A diverse and accessible programme of films under 3 minutes includes work by artist Mark Dean and 'Stop for a Minute' , a cross-media project co-commissioned by Film Four and Dazed Film and TV which launched 31 one minute films by artists and celebrities from Harmony Korine to Bryan Adams. Also screening will be rADz - artist films under 2 minutes in length that have been screened in the middle of ad breaks on New Zealand TV.



Stop For a Minute
Co-commissioned by Film 4 and Dazed Film and TV

Venue : Millennium Square, Leeds
Dates : 27th Sept - 12th October 2001
Times : 6pm - 5.30am
Price : Free

A minute is nothing. It's there and it's gone. But, in a minute governments can be overthrown, babies born and information disseminated to millions of people across the globe. Stop for a minute and view one of the films produced by filmmakers, musicians, writers, designers and visual artists.

Stop For a Minute
by Michael Stipe
Michael reads from a list of things you can do in a minute - some recommended, some not - directed by Jefferson (editor of D&C; magazine) and lit by Rankin (photographer and creative director of D&C;) in the studio. Jump cut with the sound track slipping in and out of sync, the film feels both comic but also a commentary on modern life.

Land of Enchantment
by Joshua Oppenheimer
USA big business exploits cheap labour inside America's prisons: women prisoners are employed by the tourist board of New Mexico answering calls - selling the State's tourist attractions over the phone.

Does it Really Matter?
by Paul Davis
A shockingly bitter but clever satirical tirade against the 'cool-ness' of new media.

Manufactured Music
by Deepend - Mike Moloney
Manufactured Music: A factory; the production line is loud, repetitive and incessant. Shot as if a mundane corporate/educational film, it is revealed that this is in fact a production line for the pop music industry and the ever-growing list of manufactured bands.

Pissing on Duchamp's Urinal
by Katie Hill
'The new home of British modern art, Tate Modern, was yesterday targeted by a pair of 'guerrilla artists' who claimed to have urinated on an 80-year old work by Marcel Duchamp.' (The Guardian, May 22nd 2000)

Action, Action, Action
by Howie B/Run Wrake
Taking war as its subject, Action, Action, Action mixes Run Wrake's surreal images of people and violence with a soundtrack by Howie B. The film was a reaction to the horrors of the war in Kosovo; the heads of peasants and innocent children are interspersed with images of violence - bricks, marching scalpels and the dog of war.

Super Super Highway
by Paul Plowman
Super Super Highway: A one minute animated electronic 'road movie'. We follow the progress of a small red car through a blocky pixel world. The film is narrated by a flat monotone computer generated voice - childlike but poignant. The car leaves the city, moving through an idealised synthetic landscape - underwater, to the North Pole, to outer space - only to return home due to an empty petrol tank.

Forever War
by Freemilk
Two children at play - dressing up, dolls, and the ever-present TV screen. A disturbing, highly visual film hinting at the sinister side of television.

The Great Circle
by Darren Almond
Darren is travelling with a 40ft by 10ft mechanical clock - it looks a little like a station digital clock - leaving on September 1st on a container ship, bound for the Matthew Martin's Gallery in New York. Although helicopters at either end of the journey are filming this event, he intends to film during the journey itself. One minute of real time, timed by the clock, shot somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.

View
by Michael Cleary
A continuous, single zoom out from an anonymous NY City window at night - perhaps a lone figure is on the phone … arguing … leaning dangerously out the window. The zoom lasts the full 60 seconds, revealing the expanse of NY city at night - glamorous, lonely, exciting, threatening. The sound track adds to the narrative.

The Paperclip Maker
by Joern Utkilen
Paperclip Maker: A young woman demonstrates the art of making a paperclip … but sometimes it doesn't work.

The Money Shot
by Victoria Mapplebeck
The Money Shot: A reaction to new levels of documentary access, Money Shot features two actors attempting to cry on cue. The screen is split into two sections, each featuring an actor being coerced into tears by a director. While one actor is successful, the other finds it impossible to cry on demand.

'Shush'
by Alnoor Dewshi
'Shush': A man has a second mouth on his forehead - it jabbers endlessly about everything and nothing. Different characters - an elderly West Indian man with a mouth instead of an ear, a woman who has 2 mouths instead of eyes - vent their different obsessions. Eventually the man shush's them all. Information overload.

