KATHRYN FERGUSON

Arirang

2011-11-28T09:42:00.000-08:00

Lament excerpt from Máthair now on Testmag

2011-10-24T10:02:00.000-07:00

http://testmag.co.uk/mathair/

Máthair, Irish for Mother, is an exploration of the religious and cultural rituals experienced firsthand by filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson. This film, prompted by and realised through a holy pilgrimage with her mother, recognizes and celebrates the need to revisit the rituals of the artist's past. Máthair presents a hyperreal vision of Ireland conveyed through patterns of thought, memory and behaviour that map the artist’s own construction of her homeland.

Ritual #1: Feis (My Mother)

The ritualistic and rhythmic structures of the weekly Catholic Mass and traditional Irish dance are intertwined in this piece to invite reflection on the complex of patterns that connect the two. The hypnotic sounds integral to both practices are presented in unison with structured performative scenes that imply a commonality of emotional and creative intention. Juxtaposing religious impulse with visceral expression, this first movement balances the competing intentions of immersive action against distraction from thought.

Ritual #2: Lament (Motherland) (Video excerpt)

The tradition of keening, an ancient vocal lament for the dead, reflects a deep sorrow rooted within Irish culture and arts. Irish folklore speaks of funeral parties rowing in silence across the water at Assaroe in County Donegal, only to begin the haunting sounds of the keening when a particular site is reached. Moving from the personal ritualistic elements of the first movement, this second lament ties together customs surrounding death and the concomitant visualisation of loss through mourning practice, forging a link between place and personhood.

Ritual #3: Marian (Mother Mary)

The conflict between the commodification of the idea of the saint and the persisting phenomena of the apparition of the Mother Mary are brought to light in this final piece in the cycle. Marian stands as the culmination of observations made while journeying between pilgrimage sites in Ireland. Focusing in particular on the site at Knock in West Ireland, this movement contrasts the sanctity of the location with the gaudy objects sold en masse to the public as evidence of their visit. The implications of merchandising the miraculous are left suspended in uncertainty.

Talk - 26th October

2011-10-04T09:38:00.000-07:00

Group show - BYOB - October 16th

2011-10-03T14:27:00.000-07:00

I'm showing new work in this group moving image showcase at the Rich Mix gallery space, London.

http://thecomposingrooms.com/exhibitions.html

Centre Pomipdou 7-9th October

2011-10-03T13:27:00.000-07:00

(Work in progess video still)

I have recently been commissioned to make a new piece of work by Diane Pernet and Konstantinos Menelaou for a gallery show in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. I've been paired up with designer Charlie Le Mindu to create an experimental film. For this I have once again collaborated with CGI artist Clifford Sage. More info to follow soon.

2011-09-27T14:29:00.000-07:00

2011-09-16T09:59:00.001-07:00

2011-09-08T12:03:00.000-07:00

Stabalise Motion from bart hess on Vimeo.

http://barthess.nl/

2011-09-05T06:34:00.001-07:00

2011-09-02T09:04:00.001-07:00

2011-09-01T06:12:00.000-07:00

2011-09-01T06:11:00.000-07:00

2011-07-22T06:33:00.000-07:00

Group show - PV this Monday.

http://bubblebyte.org/

www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/11086/1/il-labirinto-di-cristallo

www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-contemporary-art/1705/bubblebyteorg-presents-il-labirinto-di-cristallo

CB love

2011-07-19T16:36:00.000-07:00

http://moresoon.org/

Making plans

2011-07-18T13:13:00.001-07:00

2011-07-18T13:12:00.001-07:00

Maria Minerva - Lovecool from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

Rainbow relief

2011-07-05T15:11:00.000-07:00

2011-06-18T13:25:00.000-07:00

2011-06-17T04:48:00.000-07:00

Via Clifford Sage

www.cliffordsage.co.uk

2011-06-14T11:44:00.000-07:00

"Máthair "

SHOW RCA 2011

Private View

Thursday 23rd June

6pm

Kensington Gore

SW7 2EU

Beating the bodran

2011-06-02T07:58:00.000-07:00

Sinead Egan RCA recording studio. 1/06/2011

2011-05-31T11:58:00.000-07:00

2011-05-31T11:56:00.000-07:00

Going back to collect my heart

2011-05-31T11:44:00.000-07:00

Stills from Barbican show

2011-05-31T11:41:00.000-07:00

2011-05-30T14:47:00.001-07:00

2011-05-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

2011-05-30T11:49:00.001-07:00

Day 3

2011-05-30T07:26:00.000-07:00

Day 2

2011-05-26T11:06:00.000-07:00

Day one.

