A new film installation by the Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker John Smith premieres in Newcastle this week at The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema’s newly opened multipurpose film space.
White Hole takes the viewer on a narrative journey that pieces together Smith’s personal recollections of two visits to Eastern Europe: Warsaw in 1980 under communism, and Leipzig in 1997, seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Visually and narratively juxtaposing opposites and reversals, positives and negatives, Smith’s film contrasts these two competing ideologies, questioning the manner by which ideals of other places, times and political systems are generated.
A development of Dark Light, the commission that resulted from Smith’s Film London Jarman Award in 2013, White Hole is co-curated by Tyneside Cinema and Film London’s Moving Image Network, and exhibited large-scale in The Gallery.
A purpose-designed space, The Gallery opened in September and is the only artists’ moving image space in the country to host the latest cinema projection technology. Transforming from art space by day to an intimate 33-seat independent cinema by night, a programme of talks and screenings will accompany the exhibition.
White Hole by John Smith is displayed at The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema, 28 November 2014 to 6 January 2015, daily 10 am to 5pm (Sundays from 11am). www.tynesidecinema.co.uk
The exhibition coincides with a presentation of works shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2014, on 27 November 2014, at Northern Chapter, organised by Circa Projects
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