Artists’ Shorts (E)

This special screening will include a number of short artists’ films that respond to aspects of the city of Leeds and its environs.

Films include Liz Stirling and Joanna Leah’s experimental film Watery Bodies, Aidan Winterburn’s essay film Siz, Pap, Brick, Ad Hoch Collective’s collage film More than Water and Riggs Moor by Anna Turner.

MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:

Riggs Moor’ is a short film about Riggs Moor in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire and England’s remotest location. It is an area of moorland 2.4 miles from the nearest public access road and considered Englands remotest spot. It explores themes of presence, slowness and place through landscape and walking.

Watery Bodies is an experimental film exploring the relationship between mature women and water in a wild swimming context, celebrating their pursuit of liberation outside of the media, domestic settings and institutional rules through embodied watery life. The film uses embodied film techniques to communicate through playful methods the physical experience of being in different bodies of water and how the swimmers connect to their surroundings. From an only underwater perspective the film celebrates the magic of bodies and their more-than- human environments.

More than Water is an experimental film using collage methods in film, audio and mixed media gathered at St Aidan’s, RSPB Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Leeds, exploring the interconnections between people, and water ecologies. RSPB St Aidan’s is an example of how the landscape of an opencast mine has been reconfigured as a significant habitat for birds and wildlife, protected and cared for by experienced staff and local volunteers. The film revels in the rich tactile environment, collaging material from the microscopic to underwater habitats, following the seasonal shifts and from day into nighttime.