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Holy Trinity Church

April Twelfth 2006

EXP24 teamed up with Ladyfest Leeds to create a film spectacular in Holy Trinity Church as part of a week-long festival celebrating diversity in the arts.  The exhibition ‘Views from Nowhere’, featuring video, painting, photography and sculpture was on show over the course of the event.

The evening began with a selection of short film and animation, including the painterly ‘Book’ by Martha Daeuble (UK) and Kagami Shinohara’s (UK) ‘Friend of a Friend’, a cut-out animation with a vivid imagination.

D Sojourn and Ben Coleman provided an eerie and mesmerising live soundtrack to the beautiful ‘Fear of Being Eaten’ by Anne Haydock (USA).  Next up was Anna Luisa Dionello’s (UK) performance video ‘Magnificat’ (pictured), a hyper-dramatic tale of lipstick gone too far.  This led into ‘Screen Kiss’, a live improvised 16mm/lipstick/sound performance by Joanna Byrne (EXP24), D Sojourn and Ben Coleman.  ‘Seven 16’ by Monica Dutta (UK), a gentle super 8 mediation on the sea, was followed by Ocelocelot’s (UK) ultra-slo-mo documentation of the striking of a match and live video/sound performance.

Highlights of the last section included ‘All For Love’ by Angel Stripe (UK) – a disturbing and masochistic take on kittens – and Clare Blundell Jones’ (UK) ‘Introducing Tumbleweed Into the British Landscape’, featuring a girl, a leaf blower, a tumbleweed and a busy high street!

A special EXP24 video/sound collaboration with Hannah Bolland and Edward Mortimer (UK) broke out of the confines of the screen and played across the ceiling of the church in ‘Magical Realm of Light’.  Chris Hall’s (UK) ‘Target Market’ was a slow burning experimental epic on fear, terrorism and consumerism, and the night closed with ‘Mico’ by Adam Trowbridge (USA)  - a psychedelic electronic re-working  of found-footage dancers.