls)

The film documents a tea ceremony by a mother and daughter. While facing the seas that separate them, they are cradling warm teacups cast from each other’s hands. This evokes the warmth of each other’s touch and the ritual becomes a way of both confronting and overcoming their physical distance. Alma Studholme and Brett Studholme are collaborative life partners working in a multidisciplinary art context which includes video, animation, sound, performance and installation. They are based in Sydney, Australia.

Marie Basse (Allan Laurent, 3 mins 12)
Wednesday 23 October, 6pm (before The Goldman Case)

Laurent is a Franco-Mexican audiovisual artist currently living in France. His work is strongly related to the body, memory and time and includes documentary, video essay, experimental cinema, video dance and video clip. The work is contemplative and hypnotic with the desire to experience the diverse chronologies that are part of the world.

This film was made in Douarnenez France, in September 2024. As a portrait of the cemetery of ships in the port Rhu and the relationship that these bodies maintain with the dance of the tide.

The Stream X (Hiroya Sakurai, 6 minutes 53)
Tuesday 29 October, 6pm (before Timestalker)

Episode 10 of The Stream is an experiment in which environmental sound in the water is replaced with environmental sound from outside the waterway. As a result, the viewer experiences the sound of the wind as an underwater environmental sound. The wind moves the aquatic plants and pushes along objects floating on the water. The artist’s purpose was to use the expression of the wind as a metaphor for the stream and to impress the viewer with the liveliness of water, which is the theme of this work.

Hiroya was born in Yokohama, Japan and graduated from University of Tsukuba. Emeritus Professor, Seian University of Art and Design. Sakurai’s work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and J.Paul Getty Trust.

Leanne in the Lake (Dir Pouria Kazemi Kazemi, 3 mins 38)
Wednesday 30 October, 6pm (before I Saw the TV Glow)

We were driving on the M16 when, all of a sudden, Leanne felt like she was burning up from the inside. She cried out: “My heart is melting, my kidneys are smoking, my liver is boiling”. We pulled over and she immediately jumped into the first lake we came across. Leanne in the Lake was my response regarding the problem of ‘truth’. In this short experimental documentary, my friend Leanne is floating in a lake while we hear another woman talking about her mental state. The narration belongs to an interview with a schizophrenic patient more than 60 years ago. By syncing the audio of that patient and my friend, I tried to create a connection between the two, since they were both suffering from the same disorder.

Kazemi graduated from Manchester School of Art and Bergen Academy of Fine Art. Most of their films are experimental investigations into the notion of language, performance and reclaimed borders.