Upcoming:
Analogue Sound Workshop - a one day practical session focussing on analogue electronic music techniques using hands on tools and equipment. Each student makes tape loops, draws sound onto 16mm film, builds a junior Theremin and creatively solders a walkie talkie circuit. All materials provided, £75/65. Phoenix Brighton, 11am-6pm, March 21st.

Celluloid: The Cameraless Film - international exhibition of direct animation includes 3 of Ian`s super 8 films - Get Set, Striations and Orbiting the Atom. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. June 2nd–August 29th.

FC Judd: Practical Electronica - plans are afoot for a documentary film on one of the early British electronic music experimenters featured in the Tone Generation series. Preliminary research is underway on the life and work of Fred Judd - anyone with useful information on this composer, radio/electronics expert, please contact Ian.

Now Available:
Hellifilms - to see clips or hire a selection of Ian`s shorts please go to the Light Cone website. http://www.lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-794-ian-helliwell.html
Ian Helliwell: Hellifilms Vol. 1
The first dvd of films to buy from Ian`s substantial body of over 50 shorts, features 4 works made in 2007, which incorporate abstraction, animation, found footage and experimental music soundtracks using Hellitron tone generators.
https://www.createspace.com/Store/ShowEStore.jsp?id=256522
Check Ian`s Wikipedia entry here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Helliwell_(filmmaker)#Methods_and_Aesthetic_Style
Amazing Rayday Compendium - Deluxe limited edition box containing reprints of Jeff Keen`s Rayday papers + Marvo Movie badge, text by Al Rees and Ian`s specially made collage timeline. Issued by the Permanent Gallery in a run of 200.
Gazwrx - Superb BFI dvd collection of Jeff Keen films (copious 9 hour retrospective which includes illustrated booklet and Ian`s experimental short Art Flies Free).

Recent:
Kino Kinetic - special screening at Brighton`s art deco Embassy Court building; a short programme of artist`s film and video focussing on kinetic sculpture. Included the premiere of Ian`s new film The Motion Controllers featuring the wind powered sculptures of Circus Kinetica. Embassy Court, Brighton & Hove seafront, Nov. 22nd.
Punto y Raya Festival - Ian`s film Through the Miniscope was shown in this dedicated screening of international contemporary abstract cinema. Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 25th - 29th.
Sound-Image-Sound - 2 part film programme looking at how sound can be used to directly generate an image, and how graphics can in turn be used to create a soundtrack. Ian presented an archive programe plus a selection of his shorts that feature electronic sounds activating images. The Cork Film Festival, Nov. 1st - 8th. http://www.corkfilmfest.org/2009/strands/347/ian-helliwell
Colour Out of Space - Experimental Film Show - included Ian`s Lines And Pulses + COOS Exhibition featured 2 of Ian`s collages Rayday Timeline + Reverse Engineers. Brighton University Gallery, Oct. 16th - Nov. 1st
Be Inspired - new works by Creative Arts Courses Tutors - an exhibition of artwork that included a new interactive sound machine The Hellisizer 3000 Multiplay + Darlington Pair an electronic sound composition on headphones. Phoenix Brighton,
Sept 5th - Oct 11th.
Portobello Film Festival - included Ian`s films EMS 8, Lines And Pulses, Street Lights and the world premiere of Accident & Design. Westbourne Studios, London, September 8th.
Tenderpix - Experimental film Part 1 - Ian`s EMS 8 featured in this year`s selection from the Rushes Soho Shorts festival. Tenderpixel Gallery, London. July 24th.
Lunar Excursion Night - 40 years on from the Apollo 11 moon landing, Ian assembled a concert of live electronics, space films and projections, experimental soundtracks and Hellisizer sounds. With support from Simonsound. The Caroline of Brunswick pub, Brighton, June 26th.
Art Film Fest - Ian`s new film Street Lights premiered in the International Competition of this Slovakian film festival. Bratislava, Slovakia, June 20th-27th.
Cine Trans Europe - The section of this European touring film programme curated by the Cork Film Festival, featured Ian`s Playing Up, which screened in Paris, followed by Amsterdam and Barcelona. Ireland Cultural Institute, Paris 27th June.
Videoex - EMS 8 screened in the About Images programme of this fine festival that focusses on international experimental film and video. Videoex Festival, Zurich, Switzerland, May 23rd-31st.
Hamburg International Short Film Festival - Lines And Pulses screened amongst a selection of experimental film in the NoBudget competition, and Ian presented his archive shorts programme Soundtracks for the City. Hamburg, June 3rd-7th.
Dice Club - Ian played a solo set with the Hellisizer 2000 alongside the mighty drumming of VEGAS Whores, dj Toby Amies and excellent headline act Blurt. The Hoxton Sq. Bar And Kitchen. May 10th.
Cambridge Super 8 Festival - the 3rd festival of international super 8 films featured EMS 8, and Ian as a member of the discussion panel. Cambridge, April 29th - May 2nd.
Gazwrx and Rayday - Jeff Keen and Ian Helliwell exhibition which tied in with the Rayday Box release, featuring Jeff`s original 1960s collages + Ian`s magnetic tape loops, slides and visual collage timeline. For the exhibition opening Ian played an electronic music set with the sounds improvised live from his self-built tone generators, the Hellitrons. Permanent Gallery, Brighton, March 5th - 8th.