Ms Jayne Parker
Lecturer
Slade School of Fine Art University College London
Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
j.parker@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2313
Biography
Jayne Parker is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been widely shown, both nationally and internationally, in major art institutions, on television and in film and music festivals. In 2003 she was the recipient of the 1871 Fellowship, researching the relationship between music and film, hosted by the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford and the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2008 she completed Trilogy: Kettle's Yard, funded with the help of an AHRC Small Award and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and premiered at The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival, October 2008. In 2011 she presented a retrospective of her films at the BFI Southbank as part of Maya Deren: 50 Years On, a celebration of the American film maker's life.
DVD:
Jayne Parker, British Artists Film, film compilation DVD, released by BFI, 2008.
MONOGRAPH:
Jayne Parker Filmworks 79-00, published by Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 2000, ISBN 09507516 69.
FILMOGRAPHY
Free Show - 16mm, b/w, 16 minutes, 1979.
I Cat - 16mm, colour animation, 10 minutes, 1980.
RX Recipe - 16mm, colour, 12 minutes, 1980.
I Dish - 16mm, b/w, 16 minutes, 1982.
Snig - 16mm, colour, mute, 6 minutes, 1982.
Almost Out - U-matic video, 105 minutes, 1984.
En Route - U-matic video, 15 minutes, 1986.
The Cat and the Woman - 16mm, colour animation, 2.5 minutes, 1987.
K. - 16mm, b/w, 13 minutes, 1989.
The Pool - 16mm, b/w, 10 minutes, 1991.
Cold Jazz - 16mm, b/w, 17 minutes,1993. Awarded Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1995.
Crystal Aquarium - 16mm, b/w, 33 minutes,1995. Awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen and a ‘Mention Spéciale’ from FIPRESCI at the 43rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1997. Collection: Arts Council, England.
The Reunion - 16mm, colour, 9 minutes, Dance for Camera ACE/BBC, 1997.
Thinking Twice - 16mm, b/w, 10 minutes, 1997.
The Whirlpool - 16mm, colour, 7 minutes, 1997.
Strong Women - 16mm film, b/w, 15 minutes, 2000.
Foxfire Eins - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 10 minutes, 2000.
Blues in B-flat - Digibeta from original 16mm, colour, 8 minutes, 2000. Collection: Museion, Bolzano, Italy.
Projection 1 (versions 1 and 2) - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 6 minutes, 2000
591/2 seconds (versions 1 -3) - 16mm, b/w, 3 minutes, 2000
The World Turned Upside Down - Digibeta from original 16mm, colour, 9 minutes, Dance for Camera ACE/BBC, 2001
Reprise - Digibeta from original 16mm colour, 10 minutes 2001
Stationary Music - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 15 minutes, 2005. Awarded the ARTE Prize at the 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2005 & an Honourable Mention at Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
Catalogue of Birds:Book 3 - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 15 minutes, 2006..
Trilogy: Kettle's Yard: Linear Construction - Woman with Arms Crossed - Arc - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w & colour, 25 minutes, 2008. Received an Honourable Mention at Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2009.
...but the clouds... - DVD, 15 minutes, with John Tilbury, Samuel Beckett's 1976 play for television, 2009.
Films distributed by LUX
Research Summary
Over the past few years my major research has centered round the relationship between music and film and the search for a 'music equivalent'. To this end I have made several films featuring musicians, in particular with pianist Katharina Wolpe and cellist Anton Lukoszeviesze. Considering music helps me to think about film structurally. It presents challenges: how can I reflect the form and rigour of the music? Can film embody music? Where is music expressed? Does what I see change what I hear? I am fascinated by the act of playing, of touch, and the moment when someone becomes the performer. While still choosing to take the act and site of musical performance as my primary source of imagery, I am exploring ways of introducing other imagery, to interrupt the ultimate linearity of the score in performance and expand the filmic possibilities. Before I went on to study at the Slade, within what was then the Experimental Media area, I studied sculpture at Canterbury College of Art. My interest in material, the actual, the physical - is perhaps responsible for my abiding interest and commitment to working primarily with 16mm film (although most of my recent musical performance works are finished digitally because of the sound quality). This last year or so I've started making objects again. Photography, although secondary, has always run alongside my film-making.
Teaching Summary
I have been teaching at the Slade since 1989 and was appointed as Head of Graduate Fine Art Media in 2010.
Exhibitions
The Voice and the Lens
2012IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 1 Oozells Square Brindleyplace, West Midlands B1 2HS,UK
Digibeta From Original 16mm Film
Film 'K.' in exhibition SOLO, curated by Louise Colbourne.
2012Electro Studios Project Space, St Leanards
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
SOLO, an exhibition of film, video and performance at Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards, and part of the Coastal Currents Visual Arts Festival, curated by Louise Colbourne.
The Pool
2012Galleria Rajatila
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
Film 'The Pool' shown as part of: '20 Rue Jacob – A Salon for Performance and Other Happenings' is an attempt to create a platform for experiments and encounters with live performance and moving image works. The week long project – curated by Anna Bunting-Branch and Nastja Rönkkö at Galleria Rajatila in Tampere, Finland – will transform the gallery into a contemporary Salon, inspired by Natalie Clifford Barney’s so called ‘hazardous Friday’ Salons – which were hosted for over sixty years in her home at 20 Rue Jacob in Paris from the early 1900s.
'Blues in B-flat' in exhibition 'Art and Music'
2012York Art Gallery
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
This exhibition celebrates music and its harmonious and historic relationship with visual art. Using paintings and objects from York Art Gallery's outstanding collections, it considers the role of music in abstract art, symbolism of music and representations of performance. The works, spanning over 350 years of art, are by artists including Bridget Riley, Juriaan van Streek, LS Lowry, Walter Greaves, Elizabeth Fritsch and loans from contemporary artists Jayne Parker and Jon Thompson.
