Tim Shore is an artist based in London. He has a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art (2002). His practice is concerned with the impact of technology on society and the individual, seeking to uncover and investigate its narratives and histories, embedded in the sites, places and things that surround us.
Cabinet (2006), a “complex and multi-layered film which evokes humankind’s ambivalent relationship with history, memory and technology.” (transmediale.07 jury statement) continued an investigation into, and exploration of, the history of technological progress and its often ambivalent impact on society and the individual. It was funded by a London Artists’ Film and Video Award from Film London and Arts Council England London, and was awarded Second Prize at transmediale.07, Berlin.
Shore’s latest film, Burlesque (2008) made with Gary Thomas, in collaboration with Anaïs Bouts, alludes to the performative nature of the racism and violence captured in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and torture photographs of 2004. Burlesque has recently been screened at: EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck; Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges, France; and featured in ‘Everyday Discrepancies’ a film programme to support ‘Assume Nothing: New Social Practice’ at the Art Gallery of Victoria, Canada. Burlesque was funded by Capture, the national strategic agency for dance & moving Image.
He is Head of Animation at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
(10’45’’, 2008) with Gary Thomas, in collaboration with Anaïs Bouts Funded by Capture, the national strategic agency for dance & moving Image
“…in the polymorphous world of the burlesque, where everybody gives and receives blows at will… violence is universal and without consequences, there is no guilt.” Pascal Bonitzer, Le Champ aveugle (1982)
In Burlesque, five soldiers prepare and enact a performance that alludes to the aggressively physical games of the British public school – the Eton Wall Game and British Bulldog. The film’s Art Deco locations reference the class structure and imperialistic ambitions that have determined the role and function of the ‘soldier’, and that have led to the racism and violence ‘exhibited’ in the Abu Ghraib images. But there are no naked and blindfolded figures in Burlesque; no orange jumpsuits; no pointing at the ‘other’. The performance of ritual, control and containment exalts the de-personalised, subjugated, censored body.
Production credits Production Format (Shot on): Super 16mm, DV Exhibition Format (Available on): Digibeta, BetaSP, DVD Producer: Tracy Bass Cinematographer: Martin Testar Sound: Alvin Curran, Scanner Cast: Faisal Abdullah, Paul Hines, Aarron Griffieth, Rory McSween, Stuart McSween, Sean Torfin
(18’, 20’’, 2006) Film London & Arts Council England London
A meditation on the Unabomber’s hut and the manifesto he wrote there.
“In Cabinet, Tim Shore pursues a disturbing message through the spaces of the American landscape. An associative framework of found footage, digital reconstruction and text form a meditation on identity, technology and the land. Shore’s fragments of found imagery and sound evoke America’s myths of itself, from its war record to its prairies and birdsong. Yet, this is shadowed by the dark spaces of the Unabomber in his forest cabin, and the repetitive sound of the typewriter, a reference not only to the latter’s destructive manifesto but also to the fragmenting advance of technology.” Lucy Reynolds, March 2007
“Technology and its shadow take the lead in the blind construction of history.” from transmediale.07 jury statement
Awarded Second Prize at transmediale.07, Berlin.
Production credits Production Format (Shot on): Super 16mm, DV, Super 8mm Exhibition Format (Available on): Digibeta, BetaSP, DVD Producer: Gary Thomas Live Action Producer: Tracy Bass Cinematographer: Noski Deville Consultant Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan CG animation: Nick Keeble Sound: John Wynne Cast: Amy Michaels
O Tannenbaum was made in collaboration with Nick Keeble and was exhibited in the Mostyn Open 2006 (group show) Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales.
