Commotion

An exciting new touring series of programmes put together by curators from the UK , Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands. The programmes are themed and explore different issues or creative genres.

Persistence of Memory

Curated by curator, writer and film historian Mark Nash the works in Persistence of Memory all have some political, social, cultural, or historical referent but use narrative to shift the viewers' experience of ‘documentary' cinema.

"The artists in this programme produce works that are marked in one way or another by the post-WWII independence movements and/or by the end of the cold war. Józef Robakovski chronicles recent Polish history as the view changes outside his window. Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi return our voyeuristic gaze to that of the French colonisers in 1950s Vietnam . Pavel Braila measures out the distance between the underdevelopment of Moldova and the West. Thando Mama gives voice to the unconscious fears South African Europeans have of the black ‘other' in the post-Apartheid era.

All these artists reflect on issues that still resonate today, raising the further issue of how our present times will be perceived in the future. How durable are these memories? Just as the physiological process of persistence of vision creates the moving image, so one of the questions that these artists raise is how memory is both activated and changed in being channelled through art practice."

Mark Nash, Curator, Persistence of Memory

Information for venues

running time: 66 min approx

formats available: DVD, BETA SP

8 page, full colour programme notes accompany the programme

price: £95.00 + VAT

(10% discount for 3 bookings of Commotion programmes or more)

Bristol City Council licencing gave this programme a 15 rating

Works included

Józeph Rabakowski (shown right)

From My Window, 1999. 20 min

Thando Mama

(Un) hea (r) d, 2002. 4 min, 42 sec

Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi

Frammenti Ellectrici 2:Vitenam, 2001. 9 min

Pavel Brailia

Road, 2001. 30 min, 11 sec

Picture This takes bookings from galleries for touring exhibitions and installations, from cinemas and film festivals for short films and from colleges and universities for talks. For enquiries about hiring exhibitions and for a back-list of short films available please contact Beth Alden at beth@picture-this.org.uk