On Thursday
February 17th the Lighthouse Cinema Wolverhampton is the venue for
“Waiting” a screening of films produced by Graphic Communication students in
response to the question “what
is waiting?”. The English Oxford Dictionary’s generic definition; “the delay in a meal
while we await the arrival of someone" is an example we probably all
recognise and yet there are many others more mundane, more dramatic. The act
of waiting can bring with it an auto-response vocabulary of words and gestures
we use to deal with routine delays, or it can initiate the unexpected by
suddenly relocating us to a unique moment in time with its own personal and
intense narrative.
Approaches
and ideas draw on occurrences of waiting in everyday life, popular culture and
film, and were supported by visits to Birmingham’s Eastside District and the
Liverpool Biennale; whilst the filmmaking process fully engaged many students
for the first time with the skills of writing, direction and editing.
The screening
schedule comprises fifty eight films, each approximately a minute in duration
and initiated through individual interpretations of the theme. Sequences are
informed by diverse influences including amongst them; re presentations of
personal narratives, time motion audits of daily routines, deconstructions of
game show fragments, references to contemporary art practice, the semiotics of
medical drama, the intertextual language of film, the syntax of call queuing
systems, and manipulated rituals of celebration and performance.
The waiting
screening starts at 12.15 pm on Thursday February 17th
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