Although collage has a long established place in visual art, its use in commercial cinema is rare. Experimental film and video provides a platform to play with and reorder both picture and sound, by using fragments of pre-existing material to generate new combinations and meanings. Found footage from the amateur or commercial world is repurposed and reimagined, and regular soundtrack conventions are disrupted to create unexpected juxtapositions and new textures. Sidestepping storytelling, this Synch Pulse will focus on a range of short films which recycle existing film and video, and explore audiovisual cut-ups and collage.

Assembled and presented by electronic music composer and filmmaker Ian Helliwell.