The
Tyneside Cinema is calling for submissions for the Graduate Artist Residency
2019-2020.
A unique opportunity for
recent Northumbria University graduates to realise a new moving image work, the
residency runs from September – December 2019, with a launch and screenings taking
place in January 2020.
Designed to support
the artistic development of graduates working with moving image
from disciplines across fine art, animation, design and film, the Graduate
Artist Residency provides emerging artists with an artist’s fee of £1,500, production budget, mentoring,
studio space and one year associate membership at The NewBridge Project. It also includes funds
towards travel & accommodation (if travelling from outside of the North
East) and curatorial, production and technical support to create a new work.
The scheme takes
place within the context of the wider Projections programme of commissions,
events and practice development activities around artists’ moving image, which
aims to reclaim the cinema as a space for artists.
As with the other
commissions in Projections programme, the finished film will launch at a
special event at Tyneside Cinema, and then screen before feature films. This
year, for the first time, the Graduate Artist’s film will also be included in
the Projections
Commissions touring
programme.
Tyneside Cinema is interested in receiving proposals for films of five-six minutes which take into
account the specific presentation context of the cinema, and which make use of
it to articulate concerns or ideas that mainstream film practice might ignore
or be unable to pursue.
Last
year’s Graduate Artist in Residence Georgia
Bates’ new film Mother of the Mountain looks for the often unseen strength
demanded of mothers, reflecting on stories from women of the North
East. Through joy and grief, storm and sun, local women’s experiences
of motherhood are brought together with the wind-blown heights of the Cheviots
to suggest a relationship between lived experience and landscape. The film was
launched at a special event at Tyneside Cinema in February, and featured a
discussion between Georgia and artist Kathryn Elkin.
The Graduate Artist Residency is
delivered as part of a partnership between Tyneside Cinema and Northumbria
University and is supported by The
NewBridge Project.
The deadline for
applications is Monday 1 July. For more information and to apply please click here.
