9 – 18 April 2015
Join us for our first Festival of the Moving Image! VIDEOVADA will run over two long weekends from 9-18 April 2015 and features a programme of screenings, workshops and participatory events. Each event will also have installed videos by local filmmakers playing on loop and library of Video Art to explore!
Thursday 9 April (8-10pm): Screening of work by Oxford based Filmmakers
Come along to see a selection of short films from local Artists and Filmmakers. If you have a film you would like to be considered for screening visit: www.ovada.org.uk/videovada-submissions. Join us from 6pm before the screening starts at 8pm for the opening reception of the VIDEOVADA Festival, and explore the installed videos and library of Video Art.
Friday 10 April (8-10pm): Participatory Screening – play along to a silent film!
Bring along an instrument, noise-maker or simply use your voice to create a live soundtrack to a classic silent film, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920). Free entry if you bring an instrument to play! If you don’t want to join in, come along to watch and listen!
Saturday 11 April: Re-purposing Analogue Video Workshop (2-6pm) and Screening of the Workshop Outcome (6-8pm)
Join Oxford artist AD Pawley to create an installation from redundant Video equipment. Make sculptures from VHS Tapes, build a low-powered TV transmitter and explore reflections and feedback with old TV screens and video cameras. At the end of the session from 6pm, there will be a screening of the work made during the workshop, accompanied by Installations, a Video Library, Bar and a Soup Kitchen!
Saturday 11 April (8-10pm): Participatory screening – Bring your own projector!
A screening with no rules! You are invited to bring along your own projector (Video, Film or Slide) and content. The event will be a splendid mash-up of sound and light projected onto the walls of the OVADA Warehouse.
Thursday 16 April (8:30-10pm): A Brief History of Film and Video Art
An educational screening in association with OVADA’s Warehouse Art School. Take a tour through some of the highlights and classics of Film Video Art from the 1920’s through to the present day.
Friday 17 April (8-10pm): Participatory Screening – YouTube It!
Come along with suggestions of your favourite YouTube clips and see them projected onto a large screen. The ultimate way of “sharing” the videos you find most funny, moving, informative or just plain weird! Vote for your favourite at the end of the night. You can email links in advance to Adrian Pawley (ad@ovada.org.uk) or just turn up on the night with suggestions.
Saturday 18 April: Interactive Demonstration of Praxis LIVE (2-6pm) and Preview of the Workshop Outcome (6-8pm)
Praxis LIVE is a free, open-source software for making audio-visual performance tools, projections and interactive spaces. Join lead-developer Neil C Smith and Naomi Morris to create interactive projections and explore how Digital Prisoners use Praxis LIVE in their work. Laptop useful but not essential. From 6pm there will be a preview of the workshop outcome, installations, Video Library, Bar and Soup Kitchen!
Saturday 18 April (8-10pm): Screening: Man with a Movie Camera – The Global Remake
‘Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake’ is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ (1929) and upload them to a public website. Software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. After the screening there will be the chance to film a scene from the movie and upload it to the website.
Venue: OVADA
Cost per event: £3 on the door or FREE to OVADA Associates
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