Edge of Frame presents a programme of films channeling patterns of interference and compression, electronic disruption and televisual overdose, with a live audio-visual performance and Q&A from artist Chris King.

The programme will feature work by Karissa Hahn, Sabrina Ratté, Jodie Mack, Peter Burr and others.

“I don't want to put any labels on my films… I never impose on you; you need to find what you have to find.” – Storm De Hirsch

Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present a rare screening of three films by seminal artist Storm de Hirsch, filmmaker, poet, painter, and a co-founder of The Film-maker's Cooperative in New York in 1961. Despite her extensive presence and influence in the avant-garde film scene of New York in the 1960s, De Hirsch's work and history has largely remained obscure, especially since her death in 2000. De Hirsch's pioneering films often involve direct scratching, coloring, etching, painting on film and animation applied to imagery shot in everyday life.

Made at L'Abominable, the artist-run film lab in La Courneuve, France, Brûle la mer uses co-director Maki Berchache’s own experience of leaving Tunisia after the 2011 Jasmine Revolution as an entry point for a collective narrative about the harragas, North African migrants seeking refuge and a new, “better” life in Europe. “The film is a poetic quest which combines materiality (in the strictest sense of that which is material life) and abstraction: the experience of rupture, of reversal.