'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard', Photograph: Self portrait
2012Royal Academy of Art, London
Film And Photography
Royal Academy of Art: Summer Exhibition, invited artist. Film 'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' and a new photograph presented in the Small Weston Room, the is the first time that a gallery in the Summer Exhibition has been devoted to a film work by one artist. Accompanying catalogue.
Untitled Object in 'Collaborators2'
2010R O O M Art Space
Horse Hair And Violin Chin Rest
A group exhibition of artists who have exhibited at R O O M.
The Whirlpool
2010Kunstsammlungen, Städtischen Museen Zwickau
The Whirlpool shown in the context of: »Seit ich ihn gesehen« - Reflexionen zu Robert Schumann in der Kunst - a last minute addition to the exhibition.
The Reunion
2010Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art
Film
Film 'The Reunion' screened as part of the programme 'Opera', an Artprojx presentation in 'Film/Video/Performance' a month long exhibition: 'bringing together documentary, film, animation and performance, as well as live events and discussions on climate change, human rights and arts and disability.' Coordinated and produced by Terry Smith, Teaching Fellow in Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art.
'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' in 'Upside Down/Inside Out' group exhibition 2009
2009Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Dvd From Original 16mm Film And Two Sculptures
'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' installed in the house at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge where it was filmed accompanied by an installation of two objects.
Untitled Object in 'Collaborators' 2009
2009R O O M Art Space, London
Horse Hair And Cello Bridge
Film 'K.' in exhibition 'Knitted Worlds'
2009Audax Textile Museum Tilburg, Netherlands
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
Knitting is persistently associated with leisure activities of elderly ladies. The exhibition KNITTED WORLDS in the Audax Textile Museum Tilburg shows another side by presenting installations and objects, experimental fashion, photographic and video work by artists and designers from Europe and the United States. The theme of the exhibition is the visualisation of political, social and artistic questions. Curated by Suzan Russeler
Solo exhibition R O O M Art Space
2009R O O M Art Space, London
Film, Photographs, Sculptures
Film: Trilogy: Kettle's Yard, comprising 'Linear Construction', 'Woman with Arms Crossed' and 'Arc'; two sculptures; three photographs.
Trilogy: Kettle's Yard
2008BFI, NFT 3, Southbank, London SE1, UK
Digibeta From Original 16mm Film
Selected for festival programme 'A Sense of Space', part of the Experimenta section of the BF1 52nd London Film Festival. Synopsis: 'Linear Construction', 'Woman with Arms Crossed', and 'Arc' form a trilogy of films set in Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, and featuring cellist Anton Lukoszevieze (New Music Fellow at Kings College Cambridge). These films are documents of musical performance: respectively 'Récitation' (1980) by Georges Aperghis; 'Sensitivo, per arco solo' (1959) by Sylvano Bussotti; and 'Raimondas Rumsas' (2002) by Laurence Crane. They include art objects from the Kettle's Yard collection, opening up metaphorical space and meaning.
'Instructions for Film', no.w.here at Zoo Art Fair, London
2007Zoo Arts Fair: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art Work
For Zoo Art Fair 2007 no.w.here initiated a new project called Instructions For Films. Instructions For Films investigates how a film could be made, using only the idea of film. Over forty international artists who use the moving image, were sent a white card with the following invitation: 'On the card enclosed propose instructions for a film. You may render the instructions by any means and appendages.' The cards were exhibited on no.w.here's stand during the fair, and a published edition is available for purchase.
'En Route', in exhibition 'Romantic Anti-Humanism'
2007FIVE YEARS< Unit 66, 6th Floor, Regent Studios
Video
'...the artists brought together under the title Romantic Anti-Humanism utilise aesthetic codes to invoke ‘Ideals’ whilst in turn revealing a self-consciousness of their partial or fragmented activity. The works on show use photography and video, as well as the language of gesture, performance and partial narrative.Five Years is an unfunded collaborative artists’ project. Founded in 1998, Five Years’ initial aim was to set up a gallery which was artist-run and where programming would maintain a direct relationship to practice. Five Years continues to develop this aim of maintaining close links between the production and exhibition of work, and the discourse which informs it.'
'Crystal Aquarium' in 'Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom', Lincoln
2005Curtois Gallery, The Collection, Lincoln
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
This exhibition opens the New Curtois Gallery at The Collection linking archaeology and contemporary art. Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom is curated by the artist Edward Allington in co-ordination with Jeremy Webster the Senior Keeper at The Collection. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a full colour catalogue with an essay by Edward Allington. Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom is an exhibition about the difference and similarity of art and archaeology, both historically and symbolically. They are both ways of understanding our place within the world. Museums started with collections of objects which evoked the wonder of life. Assemblages of historical and natural curiosities were arranged in glass cabinets to arouse aesthetic pleasure and curiosity. They were part of a fascination with the unknown that we now call science. These cabinets were known as 'Wunderkammer' literally meaning 'cabinet of wonder'. The exhibition aims to mirror the archaeological collection that the new museum has been built to house, whilst celebrating the way artists continually reinvent the world by creating 'worlds within the world'.
'Foxfire Eins' series, installed for the inaugural Berwick Film and Media Festival: Crossing Borders.
2005Prison Cells, Town Hall, Berwick Upon Tweed
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
Artist Film & Video Programme, selected by David Thorp. Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is an international celebration of the art of film, set in the historic border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The inaugural Festival took place in September 2005, with a vision to transform Berwick into one big moving image installation – a visual and cultural spectacle – and the celebration has taken place every year since.
