Future Shorts Screening 2011
On December 13th 2011, Backlit hosted their very first Future Short Screening. Future Shorts is the largest short film network in the world. Since 2003 they have built a new audience for film across the globe, developed a platform for filmmakers that allows millions of people worldwide to engage with their work. Working across exhibition, distribution and experiential events, Future Shorts is the product of 9 years of audience development, experimentation and of reacting to the demand for another way of experiencing film. Operating online, in live events and through commercial distribution,...
Read MoreTracey McMaster
Tracey McMaster is an artist and curator whose work originates from the social and cultural context within which it is produced, involving the audience as catalysts and collaborators, making the familiar humorous and absurd. McMaster experiments with restrictions, language and the dialogue with the audience, often making the audience rethink their own environments through the form of live art, video,...
Read MoreJackie Berridge
Statement After graduating in 1995, my paintings were abstract with ambiguous figurative elements. The work has since developed in a more figurative direction whilst retaining the painterly qualities of the earlier abstract work. Current work explores the many aspects of play. Earlier paintings were based on playground politics and personal memories of primary school and focused on group dynamics and isolation. The ideas are further developed in ‘How to Save a Donkey, ‘Not a Stag Party’ and ‘Coast’ where the playground becomes more theatrical and allows the imagination to...
Read MoreDuncan Allen
Duncan Allen is a multi-disciplinary artist from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, currently training to be a wrestler (under the name Doctor Cravern) and recently presented video at Nottingham Contemporary. In 2008 Duncan achieved a first class honours in Fine Art BA(Hons) from Nottingham Trent University. Duncan has lived in Rotterdam for over a year to study at Willem de Kooning Academie as part of an exchange programme, during which time he Performed at De Player and exhibited at Blaak 10 and in Amsterdam at Pa//////kt. His work has also been shown in Scotland and Switzerland. Duncan...
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