SCREENPLAY
Venue • The Old Post Office • BA1 1BA • click for map
Opening night • Fri 23 May • 6pm until late
Open 11am to 6pm daily • 24 May to 7 June 2025
NB: the deadline has passed, we are no longer inviting submissions
Image by Geoff Dunlop
SCREENPLAY will present a diverse set of works made for light projection or digital display. The emphasis will be on pieces that reach beyond the conventions of narrative, information and persuasion. Of course, artists have been exploring such possibilities from the very inception of moving pictures, through works intended to surprise, challenge, reflect upon and even reinvent the familiar uses of the screen in its most familiar surroundings.
Usually, the second part of the word “screenplay” implies writing and drama but in this enterprise we are using the word to describe other fields of play - for example, play as a source of release and joy, or play in terms of music and other sounds, dance and other movement, poetry and other words, light and other phenomena. And play with ideas, opinions and arguments.
Throughout the FaB festival, screens will be placed around Bath, streaming a flow of scheduled presentations. But, on weekends and on some evenings, the open space in front of a big screen will be filled with live action, in dialogue with the digits and pixels. A drama of interaction.
Individual artists are invited to submit up to five distinct works, or a set of interactions in response to what is happening on the screen. Groups of artists can submit collectively, with a participation fee being charged for each set of five works.
Curated by Geoff Dunlop
Geoff Dunlop has curated six successful exhibitions with FaB. In each of them he has gathered together strong visual work with events, happenings, interactions and conversations.