News

Upcoming:
International Exhibition of Abstract Cinema - featuring screenings of Ian`s films Grid, Signal Tracing, Playing Up and the Atomium Age, organised by the Cultural Association ZAC and Link Campus University of Malta, Rome, Italy, September 24th.
Super 8 Today - the latest issue of this US filmmakers magazine features the Cambridge Super-8 group and a recent interview with Ian. Out now. http://www.super8today.com/inside.html

Recent:
Contemporary Experimental Work from Britain - programme with Grid, Signal Tracing, Playing Up and the Atomium Age + films from fellow Brightonians Semiconductor and Ben Rivers. Revelation Film Festival, Perth, Australia. July 13th.
Analogue AV Workshop - Ian conducted a course integrating super-8 direct animation, with sound film and reel to reel tape cut-ups, culminating in a triple-screen super-8 projection of the students' work. He also screened a programme of 10 of his films and played a live soundtrack with the Hellisizer 1000. 16th Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, July 5th to 12th.
AV Amalgamated
As part of Sonic Arts Network Expo weekend, Ian assembled an electro-acoustic ensemble of Brighton improvisers and electronic music makers, to play live soundtracks to vintage short films he selected from the Screen Archive South East.
The line up included vibraphone, analogue synthesizers, double bass and percussion, and the films ranged from a 1908 fantasy to cine footage of Brighton in the 1960s. July 4th, Sallis Benney, Brighton.

Material, Poetry, Structure & Music - A very fine 16mm programme of archive British avant garde film curated by Patti Gaal-Holmes, as part of the British Culture in the 1970s conference, with Ian as projectionist. University of Portsmouth July 1st.
Grid
showed in a programme of shorts at a new screening venture called Film Lab. Exchange Studio, Maidstone, June 25th.

Live performance - Ian played live with Hellioptical, Hellisizer 2000 and the Megatherm + films and projections. The Boxtree, Cambridge, June 20th.
Brussels Meets Brighton
- multimedia performance, gigs and installations involving Arts Collectives from Brighton, Brussels and London. Ian hooked up with Brighton`s Institute of Unnecessary Research with Hellisizer and pressure mats, and performed a live Hellitron soundtrack to 'Holes'. The Shunt Lounge, London, May 1st.
A very positive outcome at the Cambridge Super-8 festival where Ian`s Dash Dot won a prize in the international competition. April 26th.
Sad news of the death of veteran composer Tristram Cary - April 24th 2008. Tristram was very supportive and helpful in sending over his slides and music from Expo 67, allowing Ian to incorporate much of Tristram`s unreleased Expo music into the radiophonic collage, which was dedicated to him.

Expo 67 - a Radiophonic Collage. The most recent airing of Ian`s 26 minute experimental radio work was on the John Cavanagh Soundwave show on Radio Six International. The piece has now been broadcast by stations in London, Paris, New York, Bristol and Brighton. The Paris based programme Songs of Praise aired a very fine expo special including the Radiophonic Collage. http://songsofpraise.hautetfort.com/
Clear Spot - an hours worth of Ian`s electronic and radiophonic music played on Resonance FM, March 12th.
Rust to Dust - Ian`s film from 2006 screened as part of a compilation of shorts and animations showing on a free screen in the Barbican foyer during the weekend March 8th/9th.