At the cross-over between performative arts and film, expanded cinema emerged in the mid-60s and is now considered to have influenced many aspects of contemporary media installations and performances. American artist pioneers explored its means in regards to politics and collective participation as well as radical subjective experimentation. In Britain filmmakers used its structural and analytical means to criticise the canons of commercial cinema.

On January 25, 2018, Secrets of the Deep: DREAMS on Film will screen dream-infused films by: Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain), vocalist She Rocola, Joe Whitney (Flaming Stars), Kirsty Allison* (Cold Lips Magazine UK), Scottish rocker Gil de Ray* (Vagrant Lovers), twice Emmy Award nominated actor Emily O’Brien, Stephen Rutterford* (NYC), Vincius Santos (Brazil), Liz Tabish* (Texas), Russian animator Olga Guse (Berlin), record producer (Strokes, Regina Spektor) Gordon Raphael (Berlin), and festival curator Jeffrey Wengrofsky* (NYC).

Part of a series of works collectively referred to as solid light films, Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone sees the fog-thickened beam of a 16mm projector transformed into a three-dimensional moving sculpture. As the beam is viewed from various vantage points within the space it transforms, shifts, and demands attentive observation.