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Adam Stanovic led a visual concert for a packed audience featuring visual music from across the Screen School alongside a diverse range of curated works. The works were all performed using live sound spatialisation over 16 channels of audio, captivating the audience with the use of musical structure translated into visual language through abstract imagery, light, and movement.
Kate Stonehill’s short film, Thank You For Allowing Me To Speak With You Today, will head to Mozilla Festival in Barcelona as an installation. The film uses deepfake technology to construct an alternative reality, exploring how synthetic media can be used as satire, while contributing to a larger conversation on the implications of artificial intelligence.
Joe Jackson's debut book, Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic, was awarded Runner-Up for Best First Monograph in the publication awards. Fotis Begklis was awarded Runner-Up in the Best Screen-based Practice Research (Short) category for his documentary The ‘Strangers’ Home.
Over the coming year, Kim will be collaborating with the John Smedley Archive Charitable Trust, delving into over 240 years of textile history through film, print, and experimental animation.
The collaboration explores themes associated with acoustic ecologies, soundscape recordings, and experimental electronic music. The project draws inspiration from Universidad Austral’s Soundlapse research, which employed a bespoke time-lapse method of recording sound to explore the urban wetlands surrounding Valdivia. In response, Adam is working with the London Wetlands Centre, composing works based on recordings made on site with a group of staff and students.
This AniJam—co-directed by Kate Jessop and Sarah Gomes Harris, and co-produced by Biscuit Platform—brings together animators from across the UK in response to the UK government’s proposed cuts to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and disability benefits.
The Clockwork Underpass is an audiovisual installation by Daria Baiocchi and Adam Stanovic. The installation pays tribute to the cinematic heritage of Wandsworth; it is situated in the Trinity Road Underpass, where key scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ were filmed, and it features the sound and images from various cinematic works associated with the Wandsworth area.
The film has screened internationally, earning accolades including Best Story at The British International Film Festival and nominations for Best Narrative Short at Miami Women Film Festival and Best Female Director at the European Short Awards. Accompanying the film is a critical reflection published in an edited collection on fiction filmmaking as research, co-edited by Bennion-Nixon, offering a valuable contribution to the evolving field of practice research in screen storytelling.
The piece reflects on UNravel, a collaborative installation developed with the Women’s Skills Development Organization (WSDO) in Nepal.