Trisha McCrae

Screening at the Whitechapel Gallery London

trishamccrae — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:59:44 +0000

I am screening my new film Lemons and Tacks at the Whitechapel Gallery, London this Thursday 31st May at 7 pm. Its a forum for discussion and after the screening Gareth Evans the Whitechapel curator will open the floor for critique and questions from the audience about my film. Its a great screening venue and well worth the visit.

The film is a response to a seeing a drawing of lemons and tacks in a kitchen in Cambridge by Carl Plackman. I was inspired to make a short narrative about their lives intertwined with these bitter sweet truths.

BBC Radio interview about my work

trishamccrae — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:09:51 +0000

BBC radio interview

Flux Soup: Film screenings to Improvised musicians

trishamccrae — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:33:05 +0000

Three of my films, Lucretia, Rockaby and Agnus Dei will be screened alongside the work of Richard Mansfield on Friday 25th May at Block 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA.

Improvised music is by the fantastic Pig 7 and TripTik, Sue Lynch and Ruth Marshall. 8pm to 11.30.

Getting all these people together is electric! Enjoy!

I have just booked onto the LUX/ICA Biennial/ Curating Artists’ Moving Image Course, which I am sure will be very interesting and hopefully inspiring.

trishamccrae — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:39:45 +0000

Its an intensive series of seminars, presentations and discussions exploring curating, programming and working with artists’ moving image, led by curator, writer and artist George Clark. Taking place as part of the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, the course will draw from the experience of a range of international curators, artists and other Biennial participants. Over the two days, the course will respond to the unique context of theLUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, and explore the various curatorial propositions manifested in the Biennial as well as the broader practice of curating artists’ film and video in the contexts of the cinema, festival, gallery and museum. Sounds great!

Lemons and Tacks and Bloomsbury Sq.

trishamccrae — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:29:13 +0000

I am very pleased to be screening my new film Lemons and Tacks to the exciting avant guard improvised musicians TripTik. The whole performance should be fun with the added line up of double bass player David Leahy and fantastic piano playing by Vladimir Miller. The filmmakers are all members of Neuf an experimental film collective in Cambridge. Come to this live event an experience something really unique and memorable.

Neuf At Home

trishamccrae — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:09:11 +0000

On Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March from 6.30 and 8.30pm, the Cambridge based experimental film collective Neuf are installing films in a domestic setting.
Each of us has made a film in response to the house No22 Sleaford Street, Cambridge under the overall theme of Home.
I am really excited to have the superb cellist Abby Wollston improvise to my film on Sunday 11th.
Be part of the experimental flow, enjoy the literary and philosophical references, find inspiration in unusual places.

Rockaby at the Hotbed Film Festival

trishamccrae — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:42:38 +0000

Catch my film Rockaby at the Hotbed film Festival at the Junction Cambridge

Two screenings: Friday 27th Jan 2.30pm and Sunday 29th Jan 2.00pm.

Rockaby is a tribute to Samuel Beckett.
The rocking evokes emotional movement, a route to the imaginary, a return to the child for comfort from the eternal loneliness of death.
Sounds and music by
Triptik (triptik.org.uk)
and Chris Castiglione(ukuphambana.com)

Axis have selected me as their Artist of the Week!

trishamccrae — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:08:29 +0000

www.axisweb.org/artistsandcurators

Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse France.

trishamccrae — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:40:25 +0000

My film Lucretia has been accepted into the 15th Traverse Video Festival in Toulouse.

Trisha McCrae

Lucretia

My work is often raw, immediate and provocative. I use film and the editing process to tell stories which carry powerful personal meaning for me.

The story is about Lucretia, the legendary Roman heroine.

According to Livy, one evening as Lucretia lay in bed sleeping Tarquin, the kings son, entered her room and raped her. Over come with sorrow and shame she took her own life. Brutus, the Republican leader picked up Lucretia’s dead body and showed it to the crowd who became enraged and rose up against the King and his son. It was Lucretia’s death that forged the beginning of the Roman Republic.

I chose Lucretia because of its strong connections to gender, voice and power. I wanted to understand Lucretia’s choice in the context of the familial structure of Roman society, the huge burden of cultural obligation to protect her family, especially her children from the shame of the assault. I am also interested in the view that the legacy of Lucretia’s death represented a radical change in Italian perception at the time, a shift occurred in the power structure from an outdated chivalric monarchy, represented by the deposed Tarquins, to the political exchange of the new consular government formed by Brutus. I used the technique of colour change, from black and white to multi colour, to echo the radical move from Roman times to Italian contemporary life in the present day.

As a filmmaker I am committed to experimentation. I use the language of film and the editing process to express and explore what I want to say. In Lucretia I chose to use three screens to expand the viewers consciousness and allow the eye to move saccadically from screen to screen so that they become an active participant in the viewing experience. I use music and sounds deictically and non-deictically to either encourage flow or direct the viewer to what I want them to see or to disrupt it. The eye may be drawn to the narrative of Lucretia with its dramatic live footage and erotic puppetry but also at times the eye moves to the emptiness of the abstract elements. For me abstraction and the fragmented image is the purest way to allow the viewer in. Because for a moment a space opens up and their mind wanders into it with their own thoughts. They truly become an active viewer.

The festival is a really exciting experience that takes over Toulouse. There are videos and performances all over the city both indoors and outside in cinemas, churches, offices and on the street. It is absolutely fantastic. If you are into experimental film/performance and expanded cinema its a must.

Exciting things happening

trishamccrae — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:25:50 +0000

This year is off to a good start.

My film Lucretia can be seen at the Clermont-Ferrant Festival Market between 27th Jan-4th Feb 2012.

If you are going check it out!

http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=226&c=3&id_film=200022018&o=88