Two organisations whose work we closely follow and deeply admire will present their activities at the festival and screen a selection of their films and videos: Animate Projects and LUX, represented, respectively, by Gary Thomas and Mike Sperlinger.
You’re kindly invited to join us for a drink after the presentation. It will be followed by the Awards Ceremony announcing the winners of the Belgian and International Competition.
SUN 21.03 20:00 SPHINX
Followed by the Awards Ceremony
ANIMATE
Animate Projects Limited is a London-based, small arts organisation, developing initiatives that explore the relationship between contemporary art and animation. APL Animate offers artists a unique space to create work and develop opportunities that allow an international audience to engage with the work via broadcast, gallery, cinema and online.
LUX
LUX is an international arts agency for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practice and the ideas that surround it. Founded in 2002, it builds on a lineage of predecessor organisations (The London Filmmakers Cooperative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre) which stretches back to the 1960s. LUX is the largest distributor of artists’ films and videos in Europe (representing 4500 works by approximately 1500 artists from 1920s to the present day).
Just as jury member Brent Klinkum, Gary Thomas and Mike Sperlinger are in Ghent invited by BA M, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art. During their stay, they will be introduced to a number of Belgian artists and institutions in the frame of BA M’s international visitors programme. Check out www.bamart.be for more info on BA M’s many activities thoughout the year.