Swedenborg Short Film Festival with guest judge Ali Smith

Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London
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This event ended on Saturday 18th of November 2017
Admission
Free (advance booking highly recommended)
Location

Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Holborn 0.13 miles

Featuring new films of 20 minutes or less and co-curated by Gareth Evans (Whitechapel Gallery) and Nora Foster (Frieze), the 2017 Swedenborg Film Festival invites entries from the latest emerging and established talent of experimental and artist film. Exploring the theme of 'dreams', the free festival will span screenings in Swedenborg Hall and installations throughout grade-II-listed Swedenborg House.

At the end of the evening, guest judge Ali Smith will announce the winner.

This year's shortlisted artists:

Chiara Ambrosio | Louis Benassi | Michelle Brand | Fenglin Chen | Atobe Hiroshi | Richard Hunter | Esther Johnson | Chay Milne | Julian Olariu | Edward Ramsay-Morin | Stanley Schtinter | Michael Trigilio | Murat Sayginer | Jade Wiseman and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

About the Swedenborg Short Film Festival

The only film festival in the world inspired by the work of a single philosopher, the SFF has received a huge response from thousands of filmmakers around the world since its launch in 2010. For the 2017 edition, filmmakers were invited to explore the concept of 'dreams' – a theme encountered in the work of scientist, philosopher, theologian and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), as well as those he influenced, from William Blake to Jorge Luis Borges. Artists including Bridget Smith, Andrew Kötting, Jeremy Millar and Lech Majewski have shown work at or judged the SFF. For 2017, the writer Ali Smith was invited to guest judge the short film festival (18 November) and also curate a season of films (2-16 November) exploring the notion of 'dreams'.

SCHEDULE:

2 November: Céline and Julie Go Boating (dir. Jacques Rivette, 1974)

9 November: Nights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957)

16 November: An Evening of Short FIlm with Ali Smith

18 November: Short Film Festival Screenings & Announcement of Winner

About Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories; Like; Other Stories and Other Stories; Hotel World; The Whole Story and Other Stories; The Accidental; Girl Meets Boy; The First Person and Other Stories; There but for the; Artful; How to be both; and Public Library and Other Stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge. Her recent novel Autumn (2016), the first in a four-part series, is short-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

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