Purescreen 4

GUEST CURATED BY LAURA BRUCE

Featuring films by

Rui Calcada Bastos, Sean Reynard, Bjorn Melhus, Maria Marshall, Mathilde ter Hejne, Annika Lundgren, Jannicke Låker, Jeroen Offerman, Undine Goldberg, Erik Schmidt.

The works selected by Bruce explore her interest in how and why artists develop certain characters, how they may reflect their own ideas of personal identity or how these characters might be a kind of personality-extension, how artists perform as actors, how issues of narrative occur and the way film language is constantly referenced. Some works are direct explorations of character development and portrayal, while others address the theme on a more conceptual or abstract level. Bruce’s intention for the screening is to explore the variety of work being done in this area.

MORE ON LAURA BRUCE:
Laura Bruce was born in 1959 in New Jersey, USA. She received her MFA in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1997, and began working in video there. She lives and works in Berlin and London.

MORE ON PURESCREEN:
PureScreen is a regular screening event at Castlefield Gallery showing an eclectic mix of artist film and video, animation and music promo shorts. The programme serves as a dedicated showcase for new, previously unseen or underexposed work by artists from across the UK.

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