Exciting Margaret Tait/Luke Fowler/Ute Aurand film programmes coming up this week and next in the US Anthology Film Archives Harvard Film Archive

Last night in #orkney 🍊

'In this trilogy of films,' writes Alchemy Director Rachael Disbury, 'in defiance of colonial power, the artist builds vivid atmospheres of permanence, longevity and longing – animate Palestinian identity, autonomy and survival.'

'In the timeless, transfixing brilliance of Noor Abed’s films, history is a permanent present tense, a collective and imaginative act.'

Our 2024 Focus artist...

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Our Moti members have been hard at work curating and setting up our new exthibition Light Dark' which opens for preview today, Friday 5th of April at 7pm. Make sure to head down as there will also be refreshments kindly provided by the Orkney Brewery's Peedie Bottle Shop

🔎 Wee whet for a wet Friday: PROGRAMME NOTES for our 2024 Festival are... live.

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And launched alongside our second festival trailer (of three!), made by Mark Lyken as part of our 2023-25 The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland project Hawick in Common.

Wim Wenders reflects on master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's influence on PERFECT DAYS. Streaming from Friday April 12 in the UK, Ireland, Latin America, India and Turkey. A MUBI Release.

Orcadian artist Leah Moodie has been longlisted for the Jackson's Art Prize People's Choice Award
Vote for her painting Matinée here jacksonsart.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/QWL…

We will be showing Leah's work later this year.

Image: Leah Moodie, Matinée, 2023 © the artist

#PierArtsCentre #Orkney

Moti Light Dark at the Ship of Fools Gallery, Bridge St, Kirkwall.

Opening 5th April 7-9pm

Open 6th- 19th April
Wednesday - Friday 10am - 4pm

A story of seaweeds, the ocean, and the sheep
Seaweed Mono print, Linocut Print
Megumi Barrington-Uenoyama

Mótis next exhibition 'Light Dark' Opens for preview Friday, 5th of April at 7pm and will be open from the 6th- 19th of April at the Ship of Fools Gallery in Kirkwall.

Showing tomorrow ⁦The Pier Arts Centre⁩ #16mmfilm #orkney #film

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This Sunday, Cromarty Hall, St Margaret’s Hope- screening of Being in a Place, Luke Fowler’s portrait of Margaret Tait, followed by Q&A w/Sarah Neely (coproducer) Louise Barrington (production assistant) and Donald Lindsay (music) surl.li/rvgzr Film Hub Scotland SCAN

For #WorldPoetryDay the brilliant Angle of Vision by #Orkney poet Robert Rendall. Originally published in Shore Poems in 1957.

The hidden wonders of the natural world, less obvious than the modern marvels of engineering and architecture, until you adjust your angle of vision.

COMING NEXT:
Luke Fowler - Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait - 30 March-8 June - marking the recent acquisition by the Pier Arts Centre of Luke Fowler’s film, Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait, with support from Art Fund

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Luke Fowler and Ute Aurand return to Orkney as the Scottish tour for Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait continues with a programme of screenings and workshops held as part of @pierartscentre’s new exhibition centring on Fowler’s Tait film. 29-30 March

Coming up at the end of the month! Film Hub Scotland LUX Scotland

📯 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT

The full lineup of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2024 is... live!

You are, as ever, invited: join us in Hawick, 2 - 5 May, for the fourteenth edition of the UK's festival of experimental film and artists' moving image.

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