NEW FILM AND SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS AT THE CCA IN LET ME SHOW YOU SOME THINGS

Let Me Show You Some Things presents a new film by the same name, by artist Sarah Tripp, and a specially commissioned videotheque and sculptural installation created by sculptor Robert Orchardson.  The Magic Lantern, an independent Glasgow short film night, will present a programme of short film for the videotheque, as well as curating the first Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) Shorts Film Festival, 15 – 17 February, organised in partnership with the CCA.  

Commissioned by the CCA, Sarah Tripp’s film, Let Me Show You Some Things started life as a short story published in 2006, which reflects the emotional significance of coveted objects, mementos and keepsakes.  Tripp adapted this story into a film, looking at the issues of sibling rivalry within a dispersed family unit. 

Robert Orchardson will produce two new installations to frame Sarah Tripp’s work and The Magic Lantern’s programme of short films.  Intentionally ambiguous, his sculptures simultaneously function as seating, room dividers and the screens onto which the films are projected.  Their physicality and material presence is juxtaposed with the more ephemeral nature of the cinematic works that surround and illuminate them.

The programme presented by The Magic Lantern will include archive films screened at past Magic Lantern film nights as well as the first GFF Shorts Film Festival programme.  The videotheque will show thematically grouped programmes that represent the wealth and diversity of short film currently being made both locally and internationally.  The programmes provide a context for Tripp’s film, Let Me Show You Some Things, to be viewed and have been developed in consideration of the themes explored within her film.

The full videotheque programme will be available for viewing after GFF Shorts Film Festival, from 19 February to 29 March.  From Friday 15 February to Sunday 17 February, a reduced programme made up of The Magic Lantern’s back catalogue will be available for viewing.

For further information about the exhibition, download the exhibition brochure here or visit the links at the bottom of this page. For further information on The Magic Lantern Short Film Programmes, please click on the programme titles below:

Ebb and Flow
Of Kith and Kin
No Statues
Night Terrors
Zam Salim Retrospective
Bonds of Belonging
How Do I Love You?
The Magic Lantern Back Catalogue

Sarah Tripp is a filmmaker and graphic designer who has lived in Scotland since 1989.  She has over twelve years of professional experience in the arts and is committed to an inter-disciplinary practice that crosses the boundaries between fine art, graphic design, creative and critical writing and filmmaking. 

In 1999 the Centre for Contemporary Art commissioned Anti-Prophet, Tripp’s first documentary film.  Since then she has continued to make documentaries, experimental micro shorts and fictional dramas.  These films have screened nationally and internationally at Manifesta 3, Cornerhouse, Camden Arts Centre, South London Gallery, Cork International Film Festival, Brisbane International Film Festival, Nashville International Film Festival, Bitesize Cinema and of course, The Magic Lantern at the CCA in Glasgow. 

In 2004 Sarah Tripp began to write short stories and screenplays in order to develop her writing within the field of fiction.  In September 2007, Generator Projects in Dundee published a collection of Tripp’s short stories and photography. 

Born in Glasgow in 1976, Robert Orchardson’s work seeks to explore a kind of fragile potential as it draws upon elements of modernist architecture and design, utopian texts, or details from science fiction films.  These appropriated fragments are dislocated from their original cultural contexts, and any sense of their previous functionality becomes skewed, or distant. 

Orchardson plays with this shift, to create work that exists in a limbo between where it has come from and what it might become.  Allowing a variety of cultural flotsam to surface, he reconfigures disparate elements to collectively become something new.

“Oscillating between image and object, Orchardson’s sculptural interventions deal equally with figuration and abstraction, physicality and immateriality, and it’s this instability that ensures the work retains a degree of autonomy, resisting being read in any singular way.”  Andy Hunt

The Magic Lantern is Glasgow’s independent monthly short film night programmed and run by Penny Bartlett and Rosie Crerar.

The Magic Lantern showcases innovative short films, combined with question and answer sessions with filmmakers, writers and programmers, to generate discussion on the state of short film. 

The Magic Lantern champions short film as an art form in its own right through textured programmes that mesh internationally respected filmmakers alongside local talent, linear narrative based work alongside experimental work, grouped together by theme or genre.

www.themagiclantern.org
www.wilkinsongallery.com
www.sarahtripp.com
www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk