WELCOME TO REWIND. Here, you can visit the works that have previously been shown at past strangelove festivals and also catch up on films shown in the 2020 cycle of programmes.
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David Shrigley
David Shrigley finds meaning in snippets of text and overheard conversations. His crude and cartoonish ink drawings, usually exhibited salon-style, recall pages from the sketchbook of a cheeky adolescent. Tackling serious issues, such as unemployment and child welfare, as well as more absurd subjects, including sexual fantasies about a squirrel, his fragmented narratives can be both poignant and funny. In a 2011 exhibition, Shrigley included a dead stuffed kitten that stood on its hind legs carrying a hand-lettered protest sign that read, “I’M DEAD.”
David Bickerstaff
Hybrid Documentaries
“All great fiction films tend towards documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction.”
Jean-Luc Godard
When we think of the traditional definition of a documentary film, we think of non-fiction, a truthful story presented through observed reality. Fictional, or narrative filmmaking, tends to rely on invented characters, devised plots and scenarios to weave a story of fabricated reality with entertainment being Its primarily aim. That’s not to say documentaries can’t be entertaining, but their primary aim is to tell stories that have journalistic or observational truth. Hybrid documentaries tend to operate in-between, weaving nonfiction filmmaking with elements of fiction filmmaking. They play with the observational format and subvert the poetics of storytelling. They might use split screen, special effects, animation, reenactments and other filmic devices to abstract the narrative from observational reality to augmented reality, while trying to maintain a balance between credible authenticity and creative interpretation. Sometimes this is framed as ‘docufiction’, but the term ‘hybrid’ eludes to a process of evolving mediation and the search for new forms of representation. Of course it is much more complicated than these rather reductive definitions might suggest, but it has proven fertile territory for many artists to explored.
Dunkerque 2018
Strangelove on tour in 2018 to La Plate-Forme, Dunkerque, France
Selected by Elodie Merland and Terry Smith and includes Lucie Mercadal, Jacques van Lennep, Pablo-Marin Cordoba, Juliele Toquin, Jerome Grivel, Michael Allibert, Romain Gandolphe