'Foxfire Eins' series in 'Faltering Flame: Aspects of the Human Condition in Contemporary Art' 2005
2005Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Film
Curated by David Thorpe 'Faltering Flame brings together over twenty British artists all of whose work considers the ephemeral and elusive nature of life; those things that we sense about ourselves but that are normally invisible. Our sense of self, our psychological, social and philosophical interaction with reality made tangible and visible through art.' Faltering Flame was the first contemporary exhibition staged at the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
'Foxfire Eins', solo exhibition
2004Post Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Dvd From Original 16mm Film, Photographs
Film 'K.' in 'A Century of Artists' Film in Britain'. Group exhibition screening 2004
2003Gallery 26, Tate Britain, London
Film
Tate Britain 19 May 2003 – 1 April 2004 The use of film and video by artists in Britain over the past decade has attracted much attention. However, artists have worked with film and video in this country from the beginning of the twentieth century and now, for the first time, Tate Britain aims to explore this history. An ambitious series of display of 170 works by 130 artists aims to reveal the full range, variety and originality of this history, from films made close to the cinema’s birth in the 1890s to work realised at the start of the twenty-first century. Many of the works have not been seen before in a gallery context, and some have not been seen publicly since their first screenings. The displays bring together a wide span of artists from early filmmakers such as Humphrey Jennings and Norman Mclaren to recent Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen, and key conceptual and structural filmmakers of the 70s, scratch video artists and super8mm romantics inspired by Derek Jarman in the 80s. The first of four day-long sequences will start at Tate Britain on 19 May. Each programme will be shown at Tate Britain for a period of three months (Prog 1: 19 May - 10 August 2003, Prog 2: 11 August - 2 November 2003, Prog 3: 3 November - 25 January 2003 Prog 4: 26 January - 16 April 2004) and a related series of longer films by British artists will be shown on Sundays in the Clore auditorium. Within each day-long programme the films and videos have been clustered in shorter thematic and historical groups which suggest continuities of interest and approach across generations: film’s ability to encapsulate the everyday and to mimic memory; the challenges of portraiture and the creation of visual music. Other groupings reflect the ways in which artists have explored video and film at particular moments: the early 1970s, when conceptual filmmaking emerged and, in parallel, artists at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op focused on the materials of their medium; the 1930s, when a committed avant-garde worked on the margins of the mainstream industry; and the early 1990s, as artists began to respond to the possibilities of digital editing. A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain has been curated by David Curtis and is an Illuminations production for Tate, with the support of Central St Martins, the AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies, the LUX and the British Film Institute.
'The World Turned Upside Down', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2003
2003Events Room, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
Choreographed by Anthony Howell, accompanied by John White’s melodic palindromes and directed by Jayne Parker, The World Turned Upside Down is an episodic dance of bizarre inversions and reversals between people and dogs. Are the dogs performing for the people or are the people performing for the dogs? The World Turned Upside Down is a ‘Dance for Camera’ film, commissioned by the Arts Council and BBC and produced by Sally Thomas for Maya Vision International.
Chosen
2002Rootstein Hopkins Space, London School of Fashion, London
Film 'Blues in B-flat' in Stanze II
2002Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
Film
Installations from the Collection MUSEION. 'Blues in B-flat' purchased.
Foxfire Eins, solo exhibition, touring
2000Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Dvd From Original 16mm Film, Photographs
'Foxfire Eins' is a solo exhibition co-commissioned by Spacex Gallery, Exeter, and Film and Video Umbrella. Featuring the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, 'Foxfire Eins' presents a group of films, which explore the relation between music and film. A monograph, Jayne Parker Filmworks 79-00, was published by the Arts Council in 2000 to accompany the exhibition, which toured to venues including John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and the Pump Room, Aldeburgh Music Festival as well as screening abroad.
Picturing the Modern Amazon
2000New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
'Crystal Aquarium' in 'Sublime: The Darkness and the Light'
1999John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; touring to Atkinson Gallery, Street; Storey Gallery, Lancaster; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich.
Digibeta From Original 16mm Film
Arts Council Collection exhibition toured by National Touring Exhibitions from the Hayward Gallery, London, for the Arts Council of England. The works, drawn from the Arts Council Collection, spanning twenty years of purchasing included paintings, sculptures, installation and lens based works..
O Pas La (Surprising Spaces)
1999Lieu D'Art Contemporain, Narbonne, France
'Thinking Twice', Camden Arts Centre 1998
1998Camden Arts Centre, London
Dvd From Original 16mm Film
Installation of film in Gallery II, pianist Katharina Wolpe plays Stefan Wolpe.
'Thinking Twice', screened at opening of exhibition 'History', Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 1997
1997Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Film
'History', an exhibition of the Mag Collection is an outstanding selection of British art covering the last two decades of the twentieth century. The collection is unusual in that it has been put together by a private collector, specifically for public use. It offers a unique opportunity to exhibit a body of important contemporary work, selected not from the point of view of a gallery but that of an individual collector.'
'The Invitation' in 'The Look of Love', a Rear Window exhibition.
1997The Approach Gallery, London and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Curated by Rear Window, the work in ‘The Look of Love’ was commissioned to respond to ‘the idea of Love as a topic of representation’ and, as the catalogue introduction explains, ‘more specifically the Love shared between two adults’.
Film Loop 'Bed' and photograph 'Flame' in 'Light'
1997Richard Salmon Gallery, London 10 Jan-23 Feb 1997 and Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 4 Oct-8 Nov 1998 97
16mm Film And Photograph
Group exhibition, toured to Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 4/10/97 - 8/11/97.
'The Visible and the Invisible', an InIVA group exhibition, curated by Zoe Shearman and Tom Trevor, 1996.
1996'non-art' sites, Euston, London
Photographic Installation And Video Projection
Large-scale contemporary art initiative through a series of satellite exhibitions, installations and events occurring simultaneously in 'non-art sites' in the London Euston area, including St Pancras Parish Church and The Wellcome Trust, London.
'Inside Out' in 'Body as Membrane', group exhibition 1996
1996Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefrabrik, Odense, Denmark, and The Nordic Arts Centre, Sveaborg, Finland.
Film And Photographic Installation
Signes des Temps: British Video, Film, and Slide-tape Installations 1980-1990, group exhibition, Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris,
1993Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris, France
Video From Original 16mm Film And Photographic Works
Curated by Chrissie Iles for the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1990, Sign of the Times toured to Europe, by the British Council: Signes des Temps: British Video, Film, and Slide-tape Installations 1980-1990, Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris, France, a decade of moving image work by two generations of British film and video artists.
Elective Affinities, group exhibition, Tate Gallery Liverpool.
