A special screening event and Q&A with Duncan Whitley, Filmmaker in Residence in Film and Television Studies from October 2022 - September 2023.

^{Credit: Production still from Vanishing Point. All rights reserved © Duncan Whitley 2023}

Thursday 30th November 6-8.30pm

Faculty of Arts Building Cinema, University of Warwick central campus

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Filmmaker Duncan Whitley will share his experimental short film Kimberlin alongside previously unseen images and sounds developed during his year-long residency in Film and Television Studies 2022-2023. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Dr. Michael Pigott, in which Duncan will provide insight into his residency research towards his future project Vanishing Point.

About the residency:

The residency has been supported by the University of Warwick's Film and Television Studies and the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, Warwick Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick Institute of Engagement and GRP Connecting Cultures.

About Vanishing Point:

Vanishing Point is a film project at an early development stage, combining speculative fiction, slow cinema and observational documentary to explore interconnections between the themes of landscape, political atmosphere and nationhood in contemporary Britain. The project stems from an initial premise of drawing on an expanded definition of the ‘road movie’ or ‘journey’ genre of cinema as a vehicle to explore a political atmosphere of post-Brexit Britain, the visuality of bordering (and the spectacle of UK border politics), and the construction of British (in particular English) national identity through processes of othering. Research and development of Vanishing Point has been supported by the University of Warwick's Film and Television Studies and the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, Warwick Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick Institute of Engagement and GRP Connecting Cultures.

About Kimberlin:

Kimberlin is a film constructed around the discovery of an underground cinema cavern on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. The uncanny discovery and subsequent breaking news begin to generate speculation amongst islanders as to who created the cavern and the canisters of super-8mm film found within it. Filmed on Portland in the months following the United Kingdom’s European Union membership referendum and scored with Abul Mogard’s dense, layered Farfisa organ tones, Kimberlin takes the viewer on a journey imbued with an ambiguous sense of (be)longing and loneliness. Digital and super-8mm film, field recordings and the Mogard soundtrack combine in an experimental form, synthesising cinematic and musical space.

 

Bio:

Duncan Whitley is a contemporary artist and filmmaker. His film and sound works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as Whitechapel Gallery, The Whitworth, Aesthetica Film Festival, Coventry Biennial, Cafe OTO, Serralves Museum (Porto), Flatpack Film Festival, Centro de Arte Experimental de UNSAM (Buenos Aires), and Soundfjord Gallery, amongst others. His recent film Phoenix City 2021 (featuring a soundtrack by Abul Mogard and Jaguar Land Rover Band) was commissioned by Coventry Biennial, combining observational documentary and speculative fiction to observe Coventry through the process of UK City of Culture.