News 2015

Barattolo di Sale / Salt Jar

Outdoor projection
Thursday 12 November 2015
Wakefield town centre

Part of the WE ARE screening project.

Barattolo di Sale/Salt Jar

Poetry Film Parallax
Sunday 16 August 2015, 4pm
ICA, London

Zata Banks introduces a curated selection of short film artworks, chosen for their alignment with poetic structures and experiences, and with the visual, verbal and aural languages of poetry in various forms.

Parallax is the apparent displacement—or difference in the apparent position—of a visual object, when viewed along different lines of sight. In his book Transcritique, the Japanese philosopher Kojin Karatani uses the word ‘parallax’ to describe Kant’s shifting between contradictory perspectives. Kant’s Antinomies of Reason are contradictory propositions, which seem valid from their own perspectives, but which cannot be simultaneously true. Kant argues alternately from one perspective, then from the other, and Karatani describes Kant’s approach as establishing a parallax between philosophical positions. Karatani asserts that parallax does not equate with negativity, but it does not negate negativity either. The basis of parallax is the positivity of both positions.

Slavoj Žižek argues that in Karatani’s concept of the parallax view, the observed difference is not simply subjective, but that the viewer’s change in perspective reflects an ontological shift in the object itself:

“the subject’s gaze is always-already inscribed into the perceived object itself, in the guise of its ‘blind spot’, that which is ‘in the object more than the object itself’, the point from which the object itself returns the gaze” (Žižek, The Parallax View, 2006).

“Sure, the picture is in my eye, but me, I am also in the picture” (Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1979).

Barattolo di Sale/Salt Jar
shortlisted at
Fareham International Short Film Competition

Premiere and gala screening
Thursday 13 August 7pm
Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham

More information here

PNEUMA presents ‘ONCE’

performance exploring the interaction of soundscapes, visuals, words and music, with narration assembled from extracts of classic fairytales.

Friday 3rd April, from 8pm
ProperGanda
TheOthers, Stoke Newington, London

More information here