1993Tate gallery Liverpool
Films And Photographic Works
Sign of the Times, group exhibition,
1990Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Video From Original 16mm Film And Photographic Work
Sign of the Times, curated by Chrissie Iles, offered a unique overview of a decade of moving image work by two generations of British film and video artists. The exhibition, which toured to Europe through the British Council, is the first of many important shows that took place at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford during the 1990s. Iles presented the exhibition in two parts and each piece was configured either as a single room installation or placed in relationship to other works in a large open space. Her emphasis was therefore on the manifestation of video as an experiential interface, rather than as a medium isolated from context, as its purists at the time would maintain. Marie-Anne McQuay
Charting Time: artists’ drawings, notes and diagrams for film and video, Serpentine Gallery, London 1986
1986Serpentine Gallery, London
Installation Of Drawings For Animation
The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984, group exhibition, an Arts Council National Touring Exhibition City of Birmingham Museum and Art gallery and Ikon Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, Southampton Art Gallery
1984National Tour
Film
Touring venues and dates: City of Birmingham Museum and Art gallery and Ikon Gallery, 2/11/1984 – 22/12/1984; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 16/1/1985 – 24/2/1985; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, 16/3/1985 – 4/5/1985; Southampton Art Gallery, 18/5/1985 – 30/6/1985
Imagination is the Venom....., group exhibition,
1982Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Installation
Publications
The Whirlpool
Film 'The Whirlpool' shown as part of 'Encompass 360 Digital Dance' was an innovative project which took place between February and July 2012, leading up to performances 19th-21st July 2012. This exciting digital dance project connected people across the world and got them dancing in the run-up to the Olympics. The project worked with hundreds of young people from its base in Shropshire and, via its interactive website, across the globe. The project integrated film and live performance to create a breath-taking show in a huge 21 metre 360-degree digital Cinemax dome, constructed by Igloovision.
'Crystal Aquarium', 4W - Outcasting: Fourth Wall 2012
4:W - The Outcasting: Fourth Wall Festival grew out of an awareness that more and more galleries were programming artists’ moving image work, but that there was no dedicated platform for this discipline in Wales, nor regular opportunities for public engagement and professional development around it. Festival dates: Oct 1 to Nov 30. Crystal Aquarium screened daily: 15 to 20 October and 19 to 24 November 2012
Musical Equivalent
'One Hundred Foot' is 'a new gathering of filmmakers’ and artists’ 16mm films which will make its debut premier this Sunday, July 15th, 2012 with an inaugural screening at Latitude Festival in Suffolk. As an industry standard, 100 feet of film (approximately 3 minutes) is the given length for a small spool of 16mm film. This given/standard/restraint has been used by artists in the past and remains a pertinent form/format for creating films.'
The Whirlpool, Stationary Music
'Lavish', In the Woods: The Big Screen and Film Gallery Art Film Programme, Latitude Contemporary Art at Latitude Festival, Suffolk.
The Pool
'Millennium Nomadic': PROGRAM #1 – ‘FROM THE SECRET FILES OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC FILM CURATOR’ CURATED BY MARIANNA ELLENBERG for Greenpoint, Brooklyn Film Festival, one of three programmes curated as part of the revival of Millennium Film Archives. 'Millennium Nomadic' series of programmes feature works from the current “new era” of Millennium, a time when dozens of artists & filmmakers have joined together to keep this vital space alive. Millennium Film Workshop, the non-profit media arts center and cinema, located in the East Village, has been around since 1965, dedicated to the exhibition, study & practice of avant-garde and experimental film, video, and all technologies of the moving image.
Musical Equivalent
'One Hundred Foot' is 'a new gathering of filmmakers’ and artists’ 16mm films which will make its debut premier this Sunday, July 15th, 2012 with an inaugural screening at Latitude Festival in Suffolk. As an industry standard, 100 feet of film (approximately 3 minutes) is the given length for a small spool of 16mm film. This given/standard/restraint has been used by artists in the past and remains a pertinent form/format for creating films.'
'Arc'
Pop up cinema, Christie’s South Kensington, group screening curated by Aura Satz, part of 'Supersonix', an Exhibition Road Cultural Group 2012 project, celebrating the art and science of sound'. Part of a three-day international conference (in partnership with the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Europe) bringing together 300 artists, scientists and practitioners in the field of sonic art and science 21-23 Jun 2012.
'Arc' from Trilogy: Kettles Yard
'Tomorrow's World': group film programme curated by Graham Gussin and Benedict Drew, for the 2011 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival, London.
...but the clouds...
Legendary UK pianist John Tilbury presents a homage to writer and poet Samuel Beckett. The concert begins with Beckett's 25 minute radio play Cascando and then ...but the clouds... the 1977 12 minute TV film directed by Jayne Parker. John will also perform some of the late poems of Beckett as well as a solo piano piece based and inspired by Beckett's late novella Worstward Ho.
'K.' in 'Soapbox'
'Soapbox', a performance and film event at Sketch Gallery London.
'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard', 2nd Australian International Experimental Film Festival
Film 'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' selected for the 2nd Australian International Experimental Film Festival, shown in programme: 'Documenting the World, Life and Death'.
Cold Jazz, Crystal Aquarium, Woman with Arms Crossed
'Day and Night' a weekend dedicated to 'live performance art, reigniting the Gallery’s past history of performance with a host of work by an international cast of artists, both emerging and established. Following the Gallery’s recent refurbishment, Night & Day inhabits and explores every corner of the Modern Art Oxford building with live performances, screenings and artists’ talks. Organised in collaboration with the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, supported by EACEA (Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency), ELAA (European Live Art Archive) and the Austrian Cultural Forum London.'
'The Whirlpool' in 'Artists' Film: Transformation - Space and Narrative'
Group screening.
Film 'The Reunion' shown as part of 'Opera' a programme curated by Artprojx.
'Opera, a selection of films by contemporary artist, who have utillised, investigated and celebrated opera and contemporary classical music. Some of the music pieces are originally composed for the films and fascinating collaborations between visual artists and composers emerge in the spatial logic of opera, from anarchic animations to baroque staging of the body via the hysterical clarity of the operatic voice.'
