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Future Short Spring Programme in Nottingham
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 |...
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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...
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8 Days to Go Notable young Dutch designer Paul Heijnen, based in Eindhoven, is designing an innovative folding Gallery wall system that will be showcased at Backlit on March 30th and will then become a donated artefact celebrating our new space. As part of the Backlit Launch festival Paul will be taking part in a one week residency building his innovative design with studio staff and artists. There will be an opportunity to hear him talk on the processes of creation and thinking behind it at the exhibition launch on March...
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Opens Friday 30th March, 6-9pm 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. Part of ‘Hyper Real’ [Show as...
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Friday March 9 – 16th – Calling open submissions! & Friday 30th March 6-9pm – International Artists 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! We will be pre-populate some material with a selection of Backlit Studio...
read moreFuture 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...
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