YAM AT SAM is a programming collaboration between Singapore Art Museum and artists Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen of the artist-run analogue film lab Film Nerve. The collective will present a series of live performances, hands-on workshops and regional screenings focused on analogue photochemical experimentation and expanded cinema.
Category Archives: re-enactment
Handing Over Horror Film – essay by Luisa Greenfield
In 2024, TLC participated in a panel discussion led by the good folks at LaborBerlin (Germany) about expanded cinema re-enactment. The event was called “Unburdened Recollections: Considering the Expanded Cinema Archive”, and it was part of EMAF, the European Media Arts Festival. We were joined by Malcolm Le Grice in the discussion, and we talked …
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Malcolm’s breath track for Horror Film 1 – a digital preservation conundrum
Tomorrow Sun 4 April, there will be a performance of Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1 at the Courtisane Festival in Belgium. (Aside: I see a program by Audrey Lam of the work of Corinne and Arthur Cantrill was shown by Courtisane last year – great to see, I’m not aware of it travelling widely …
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Aditya Martodiharjo makes a performance of Horror Film 1 at Big River, Kanchanaburi, Thailand Sat 13 Dec 2025
Today Adit from Lab Laba Laba is going to make a performance of Horror Film 1. The performance is happening in the Big River film meeting organised by Richard and Dianna of Artits Film Workshop/Nanolab, leaders in the artist-run film labs community. Tonight’s performance is happening in the old paper mill in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, …
Line Describing a Cone – Jess’ experience
When we shared Line Describing a Cone with the students and staff at UOW, we were joined by Jess. She’s a former student of mine who often attends things in an “unofficial” capacity – and this ambiguous role – an insider-outsider – is something that contributes to her valuable insights. Jess’ observations are always welcome …
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Line Describing A Cone – some reflections from events at the Drill Hall Gallery and the University of Wollongong
What follows is a report back on the event on Sat 20 Sep at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra and today in the theatre in room G04 in building 29 at University of Wollongong. To my mind, both of these events have been a success but in different ways. The black room at UOW was …
Let’s talk about expanded cinema – Poster session SEAPAVAA 2023
Dr Louise Curham from Curtin University’s iSchool starts a dialogue with audiovisual archivists of South East Asia about expanded cinema. Here’s the recording of this talk: And here’s what I say (not quite identical but pretty close) Hi everyone. Thanks very much for inviting me to be part of SEAPAVAA 2023. I want to …
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Trying out the (Wo)Man With Mirror user’s manual with Laura Hindmarsh in March & April 2016
In the last post, I explained how the time delay of almost 12 months has bought some useful thinking time. Here’s a short narrative of what we did with Laura over the weekends of 19-20 March and 6-7 April, 2016: In suburban Canberra, Lucas and Louise are working with young artist Laura Hindmarsh who is …
Work starts on ‘using’ the (Wo)Man With Mirror user’s manual
Subtitle: Louise’s PhD uses (Wo)Man With Mirror as a case study for performance-dependent heritage and things that need passing on from person-to-person; why we involved an anthropologist; why this blog post is/is not a record. At the Urambi Village Community Centre, Saturday 19 March 2016. Left to right: Louise Curham (Teaching and Learning Cinema), Laura …
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Re-enactment / Repetition / Reiteration / Re-performance as embodied research
The following is a call for contributions to a session at the AAANZ conference in November, in Brisbane. This panel explores the widespread phenomenon of re-enactment as a tactic of embodied research in performance art history. Performance re-enactment (or “re-performance”) has emerged since the turn of the century as an arena of practice and scholarship, …
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