Seeing In The Dark

This programme of short films illuminates how contemporary artist-filmmakers, from culturally diverse backgrounds, respond creatively to their own, and others’ experiences of loss and grief. Each film offers a unique insight into this universal experience of complex emotions, the films varying in duration from 48 seconds to 16 minutes are probing, inventive, insightful, moving and ultimately uplifting.

Micha Colombo, Alison A Roberts, Fatima Essabar, Clare Auguste Mohag and Jocylene Brett investigate the expressive potential of the performing body to convey the impact of grief on the self, and to visualise philosophical ideas about life and death. In contrast, Daisy-Drew Smith’s ‘rural horror’ evokes the presence of the departed, in how the camera both documents absence and evokes life in familiar interior and exterior spaces, no longer shared.

Maddox Pratt, Rahim Moledina, Trina Pitman voice their films with compelling poetic narrative accounts of their lived experiences of losing someone close to them.

Dashka Patel, Maria Tilt, Cally Trench and Francesca Cecamore animate stories of loss, exquisitely combining voice music and animation techniques that aim to sensitively stimulate emotional responses.

Nimmi Naido, Jonathan Bower, Oscar Netherway, Aliceson Carter, Billie Ireland, Jjonathon Ofrath and Rob White adopt a minimalist approach to expressing the expanse and nuance of the impact that loss can have on us.

Marcy Petit, Maja Irene Bolier and Helen Acklam multiply the framed screen space, melding past and present-day reflections, shaped by intergenerational encounters/collaborations, these films are intimate mediations on how we process loss creatively.

EVENT: Screening + Q&A with the filmmakers • Sat 1 June • 2pm and 4pm.
Following the screening there will be a Q&A with some of the exhibiting artist-filmmakers. shines a light on how artist-filmmakers explore the universal theme of loss in deeply personal films that are boldly expressive and richly nuanced.

Exhibiting Artists: Alison A Roberts, Aliceson Carter, Billie Ireland, Cally Trench, Clare Auguste Mohagen, Daisy Drew Smith, Dashka Patel, Fatima Essabar, Francesca Cecamore, Helen Acklam, Jocylene Brett, Jonathon Bower, Jonathon Ofrath, Oscar Netherway, Maddox Pratt, Maja Irene Bolier, Marcy Petit, Micha Columbo, Nimmo Naido, Maria Tilt and James Morris,  Rahim Moledina, Rob White, Trina Pitman.