Critical Writing Index

Who's Afraid of Film & Video in Scotland?: The Exhibition of single-screen Film & Video: Cafe Flicker, Museum Magogo, Canadian Fall

by Ann Vance

Variant, Summer 1999, v. 2, no. 8, pp. 12-14

This article details three events hosting single-screen Film and Video works.

Ann Vance begins with Cafe Flicker, a non-publicly funded organization for screening independent Glaswegian films and videos. Collaborators: Shazz Kerr, Martha McCulloch, Paul Cameron, Jim Rusk, Russell Henderson, Iain Piercey, John Fairbarin, Abigail Hopkins, Inigo Garrido.

Next she deflates Museum Magogo's lack of curatorial cohesion. Curators: John Beagles and Graham Ramsay.

Lastly she discusses the exchange between Scottish and Canadian film and video artists in Canadian Fall. Coordinated by Paula Larkin

ITEM 1999.028 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Shift – Nikki Forrest

Stravaig-Errance – Nikki Forrest

Window and Time Passes – Nelson Henricks

Le Mouroir – Ghislain Gagnon

Operetta – Laurel Woodcock

Mater Over Mind – Rhonda Buckley

Jean and Stephen – Monique Moumblow

Mirror Mirror – Paula Levine

Excuse of the Real – Steve Reinke

Rut – Yudi Sewraj

Stagger Stories – Cathy Sisler