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Friday 28 April, 7 pm.
LVMH Lecture Theatre, E002 Central Saint Martins 1 Granary Square London N1C 4AA
An evening of film and music, a collaboration between students from the Royal Academy of Music and Central Saint Martins fundraising for the ongoing recovery efforts in response to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Introduction 7.15 pm.
Recital 7.30 - 8.30 pm.
KAF Kolektif is a Grassroots organisation formed in Kahramanmaraş to provide immediate aid to those affected by the earthquakes in south-eastern Turkey. In the immediate aftermath, they built toilets and a field kitchen where hot meals were prepared and served. With support from volunteers and NGOs, the project has expanded with a workshop, a playground, temporary cinema, a social area for adults and an improved supply chain and sanitary systems.
La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6 minutes
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano, Paulo Cerqueira baritone, Andra Băcilă piano
Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171
Franz Liszt
5 minutes
Andra Băcilă piano
Als Luise die Briefe
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 minutes
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano, Andra Băcilă piano
Spring Waters
Sergei Rachmaninov
3 minutes
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano, Andra Băcilă piano
Serenade Italienne Op. 2, No. 5
Ernest Chausson
2 minutes
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano, Andra Băcilă piano
Etude Op. 25, No. 12
Frederic Chopin
3 minutes
Anelise Gămulescu piano
Madamina Il Catalogo questo from Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6 minutes
Paulo Cerqueira baritone, Anelise Gămulescu piano
Come Paride Vezzoso, L’Elisir d’Amore
Gaetano Donizetti
4 minutes
Paulo Cerqueira baritone, Anelise Gămulescu piano
Jardins sous la pluie
Claude Debussy
4 minutes
Andra Băcilă piano
Fantasia quasi sonata Apres une Lecture de Dante
Franz Liszt
18 minutes
Anelise Gămulescu piano
Tutte le feste al tempio from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
3 minutes
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano, Paulo Cerqueira baritone, Anelise Gămulescu piano
Si Vendetta from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
2 minutes
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano, Paulo Cerqueira baritone, Anelise Gămulescu piano
Babylon
Alex Ford, 2021, digital, 3 minutes 16 seconds. Eponymous with the infamous Biblical city from which it draws its name, this piece explores the absence of identity, juxtaposing scale and grandeur with individual acts of violence.
Anna Christophersen, 2020, digital, 1 minute 8 seconds. Structure and architectural form act as a climbing frame for unearthly beings to slide in and out of frames - in and out of existence - around the corner becomes known.
Anna Christophersen, 2021, digital, 2 minutes. Hands win, slashing the thin border between them with a sharp knife. This causes feet and the subsequent owner of these feet to fall through this border.
Charles Jimenez, 2019, digital, 11 minutes. In a melancholic purgatory, a nameless and featureless sedentary body forgotten from time and space struggles to find the light to its path amongst an ever-expanding disorderly reverie.
Keratin
Charles Jimenez, 2021, digital, 3 minutes 50 seconds. After a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third - a child who has been separated from their womb. The three
bodies regain connection in a wombic journey. Each body is bound by their hair, which spiritually networks the three into their eventual fusion.
Chasm
Cult, 2023, digital HD and 35mm photographic film, pixilation, 7 minutes.
I woke up and my sheep was gone. Chasm is a reconciliation between the tangible, the divine and the primordial. Traversing the crevice between liminal reality and chthonic conjuring.
Ela Kazdal, 2023, 35mm film animation transferred to video, 1 minute 49 seconds.
The result of sewing across 35mm film.
Ela Kazdal, 2022, BW and colour 16mm film transferred to video, 3 minutes.
A documentation of Renata Mocellin Silvério's painting process.
Senescence
Ellen Dunne, 2021, 16mm transferred to video, 2 minutes 20 seconds. The cruel inescapable senescene. Assisted by Eric Arnal.
Transcend
Ellen Dunne, 2021, digital, 30 seconds. They're in a domestic setting, wanting to evolve into something greater. They are then shown in two screens above and below transcending into the afterlife, their soul is dragging away from them.
Grace Baggott, 2023, 16mm transferred to video, 3 minutes 22 seconds.
II (Above) consists of the 16mm film I (Below) being projected onto a pair of hands, using a 16mm projector and then filmed again using a 16mm camera. Originally, this film would be projected on 16mm but has since been converted to digital.
Isabel Paget, 2022, digital, 2 minutes 23 seconds. Encounter the edge of appearance, Warped by the walls of one's own reflection, Body and mind - is there not another? Transcend the skin you're held within and look back again. What happens to your shadow. When you dance in the light?
Isabella Josephine Leon, 2023, Digital, 4 minutes. A montage stop motion short film about the evolution of a girls life, and all of her experiences. Told through her dreams and imaginations.
James Riley, 2021, digital, 8 minutes 59 seconds. A factory constructs a humanoid. The humanoid, as quickly as it learns to move and walk, returns to the pool of liquid metalbecoming material used in the assembly line. This happens at scale, as a cycle. This copy of the film excludes the narration of the original.
Jemima de Jonge, 2022, digital, 4 minutes 53 seconds.
In Enter Amazons, real live action is combined with animation. From inside various cardboard living rooms, we see strange figures passing by outside. We move along to her rhythm to a
Jemima de Jonge, 2021, digital, 7 minutes 25 seconds. In Uprooted, the viewer is tempted to wander through a dark, empty city. The film is one continuous shot through models made of paper and charcoal. At unexpected moments, a moving clothesline appears with apple and clothes that seem to show the way. Passing windows, peeking into a world we can't reach.