Film 'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' at Media City Film Festival, 15th Annual Festival of Film and Video Art, Windsor, Ontario.
...but the clouds...
...but the clouds... - Video 12 minutes 2009, with John Tilbury. ...but the clouds...was written by Samuel Beckett as a television play in 1976 and first broadcast in 1977 on BBC2. The play takes its title from the last stanza of W. B. Yeat's poem The Tower. The script is precise, leaving little room for interpretation. Filming, editing and performance become exercises in following instructions. Beckett has envisaged everything and our role is to carry it out. All the emotion and longing of the central character is expressed in the voice over, and, in our version, in the woman's face.
'Jayne Parker: British Artists' Films', released 2008
'The fourth volume in the BFI's British Artists' Films series - produced in partnership with arts documentary makers Illuminations and Arts Council England - features Jayne Parker, an artist who makes moving images for cinema, gallery and television. The DVD surveys Parker's 25 years of filmmaking. Included are one of her earliest animations I Cat, an early live-action work I Dish, the trilogy K., The Pool and Cold Jazz, her dance film with Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary The Reunion, and the music films Blues in B-flat and Stationary Music.'
'Stationary Music' at Diversions Film Festival, Edinburgh
Diversions is Edinburgh’s first festival of experimental film and video, running from 8 - 11 May 2008. This unique new event is presented by Film Studies at the University and Filmhouse. The festival brings together some of the most important experimental film and video works from the 1920s to the present. Over fifty short, medium and feature-length films will be shown, from historical classics to contemporary works from Britain, USA, France and Finland.
Film 'Foxfire Eins' in SPNM's 'Sound Source' event.
One of two films presented by no.w.here as part of SPNM's Sound Source event.
Film 'Blues in B-flat', 'Sonic Illuminations'.
'Sonic Illuminations' is a day exploring sound and moving image at BFI Southbank, aimed at practitioners and everyone interested in film and music. The day will include workshops, panel discussions, live events and screenings. Sonic Illuminations focuses on experimental practices ranging from live music with silent film to film inspired by the structure and feeling of music, featuring contributions from Dominic Murcott and the Trinity College of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble, film collective no.w.here, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Jon Wozencroft, Jayne Parker & Anton Lukoszevieze, Conor Kelly and David Ryan. The final event of the day features Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger introducing his film The Lark Ascending with BFI Southbank Artistic Director Eddie Berg. Sonic Illuminations is produced by spnm - promoting new music with BFI Southbank, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, no.w.here and Trinity College of Music.
Film 'The Reunion' shown as part of 'Opera' a programme curated by Artprojx.
'Opera, a selection of films by contemporary artist, who have utillised, investigated and celebrated opera and contemporary classical music. Some of the music pieces are originally composed for the films and fascinating collaborations between visual artists and composers emerge in the spatial logic of opera, from anarchic animations to baroque staging of the body via the hysterical clarity of the operatic voice.' In association with Late at Tate Britain & Birds Eye View Film Festival
Stationary Music
'Stationary Music' in 'Place Memory' 2007
A two-part event of video screenings, 16mm film projection and performance brings together internationally recognised film-makers with artists from Stroud and the South West. Performance is central to much of the work: walking backwards as a way of remembering; re-enacting the painting of a wall onto the projected image; playing the piano as an act of remembrance. Many of the films use song or music: a film with live accompaniment on the saxophone; poetry set to song as the starting point for a sequence of short films. From digital archive to recollections recorded on film, this event explores ideas of memory and its association with place.
Catalogue of Birds: Book 3
Media City is an international festival of experimental film and video art presented annually in Windsor, Ontario, Canada since 1994. The festival is a co-presentation of Artcite Inc. (Windsor’s artist-run centre for the contemporary arts) and House of Toast (Windsor’s film and video collective). Each year Media City screens approximately fifty new films and videos in all gauges and formats in its international competition programs. The festival also hosts retrospective screenings and discussions with featured artists and presents installations in Artcite Inc. and other venues.
'Strong Women: Vicki Amedume' in 'Playing in the Light: Ways of Seeing'
Two-part film programme of artists' collaborations in performance and dance exploring notions of identity, race and ways of seeing. A touring programme of films launched at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London: screening and panel discussion. Produced by the Independent Cinema Office.
Stationary Music
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is one of the major international crossroads for the short form, unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public, and particularly well known for its spotlight on experiments.
50th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
'Foxfire Eins' series in 'Man/Cello', Ultima: Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 3-13 October 2002
'Man/Cello' an evening music and film with cellist Anton Lukoszevieze and filmmaker Jayne Parker.
OB/OB, South London Gallery, Live Art Series
Joan Key: OB/BO Painter Joan Key (words) collaborates with Jayne Parker (film), Christopher Mansell (music), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Lore Lixenberg (voice) and David Ryan (clarinet) on a performance that brings together poetry music and film. The South London Gallery’s live art & film programme is an integral part of its visual arts programme presenting an expanded reflection on performance art through event-based projects involving performance, dance, music, film and video. Works range in scale from intimate collaborations to large theatre-based performance and music often created in response to the gallery space, whilst other projects involve the re-adaptation of existing works in response to the unique setting of the high-ceilinged gallery.
'Reprise', Dance of Life - Camera Mobile, Dance for Camera, Ultima Film, Ultima: Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 2002
Premiere of dance film as part of group screening at Ultima Dance Festival, Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway, 8 October 2002. Curated by Magne Antonsen, Norwegian Centre for the Art of Dance.
I Cat, RX Recipe, The Pool, Thinking Twice, Projection 1, Foxfire Eins
'Crystal Aquarium', 'The Pool' and 'Thinking Twice', solo screening
'K.' in 'Illuminating Gestures', group screening.
'The Whirlpool', 'Pandaemonium '98', LUX Cinema
'Pandaemonium '98', LUX Cinema, London, film and video festival and exhibition.
