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PureScreen
Castlefield Gallery is kicking off its third season of PureScreen events with a programme of films by Steven Eastwood curated by Sophia Crilly. The artist’s film and video screenings are curated from open submissions – promoted through a-n Magazine last year – and aim to provide a platform for new and emerging practitioners.
Steven Eastwood will be showing The Actually Trilogy; three films that throw up many questions about narrative, fiction and reality. Amongst them, Of Camera (2003) explores the abortive attempts of two people to be together in the same space. Their disagreement is fuelled by technical difference: the woman exists on videotape and the man on celluloid. The story corrupts as the two realise they are incompatible and that they are being filmed and watched.
Castlefield will be launching the second Purescreen DVD in the spring. A complication of film and video works shown in the second Purescreen season, the DVD features works by Jordan Baseman, Dave Griffiths, Alexander Heim, Hamish Dunbar & Jack Holden, Jim Hollands, Esther Johnson, Lisa Keiko Kirton, Rob Kennedy, Jeremy Newman, Alex Pearl, Erica Scourti, Josh Weinstein and Marilyn Whittle.
PureScreen, Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester M15 4GB, Wednesday 27 February at 6.30pm. Free but booking required: 0161 832 8034 or events@castlefieldgallery.co.uk
www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/purescreen.asp
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