Artists' moving image
The ICO promotes the exhibition of artists' moving image work by offering a support service for organisations who wish to screen artists' moving image work, producing a range of complete touring programmes that can be screened in a variety of venues, and offering professional training aimed at developing curatorial and audience development skills.
The ICO is funded by the Arts Council, England to provide a range of services to organisations and exhibitors in this area.
Artists' moving image support service
The ICO provides a programming support service offering advice to arts organisations who wish to screen artists' moving image work within the UK cinema network.
We advise and provide support in the following areas;
- Viability of projects
- Identifying venues
- Marketing
- Press campaigns and release strategies
- Rights negotiation
- Certification
- Technical requirements
- Publicity
- Budgets
- Touring
We have delivered numerous artists' moving image touring projects around the UK and brought new audiences to such work in their hundreds of thousands.
For advice on how to get your project to reach the widest possible audience, contact Catharine Des Forges, tel: 0207 079 0471 or David Sin, tel: 0207 079 0475.
Available touring programmes
The Artists' Cinema
The ICO and LUX are excited to announce a new series of artists' film commissions for The Artists Cinema, a unique project which brings leading visual artists' work into cinemas in subversive and playful ways, to a diverse and large-scale audience. The new Artists Cinema commissions were released in cinemas across the UK in spring 2010, and launched with a special preview evening at Tate Modern on 16 April 2010.
The 2006 edition previously screened in front of widely released film titles such as Borat, Casino Royale, Notes on a Scandal, The Lives of Others, Miss Potter, Pan's Labyrinth and This is England, reaching audiences of over 100,000 people in cinemas UK wide.
The seven international commissioned artists for The Artists Cinema 2010 are: Keren Cytter (Israel), Aurélien Froment (France), Amar Kanwar (India), Deimantas Narkevicius (Lithuania), Rosalind Nashashibi (UK), Catherine Sullivan with Farhad Sharmini (USA) and Akram Zaatari (Lebanon).
For information on previous artists' moving image touring programmes, please visit the Previous tours page.
Training
We run training courses in curating and developing audiences for Artists' Moving Image work. For details of upcoming courses visit the Training page.
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