Analogue Ensemble

Since 2022 I've hosted open call artist/filmmaker screenings in my studio at The Argyle Centre, Ramsgate. Below are the film programmes from each of these so far.   Images of each event are available on analogueensemble  instagram account. There is no funding for these events, it is organised on a very low cost to myself DIY basis.  The idea was to create a community of experimental artists/filmmakers in Thanet who come along show their work and engage in an informal Q&A with a supportive audience. There's a small group of friends (3) who talk about next programme ideas,  act as a sounding board and put out chairs, black out the windows, manage the door and set up drinks.   Kristian provides some excellent call-out graphics and it's us that generally meet in the pub to discuss to talk about the next programme. 29 May 2022 26 February 2023 14 May 2023 19 November 2023 7 April 2024 These nights typically happen twice a year, Spring and Autumn/Winter....

Last June we programmed a night of experimental film for Whitstable Biennale 2018.  Photographer Dik Ng, who has documented all our events over the last year made this wonderful film of Vicky Smiths' work - a new work specifically made for Whitstable based on her previous 'Agitations'.

I mage: Open School East by  Ollie Harrop Due to illness tomorrow's discussion group has been postponed. We'll be back in touch soon with anew date. Discussion Group Open School East , Adult Education Centre, Hawley Square, Margate, CT9 1PF 30 March 11am – 12.30 Free and open to all A discussion group led by Benjamin Hunt about the relationships between concrete, abstract, and photographic space.  A key text by Robert Smithson title ‘A Sedimentation of the Mind’ will be explored alongside snippets of writing about filmmakers Kurt Kren and William Raban. We're excited to be hosted by the Associates at Open School East at their new home, The Adult Education Centre in Hawley Square. To book a place either email us or just turn up. Please let us know if you have any access requirements.

Thanks to all the young people that took part in the workshop last night at Pie Factory Ramsgate and of course Louise Webb who ran a really fun session. Here's a short film of the editing section of the workshop that the children produced from a snippet of Louise's film footage of a bus journey. I'll hope you'll agree they are some very talented young people who mostly had never used Premiere Pro before and completed this in about 20 minutes.  Well done Evie, Stuart and Ruby. Title: A Project Called Fanation Duration: 0:59 secs

Block by Emily Richardson, 16mm Film. Artists' Experimental Film & Video Screening 24 MARCH 2019 Ramsgate Music Hall 13 Turner Street, Ramsgate,  CT11 8NJ Doors: 7pm (bar open) Programme: 7.30 - 9.30 inc Q&A* TICKETS £6/4 (+50p online booking fee via Eventbrite ) also available on the door. This screening explores the moment in which a tactile space becomes a photographic image via moving image technologies and processes. The movement and labour of the filmmaker working through the space(s) is challenged in the selected works.  Featuring:  Nicky Hamlyn , Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler , Nicholas Mortimer , Gareth Polmeer and Emily Richardson . This bumper edition has been guest curated by Benjamin Hunt. Home page image: 'The Virtual-Grammetry of Main Frame City 360 - [A Borgesian Statistic]' by Nicholas Mortimer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FULL PROGRAMME NOTES TO THE F...

Image: Still from 'A Tool for Loneliness - Please Stay Seated While The Vehicle's in Motion' by Louise Webb Abstract Mobile Phone Filmmaking Workshop THURSDAY 28 MARCH 2019 PIE FACTORY MUSIC , Ramsgate Youth Centre,St. Lawrence High Street, Ramsgate, CT11 0QG 7.15 - 8.45pm AGE: 11 - 18 FREE Continuing with our series of filmmaking workshops for young people artist  Louise Webb  will lead a workshop sharing aspects of her practice. Louise Webb is an artist who uses mobile phones to make films that play with the idea of social media and storytelling, highlighting the fictional aspects of presenting oneself in social media. Using the 'timeline' concept as seen in Instagram stories you will use your own phone to create a moving image, then working as a group you’ll share your footage and create distorted visuals through a variety of editing software before projecting it at the end of the workshop. Reserve a place or just turn up ...

Landscape - Discussion Group 27 January 2019 2 – 3pm Waterloo Room, Falstaff Hotel, Addington Street, Ramsgate, CT11 9JJ Ahead of the Landscape Screening at Ramsgate Music Hall in the evening, Neil Henderson will lead a discussion group based on a text about Larry Gottheim’s film 'Fog Line' which was an early inspiration in his practice. The text will be from Scott Macdonald’s 'The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place, 2001. This will be a 60 minute participatory session and will provide a deeper insight to Neil's work and introduce the work of Larry Gottheim. Ticket: £3/2* *Under 18s, Students in Further and Higher Education and informal learning settings. https://landscapediscussion.eventbrite.co.uk NEIL HENDERSON Neil Henderson's work has encompassed multiple projector pieces, experiments with the materiality of film and photography, and films about landscape. His work has ...