Gwaith x g39: Potluck Cinema
4 October 2024
We are partnering up with Gwaith for a potluck film night.
Come and join us for artists films and artist chats and fun. We are partnering up with Gwaith for a Potluck film night. Artist film makers have sent films they would like to be screened in the cinema. g39 and Gwaith have picked a selection out of a hat - yes, a hat!
Three films were chosen at random out of the submitted films, we will be playing:-
Mandy Lane: Hungry
The short film 'Hungry' is an intimate exploration of the interconnected themes of memory, childhood, and motherhood while examining the blurred lines between reality and dream.
Mandy Lane is a British artist born in 1980 currently studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Mandy is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in figurative sculpture, film, and installation. Her artistic practice delves into the intricate interplay of themes such as domestic space, motherhood, class, poverty, childhood memory, and broader inquiries into marginalised communities, displacement, and power dynamics within the familial construct. In recent developments, Mandy’s artistic exploration has shifted towards the contemporary landscape of queerness, with a particular emphasis on LGBTQ+ visibility and representation.
Central to her artistic endeavours is the exploration of societal norms surrounding motherhood, with a focus on the home and family unit. Mandy challenges and reframes contemporary boundaries inherent in societal perceptions of domestic space by interrogating the literal and metaphorical gap between parent and child. Through her work, she aims to unravel complex narratives, prompting viewers to reconsider conventional notions of identity, belonging, and intimacy within the familial context.
Zillah Bowes: Allowed
Allowed is a film using 3D-animated analogue photographs of wild urban growth in Cardiff. Plants and flowers are allowed to grow wild with green spaces uncut, inviting new pollinators and wildlife. Following a lyrical spoken journey through the city, Allowed re-examines our relationship with urban plant life in the context of biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.
Allowed presents the relationship of the urban environment to the plant ecology it replaces, and on which it was literally built. The work aims to capture the aesthetic quality and ecological necessity of pandemic-allowed nature. This study is part of a wider inquiry in the artist's practice into the natural environment and the relationship of the individual within it.
The film is currently showing as part of Earth Photo 2024 with the Royal Geographical Society, National Trust, Forestry England, Sidney Nolan Trust and Lost Gardens of Heligan. It was also recently winner of Zealous Amplify: Environment 2024
Matthew-Robert Hughes: The Tides of Kilpeck
Built in the late 9th century, Kilpeck Church stands as one of the UK's most mysterious sacred sites, drawing pilgrims worldwide to its Romanesque stone work.
Amongst the many details carved into Kilpecks corbel table is the Sheela-na-gig. An embodiment, the cycles of life, fertility, birth and death, She is mother earth. Marked in Kilpecks the southen door is her conterpart, the Green Man, a symbol of the rebirth of spring, the wild nature within us all.
Listen for Eccelia, personification of the Church, guardian of Kilpeck's mysteries, as she calls forth these older gods. Old loves and friends meet once again to dance amongst the creatures and mythical beasts of our lands before they return to nature once again.
Gwaith is a critical/social platform for artists to share and discuss their work, usually with something social afterwards.
