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LUX BLOG

FRESH MOVES

WHEN I SIT DOWN TO WRITE

ON TWO FILMS... BY STEPHEN CONNOLLY

EIGHT METAPHORS

THREE FILMS ON LANGUAGE, POLAND/BELARUS

The visual language established in Stevens' work presents the audience with critical yet often poetic forms in film, video and photography. Recurrent themes connect visual codes of landscape, borders and migration with more orthodox forms of documentation and reportage such as journalism and political dogma.

His short films have been exhibited internationally including the Whitechapel Gallery, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Tapei Museum of Modern Art, Serpentine Cinema, OVNI, Barcelona and Frieze film. His most recent film Atlantropa commissioned by Film London won Best False Fiction Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2010. Stevens has also contributed to various publications such as Fresh Moves (Thames & Hudson) and Eight Metaphors (Lux) and has published two limited DVD/Book sets When I Sit Down to Write and Three Films on Language.

 

 

 

Fresh Moves

 

The appearance of Fresh Moves, in 2007, was a unique event making artists' moving images, some of which are rarely seen, available beyond the conventional context of art exhibitions and fleeting lives online. The project was the result of tank.tv's continuous collaboration and exchange with artists, institutions and independent curators which has made it the inimitable platform for moving image practice that it is today.

Fresh Moves was compiled by a panel that included Hans Ulrich Obrist, director of the Serpentine Gallery, and Stuart Comer, curator of film and video at Tate Modern. Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and infamous philosopher Slavoj Zizek both make an appearance in the series of interviews.

ARTISTS: David Blandy, Ben Callaway, Duncan Campbell, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Spartacus Chetwynd, Kate Cooper, Ann Course, Katy Dove, Max Hattler, Runa Islam, Kevin Heavey, Anja M. Kirschner, Zineb Sedira, Andrew Kötting, Torsten Lauschmann, Daria Martin, Alexander Heim, Ben Rivers, Samuel Stevens, Stephen Sutcliffe, Mark Aerial Waller, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans.

INTERVIEWS: Steven Eastwood with Benjamin Cook, Jeremy Deller with Chrissie Iles, Ryan Gander with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Laure Prouvost with Michael Connor, Sophie Fiennes with Slavoj Žižek.

The compilation was selected by: Hans Ulrich Obrist (the Serpentine Gallery), Benjamin Cook and Mike Sperlinger (LUX), Stuart Comer (Tate Modern), Michelle Cotton (Independent curator, London), Rose Cupit (Film London) and Kathrin Becker (NBK, Berlin).

A project by: Laure Prouvost and Birgit Ludwig

Fresh Moves: New Moving Images From the UK
ISBN: 978-0-9555181-0-2
Paperback 150 x 180 mm portrait
300 pages / content printed on 81 colour pages
PAL DVD / Region 0 / running time 85 min
Published by Tank Form Ltd
Distributed by Thames & Hudson.