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Moving Image 2008 Burlesque (Tim Shore & Gary Thomas, in collaboration with Anaïs Bouts) 10’45’‘ 2006 O Tannenbaum (with Nick Keeble) 2’45’’, loop, single screen projection 2006 Cabinet, 18’20’’ 2003 Cofiwch/Keepsake, 4’34’’, S4C 2002 Rosabelle Believe, 5’23’’, RCA 2001 Carbon, 1’, RCA
Awards, Commissions & Prizes 2007 Capture5 Award (Burlesque) 2007 transmediale.07 Award (2nd prize for – ‘Cabinet’) 2006 Alternative Film & Video Festival Significant Achievement Award (‘Cabinet’) 2004 Wellcome Trust Sciart Experiment Award (Relative) 2004 LAFVA London Artists’ Film and Video Award (Cabinet) 2003 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award 2002 S4C Channel 4 Wales ‘Short Shorts’ Award for film project (Cofwich/Keepsake)
Festival Jury 2007 Alternative Film & Video Festival Jury member
Group Exhibition & Screenings 2009 Everyday Discrepancies (film programme) supporting Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Victoria, Canda 2008 War and Peace 2008, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud UK - Arnolfini, Bristol, UK - Museum of Bath at Work, Bath, UK - Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud, UK 2008 Nouvelle Creation Anglaise, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva 2008 Closer, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, UK 2007 MultiChannel, ArtSway, Sway, UK 2007 Darbyshire Award, The Museum in the Park, Site07, Stroud Valleys Artspaces, UK 2007 War and Peace, Touring programme, Site07, Stroud Valleys Artspaces, UK 2007 transmediale.07 Video Selection, Touring Programme, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany - Amsterdam Film Experience, The Netherlands - Festival della creatività, Firensze, Italy - Bienal de video y nuevos medios, Santiago de chile, Chile - Full Pull 2007, Malmo, Sweden - Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany - transit_07.by, Minsk, Belarus - M_MULTIMEDIA, Amantes Art Space, Torino, Italy - Futuresonic, Manchester, UK - Mult-Media Arts International Lab & Forum, Bejing, China - Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece - India International Centre, New Delhi, India - Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo 2006 Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales 2006 Smoke and Mirrors, mac, Birmingham, UK 2006 Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2005 Textures of Reality, National Film Theatre, London, UK
Selected Festivals 2009 Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges, France 2009 EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck 2008 Alternative Film & Video, Belgrade, Serbia 2008 Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA 2008 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand 2007 Recontres Internationale Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2007 Signes de Nuit Festival, Paris, France (Thomas Munz Presentation) 2007 Amsterdam Film Experience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007 Aurora, Norwich, UK 2007 ICE, Iowa City Experimental International Film Festival, Iowa, USA 2007 Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 2007 Scanners, New York Film Festival, Lincoln Centre, New York, USA 2007 Portobello Film Festival, London, UK 2007 Courtisane, Gent, Belgium 2007 Media City, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2007 transmediale, Berlin, Germany 2006 Alternative Film & Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2005 Illuminate: The Stratosphere, Bradford, UK 2005 Hull International Film Festival, Hull, UK 2003 Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester, UK 2003 EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany 2003 Los Angeles International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA 2003 Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Canada 2003 Odense International Film Festival, Odense, Denmark 2003 Tough Eye, Finland 2002 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland 2002 L’Alternativa IX Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
Broadcast 2003 Cofiwch broadcast on S4C (Channel 4 Wales) Digital
Distribution LUX, London, UK (Cabinet) British Council, London, UK (Keepsake) Microcinema International, San Francisco, USA (Rosabelle Believe) Royal College of Art, London, UK (Rosabelle Believe)
Education 2002 MA (RCA) Animation, Royal College of Art 1984 BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Wolverhampton Polytechnic
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Tim Shore is an artist based in London. He has a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art (2002). His practice is concerned with the impact of technology on society and the individual, seeking to uncover and investigate its narratives and histories, embedded in the sites, places and things that surround us.
Cabinet (2006), a “complex and multi-layered film which evokes humankind’s ambivalent relationship with history, memory and technology.” (transmediale.07 jury statement) continued an investigation into, and exploration of, the history of technological progress and its often ambivalent impact on society and the individual. It was funded by a London Artists’ Film and Video Award from Film London and Arts Council England London, and was awarded Second Prize at transmediale.07, Berlin.
Shore’s latest film, Burlesque (2008) made with Gary Thomas, in collaboration with Anaïs Bouts, alludes to the performative nature of the racism and violence captured in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and torture photographs of 2004. Burlesque has recently been screened at: EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck; Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges, France; and featured in ‘Everyday Discrepancies’ a film programme to support ‘Assume Nothing: New Social Practice’ at the Art Gallery of Victoria, Canada. Burlesque was funded by Capture, the national strategic agency for dance & moving Image.
He is Head of Animation at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Images http://www.flickr.com/photos/timshore/