The Whirlpool, Feminale women's Film Festival, Köln, Germany
'The Whirlpool' screening at Odense International Film festival, Denmark
'The Whirlpool', 'Dance on Screen in Norway', Senter for Dansekunst, Oslo, Norway
'Thinking Twice' in group screening, LUX Cinema 1998
The Reunion
Commissioned by The Arts Council and BBC for Dance for the Camera, and choreographed by Ian Spink, the film 'The Reunion' brings together the dancers Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary, partnering each other again, for the first time in over thirty years.'The Reunion' explores the shifting power relationship between a man and a woman who meet again after a long separation having shared a difficult and troubled past.
'Crystal Aquarium'
Crystal Aquarium takes its title from the name given to water tanks which were set up on Music Hall stages for underwater performances at the turn of the century. There are four performers in the film - a drummer, a swimmer, an ice skater and a fourth woman. Although the protagonists never appear together they are inextricably bound up by their actions. Meaning is conveyed through movement and its associated sound and the accompaniment of the drummer. The film takes place both above and below water, on ice, and in a room visited by the fourth woman. Crystal Aquarium was awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen and a ‘Mention Spéciale’ from FIPRESCI at the 43rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen in 1997. It is in the Arts Council Collection.
Crystal Aquarium, Screening at Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
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'The Whirlpool', 'Smoke Screen - Art for Television' Programme 1, broadcast 30 Nov 1997; NFT2 Southbank Centre 14 Nov 1997; 'Insights 4: The Whirlpool - A case study' The Place, London 30 Nov 1997.
Commissioned by Carlton TV and the London Production Fund for 'Smoke Screen - Art for Television' represents a huge range of stylistic approaches and subject matter. First screening: February 1997. Also 'Smokescreen - Art for Television': short films commissioned by Carlton TV, organised by Film and Video Umbrella at the NFT, Southbank Centre, London, 14/10/97. Also masterclass screening 'Insights 4: The Whirlpool - A case study' screening and discussion at The Place, London, 30/10/97, as part of 'Dance on Screen'. Also 30/10/97 11.40pm - transmission date for film The Whirlpool, part of Carlton TV's 'Smokescreen - Art for Television'
'The Reunion'
Commissioned by The Arts Council and BBC for Dance for the Camera, and choreographed by Ian Spink, 'The Reunion' brings together the dancers Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary, partnering each other again, for the first time in over thirty years. A group preview screening to an invited audience at the Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, London, 1/7/97. Arts Council and BBC2 series 'Dance for the Camera Four'.
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Crystal Aquarium. Film. Shown at 43rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 24-29 April 1997; Odense International Film Festival, Denmark, 12-16 August 1997; Festival of Festivals, Denmark, 25-28 September 1997; PIFF - Pusan International Film Festival 24 September - 1 October 1997.
Crystal Aquarium takes its title from the name given to water tanks which were set up on Music Hall stages for underwater performances at the turn of the century. There are four performers in the film - a drummer, a swimmer, an ice skater and a fourth woman. Although the protagonists never appear together they are inextricably bound up by their actions. Meaning is conveyed through movement and its associated sound and the accompaniment of the drummer. The film takes place both above and below water, on ice, and in a room visited by the fourth woman.
International Competition, 41st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany.
25 Years of British Avant-Garde Film Making, Tate Gallery, London.
Free Show, I Cat, RX Recipe, I Dish, K., in 'Arsenal: International Film Forum', Riga, Latvia.
Solo retrospective screening.
'K.' in 'Between Imagination and reality: The ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video 1990'.
'Almost Out' in 'The Elusive Sign: British Film and Video', Arts Council and British Council International Tour, launched at the Tate, London.
The Third Generation: Women Sculptors Today, Drew Gallery, Canterbury Festival, Canterbury.
Surrealist Traces, Film and Video Umbrella tour, launched at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
The New Pluralism: British film and video 1980-85, selected by Michael O'Pray and Tina Keane.
Parker, J., Howell, A. The World Turned Upside Down: Dance for Camera, commissioned by The Arts Council and BBC2, BBC2 Television Broadcast. 2002
Foxfire Eins series, and performance by cellist Anton Lukozsevieze, Transart, Music and Art Festival, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. 2001
Women Live Festival, film screening at the National Film Theatre, London
Summer Shorts, British Film Institute film tour, launched at the Metro Cinema, London.
Light Years, twenty year celebration, London Film Makers’ Co-op, London.
Exciled: A Cinema of Shattering Truths, Film and Video Umbrella tour, launched at the ICA, London.
'Crystal Aquarium' installed work: 'Moderna by Night'. Film screening: 'RX Recipe', 'Snig', 'The Cat and the Woman', 'K.', 'Blues in B-flat', '59 1/2 seconds for string player' 2004
MODERNA BY NIGHT 50 years of the internationally renowned Short Film Festival in Oberhausen 26 November at Moderna Museet, Stockholm Film and video by: Jayne Parker, London, Martín Mejía, Gothenburg, Anna Linder, Cecilia Lundqvist, Michel Wenzer, Sten Sandell, David Stackenäs, Stockholm Films by Martin Arnold, Robert Cahen, Marina Grzinic, Takashi Ito, Matthias Müller, Anna Thew, Jan Verbeek, Marika Orenius m.fl. Curator: Catrin Lundqvist, MM, in co-operation with Reinhard W. Wolf, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Filmform and the Goethe Institute.
'The Pool' in 'Arrows of Desire: The 2nd ICA Biennal of Independent Film & Video, international tour launched at the ICA, London 1992.
'Crystal Aquarium' in 'The Raw and the Cooked'1997
'Stationary Music', International Competition, 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005
'I Dish', 'K.', 'Crystal Aquarium', 'Blues in B-flat', in 'Experiments in Moving Image' 2004
'Experiments in Moving Image' is a major retrospective of experimental work from the ;ate 1960s to date (2004)
'The World Turned Upside Down', International Competition, 49th International Short Film and Video Festival Oberhausen 2003. Also, Cinémayence, Mainz, Germany 3 Feb 2004; Milano Film Festival, Italy 11 Mar 2004; Goethe Institute, Tallinn, Estonia 24 Nov 2004.