2011-05-22T16:34:00.000-07:00

Studio Music

2011-05-16T08:31:00.000-07:00

Rose Blake is a very talented friend of mine at the RCA. She has come up with a rather genius idea for a website called StudioMusic.fm. Each week she invites a different visual practitioner to submit the top ten tracks they enjoy listening to whilst working. Each playlist is then available to listen to whilst on the site.

www.studiomusic.fm/

www.rose-blake.co.uk/

2011-05-09T11:19:00.000-07:00

2011-05-09T11:02:00.001-07:00

2011-05-09T11:00:00.000-07:00

http://digitalhealing.tumblr.com/

2011-05-05T13:30:00.000-07:00

There are some beautiful visuals in this video.

http://vimeo.com/17322472

Woods of Arcady

2011-05-04T15:02:00.000-07:00

www.jonrafman.com/

2011-05-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

2011-05-04T13:39:00.000-07:00

Cosmic clouds of the past

2011-05-04T04:55:00.000-07:00

Also my Gaga video from a few years ago made it onto the BBC last week.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011dqwp

2011-05-02T04:19:00.000-07:00

2011-04-21T16:00:00.000-07:00

Statues in Mourning on Holy Thursday, Falls Road, Belfast.

2011-04-19T10:43:00.000-07:00

2011-04-19T10:26:00.000-07:00

2011-04-18T14:45:00.000-07:00

Wodaabe

2011-04-18T14:30:00.000-07:00

PUT YOUR HANDS ON ME

2011-04-04T15:16:00.000-07:00

Love this song/video.

Dazed Live this Saturday

2011-04-04T10:22:00.001-07:00

(Me, Samara, Ellie, Lily and Maya at the launch.)

Showreel of my work that was screened at the talk.

I've been asked to give a talk this Saturday at the Dazed Live Festival in East London. As well as presenting my film work and also talking about my involvement with Birds Eye View Film Festival and Levi's I'm super stoked to be introducing an all female filmmaking collective. The collective will include six female filmmakers from the Royal College of Art including Maya Stocks, Samara Scott, Liron Kholl, Nienke Van Wijk, Catherine Hyland and I as well as independent filmmaker Lily Smith. We are launching officially in the summer but will introduce ourselves at the Dazed event. www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/10113/1/dazed-live---the-lineup

2011-04-04T06:31:00.001-07:00

Bo Ningen at the Royal College of Art

2011-03-30T12:35:00.000-07:00

Last Friday my favourite band Bo Ningen played an impromtu gig at the Royal College of Art as part of a RCA Japan fundraiser. I dragged my beloved dusty old video synth over to the gig and created live projections with the band. Video to follow soon.

2011-03-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

2011-03-26T12:25:00.000-07:00

2011-03-22T09:47:00.000-07:00

Probably the best show I've ever been to.

2011-03-22T09:12:00.000-07:00

Homage to Marcel Duchamp: Auras 2008

Work in Progress, Tuesday 1980

Ten Months 1977-79

Witness 2000

Me in awe of the U.F.O installation - Witness (above). Picture

by my friend Cat Stevens. www.catstevensphotography.com/

Susan Hillers website : www.susanhiller.org/

Retrospective at Tate Britain : www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/susanhiller/default.shtm

2011-03-21T09:14:00.000-07:00

2011-03-07T14:39:00.000-08:00

2011-02-19T08:41:00.001-08:00

2011-02-18T07:20:00.000-08:00

James Koehnline

2011-02-16T12:42:00.000-08:00

www.awkwardpatheticloosers.com/#862619/The-Art-of-James-Koehnline

2011-02-15T11:21:00.000-08:00

Birds Eye View Film Festival 'Fashion Loves Film' 2011 panel.

Julie Verhoeven, me, Jaime Perlman, Ruth Hogben, Katerina Jebb, KT Auleta and Francesca Gavin.

2011-02-15T03:30:00.000-08:00

Music Loves Video 2011 panel, ICA hosted by Miranda Sawyer and introduced by Kate Nash.

My video for Villagers' Ship of Promises' will be screened as part of the Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011 'Music Loves Video' event. The screening will be hosted by journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer with a short introduction by musician Kate Nash at The Institute of Contemporary Arts on March 10th at 8.45pm. I also will take part in the post screening Q&A with the other directors.

www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/3222/fashion-films-amp-music-videos/music-loves-video.html

London Short Film Festival / Fashion Popcorn 16/01/11

2011-01-16T04:59:00.000-08:00

I'm presenting a few films and taking part in a panel discussion about the future of digital fashion today at The London Short Film Festival. The event has been organised as part of the ongoing Fashion Popcorn series set up by Emily and Harriet Fleuriot.

www.fashionpopcorn.com/2011/01/16/final-line-up-for-fashion-popcorn4-today-at-shortwave/

2010-12-07T08:46:00.000-08:00

Shana Moulton

FAUX/real

2010-12-07T07:39:00.000-08:00

.|_()\/ER. from FAUX/real on Vimeo.