Backyard Wrestling
by Cameron Jamie
Cameron Jamie's film documents the theatrics of backyard wrestling, using still images and sound from image to image, the viewer sees young wrestlers, their garb and their rituals as they fight in wrestling bouts round the back of houses or on public land. The face of one kid is smeared with blood; another is daubed with war paint; a young fighter holds up a winner's belt. As the images roll on, the soundtrack is of something growling - perhaps a dog, perhaps a man - and of chains rattling, while the sound of hysterical, psychotic 'canned laughter' filters through.

Korine Tap
by Harmony Korine
Filmmaker Harmony Korine tapdances in his backyard during an afternoon of self-made fun with a group of friends. Korine's face and arms are covered in black paint and he uses a broom as a prop, both of which allude to earlier, more Vaudevillian and slapstick forms of entertainment.

Fat Zero
by Nigel Helyer
Fat Zero: Using CUs of Soviet-era cosmonaut postage stamps and a soundtrack including a countdown sequence, the film is both reminiscent of the 'Old Russia' and Yuri Gagarin's words at the commencement of his first launch 'Let's Go!' and evokes the cynicism of the 'New Russia'.

Laugh
by Nichola Bruce
Did you manage to laugh today? Just for a minute, a small laugh, a big laugh, a laugh is a lift Laugh moves from mouth to mouth, looking at teeth, the lips and the tongues of each person as they laugh uncontrollably, closely studying the rhythms of the laugh.

Before
by Ariel Rogers/Anthony Kaufman
A study of the moment of happy ignorance right before a sudden life-changing event - when 'innocence' is lost forever. In slo-mo, a carefree adolescent boy listens to a Walkman coming home from school in America's suburbia. As he enters the house, the film speeds up to near normal speed - numerous family members have gathered, they turn to him looking grave, distressed. Something is terribly wrong.

Invalids
by Andrew Kotting
Andrew has a highly personal, super 8 archive of Lourdes - 'a bizarre often berserk Blackpool on Sea'. The film's soundscape is a mix of location recordings and a computer generated voice - c/o Andrew's daughter Eden and her Rebus clicker system (a communication aid used by children with learning difficulties) - reading out a list of names and ancient slang for 'invalids' … alongside quotes from an Emile Zola novel 'Lourdes'. An ironic comment on what it is to be normal or abnormal, to suffer or to help.

Kate With Cane
by Jefferson Hack

Going on Stage
by Bryan Adams
Three musicians wait behind the stage curtain moments before they appear in front of thousands of people to perform a gig. It's a surreal minute where anticipation meets euphoria. You are entering a world that can only be seen from a performer's perspective … time stands still, flashing lights become stars and the noise from the world around you disappears as the focus turns inward. You are walking alone, even though you are surrounded by people.


Shorts
Selected by Lumen and The Leeds International Film Festival

Venue : Millennium Square, Leeds
Dates : 7th Sept - 6th October 2001
Times : 6pm - 5.30am
Price : Free

4 Vertigo
by Les LeVeq
Alfred Hitchcock's 128-minute film Vertigo has been condensed by capturing one frame for every two seconds of the original movie. The condensed film was then duplicated four times shifting the horizontal or vertical orientation of the frame with each duplication. The four films were then reassembled sequentially frame by frame generating a stuttering kaleidoscopic montage. I see 4 Vertigo as a doppelganger to the original film: a construction that references or carries a trace of Vertigo's oedipal scenario of projected desire. A memento of Scottie's obsessive observation of Madeline/Judy and the resulting dynamic of a male fantasy shaping the physical reality of the dramatic narrative. Building on the notion of obsessive looking, I wanted to transform the original movie into a spinning mandala to generate a sensuous viewing where the dramatic narrative becomes unstable and elusive, a viewing experience where the hypnosis of cinematic spectacle is articulated to such a physical degree that it engenders a consciousness of watching.

Oept Anis
by Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo
A short dream-like episode. Performance artists Beck and Calvo wander through non-narrative territories, beyond the realm of language and linear thought.