Choreographed by Anthony Howell, accompanied by John White’s melodic palindromes and directed by Jayne Parker, The World Turned Upside Down is an episodic dance of bizarre inversions and reversals between people and dogs. Are the dogs performing for the people or are the people performing for the dogs? The World Turned Upside Down is a ‘Dance for Camera’ film, commissioned by the Arts Council and BBC and produced by Sally Thomas for Maya Vision International.
'Thinking Twice', in symposium: 'The School and Schooling of Stefan Wolpe: Cross Currents in Jazz and New Music' 1998
Simposium • 1998 • Crosscurrents in Jazz and New Music: The School and Schooling of Stefan Wolpe. Temple University, Philadelphia, 19-21 March. Sponsors: Network for New Music Temple University Department of Music Stefan Wolpe Society
'RX Recipe' in 'Live Culture' 2003
'Performance, Film, The Body', curated by Aaron Williamson for 'Live Culture' at Tate Modern, London. A Live Art Development Agency Event. 27 March – 30 March 2003 Live Culture is a programme of Live Art performances, presentations and an international symposium. It brings together distinguished artists, theorists and curators to consider the cultural value of ‘live’ art practices in the context of Tate Modern’s Collection Displays and more broadly within the visual arts and other cultural spheres. Contributors include Marina Abramovic, Ron Athey, Franko B, Carol Becker, Catherine David, Forced Entertainment, Tim Etchells, Coco Fusco, RoseLee Goldberg, Matthew Goulish, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Lin Hixson, Amelia Jones, John Jordan, Keith Khan, Yu Yeon Kim, Oleg Kulik, Alastair MacLennan, Hayley Newman, Peggy Phelan, Andrew Quick, Alan Read, La Ribot, and Henry M Sayre.
'Apparition', Cinesthesia - a multimedia event of new music and film 2003
Sarah Nicolls, winner of the British Contemporary Piano Competition 2000, has commissioned artists to create a multimedia concert exploring the combination of music and film, with premieres by some of Britain's foremost composers. Performing with Sarah will be the singer Lore Lixenberg, Sound Intermedia and film artists Kathy Hinde, Joan Key and Jayne Parker. Visual accompaniment specially created by Joan Key and Jayne Parker for 'Apparition' by George Crumb, performed by pianist Sarah Nicolls and singer Loré Lixenberg.
'Thinking Twice' and 'Stationary Music', 'Stefan Wolpe: celebrating the composers of Black Mountain College' with pianist Katharina Wolpe 2006
In the context of the exhibition 'Starting at zero: Black Mountain College 1933-1957', a weekend of events: 'John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Stefan Wolpe: celebrating the composers of Black Mountain College', taking place between 10 and 12 March 2006, celebrates Cage, Harrison, and Wolpe's highly individual styles. Performers include Apartment House, radical vocalist Phil Minton, pianist Katarina Wolpe, daughter of Stefan, and award-winning film maker Jayne Parker.
'591/2 seconds for a string player, versions 1-3', in 'Drift', New Media Scotland's Touring Moving Image programme 2004
'Drift': Explorations in Sound Art and Experimental Music. 'The world premiere of DRIFT is part of the 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival's 'Black Box' strand, dedicated to the space 'where film and visual arts collide'. DRIFT is a programme of short films by UK sound artists and film-makers, which reveal the cinematic relationships between sound and image. DRIFT plays with our aural perceptions, featuring along the way bursts of sound art, noise, experimental music, field recordings, soundscapes. After its world premiere in Edinburgh, DRIFT will tour to other venues in Scotland, the UK and internationally. The programme is part of New Media Scotland's ongoing exploration of sound art and experimental music, including radio broadcasts, moving image, publications and occasional live events.'
'The Whirlpool', Le Festival international Signes de Nuit, Paris 2004
'Signes de Nuit is an international festival of audiovisual and cinematographic creation and Documentary art featuring experimental and short films. It has been held annually in October in Paris since 2003. It accepts documentary, fiction and experimental films in all formats but no animation. The festival is run by Dieter Wieczorek, film and art critic, curator, philosopher and performance artist, founder of the "Commission of Situation Creation" in Paris.' 'Concept: This project consists in assembling as many international contributions as as possible, while at the same time offering Parisian groups who create short and/or experimental films an opportunity to present their work. Musical/sound contributions and short lectures, theatrical happenings or performances (always short) should also be included to contribute to an animated ambiance of exchange. The works presented at our soiree are not chosen thematically, but by their quality and diversity. Those which take a critical or investigative approach to current cultural realities - social and political - are especially welcome.'
'The Whirlpool', Signes de Nuit programme, 11th European Film Festival Beirut, Lebanon, organsied by the European Community 2004
'Signes de Nuit est invité au 11ème FESTIVAL DU CINÉMA EUROPÉEN à Beyrouth / Liban organisé par la Délégation de la Communauté Européenne pour l´ouverture d´un nouveau section de “films de difference”.' Curated by Dieter Wieczorek.
'Stationary Music', Seoul Net & Film Festival 2005
'The Whirlpool', 'Cold Jazz' and 'Crystal Aquarium', 2nd International Women's Film Festival, Mumbai, India 2005
Commencing March 8th 2005 Mumbai and coinciding with International Women's Day, before touring to seven of the biggest cities in India, ending April 30th.
'Stationary Music', Experimenta Programme, The Times 50th BFI International Film Festival, London 2004
'Stationary Music', Maremetraggio - International Short Film Festival, Trieste, Italy 2006
'Stationary Music' screened as part of 'Starting At Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-1957', Arnofini Gallery, Bristol 2005-6
Bristol’s Arnolfini Gallery is showing the UK’s first exhibition about the influential Black Mountain College art movement. The exhibition, Starting At Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, traces the founding and subsequent flourishing of a distinctly American artistic tradition, and runs until January 15 2006. It uses a combination of art works and history to explore the college’s influence, regarded as one of the most important artistic experiments of the 20th century. Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a disaffected classical academic. Located in North Carolina, it attracted many major figures in the emergent American avant-garde art scene as well as composers, dancers, architects and writers. These included abstract expressionist painters Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, composer John Cage and influential architect Buckminster Fuller. Stationary Music screened alongside a documentary entitled 'The Fire Within' by M. C. Richards who studied at Black Mountain College.