Birds Eye View Film Festival : Fashion Loves Film Strand 2011

2010-12-07T05:59:00.000-08:00

I'm delighted to announce that artist Linder Sterling has just confirmed for the fourth installment of The Birds Eye View Film Festival : Fashion Loves Film strand. The event in March 2011 will focus on fashion and time based media and look at where fashion film sits between art and commerce. I'm also super excited that Julie Verhoeven, Ruth Hogben, Sarah Piantadosi, KT Autela and Quentin Jones have also confirmed. A call for submissions will be going out shortly. Details to follow.

2010-12-07T03:31:00.000-08:00

Yang Du

2010-12-06T12:19:00.000-08:00

Idunn Mons

Forgotten how good this is

2010-12-04T03:02:00.000-08:00

Trash King

2010-12-02T08:54:00.000-08:00

A big hero of mine, filmmaker John Waters was speaking at The Shoreditch House Literary Salon alongside author Polly Samson and Johnny Woo. One of the best nights I've had in ages. He is launching a new book today called 'Role Models'.

Fashion Video Festival Budapest, November 2010

2010-11-29T10:23:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago I went to Budapest for the first time to take part in Hungary's first Fashion Video Festival. I had been invited over to show some of my video work and to act as a judge for the festival's video competition. I had a really fantastic trip and found the standard of work to be really high and imaginative. The overall winner of the competition was filmmaker and photographer Mate Moro (above receiving his award) www.cargocollective.com/matemoro whose beautiful film (above still) really stood out. www.fashionvideofestival.com/about As well as judging and giving a presentation of my own work I took part in a round table discussion with various people from the Hungarian fashion industry about the evolving genre of fashion film. Other international speakers included the amazing pair Andreas Waldschuetz and AdiaTrischler.

Fashion & The Moving Image talk : Royal College of Art

2010-11-29T09:06:00.001-08:00

I will be co-presenting a talk at the Royal College of Art this Wednesday with Fashion & Textiles research student Nathaniel Beard. We will be joined by artist & fashion designer David Saunders of design label DavidDavid.

The talk is an introduction to fashion & moving image and we are planning a series of lectures throughout the year that will look at the genre of fashion & time based media in more depth.

It's free and starts at 10.30am in Lecture Theatre 2 at the RCA, Kensington Gore on Wednesday 1st.

Salem

2010-11-22T12:16:00.000-08:00

Royal College of Art / Work In Progress Show 2010

2010-11-22T10:57:00.001-08:00

I will be showing four new videos at the Work in Progress Show at the Royal College of Art. The show opens on the 26th and runs through to the 3rd of December.

Julie Verhoeven

2010-10-21T04:44:00.000-07:00

I Want You - Film by Julie Verhoeven from CLM on Vimeo.

Just watched 'I WANT YOU' on my friend Maya's blog. I love Julie Verhoeven's moving image work.

Quentin Jones

2010-10-21T04:39:00.000-07:00

HOLLY FULTON for TEST MAG from quentinjones on Vimeo.

www.weirdcore.tv/

2010-10-20T11:26:00.000-07:00

CASSETTE PLAYA SWATCH CLUB WATCH from W31RdCoR3 on Vimeo.

MIA's XXXO visuals (draft 01) from W31RdCoR3 on Vimeo.

2010-10-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

Opium by David Lynch (1994)

Rodarte film by Wing Shya (2010)

'Hair'

2010-10-08T09:31:00.000-07:00

Best watched without sound.

Yuki Tsujii

2010-09-24T11:56:00.000-07:00

5 Seconds Exposure.

Z for Zabriskie

2010-09-21T03:56:00.001-07:00

We Come / We Go

2010-09-21T03:25:00.001-07:00

I was recently commissioned by The British Fashion Council to make a fashion film for Yoox.com. The premise of the film was to showcase the sustainable fashion section of the BFC called Estethica. I worked with the Estethica Curator's Flippo Ricci, Orsala De Castro and stylist Charty Durrant to devise a film that showed a selection of their designers in an interesting new way avoiding the cliches of green fashion. The film features model Audrey Marnay in a monochrome cardboard world. The score was composed by Peter Mackenzie, the set by Helen MacIntyre and cinematography by James Moriarty. The title is meant to reflect the cyclical nature of sustainable fashion.

The finished film is available to view at Somerset house during this London Fashion Week plus online on Yoox.com and The London Fashion Week websites.

