Kika Nicolela

Tropic Of Capricorn, 2005, Brazil, 30'00

Four transsexuals are brought in to a hotel room on the same night. Each trans
woman is asked to lay on a bed in an empty room and reveal herself to a cam-
era mounted on the ceiling. As the film progresses, their stories blend, separate
and overlap in a beautifully constructed collage of multi-colored images. They
share with the camera their fantasies, hopes, questionings and experiences in
the streets of Sao Paulo. Written, Produced and Directed by Kika Nicolela. Cinematography:
Ching C. Wang. Editing and Post-production: Kika Nicolela. Assistant Director: Fran Freire. Song:
“Rough Metaphors” by The Soundscapes.

Kika Nicolela (b. 1976, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist and experimental filmmaker. 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 and
photography courses at UCLA University. Her works have been screened and awarded in festivals of
more than 30 countries, such as: Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival, Kunst Film Biennale,
ACA Media Arts Festival, VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, International Electronic
Art Festival Videobrasil and Exis Experimental Film & Video Festival. She has participated of about 60
solo and collective exhibitions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden,
Poland, Portugal, UK and US. She was the recipient of several grants, and was shortlisted for the
EMPAC Dance Movies Commission, Sergio Motta Award of Art and Technology, Rumos Itau Cultural
Award, among others. Currently Kika Nicolela also curates and coordinates the Exquisite Corpse
Video Project, a collaborative series of videos that involves more than 60 artists from 25 countries.
She was recently selected for the Rondo Studio Program 2010, in Austria.

http://www.dilemastudio.com
http://www.vimeo.com/kikanicolela
Christina Millare
They Look Their Best From Above, 2010, UK, 3'00

"My videos are almost like another layer of skin. They are visual representa-
tions of whatever is currently irking my mental state be it my want to better un-
derstand myself from a biological standing point or my want to predict the
future. All in a sense encaspulate a form of my identity. In past projects I have
used video as a cathartic medium from which I expell my notions of death, pu-
berty and sex."

Christina Millare is a video artist based in the UK. She is one of the founding members of The
Only Constant, a collective of emerging video and film makers based in London and is the curator of
Together Our Space Gallery in London. Her other projects include the bands, Eve Black/Eve White
and An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump.

http://www.vimeo.com/christinamillare
http://www.myspace.com/eveblackevewhite
http://anexperimentonabirdintheairpump.blogspot.com
Morgan Beringer
Abstraction 27, 2009, UK, 5'43

Morgan Beringer is an American video artist based in East London. Having spent and continuing to
spend much of his life in transit between different countries, the thrust of his creative concern stems
from the dilemma of living in-between cultures. An academic background in both philosophy and art
pushes these concerns further into the realms of linguistics, performance, and film/video art.

Strongly influenced by early Structuralist filmmakers, (such as Michael Snow, Kurt Kren, etc.)
Wittgenstein, and Gaspar Noe's film Enter the Void, Morgan's abstract work explores the expressive
possibilities of the middle ground between still and moving images as a revelatory experience of
aesthetic and linguistic ambiguity. An ongoing series of what will be sixty-four short films, the ab-
stractions are constructed entirely of still photographs that are then melded to give form to the
movements between each image rather than the image itself. They frequently use photographs refer-
encing mass media, spirituality, and the landscape.

His other projects revolve around similar themes and media, studying movement to reveal the con-
ceptual spaces between forms. He has exhibited in various creative contexts across the UK, America,
Australia, New Zealand, Russia, and Hong Kong.

http://www.vimeo.com/user781195
Giada Ghiringhelli
Body Without Organs, 2008, USA/CH, 14'22

A body. Landscape of geometrical structures. It wants to be all what remains

when you take everything away: a body of pure movement, intensities, speeds,
energies and desires. It is without organs because nothing lives in it, every-
thing moves on its surface, free from any kind of organization, as if it was the
limit at which all the flows of the world converge and stream freely, the con-
taining field of energy from which all possibilities develop.

Giada Ghiringhelli (b. 1981) is a Swiss new media artist and videomaker graduated with a MFA in
Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York and currently living in London. Her
works explore the images in motion through the manipulation of space, time and movement, while
employing light and the body as main compositional elements, creating artworks of rhythmic sensa-
tion and artificial reconstruction. Her videos have been exhibited internationally and some of them
are currently distributed by the Canadian non-profit organization Video Out Distribution. Recent
screenings include aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival, Pantheon Xperimental, TV channel Sou-
venirs From Earth, VAD Festival, International Videofestival Bochum, Re-new, New Media Meeting,
ANIWOW! China International Student Animation Festival, DOTMOV Digital Festival, Optica Video Art
Festival. She is also a co-founder of the art, video and film collective The Only Constant (London).

http://www.giadaghiringhelli.com
Ian Pons Jewell
Dreamt In Flesh, 2009, UK, 2'43

Ian Pons Jewell is a Spanish-born, currently London-based film professional. He has worked vari-
ously as a director/producer for two plays, numerous short films and music videos, including sound
design for short and feature film. Ian spends some of his time illustrating, with some of his drawings
being exhibited in Seattle later this year. He believes film is the most powerful means of expression
with which to reach audiences on a truly visceral level.

http://www.ianponsjewell.com
Marianna and Daniel O’Reilly
Royal Male or Coppola’s Spyglass, 2009, UK, 11'

In ‘Coppola’s Spyglass or Royal Male’ we try to merge analytical and impul-

sive, libidinal energy of the creative process investigating the so called
‘woman’s question’. We have attempted to critique the cultural, historical and
symbolic role that women appropriate, desire and are assigned in society, the
clichés and definitions associated with the feminine and the role that language
plays in the creation of gender. Our concern was to investigate what type of
language a woman could define for herself as an individual and whether exist-
ing language could facilitate the enhancement of individuals regardless of sex.

