Telling Tales

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As part of the Nottingham Playhouse winter programme The Cutting Room present Telling Tales, a collection of moving image pieces.

Alongside the selection of films presented in CAST restaurant and bar, The Cutting Room curators Jennifer Ross and Clare Harris have been invited by Nottingham Playhouse to present their own works to mark their first year of friendship with the theatre.

The exhibition looks at the new digital era of Telling Tales. The Cutting Room have selected an array of video, animation and installation from local and international film-makers. Each telling a
tale and exploring different methods of communicating.

Projected on the main CAST restaurant and bar screen, a selection of short films will play throughout the exhibition. In the Understudy, Clare Harris and Jennifer Ross will present their works.

With parallel interests both artists are questioning whether it is popular culture, some system or organisation controlling our moves? Or is it within that we restrain ourselves? There is this desire to break free from the constraints of life, to be an individual but how is it shaping our existence? Is it within our control?

The aim of this exhibition is to open up the experience of engaging with new media artworks to a theatre-going audience and the general public.

Passing Moment – Clare Harris

Consider for a moment a feeling, a thought that for one reason or another you were maybe reluctant or afraid, to openly admit to? Where you questioned yourself – is this normal?

Through the use of moving image, I present to you a portal; a simple flutter that I hope will spark a growing curiosity within one’s self. Like Pandora opening her box, I attempt to release the unspoken feelings, which get carpeted over.

Clare Harris graduated in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University in 2010. Her first taste for film started at the Britfilm 24hour challenge, 2008. Having shown her work internationally and within the UK her recent successes include Liverpool Independent Biennial, Avanca Cinema 2011, International Conference Cinema, Portugal, with multiple showings at the Facade Videofestival, Plovdiv 2011.

Caught in Misc en Scene – Jennifer Ross

Popular culture is characterised by paranoia; some system or organisation controlling our moves. We crave to break free of the constraints of life and to be a free individual. But what, and how is it shaping our existence? Are we able to escape it?

Jennifer Ross works with moving image in an installation context.
Analyzing how we experience our environment, and our understanding of the space we inhabit, thus expanding upon the relationship between situation, film, and viewer.

Jennifer Ross studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Recently Ross has exhibited at Wirksworth Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Germany 2011, UK Young Biennale 2010, Liverpool Independents Biennale, and ‘Open Call’ at the Frieze Art Fair, London 2010.

CAST Restaurant & Bar

The exhibition looks at the new digital era of Telling Tales. The Cutting Room have selected an array of video, animation and installation from local and international film makers. Each telling a tale and exploring different methods of communicating.

Essay on Beauty – Michael Szpakowski
A Collection of Quotes – Claire McCann
Ruminate – Fi Burke
Confusion – Karin Arink
Static – Alice Bradshaw
Roue – Taili Wu

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