View the film here.

On the Radio

2010-08-01T13:23:00.000-07:00

Listen here.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t94lz

My Villager's 'Ship of Promises' video is going to be BBC Radio 6's Video of the Week all of this week! I'll be chatting with Nemone about the making of the video at 3pm tomorrow. Conor the singer has just been nominated for the Mercury Music Award so they'll no doubt be talking to him about that too.

View video here.
www.kathrynferguson.co.uk/films/villagers___domino/

Work in Progress

2010-07-30T06:56:00.000-07:00

Kenneth Anger shoots a fashion film

2010-07-29T13:49:00.000-07:00

I am surprised but I shouldn't be really as all of his films are extremely textural. His 1949 film 'Puce Moment' is an early example of fashion film if there ever was one.

Counting the days

2010-07-29T04:55:00.000-07:00

Twenty four days to go...

Two Tone

2010-07-21T04:34:00.000-07:00

A still of Art Director Helen Macintyre's huge monochrome set yesterday. We were shooting a new film for The British Fashion Council and Estethica. The film will be screened in September at London Fashion Week and on Yoox.com.

On tour!

2010-07-15T14:26:00.000-07:00

Birds Eye View Film Festival's 'Fashion Loves Film' strand is going on tour. Starting with Latitude Festival this weekend. There will be a screening followed by a panel discussion in the Film & Music arena from 11.15am this Saturday.

Villagers 'SHIP OF PROMISES' video.

2010-06-15T05:38:00.000-07:00

After a week of intensive editing with my amazingly calm editor Miska, the video for new band 'Villagers' is finally finished. It will be released shortly by Domino Records.

Updated Barbican video stills

2010-06-08T09:43:00.000-07:00

The event is on Thursday.
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10768

Sunset in Sussex

2010-06-07T10:33:00.000-07:00

Above are some behind the scenes stills from a video I shot last week in Sussex. It will be finished in about a week. Stills by Sandra Leko.

Central Saint Martins / 'Roma' / Fellini

2010-06-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

Today I had the honour of being asked back to my old college Central Saint Martin's to be an industry judge for their BA fashion show. As always the show was a spectacle full of surreal, colourful and progressive work. Unfortunately this is the only photo I managed to take as I was so busy scribbling notes. The finale didn't fail to please with six stilt wearing models charging down the catwalk towards us. It kind of reminded me of the amazing scene in Fellini's epic 'Roma'.

Watch here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYzRL9YIswQ

Again the Room was Plunged Into Silence

2010-05-31T02:04:00.000-07:00

Is the name of a show I am part of in June.

A group of us from the RCA have been collaborating with the Guildhall School of music to come up with a two hour audio visual show that will take place in The Barbican's Pit Theatre on the 10th June. The show coincides with the opening night of the 'Surreal House' exhibition in the Barbican gallery.

Tickets for the event are available here.
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10768

Above is a still from some of the work I've been making with fellow RCA'er Samara Scott for the piece.

Re-editing Katie Eary video for Diane Pernet / Vogue Italia screening

2010-04-29T10:33:00.000-07:00

I am currently making a one minute edit of the Katie Eary video I made for TEST magazine in February. The video will be screened as part of Diane Pernet's 'A Shaded View On Fashion Film' festival in May in Milan.

I am hoping to use some of the footage (above) we shot at the Barbican but couldn't make work for the first edit.

www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com/

Still by Catherine Hyland

Experiments with smoke + Daul Kim footage

2010-04-29T04:54:00.000-07:00

More unused outtakes from the video I made for Richard Nicoll featuring Daul Kim.

Sound by Peter Mackenzie.

Experiments with water + Daul Kim footage

2010-04-29T04:29:00.001-07:00

I made this short experimental video using outtakes of Daul Kim.

Crystal experiment I

2010-04-29T03:25:00.000-07:00

2010-04-23T07:29:00.000-07:00

The film I originally made with Art Director Maya Stocks for MKII's first anniversary opening has made it's way into the pages of Seattle based art publication I WANT YOU.

The sound was made by Mark Wagner (also known as **K) and is a 1 track analog recording of treated guitar and vocals played live while projecting the video.

www.iwantyoumagazine.com/kathryn-ferguson/

Eno Forever

2010-04-21T13:05:00.000-07:00

This video is awesome.

'Baby's on Fire' by Brian Eno
filmed at the MIT Experimental Colour Studio in 1976.
The dancer is Hallie Gerber.

Analogue experiments day II

2010-04-21T12:38:00.000-07:00

Analogue video mixing

2010-04-20T08:50:00.000-07:00

Today I began experimenting with a dusty old analogue video mixer. The possibilities are endless with this little gem.