During the course of Frieze Art Fair 2011 LuckyPDF invite over 50 artists to show and produce new work for a series of live daily broadcasts. Film performance, news and chat was introduced by special guest presenters. Visitors were invited to join them in the project space studio for open rehearsals and live recordings or watch throughout the fair on special screens and wireless access points.

LuckyPDF is an artists’ group that has been active in Peckham, south-east London, since late 2008. They are: Ollie Hogan, alum of Wimbledon Print & Time Based Media course, and Camberwell alum John Hill,  Chelsea alum James Early and Yuri Pattison.  Working collaboratively with an ever-changing network of emerging artists, they produce online television programmes, Internet interventions and live events.

Short film capturing the Wimbledon College of Art MA Private View 2011.

Filmed and edited by – www.pundersonsgardens.com

Music – Treasure Teeth

Wimbledon College of Art is pleased to announce the winners of the Lux Moving Image Prize.

The winners are: Joe Sutherland (BA Fine Art: Print & Time-based Media) and Poppy Bisdee (BA Fine Art: Sculpture).

The prize was judged by Mike Sperlinger from LUX Art Agency.

The Wimbledon BA Show continues until Thursday 23 June.

Video: Joe Sutherland – ‘Gaze, after Dix’.

Michael Please, a former Technical Arts & Special Effects student at Wimbledon College of Art, has given an interview to the Univeristy of Arts about his recent success, naming some Wimbledon tutors as the influence behind a majority of his success. Valerie Charlton, Allan Sly, Chris Dyer and David Gale are some of the names that Michael paid particular reference too, thanking them for their continuous encouragment and motivation. He said that the invaluable help from these tutors and the space for personal development andcontinued support provided by the Technical Arts & Special Effects course, all contributed in the success he is experiencing today.

Michale also names Wimbledon graduates Amer Chadha Patel, Dan Ojari (2008 Set Design for Stage & Screen) and Sean Hogan (2007 Set Design for Stage & Screen) as some of the modelmakers who helped on his BAFTA winning short film, The Eagleman Stag.

We hope that this rather profound introduction into the industry of big lights and fame continues for this talented young man!

To read the full interview with Michael, click here.

Michael Please, a Technical Arts & Special Effects 2007 graduate from Wimbledon College of Art, scooped a BAFTA last night for Best Short Animated Film! The Eagleman Stag a 9 minute representation of a man’s struggle and obsession with the quickening perception of time and the lengths in which he will go to prevent it. This dark comedy is set in monochrome stopmotion and with a voiceover provided by British Actor David Cann, this surreal exploration definately questions a universal subconscious anxiety.

Michael who works as a freelance filmaker and animator has worked on a variety of shorts films and music videos, specialising is visual effects. His unique adaptations certainly make him a worthy candidate to recieve one of films best known awards and we hope that his growing success continues in the future!

Click here to have a look at Michael speaking about his short film and BAFTA behind the stage at the Royal Opera House.

Jennet Thomas, former Print & Time Based Media Course Director aired on Radio 4 last Sunday, discussing the elusive non-profit making collective Exploding Cinema. She along with Associate Lecturer, Paul Tarrago are interviewed on the ways they challenge audiences to rethink the way we watch and rate films.

This coalition of film and video makers is set in the heart of London, and explores the ways in which different modes of exhibition for underground media can be developed. It invites all manner of artists to exhibit and experiment with their work, celebrating the vast demographic that limitless talent can offer. The use of cafes, pubs and disused buildings adds to the almost erie yet enchantingly creative vibe that the fusing together of isolation and disenchated fragments of the underground media generates.

To listen to the full broadcast visit BBC Radio 4 or follow the link below: 

http://http://www.explodingcinema.org/explodingR4.mp3

Moving Image South is back! Following the succes of their last two events, Patrick Keiller will be showcasing his work ‘Robinson in Ruins’ an essay film which follows up his last piece ‘London’ and ‘Robinson in Space’, in conjunction with HMVCurzon. His film combines striking images of English language with witty narration from Vanessa Redgrave. Accompanying the screening will be a selection of films from student artists of Wimbledon College of Art.

We’re sure Keiller’s acclaimed essay film will provide much entertainment for what is promised to be an outstanding night!

Screening: 6,30PM, MONDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2011 

Location: HMVCURZON, 23 THE BROADWAY, WIMBLEDON, SW19 1RE

Tickets are prices from £6-£7. Please book online at www.hmvcurzon.com

Jade Heritage and Emma Barltrop, both 3rd year Print & Time Based Media students, volunteered to contribute on a project at the Serpentine Gallery in October. The project consisted of working with artist Tom Hunter (also a LCC Research Fellow) on the set of his film A Palace for Us

The film draws inspiration from the memories of people that grew up in East London who lived on estates, and weaves  into a silvery thread of meaning which is illuminated by dramatisations of their experiences filmed in the old but dignified, Woodberry Down buildings and public spaces.

A Palace for Us, is screening in the Serpentine Gallery until 20th January 2011, with Jade and Emma mentioned in the credits!

BOOKING REQUIRED, EMAIL TO RESERVE TICKETS AT rsvp@serpentinegallery.org

HMV Curzon and Wimbledon College of Art present

MOVING IMAGE SOUTH: Ben Rivers

This exciting new collaboration by HMV Curzon and Wimbledon College of Art, has been produced to create a hub for artist’s moving image and avant garde cinema in South West London, which brings the latest moving image work and oppurtunities to meet the artists.

The second installment, continuing on from the initial launch event in September, will be joined by artist filmaker Ben Rivers who will be screening his work and available for Q & A after. Three of his films from across his practice will be screened, including The Coming Race (2006), A World Rattled of Habit (2008) and I Know Where I Am Going (2009). For more information about Ben Rivers please see www.benrivers.com.

Accompanying the screening, a selection of students from Wimbledon College of Art will be showcasing their films.

Screening is on Monday 6th December 2010, 6.30pm at Hmzcurzon Wimbledon, 23 The Broadway, SW19 1RE.

Tickets are prices from £6-£7. Please book online at www.hmvcurzon.com

On 4 October 2010 Antony Gormley, the English sculptor most famous for the Angel of the North and the life size sculptures in Event Horizon, came to talk about his new book ”One and Other’ at Wimbledon College of Art as part of the annual Wimbledon Book Festival. This clip captures the talk in it’s entirety.

The book ‘One and Other’ documents the project of the same name and saw 100 days of human occupation of the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.