Foreign Sleep by Lilian Nejatpour
Mar
24
5:00 PM17:00

Foreign Sleep by Lilian Nejatpour

Foreign Sleep (2019) is a revised iteration of the original Choreophobia performance by artist Lilian Nejatpour. The performance borrows its name from the theory of dancer and choreographer Anthony Shay, who examined the intervening occurrence of colonialism and Western thought on Middle Eastern dance practices. Shay articulates Western involvement in the Middle East as transforming gender and sensuality in non-Western male bodies, arguing that this interference influenced a phobia toward transgressive and fluid forms of gender display.

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TIME by NEON After School.
Mar
24
4:00 PM16:00

TIME by NEON After School.

We are delighted to share TIME created by Folkestone’s NEON After School in response to Strangelove’s festival theme of DURATION. Combining dance, animation, poetry, performance and music, TIME explores our past, questions the future and delves into the complications of time travel.

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Polymer by Astrid Goldsmith
Mar
24
3:00 PM15:00

Polymer by Astrid Goldsmith

Mock Duck Studios is an stop-motion animation studio, run by independent animator Astrid Goldsmith.
Based in Folkestone in Kent, Mock Duck Studios was set up by animation director Astrid Goldsmith in 2012, after a decade of industry experience as a model maker for film and TV. While making puppets and props for clients including Duracell; Ford Fiesta; Chivas Regal; Leeds Castle; Hammer & Tongs (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy); and a weird commission for the boyband Blue, Astrid completed her debut short film Squirrel Island in 2016. Squirrel Island went on to compete at many top international film festivals (including Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, LSFF, Aesthetica, and Warsaw Film Festival), and won several prizes for Best Film.

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La Faim (Hunger) by Peter Foldès
Mar
24
2:00 PM14:00

La Faim (Hunger) by Peter Foldès

In this animated short, director Peter Foldès depicts one man’s descent into greed and gluttony. Rapidly dissolving and ever-evolving images create a contrast between abundance and want. One of the first films to use computer animation, this satire serves as a cautionary tale against self-indulgence in a world still plagued by hunger and poverty.

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Secret Strangelove Encounter 7
Mar
24
1:00 PM13:00

Secret Strangelove Encounter 7

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Secret Strangelove Encounter 7.

Amongst the seaside revellers one person seeks to head out beyond the edge of the land. come to hear their story; a tale, a journey, and an attempt to connect with something lost. 

The location of the event will be revealed on your ticket. Book your ticket here.

This 'encounter' can be viewed at anytime over the time slot (1-4pm Sunday 24th).  

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Every Second Counts
Mar
24
11:00 AM11:00

Every Second Counts

Strangelove Festival 2019 invited artists to submit 30 second films, responding to the festival's theme of duration - reflecting our fast-paced consumer culture of digital media. Thirty seconds is: how long most adverts last, how long most people look at an artwork in a gallery, 12 breathes and an 0.008th of an hour.

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Queertopia curated for Daata Editions by Gemma Rolls-Bentley
Mar
23
8:45 PM20:45

Queertopia curated for Daata Editions by Gemma Rolls-Bentley

Queertopia curated for Daata Editions by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, features artists: Holly Blakey, Rindon Johnson, Zoe Marden, Rashaad Newsome, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Jacolby Satterwhite and Puck Verkade.’ The artists included in Queertopia straddle London and New York, two cities at a pivotal moment in their queer history.

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‘Brick and Mortar’ Live Performance Works
Mar
23
6:00 PM18:00

‘Brick and Mortar’ Live Performance Works

Four artists working with performance seek to establish / carve out the foundations for a live space in which aspects of physicality in each working practice can be brought to the surface and deployed by each artist as they see fit; aiming to draw out similar notions and parallels that may have not coincided with each other before.

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'Bodyscapes' Talk by Curator with Jamie Wyld
Mar
23
5:00 PM17:00

'Bodyscapes' Talk by Curator with Jamie Wyld

Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work – either as a landscape, a political metaphor or method of expression – the body acts as a vehicle and subject to communicate ideas. This will be screened in The Quarterhouse Auditorium 4-6pm Saturday 23rd March and the curator, Jamie Wyld will be talking about the screening in the Quarterhouse Clearing at 4pm - 5pm.

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Bodyscapes: new film and video from Japan
Mar
23
4:00 PM16:00

Bodyscapes: new film and video from Japan

Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work – either as a landscape, a political metaphor or method of expression – the body acts as a vehicle and subject to communicate ideas. In Fuyuhiko Takata’s Little Mermaid inspired Cambrian Explosion, Takata’s character Princess Mermaid attempts to create his own legs by bloodily sawing his own tail in half. Aya Momose attempts to speak and converse with a goat, to share feelings of forgiveness and pain in her film, To Cuddle a Goat, a Poor Grammar Exercise. And in The Educational System of an Empire by Hikaru Fujii, the artist asks a group of young South Korean’s to reenact actions of historical colonial Japan upon the nation of Korea.

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