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Atmosphere: Belief
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Video documentary or 'cinematic data visualisation' that is the final part in the Flat Earth Trilogy, created by Matthew Jarvis, John Cobban, Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson and Steve Rushton. The installation comprises a montage of video footage sourced from YouTube, coupled with a projection of a map that shows where in the world each clip is from. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
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21 Jun1 Jul Mon–Sun 8.30–9pm Inspace, Edinburgh
Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy
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A one-night installation inspired by Heathcote Williams' poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy', with readings and live music imbued with a punk spirit.
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2 Jun 7pm Fleet Collective, Dundee
It's Not Your Birthday Anymore
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Recent work by eight young artists working across different disciplines in Edinburgh.
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31 May 7pm
Opening night.
Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
1 Jun6 Jun Mon–Wed, Fri & Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Art & Design Studies Summer School
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Intensive week-long summer courses in different art and design disciplines.
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16 Jul10 Aug Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
13 Young Danes
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Danish students at the art schools of Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow exhibit a wide range of current work as part of an artistic exchange programme led by the Danish Cultural Institute.
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11 Jun26 Jul Mon–Thu 10am–4pm The Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
Antonia Hirsch: Komma
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The Vancouver-based artist presents a 16mm film based on Dalton Trumbo’s seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun – a book written entirely without commas.
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25 May1 Jul Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm Tramway, Glasgow
The Creator
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A film created by art filmmakers Al and Al to celebrate the centenary of computing and artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing, taking the form of a surreal dream in the scientist's mind.
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24 Jun 9pm
Followed by a Q&A with the artists. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
Inspace, Edinburgh
Ding Dong, the Queen is Dead!
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Video, installation and poem by Inbal Drue examining subjects such as society, rules, battles and strategies. Part of Annuale.
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12 Jun24 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm Tent Gallery, Edinburgh
Flash of the New Flesh
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Film by Polish artist Tomasz Kozak, exploring the subconscious. Part of Annuale.
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12 Jun 7pm Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
~ in the fields: Yen to See Different Places
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German-born but Scotland-based art collective ~ in the fields presents a 'tourist telescope', which depicts views of idealised landscapes, linked to (and created as part of) their exhibition space in New Media Scotland. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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2 Aug2 Sep To be confirmed St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
Rachel Mayeri: Primate Cinema – Apes as Family
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Previous works by Rachel Mayeri include Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends, in which a primatologist shot a film of four male baboons competing for the attentions of a female, and the artist then took the film, scripted the behaviour for five actors and had five actors act it out as if were four guys and a girl in a film noir. Apes as Family has a video drama written for chimpanzees and performed by human actors, simultaneously screened along with the reactions of the chimps that watched it.
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2 Aug2 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Simon Martin: Louis Ghost Chair
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Short film focusing on the Louis XV armchair and its continuing afterlife as Philippe Starck's Louis Ghost Chair. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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9 Jun21 Jul Tue–Sat 11am–5pm Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
The Suburban Trilogy
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Three films about girlhood and the immigrant dream. Veteran found footage filmmaker Abigail Child is well known for her radical reworking of established cinematic and cultural codes through an idiosyncratic use of montage and disjunctions of sound and image. This feature-length project renews these concerns with three distinctive films that move between home movie, found footage and documentary material – a fascinating anthropological collage that examines myths of gender and national…
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26 Jun 9.40pm
29 Jun 5.05pm
Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Black Box
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Carolee Schneemann
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Carolee Schneemann for once deserves the word 'iconic'; from being a muse to Joseph Cornell and performing with Robert Morris, she's gone on to create a body of her own work that set a new standard in coupling intellectual integrity with visceral intensity, with unforgettable works such as Meat Joy*, *Interior Scroll* and *Up To and Including Her Limits*. Plus, she really, really likes her cats. In her 70s she's as active as ever, and this exhibition includes new and vintage video works as…
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2 Aug27 Sep Mon–Sun 11am–7pm Summerhall, Edinburgh
David Michalek: Figure Studies
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A newly commissioned work by an artist who specialises in recording lovingly high-resolution and slowed-down footage of the body in motion. Figure Studies is a tribute to the pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge and records the bodies of ordinary people in action; Slow Dancing focuses on professional dancers. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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2 Aug27 Sep Mon–Sun 11am–7pm Summerhall, Edinburgh
Fluid Potion
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A project of 'regurgitation versus representation', realised through drawing, sculpture, painting and video, by Diane Edwards, Sheena Leach, Callum Monteith, Liam Richardson and Alex Allan. Part of Annuale.
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17 Jun24 Jun Fri–Sun noon–5pm The English Speaking Union, Edinburgh
Fresh Faced Summer School: Moving Image and Digital Art
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Explore different ways to make your work more dynamic through programmes like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and I Can Animate. No experience needed; all materials provided. Ages 12–16.
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9 Jul13 Jul Mon–Fri 10am–4pm Tramway, Glasgow
Here Comes Everyone
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Video work by Jacob Ciocci, Jon Refman, Lachlann Rattray, Diane Edwards, Simon Redekop and Croy Arcangel. Part of Annuale.
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21 Jun 7pm The Canon's Gait, Edinburgh
ISLAND // Bobby Niven
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Niven explores Inchgarvie, the Firth of Forth's uninhabited island, through video and sculptural works.
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26 May7 Jul Tue–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Jean-Pierre Muller: 7 x 7th Street
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Belgian artist Jean Pierre Muller has enlisted some pretty heavyweight musical assistance for his audio-visual sound sculpture installation; his collaborators are Archie Shepp, Robert Wyatt, Terry Riley, Nile Rodgers, Sean O'Hagan, the great Ethiopian jazzman Mulatu Astatke and Brazilian guitarist Alexandre Kassin. The result is displayed in seven wooden huts outside Summerhall. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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2 Aug27 Sep Mon–Sun 11am–7pm Summerhall, Edinburgh
Jini Rawlings: Wave/ing
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Taking the log of Aberdeen trawl skipper Alfred Craig and a 19th century journal by Elizabeth Jane Oswald, Rawlings creates a constantly changing loop of image and text to document their various maritime adventures.
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26 May1 Sep Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–3pm Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Aberdeen
Katy Dove: Films
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Screening on a loop, art therapy student Dove's four short films are based on Rorschach inkblot theory and feature music from her band Muscles of Joy.
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9 May10 Jun Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Negativnights
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Experimental film works by various artists, distorting the usual tropes of narrative and meaning.
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31 May 6.30pm
Rattray's work is an absurdist assemblage of trash culture and rudimentary internet aesthetics covering…
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
7 Jun 6.30pm
Erica Eyres video work often uses familiar formats such as the mockumentary, video blog or motivational…
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
La Nostra Terra
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A major exhibition of Italian photography and video from the 1970s to today, showing how the Italian miracolo economico has affected the natural environment.
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17 May22 Jul Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm Stills, Edinburgh
A Parliament of Lines
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Work by fifteen important Scottish artists – or at any rate, artists who've been through the Scottish education system – who use drawing as a central component in their practice. Featured artists are Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flannigan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Alan Johnston, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd and Ainslie Yule and the exhibition is organised around five themes: The Body…
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5 May8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm City Art Centre, Edinburgh

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