Lucy Ellis, 2021, digital, 1 minute 4 seconds. A train takes a journey and ventures off the train rails leaving him in a state of panic. He explores different rooms created from collaged images leaving him confused and anxious.
Lucy Ellis, 2022, digital, 51 seconds. Exploring the interaction of motion and sound through collecting and collaging material. The interaction of sound to the collaging of collected materials alters the perception of them creating reluctant, mechanical and stilted movements.
Lucy Ellis, 2022, digital, 17 seconds. Exploring collage animation through collected materials. Materials are collected from old books and postcards collaged by hand and transferred to digital.
The Burial Theodore Broughton, 2021, digital, 3 minutes 52 seconds. The burial follows the progression of images that occur after a character buries a stone. Following the event, the dimensions of space in the character's reality begin to change and become dream like.
Ana-Maria Godoroja soprano
Ana is a Romanian lyrical soprano studying in her third year at The Royal Academy of Music. In 2019, she received an Honourable Mention for her ability to sustain subito piano in Rachmaninoff's Lilacs at the Remember Enescu International Competition. She performed at Academie Internationale d'Ete de Nice, Romanian Atheneum, National University of Music Bucharest and many more prestigious venues.
Paulo Cerqueira baritone
Paulo began his studies at the Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo, Linda-a-Velha at the age of 6, as a violin student. He performed in a variety of halls across Portugal and the United Kingdom such as; Centro Cultural de Belém, Fundação
Calouste Gulbenkian, Palácio dos Aciprestes, Palácio da Ajuda, Fórum Luísa Todi, Europarque, Aula Magna, and Angela Burgess Recital Hall.
Described by Romanian critics on national radio as "an exceptional pianist with a refined sound", Anelise is currently an undergrad student at the Royal Academy of Music. Her most recent achievement is the Second Prize in the Orbetello International Piano Competition. She has given performances in many halls, including Cadogan Hall (UK), Théâtre Municipal (France) ARCUB and Romanian Atheneum (Romania).
Andra is a classical pianist from Romania in her first year at the Royal Academy of Music. She performed as a soloist at the Romanian Atheneum, Goethe Institut, ARCUB, the Hungarian Liszt Institut and Romanian National Philharmonic in Brasov. In 2022, she won competitions such as the Hungarian Music Festival, International Moscow Music Online Competition and Future Stars International Piano Competition.
Alex Ford is a UK-based visual artist and filmmaker. His work generally attempts to rationalise universal feelings of nihilism, anxiety and mistrust through the prism of entertainment, varying between visceral tableaus and darkly humorous imagery. Mostly, he just has fun making stuff.
Anna Christophersen works with film, video and paper, as means to characterise both human and anthropomorphic life. She relays abstract interactions between characters exploiting their diffuse and facile nature. Works have been exhibited at Alexandra Palace, Manchester Art Gallery and screened at several film festivals.
Charles Jimenez (born 2001) is a creative director and visual artist whose practice revolves around film, performance, and visual arts. Their creations engage with surrealism, dreamscapes, and the spatial otherness of experience, where thoughts, memories, dreams, spirits, and metaphysics are material planes, and all bodies are aether realities.
Cult is an independent filmmaker from Hong Kong, cofounder of the collectives Sour Apple, Crimson Production, and The Mythopoetics.
Ela Kazdal is an artist filmmaker based in London and Istanbul, who reflects on her personal narratives through film and video. She has screened her films across venues such as the Everyman Cinema at King's Cross in London, Billytown in
the Hague, Æden in Berlin and Salt Beyoğlu in Istanbul as part of the 4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
Ellen Dunne is a multi-disciplinary artist from London whose favourite media to use are sculpture, film and sound. Her films resonate with the horror subgenre of camp. The choice of materials which would be considered a traditional art form e.g., etching and 16mm film combined with distorted lo-fi sounds and gruesome sculptures brings to life a macabre yet bright style of work.
Grace Baggott is an experimental filmmaker exploring sculptural methods of using analogue materials and apparatus. Her work often follows each component of analogue processes, drawing importance on the relationship between the intimate and tactile characteristics of the material, often hand processing and printing her films.
Isabella Josephine Leon is a filmmaker, animator, and photographer from St.Louis Missouri. She specifically likes bringing in a handmade and physical element to her environments using old and found objects in both her photography and film work. She also organises and produces music and film events with her other collectives Sour Apple, Crimson Production, and The Mythopoetics.
Isabel Paget is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the merger of traditional and progressive art forms. With a fascination for the untouchable and eternal otherwise known as the forgotten she pulls things apart, destroys them, or journeys within them to see what lies between the surfaces of our perception.
James Riley is a third-year fine art student with a background in film and scriptwriting. He experiments with applying the artistic process to explore and uncover truth, implementing art creation as a primary-source research method. Following this trail wherever it could lead, James' most recent work engages with artificial intelligence, neuroscience, power and how technology, biology and culture converge.
Jemima de Jonge films show how naturally her drawings, sculptures, installations and performances merge into one gesture. Her film Uprooted, was included in the Korte Film Poul (Short Film Pool) in 2022 and got her to be selected as one of the "Badlands" film talents at the Eye Film Museum in 2021.
Lucy Ellis is an experimental 2D animator. She specialises in exploring the digital and analogue through process. Her work makes use of found materials which is explored particularly through collage animation.
Theodore Broughton (2001) is a Cornish-born filmmaker based in London. Creating films that involve aspects of documentary, narrative and installation filmmaking, his works can be presented in a variety of different forms. Specialising in 16mm film and DV, Theodore's interest in the material of the moving image is evident in his practice, which explores themes of home, spirituality and humour.
Photography by Kaan Walsh
Edited by Ela Kazdal
Pamphlet produced by Yasmin Avdji
