Underskog

Alma Mater takes cultural identity as its starting point, to encompass the influence of visual culture on everyday experience; questioning ideas of Britishness and conceptions of national identity.
Working with digital media, each artist invests a degree of experimentation and innovation in their approach – the media itself being foregrounded in the linear, and non-linear narratives.
The screening includes a range of works made between 2000 and the present, and charts a significant period of change in our relationship with visual culture, and the society that shapes it.
Curated by Insitute of Contempary Art film curator, Steven Cairns.

Let’s Kiosk Torsten Lauschmann (2000 / 7 min /UK)
Examination of a city (Tokyo?) and its people. A homage to Chris Marker’s ‘Sunless’? Glitching and pixalation used to creative effect.

Bestiary Steven Claydon (2009 /19 min / UK)
Where a dark prophet explains the rules of the game, a kind of satanic ludo.

Wen u travel u go 2 sleep Clunie Reid (2011/ 6 min / UK)
A silent barrage of video/ web material – kitch graphics, porn + video games….

Please, please, please… Stephen Sutcliffe (2001/ 2 min/ UK)
Morrisey’s laconic verses play over an endless tracking shot, we are all lost in the supermarket.

You’ll Never Walk Alone Hannah Sawtell (2006/7 / 7 min / UK)
Hovering between satire, horror, belligerence and social entropy. Acid house beats underline an ironic and desperate slide show depicting ‘the good life’.

Deportment Rachael Reupke (2011/ 3 min / UK)
Candle light, roses, champagne and noses – all posed to perfection.

Entroludes 4: Means Hannah Sawtell (2010/ 4 min /UK)
Using stills, sound and moving image retrieved from the internet; what Sawtell refers to as ‘the detritus of the contemporary arcade’.

Come to the Edge Stephen Sutcliffe (2003/ 2 min / UK)
A good-humoured scene is suddenly transformed into something altogether more sinister as the group of schoolboys enact a ritual humiliation upon a seemingly older, mustachioed boy.