'Stationary Music', Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2005
Nouveau cinéma et art Contemporain
'Stationary Music', Media City 12, International Film and Video Art Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2006
'Stationary Music' awarded 'Honorable Mention' by the festival.
'Stationary Music', in 'Evolution'. Media Arts Festival, 3-9 April 2006, Leeds.
Lumen present Evolution 2006, their fifth series of events, screenings and performances exploring avant-garde approaches to film, video and sound, curated by William Rose and Gregory Kurcewicz.
'I Dish', 'K.', 'The Pool', Blues in B-flat', 'Stationary Music' and 'Catalogue of Birds: Book 3' in 'Retrospective: The Subjective Camera' 2007
'THE SUBJECTIVE CAMERA is a series of retrospective screenings of six film artists whose work examines subjectivity with an analysis of film language. Emerging within the context of the London Filmmaker's Co-op during the '80s and '90s, these artists each developed an independent practice that built on and countered the principals of the Structuralist film movement of the '70s. Retrospective screenings by: Jayne Parker, Nina Danino, Alia Syed, Michael Maziere, Sandra Lahire and Sarah Pucill. 25 April - 30 May 2007.
'Foxfire Eins' series in 'Film / Live' - 'Space Where Sound Resonates', 'How to Improve the World', Live Art Programme, Haywood Gallery 2006
Invited performance within the context of the Haywood Gallery show 'How to Improve the World, Live Art Programme'. Film screening followed by live performance from Anton Lukoszevieze, the cellist featured in the films. Films screened in the gallery: 'Foxfire Eins', 'Blues in B-flat', 'Projection 1' and '591/2 seconds for a string player', versions 1 to 3.
'Strong Women: Vikki Amedume', La Nuit Blanche, Paris 2006
'Nuit Blanche' International Film Festival Paris, is a 'white' evening when galleries and museums across the city stay open for the entire night. 'Strong Women: Vikki Amedume' was part of a programme of works by London based women filmmakers projected from the gallery Miss China Beauty Room, Les Halles, Paris, into the street outside. Curated by Lucy Reynolds.
'Stationary Music', The Times BFI London Film Festival Tour: 'Experimenta' 2006
Regional tour of works shown at the The Times bfi London Film Festival 2005,'Experimenta' programme. Tour dates between April and June 2006.
'Stationary Music' in TTV Festival, 3 - 14 May 2006, Bologna, Italy
Programme Stationary Dances' curated by Miranda Pennell for TTV Preforming Arts on Screen festival, Bologna, Italy.
'I Dish', 'The Pool', 'Stationary Music', 'Arc' and 'K.' in 'Renewing Deren's Legacy' 2011
Solo screening 'Renewing Deren's Legacy' part of the Maya Deren season 'Maya Deren: 50 Years On'(4-12 Oct). Followed by 'in conversation' with William Fowler, Curator for Artists' Moving Image at the British Film Institute's National Archive
'Stationary Music' in 'Mezz#08 Space Memory II' 2010
'Stationary Music' in Mezz#08 Space Memory II - group screening, curated by Louise Fairclough, supported by Stroud Valleys Artspace and the Nunnery. For the first event of the autumn season, Mezz traveled to London (from its home in Stroud) to present an afternoon of artists' films, performance and drawings exploring ideas of memory and its associated place.
'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard', Australian International Experimental Film Festival 2010
'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' screened at the Australian International Experimental Film Festival in the programme 'Documenting the World, Life and Death'
'I Dish' in 'Séance for Maya Deren', group screening and panel discussion as part of Maya Deren season 'Maya Deren: 50 Years On' 2011
'Séance for Maya Deren', group screening and panel discussion introducing the Maya Deren season 'Maya Deren: 50 Years On' at the British Film Institute, South Bank, London. With chair and curator of the event, Elinor Cleghorn and film makers Sarah Pucill and Daria Martin.
'Cold Jazz', 'Catalogue of Birds: Book 3', 'Blues in B-flat', 'Arc' from 'Trilogy: Kettle's Yard' 2011
Presentation of films with talk and audience questions, followed by a performance by free improvising saxophonist Evan Parker.
'The World Turned Upside Down', 'Cold Jazz' and 'Catalogue of Birds: Book 3', in 'THEME programme: Shooting Animals. A brief History of Animal Film curated by Marcel Schwierin and Cord Riechelmann 2011
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival THEME programme: Shooting Animals. A brief History of Animal Film curated by Marcel Schwierin and Cord Riechelmann
'The Pool' in 'Tapeless Melodies' 2011
Group screening of films by women centred around gender and a re-definition of 'punk' in the digital age. Organized by Marianna Ellenberg.
'Thinking Twice', BBC Short Film Festival 1998
Tenth Anniversary, The BBC British Short Film Festival.
The World Turned Upside Down
Choreographed by Anthony Howell, accompanied by John White’s melodic palindromes and directed by Jayne Parker, 'The World Turned Upside Down' is an episodic dance of bizarre inversions and reversals between people and dogs. Are the dogs performing for the people or are the people performing for the dogs? 'The World Turned Upside Down' is a ‘Dance for Camera’ film, commissioned by the Arts Council and BBC and produced by Sally Thomas for Maya Vision International, broadcast on BBC2 9 March 2002.
'K.', 'Cold Jazz', 'The Whirlpool', 'Foxfire Eins', 'Projection 1', 'Blues in B-flat', 59 1/2 seconds for a string player', retrospective screening at Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea.
Interview and Q&A following screening and speaker in international conference: 'Stranger than Cinema' - discourse between Cinematic Structure and Narrative Form.