Marianna was born in Russia and Daniel in the UK. Having met undertaking their Master Degrees
in Fine Art in London (Royal Academy of Arts and Chelsea College of Art respectively) they have de-
veloped multi-media installations, published artist’s books, participated and curated art exhibitions,
screenings, debates and performances. Since 2008 they have worked exclusively in video using their
relationship as the basis for a series of protracted studies on subjectivity. These symposia focus pri-
marily on the relationship between human freedom and individuality, the operations of self-decep-
tion, frustration and alienation, and a critical re-examination of identity. By employing a variety of
incognitos and pseudonyms to articulate conflicting points of view, they have attempted to produce
a synthetic reality occupied exclusively by these characters, placing them in extreme situations in
which the dynamics of force and freedom enter into a critical relation.

http://www.mariannaanddaniel.co.uk
Projections by

Justin Harris
Pinhole Video / Interlaced Scan

Technological convergence has altered the characteristics of existing media

creating a massive field of availability through a single screen. Within this inter-
face there is a parallel between the structures of content and the formal quali-
ties of the medium itself. This relationship has developed as both content and
format have changed from analogue to digital. In general the removal of dis-
tance produced by the varying boundaries of the screen could be said to relate
to the complexity of the merge of various types of digital content. In older lens
based media all parts are exposed simultaneously. The image has since moved
on to being produced through sequential scanning, circular in radar and a se-
ries of interlaced lines in television. This reflects a change from the static to
variable image in digital representation.

A graduate from Kent Institute of Art and Design at Canterbury, Justin Harris works in visual effects
and traditional art media. Commercially he started in web graphics after his degree, changing over to
CG as he became more interested in incorporating 3d elements into his videos. In 2007 he worked as
a junior artist on a Walden Media film before moving to a Young and Rubicam Agency as a modeler
and texture artist. This was followed by an opportunity to work as vfx supervisor on a short film
which he chose not to pursue in order to continue working on 3d and personal projects.

http://www.justinharris.org.uk
Projections by

Abdul Hye
Taking an Ink Stain for a Walk, 2010, UK, 5'32

As Film makers and animators strive for pixel perfection, Taking an Ink Stain
for a Walk takes it’s inspiration from an early form of animation were the ani-
mators would draw, scratch and stain the film to create the animation. In the
creative process of using this technique produces abstract and organic forms.

Abdul Hye is a London based animator that creates work combining traditional techniques with
emerging technologies. His work explores the boundaries of the visual language and how colours,
shapes and movement evoke the other senses.

http://www.abdulhye.co.uk
Projections by

Alice Bradshaw
Brown Paper Bag Box / Static

Alice Bradshaw is an artist and curator based in Halifax. Her practice focuses on everyday objects,
materials and processes, often site-responsively and across various mediums. Mass-produced,
anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts
of purpose and futility.

Recent exhibitions and festivals include Contents May Vary at Red Gallery in Hull, A Room of Words
at South Square Gallery in Bradford, The Medium is the Message at Gallery Lambton in Ontario
Canada, Awkward at AVA Gallery in Tennessee, Toronto Urban Film Festival and Portobello Film Festi-
val and Videoholica in Varna, Bulgaria.

Alice also co-directs Contents May Vary, an artist collective based in Manchester who organise and
curate exhibitions mainly in alternative non-gallery spaces and also run an independent publication.

http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk
Live visuals and sound by

Kit Grill

Kit Grill graduated in Graphic Design from Chelsea College of Art and Design in June 2009. Since
2009, Kit founded, designed and now runs Vessel Music, a creative electronic music community
which focuses on individual musicians and record labels within the vast ocean of electronic music.
Kit has a love for the more obscure side of music and tries to represent this through Vessel Music
and when Djing. Kit has also been working with established visual and musical artists, recently creat-
ing a music video for Ricardo Tobar (Traum Schallplatten Records).

http://www.kitgrill.com
http://www.vesselmusic.com
The Only Constant
We are The Only Constant, a collective of emerging video and filmmakers based in Lon-
don. Our ethos is to challenge visual taboos and create forward thinking moving images.
Our aim? To rant, rave and INSPIRE.
theonlyconstant@ymail.com
http://videocollective.blogspot.com
http://vimeo.com/channels/theonlyconstant
http://www.groups.to/theonlyconstant

The Only Constant have joined forces with Corsica Studios for the monthly screening
event ‘VIDEO IS THE ONLY CONSTANT’. A new night of screenings followed by open dis-
cussions surrounding the realm of moving imagery!

Corsica Studios 4/5 Elephant Road London SE17 1LB

info@corsicastudios.com
http://www.corsicastudios.com
+44 (0) 20 7703 4760