Video Strolls
Films looking at trees
Video Strolls – published everyday of the Festival
Video Strolls curates and hosts accessible public discussions and screenings of artists’ films about place, people and journeying. For the Urban Tree Festival we have curated a collection of artists’ films that look at trees.
We’ll release one a day throughout the festival to keep you coming back for more.
Day Nine – 23rd May
Ruins in the Woods (John Rogers)
London-based film-maker and writer John Rogers, author of This Other London - adventures in the overlooked city.
Day Eight – 22nd May
The Crystal Wald (O D Davey and Liberty Rowley)
Owen Davey is a writer, director and performer, working in song, film and the gallery. In 2014 he founded Video Strolls, a nonprofit that curates art and film events that explore place and journeying. Currently an AHRC North West Consortium funded and Disabled Students Allowance supported PhD candidate at the University of Salford, doing practice-based research into ‘The Enfoldment of Song and First Person Filmmaking‘.
Liberty Rowley makes short films and take photographs, mainly while walking, or travelling on the bus. She is one of the curatorial team at Video Strolls
Day Seven – 21st May
Spinning Treetops (Winter) (Liberty Rowley)
Liberty Rowley makes short films and take photographs, mainly while walking, or travelling on the bus. She is one of the curatorial team at Video Strolls.
Day Six – 20th May
Trees in Winter (Chris Welsby)
Welsby began making landscape films and installations in the early 70s, and although he has worked across a range of media he has always concentrated on one particular theme: how do we see ourselves in relation to the natural world and how should we position our selves and our technologies within it? His art practice was heavily influenced by Structural Materialist film theory at the London Film Makers Co-operative and by cybernetic and systems theory at the Slade School of Fine Art, where as a student and later as a faculty member, he came into contact with some of the pioneers of interactive technology and computer-driven art forms.
Day Five – 19th May
Treetops (Bill Newsinger)
Bill Newsinger is an award winning freelance filmmaker based in Leicester, UK.
Day Four – 18th May
November Afternoon (Chris H Lynn)
Chris H. Lynn is a moving image maker, sound artist, educator, and curator from the United States. His digital images and Super 8 films capture the subtle rhythms of movement, light, and sound in urban and rural landscapes that vary from the Eastern shores of Maryland, U.S. to Nanjing, China.
Part of an ongoing series called The Journal of Drifting Hours. Find out more: https://vimeo.com/chrishlynn
Day Three – 17th May
Sam Enthoven
Sound artist, ex-author and occasional filmmaker, now exploring the places where stories and sound meet. Find out more www.sinistermasterplan.com
Sam’s Plague Transmissions are a series of pieces begun while in coronavirus lockdown in London.
Plague Transmission 14
Plague Transmission 23
Day Two – 16th May
Autumn Walk in Epping Forest (John Rogers)
London-based film-maker and writer John Rogers, author of This Other London - adventures in the overlooked city.
Find out more: The Lost Byway
Day One - Saturday 15th May
Das Klang (Shaun Martin)
“My work revolves around the concepts of Hauntology and the recollection of a degraded image and sound. Each piece employs Hauntological mechanisms such as reintroduction of error and the haunting of ghosts, and uses techniques to reference Deleuze’s modalities of sensation, of vibration, resonance and forced movement. Utilising video editing and generative software built in Cycling 74 MaxMSP, I make visual documentaries from found image and sound that aim to re-invoke the spectres of a misremembered past and dislocate time”
Find out more.
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