This programme gives us a snapshot of new work emerging out of London and Vienna, and highlights these cities as active sites of a continuing and vibrant European experimental tradition. This mix of activity by established and emerging artists is currently fostered by the production and distribution impetus of organisations like sixpack film in Vienna and the revived Lux in London, who distribute each of the films in this programme.

Programme:

Structural Filmwaste (Austria) Acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Siegfried Fruhauf uses a rhythmically assembled split screen structure to deconstruct leftover film scraps into their basic cinematic properties: light and dark; black and white. D Siegfried A Fruhauf TD Video/B&W/2003/4mins

Walking Off Court (UK) A tennis coach has a mental and physical response to the construction of a motorway next to his home. Barber creates a cyclic perspective of a man falling out of step with his regular life. D George Barber TD Video/Col/2003/10mins

Particle Acceleration (UK) Lyrical, almost subliminal hand-painted, bleached and scratched images in the tradition of Lye and McLaren, reconstituted with a touch of the digital. D Ian Helliwell TD Video/Col/2002/5mins

Jet (Austria)A precisely composed almost monochrome interplay of colour and form, punctuated and contrasted by carefully placed orange squares, which provide a counterpoint to the established spatial and rhythmical direction of the work. D Michaela Schwentner TD Video/Col/2003/6mins

Flight (UK) A contemplation on that state of mind, falling between comfort and risk, that flight can bring on. D Michael Maziere TD Video/Col/2003/15mins

The Reading Room (UK) No longer housing any books, a shadow of its former self, is the heart of the British Museum Library, the reading room. Quiet please. D Michael Connelly TD Vido/Col/2003/5mins

Worst Case Scenario (UK) 4,000 still photographs of daily life on a Viennese street corner are manipulated and re-ordered to create a world which is slowly and subtly brought to life; capturing and re-creating events and relationships through the reconstruction of time and sequence. D John Smith TD Video/Col, B&W/2003/18mins

Phantom Foreign Vienna (Austria) Observations of multi-cultural events which took place in Vienna in 1991-92 are combined according to specific visual, anthropological and technical themes. A revealing exploration of foreignness and the preservation of cultural identity. D Lisl Ponger TD 35mm/Col/2004/27mins