Peter (2014) [screening]

Jane Topping's film 'Peter' (2014, 30 min) was shown as part of TRANSIT #3. TRANSIT is a nomadic programme of artists’ film, screened from the back of a van. For its third episode, the roving screen presents a selection of moving image work by Dorine Aguerre, Miles Joseph, Lucie Rachel, Jane Topping, and Josie Rae Turnbull. With narrative film the dominant aesthetic, these artists choose a more transgressive approach: bending, rearranging, and rewriting the record. Momentarily, the screen becomes a palimpsest of ideas and images, stories overlaid and erased. Found footage is repurposed, the mise-en-scene dismantled, new realities are constructed, and old ones buried. (Three screenings, all in Glasgow: Peña 17 March 2016, CCA Glasgow 18 March 2016, The Glad Cafe 19 March 2016.) Presented as part of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016. See also the accompanying commissioned publication including contributions from Marcus Jack, Denise Bonetti, Jane Topping, and Stephen Nelson (http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2332/).

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