Further Tales from Everywhere

Selected by: Michael Cousin (UK)
Participating: Andrew Bucksbarg (US), Bryant Dameron (US), Angelo Picozzi (UK), Richard Powell (UK), Janis Rafailidou (GR/UK), Gregor Rozanski (PL/D), Alysse Stepanian (IR/US), Adam Trowbridge (US)
About the selection
The trouble with most films is that there’s always someone directing
the action. They edit, they shoot, they point, and they direct us to
look, to see a certain thing at a certain time, to hear a sound, to
understand some words or some movement. Nothing is wasted, all is
significant. There is certainty in this storytelling, always a starting
point, always an ending even if they don’t start at the beginning and
finish at the end.
When those films come from the ideas of an artist then you’re even less
sure where you are and what you should be doing. There is still
direction. Still there is shooting, pointing, looking and hearing. But
the significance? Where is the significance? It is sometimes absent,
behind you, out of shot by miles. Sometimes it is erased or twisted,
wrung out to the last drop of meaning. Often it was never there at all.
There isn’t a single truth in any of it. Just many truths and lies, many
facts and fictions, mixed together so you don’t know which is which.
Even when you think you know and understand based on the evidence of
your senses; you don’t really understand a thing do you?
History was never and will never be truly captured on film in all its
awful truth. There are only moments, stories of experience, and stories
of fantasy. It doesn’t really matter which is which.
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About Outcasting
Outcasting is an online moving image gallery founded
in 2007 by artist Michael Cousin. Based in Cardiff, this is a voluntary
organisation that offers an international platform for practitioners.
Artists, filmmakers, animators and documentary makers are selected for
screenings of their work in bimonthly Seasons and are then archived on
the site. Outcasting also organises screenings in physical environments.
www.outcasting.org
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About the curator
Michael Cousin is a moving image artist based in
Wales, UK. He is currently a recipient of a Creative Wales Ambassador
Award. He is currently producing a series of truthful lies using found
footage and archive material.
He is the Founder and curator of Outcasting an online moving
image gallery and is currently Freelance Curator at g39 in Cardiff. He
is also an Artist Member of the Contemporary Art Society, London and is
represented by Mermaid & Monster, Cardiff.
www.michaelcousin.co.uk
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Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon, Outcasting
Sponsor: Center Projekcije
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