Here are some pictures of the work if you didn’t manage to catch them at the festival..

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Following my time in the US I undertook a postgraduate diploma in Character Animation at Central St Martins, studying character acting and trying to further my script-writing abilities. With that experience I was able to gain a place on the Royal College of Art’s Animation MA programme. I spent the first year of my two years at the RCA trying to develop my drawing and script-writing, in both cases working from life and observation as much as possible. Alongside my practice I also undertook theoretical research towards my dissertation on the topic of audience perception of narrative construction in film. In my final year my time was almost completely consumed with the production of my graduation film, “The North Sea Riviera”.

Away from the studio I am a former Great Britain U16-18 international rower and an avid but relatively untalented surfer who enjoys the icy waters of Cornwall on a rainy day. In August 2013 I will be moving to New Zealand in search of warmer waves.

Banks is interested in the possibility of film as sculpture. Within his practice sculpture is not just confined to three dimensions, but can exist on and within different platforms and plateaus. As a horror film fanatic he’s intrigued by the aesthetic and structural devices used within the genre. Banks’ reworks the formal vocabularies of horror by isolating its tropes, use of montage and architecture.
Banks’ uses film by embedding it into sculptural assemblages. He believes in the neutrality between different objects, media and materials. For example, he uses film/video/internet in the same way as a piece of string or an ironing board. Accepting that film/video exists on the same plane as direct experience gives it equal footing in the world. Being open to this neutrality between objects, materials and media enables the work to escape the confines of the physical; creating new spaces within the work, where gravity is optional and objects and characters can take on new meaning through the processes of deconstruction and reconfiguring.

Ruaidhri Ryan (London) is currently studying a postgraduate degree at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, he has exhibited nationally and internationally in film festivals, television and galleries.

Predominantly working with film & video, but occasionally designing clothes and furniture, Ruaidhri observes ‘perpetual longing and dissapointment’ through a deconstruction of cinema and images, of people and place.

Kika Nicolela (Zurich / São Paulo) is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker and independent curator. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video by the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela also completed film courses at UCLA University and is currently doing a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK).

Murmurator was commission by blinc as a collaborative commission with Sean Vicary. The App is now available on iTunes and is a really creative and clever App. You can find it here

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/murmuratar/id723422802?mt=8

She is being shown with Outcasting in the blinc cinema Pop-Up truck