{87 X}
by Marcus Waite/Martyn Wilson (HARDwired)
An excerpt from an eleven-minute film screened on Channel 4 called Section On. Ostensibly, the film focuses on Gary Lightfoot, songwriter from The Reindeer Section, as he takes us on an acid flashback to his childhood in Belfast. With a total of 87 people in tow, we visit the beautiful Mount Stewart National Trust Park, before stopping at the Reindeer Section Gas Station for a 10p Pick 'n' Mix. We then visit an old pub before the acid trip peaks while ordering fish 'n' chips eighty-seven times (hence the name of this edit). The footage has been extensively treated to disguise the dismal weather and enhance the surreal quality of the day.

Like a Swarm of Angry Bees …
by Ying Tan (music by Jeffrey Stolet)
Made to accompany Jeffrey Stolet's electronic music composition Wicked Paths, Cruel Deserts (based on text by Gustavo Adolfo Becuer, 1836-1870), this computerised 3D animation expresses the haunting memory of a dark past.

Moonwalk
by Greg Pope
A film Haiku meditation on the moon. Shot in the Lofoten Islands (Arctic Circle) in Norway during Winter.

Warning (1 - 3)
by Guro Elstad
Warning is a series of four films featuring strangers and capturing the confusion, discomfort, fear and anger they feel when confronted by a camera. The films represent the warnings we all give when pushed too far. The audience is invited to share the impartial viewpoint of the camera as it ignores the discomfort of its subject.

2 Spellbound
by Les LeVeq
A frame by frame re-editing of Alfred Hitchcock's one hundred and eleven-minute psychoanalytic thriller into a seven and a half-minute dance video. Through the conversion of narrative suspense into visual velocity and exploiting the symmetry of Hitchcock's camera by reversing every other frame, I am attempting to generate a hallucination of transference, an ecstatic dance where bodies and identities intermingle and shift. 'Normal forgetting takes place by way of condensation. In this way it becomes the formation of concepts. What is isolated is perceived clearly.'
- Sigmund Freud (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life)

Wade
by Irena Weingartner
An evolving loop of video using a re-filmed freeze-frame and video feedback.

The Prince of Hearts
by Gary O' Dwyer
'Funny and richly metaphorical; life and death; meaning and pointlessness, hunter and hunted, audience and spectacle. All courtesy of a hamster' (Pandaemonium Biennial Catalogue 2001)

Simple Systems
by Steven Ball
Simple Systems is an ongoing series of experiments into the 'material' properties of digital media. The application of simple systems results in complex structures as the raw digital information of image and sound becomes interchangeable, resulting in abrasive, colourful, abstracted audio-visual synaesthesia.

Habana in Ninety
by Giles Perkins
Old Havana and it's fortifications were afforded World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in December 1982. Now protected, the old city is undergoing an extensive refurbishment programme, a programme which despite ongoing trade sanctions will restore it to its former glory. Habana in Ninety captures the little-seen sights and sounds of Cuban city life in this most unique of capitals.


Video work by Mark Dean


Ascention (Nothing/Something Good)
by Mark Dean
Digital video 2000
Duration: infinite loop Courtesy Laurent Delaye Gallery, London


Venue : Millennium Square, Leeds
Dates : 7th - 9th October 2001
Times : 6pm - 5.30am
Price : Free

Dean has taken the single word 'nothing' from the ancient Greek poet Lucretius's statement that 'nothing can come from nothing' and counterpointed it with the words 'something good', as sung by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (her song also uses Lucretius's phrase in its lyrics). Working with only this bare information, Dean presents viewers with a seductive but perpetual conflict.

Nothing to Fear (The American Friend + - 12)
by Mark Dean
Digital video 1996
Duration: 9 min Courtesy Laurent Delaye Gallery, London

Venue : Millennium Square, Leeds
Dates : 9th - 12th October 2001
Times : 6pm - 5.30am
Price : Free

Nothing to Fear (The American Friend + - 12), leaves unchanged the image of Dennis Hopper repeating to himself the phrase 'there is nothing to fear but fear itself', but the sound oscillates up and then down the octave scale by twelve tones. The musical progression propels the work to near farcical limits as Hopper's voice increases to a cartoonish pitch then descends to a guttural depth, but somehow this only increases the work's peculiar, heightened tension. The opposing moods in Dean's work are not so much designed as by-products of the formulas from which they were made.