Date: 18th May 2012 7:00pm
Last Entry: 7:30pm

Entry Price: £3 Advance tickets, £5 on the Door
Entry Price (Members/NUS): £3, £4 on the Door

*We will also provide FREE popcorn*

Future Shorts is the largest short film network in the world. Film. Music. Art. People. This is Future Shorts.The World’s Biggest Pop Up Film Festival.

The Spring Programme consists of the following 7 films:

Bear | dir Nash Edgerton | Australia | 2011

Quadrangle | dir Amy Grappell | USA | 2010

Venus | dir Tor Fruergaard | Denmark | 2012

The Arm | dir Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos, Jessie Ennis | USA | 2012

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) |dir Spike Jonze and Simon

Cahn | France 2011

Love You More | dir Sam Taylor Wood | UK | 2007

L’Homme Sans Tete (The Man Without a Head) | dir Juan

Solanas|France | 2003

We will also be showcasing three short films from emerging film makers along side out screening of the Future Shorts Spring Programme. Details of who are still TBC

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, we believe strongly in the social experience of film; in cinema as a communicator and community that should not be restricted by geography, status, wealth or politics.

Sister company Future Cinema has become world renowned for re-imagining the cinema-going experience and championing ‘Live Cinema’, with events such as Secret Cinema receiving international acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

Film. Music. Art. People. This is Future Shorts.The World’s Biggest Pop Up Film Festival.

The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop up film festival of its kind, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening and be part of a massive screening network and a powerful global community.

Future Shorts breaks boundaries, borders and conventions to connect a global audience to the worlds best short films. The creators of the acclaimed Secret Cinema, Future Shorts have redefined the way we experience film. The festival is a true celebration of cinema as a communicator and community.

We will be kicking off the evening showcasing two local film makers:

Tracey McMaster & Ben Wheele

*We will also provide FREE popcorn*

Entry Price: £3 Advance tickets, £5 on the Door
Entry Price (Members/NUS): £3, £4 on the Door

Minimum Age: 18

Date: 18th May 2012 7:00pm
Last Entry: 7:30pm

Venue: Backlit
First Floor, Alfred House, Ashley Street,
Nottingham
NG3 NG3

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Backlit re-launch – Hyper Real Part II – Nottingham Culture – LeftLion.co.uk.

Review by: Sanjay Brown

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OPEN SUBMISSIONS TO SHOW ALONGSIDE FUTURE SHORTS @ BACKLIT GALLERY

Future Shorts is the largest short film network in the world. The next screening will feature works by internationally acclaimed directors such as Spike Jonze and Sam Taylor Wood at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham. Alongside the Future Shorts selection Backlit will be screening short videos showcasing local talent. If you are a filmaker looking for an audience to view your work alongside some big names in the industry – look no futher!

All submissions must include;
Director CV
Statement of submitted work (200 words)
The video (5 -10 mins)
£10 application fee – (via paypal)
Please include a message notifying us of your payment

DEADLINE – May 6TH 2012 6PM.
Successful applications will also receive two complimentary tickets to the screening on May the 18th.

All applicants can submit their works to apply@backlit.org.uk
Or post to;

BACKLIT (Future shorts)
Alfred House
Ashley Street
Nottingham
NG3 1JG

For more information visit www.backlit.org.uk/get-involved or contact info@backlit.org.uk

Watch an exclusive interview with international designer Paul Heijnen, and Backlit Managing Director Matthew Chesney, discussing the Folding Wall project.

Listen to Matt’s interview with the lovely Frances Fin from BBC Radio Nottingham. Did you tune in and listen? it was about 11:45am…not quite midday. Just a little chat about the gallery and what we do.

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After an inspirational evening at the Backlit gallery, participating in a Backrit the piece I cannot get out of my mind is Liz Sparks’ collection of hand-made fruit. Almost like walking into the kitchen of a rural farmhouse, purposefully selected foods are arranged and abandoned. On the wall hangs a sewn bag containing corn, a bit of which is escaping, a wooden table roughly covered with a white sheet holds woven, fabric foods delicately placed as though expectant of company. A furry pear on a doily blurs the boundary between our knowledge and our experience. A soft corn on the cob, defined by wire confuses the senses, for what we expect of the natural –nourishment and decay – has become unnatural.
A lingering sense of an unknown narrative pervades the piece, leaving the viewer questioning who has laid the table. Why have these particular foods been laid out so precisely? Each item seems to assume significance, separated out onto plates. Their distinctness suggests ritual and importance; a lone pear, three eggs in a thick plastic bag, categorised perhaps as the first fruits of the harvest. A thank offering for the golden goods that the mysterious owner has collected. This time, however, the fruits are eternal. Timeless and inedible, these synthetic objects will always be. Not deliberately part of the gallery’s exhibition ‘Hyper-Real’, Liz’s work still manages to depict a distorted reality where something so ordinary now defies what we know.
The combination of domesticity and the use of craft seem overtly feminine. The use of nature, the home, and the materials suggest a gender specific domain. Within this sphere the woman has roles and control, the poem in conjunction with this piece lists the tasks which were needed to end up with such produce, with words like ‘tied’, ‘boxed’, and ‘wrapped’. These words could be understood as the oppression of women, she is subject to these aggressive terms. The repetitive tasks become a chain to her freedom, yet all she has in response is not violence but soft fabrics and wool. The poem can also be interpreted as signifying the importance of the processes which have led to this piece, an older and gentile way of life, where the earth and its fruits were an integral part of a human’s life. The laid table then becomes a conclusion of the systems such as gathering, washing and storing, much like the final article at the end of a production line. In contrast, one could place a stainless steel table with Tesco’s pack of five bagged evenly sized pears, a box of six free range standardised eggs, frozen corn on the cob and a bag of ground refined flour ready to use. The way of life depicted in Liz’s scene of natural domestic provision has been abandoned.
In a world away from the hustle of Nottingham’s centre, Backlit contains treasures to be unpacked and discovered, a trove of unusual delights to inspire the mind.

