The Light & Shadow Salon

Doors 7:00pm - Screening begins promptly at 7.30pm! £5

The Light & Shadow Salon Presents

Documentary, Myth-making & The Moving Image

This Salon will present a series of films and audio pieces that will explore notions of documentary as myth-making, and how to perpetrate collective and personal memories and experiences through film.

featuring moving image work by

VESELINA DASHINOVA // DAN EDELSTYN and HILARY POWELL // SARA PREIBSCH // JAMIE QUANTRILL // JAMES ROGAN // CHRISTOPH STEGER // DAGMAR TATARCZYK

and a special presentation of

Padstow Cosmesis: Mayday -1+1 (a soundscape of the 'Obby 'Oss) a sonic research by EMMANUEL LORIEN SPINELLI ____________________________________________

The Light & Shadow Salon is a place for artists, writers and audience to meet and share ideas about the past, present and future of the moving image in all its forms.

The Salon is a place for exchange, interaction and cross-pollination and it welcomes active contributions and interventions from all its participants.

The Salon endeavours to support a structured and informed dialogue around film, the moving image and all that it involves: from magic to science, from sound to the eye, from ritualism to storytelling, from myth-making to hypnosis.

The Salon intends to act as a temporary and ephemeral container for all the work, ideas and people with an independent, radical and idiosyncratic nature, who renounce to find a home in existing movements/institutions but rather embrace the nomadic and transitory nature of art.

The Salon supports individual thought, inquisitive minds and a desire to further knowledge through dialogue and exchange.

'So when you hear yourself invited to 'see', it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.' (Hugh of St Victor)