Thanks for that - it's a shame that it's not with Mats Gustafsson's The Thing, like his Irish dates at the moment.
This (also at Oto) looks like it could be interesting though:
Cobra Mist - Emily Richardson, Chris Watson, Benedict Drew
TUESDAY 9th December 2008
Times : 7pm
Tickets : £5
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Aspecial screening of Emily Richardson's Cobra Mist and expanded cinema event with live sound performances by Chris Watson and Benedict Drewto launch the DVD release of 6 Films by Emily Richardson, published by LUX. The DVD contains six recent film works by Emily Richardson with a new essay by William Fowler, Curator of Artists Moving Image at the BFI National Archive (and will be available at a special price of £15 at the event, usual price £20)
A LUX event supported by Animate Projects.
Emily Richardson is an artist filmmaker, working with 16mm film and multiple screen video installations, her focus is landscape, spaces, environments and our relationship to them, whether it be a forest, a strip of coastline or a tower block. Herfilms are distributed by LUX and have been shown in galleries and at festivals internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, NFT, Curzon Soho, Artist’s Space, New York and Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam and New York film festivals.A book of her work, Time Frames, is published by Stour Valley Arts, distributed by Cornerhouse, Manchester and aDVD of a selection of her films is published by LUX.
www.emilyrichardson.org.uk
Chris Watson isa sound recordist with a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio, Chris specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post production.He won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Sound on David Attenborough'sThe Life of Birds for BBC TV,has released 3 solo CDs for Touch and also makes sound installations, the most recent beingWhispering in the Leaves Installation at the AV Festival in Sunderland 2008.
www.chriswatson.net
Benedict Drew is an artist who works in performance, sound and video. For several years he has been involved in promoting concerts in London such as Audit and produces concerts for the London Musicians' Collective. Current projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with various improvisers including Tom Chant [as duo Suscete] Angharad Davies, Alistair Leslie, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and Matt Davis and hascomposed the soundtracks for five films by Emily Richardson.
www.benedictdrew.com