Written By: Marie Betts, History of Arts Student, University of Nottingham

With Sura Susso on Djembe

&

Ebrahim on Dundun

Starting 5th April – 24th May 2012

The first two sessions will be held at Backlit: 5th & 12th of April.

Price: £80 for course, or £12 drop in
Time: 6pm – 7:30pm

Djembe Drumming course With Sura Susso on Djembe & Eba (on dundun) Our popular Djembe drumming course returns this spring! Starting Thursday 5th April – 24th May 2012 Every Thursday 6pm-7.30pm £80 for the course – or £12 drop-in. For info please contact: vanessa.seeyave@gmail.com or Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/welovedrumming or Facebook fanpage: www.facebook.com/surasusso About Sura Susso —————————– An effusive and accomplished percussionist, Sura Susso has been studying percussion since the age of 4. His highly distinctive blend of African and Cuban percussion styles has been highly demanded from other bands; He has also been bringing this flavour to the Seckou Keita Quintet (SKQ) since 2004 – touring worldwide & performing at festivals and events such as Montreal Jazz Festival, The Hay Festival, WOMAD International Music Festivals. He plays all percussive instruments on his debut album Silakang released in 2011. Sura has led the delivery of numerous educational projects, leading workshops in schools, art centres and community organisations. He’s a generous, patient and incredibly energetic teacher. ‘His contagious enthusiasm, outstanding talent as well as his expansive knowledge of rhythms had his students fully engaged, challenged, and loving the workshops.’ (City Arts, 2011)

Paul Heijnen - Dutch artist/designer based in Eindhoven, Holland. Paul has designed an innovative folding, Gallery wall system that will be showcased March 30th and used as an artefact of Backlit Gallery. Paul is fast becoming a notable young designer in Holland and was approached for this project due to his economic functionality between space, practicality and representation.

Leila Al-Yousuf - Co-Director and studio member of Backlit, Leila Al-Yousuf will be creating a surreal environment in the project space, allowing the viewer to step into a world of a fragmented painting and become part of the substance of an illusory landscape. Her site specific works respond physically and structurally. Forms that weave the shapes of the architecture into the room and divide space; altering the way that people physically move through it.

Anastasia Shin - Shin graduated from Goldsmiths Art Practice course in 2011. Her work is an exploration of ‘the virtual.’ From Shin’s perspective, the virtual describes something that takes its point of reference from a real object, yet does not exist in a realm that is accessible to us. Working with video projection, Shin’s exhibition piece offers a glimpse into an uninhabitable place, where distortion interrupts the contemplation of the natural world.

Virtual Gallery - The Virtual Gallery project is an interactive exhibiting software designed by American programmer Dalai Fellinto commissioned by Narrative and Interactive Arts at the Nottingham Trent University. The Software will give audiences a chance to submit digital media artworks into a stereoscopic virtual gallery and navigate around the virtual space! This will be the second event using the virtual gallery, this time showing International artists.

Part of ‘Hyper Real’

Tomorrow! EEEEEK!

Post by: Backlit Team

What a busy day! We kicked off with an interview with the lovely Frances Fin from BBC Radio Nottingham. Did you tune in and listen? it was about 11:45am…not quite midday. Great little chat about the gallery and what we do.

Looking forward to seeing all you gorgeous people and maybe sipping a little tipple.

See you tomorrow!

Launch event March 9, 6pm – Late

Click below to listen to Matt’s Interview

Matt BBC Radio Nottingham2

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3 days to go!!

Post By: Leila Al-Yousuf, Co-Director and studio member of Backlit, Artist & Curator

All is under way here at Backlit today, walls and works are being painted, and spaces being tidied. Exciting to see things beginning to come together and everyone chipping in. The virtual gallery is being set up – next up: curating a virtual exhibition. We’ve seen some great works so far, really looking forward to receiving the rest of them and seeing them up in the gallery.

Launch event March 9, 6pm – Late

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