Still: Glimpses From a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (Ute Aurand, 2000)
The Pier Arts Centre will be hosting a 16mm filmmaking workshop inspired by Margaret Tait’s short script Video Poems for the 90s, led by Berlin-based filmmaker, Ute Aurand
on Friday 29 March 10am-4.30pm
Workshop Bursaries
We are delighted to be able to offer travel /accommodation bursaries for two workshop participants, up to the value of £300. In order to be considered for this bursary please email info@pierartscentre.com the subject heading WORKSHOP BURSARY [Your Name] and a brief statement of no more than 250 words about why this opportunity would benefit you, your practice or research.
Deadline 5pm Wednesday 6 March. Applicants will be notified by Friday 8 March.
This day-long workshop will introduce participants to the basic principles involved in working with the Bolex clockwork 16mm camera and will experiment with the techniques and approaches suggested by Tait’s script.
The morning session will take place in The Pier Arts Centre and will finish with a lunchtime screening of Aurand’s films (12-1pm). The screening will include Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 (2020), Aurand’s recent film featuring material from her visit with Tait, including their own experimentations with Tait’s Video Poems for the 90s script.
For the afternoon session, participants will break into small groups before heading out into Stromness and its surrounding environs to explore Tait’s script through the lens of the camera.
Artists Luke Fowler and Louise Barrington will also be present and will assist with the small-group filming.
Workshop fee £20 (£10 students)
Workshop booking opens on Friday 8 March 2024
Access Fund
We also have a modest access fund available to support costs for childcare, carers, support workers which is available on a first come first served basis. Please contact info@pierartscentre.com for further details.
This event is organised as part of the Scottish tour for Luke Fowler’s, Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (2022), funded by Screen Scotland and led by Urth Productions.
Ute Aurand (Frankfurt, 1957) - filmmaker, programmer and educator - has been a central figure of Berlin’s experimental film scene since the 1980s and is one the most significant filmmakers active in the diary and portrait tradition today. Aurand has been active as a programmer for more than three decades: co-organizing the monthly 'FilmSamstag' screenings at Berlin’s Kino Babylon from 1997 to 2007, particularly championing work by women filmmakers [including Tait], and often showing her films in dialogue with those of fellow filmmakers and friends. (Courtisane Festival, 2017)