TY - ADVS
T1 - Peter (2014) [film]
A2 - Topping, Jane
N1 - World Premiere: The Luck of Edenhall, Group Exhibition, The Old Fire Station, Carlisle, 2014.
Winner: Best PKD Short: The Fifth Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York, USA, 2017.
In Competition:
French premiere: The 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, September 15 – 21, Studio des Ursulines & Institut Finlandais, Paris 2014: 12th International Signes de Nuit Catalogue
German Premiere: 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2015.
Screenings:
Indian Premiere: ANTIPHON, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (curated by Lux Scotland), 2017.
Scottish Premiere: TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight, Locations around Glasgow, 2016
US Premiere: Mildred’s Lane, Beachlake, Pennsylvania, USA, 2014
She Was a Visitor, a No. 35 Project, curated by Alex Hetherington, Stirling, 2018 This was the last event in Hetherington’s innovative No.35 Projects in Stirling and a celebration of the entire series of shows, performances and films.
Publications developed from Peter:
TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight, 2016
http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2332/.
In 2018, curator and filmmaker Alex Hetherington adapted elements of The Peter & nou Project, in collaboration with the artist, into the publication Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman). The publication was launched at the artist’s solo exhibition She Was a Visitor, a No. 35 Project, curated by Alex Hetherington, Stirling, 2018. http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4294/
Lectures & Events associated with the research and project:
‘It’s Not All About Me’: My Performance in Blade Runner, Paper & Screening, Doctoral Colloquium, University of Cumbria, Lancaster 2014.
‘It’s Not All About Me’: My Performance in Blade Runner, Paper & Screening, Arts Research Initiative 2, University of Cumbria, Carlisle 2014.
Peter, Q&A sessions, Festivalzentrum Halle 5, Kolbenhof & Lichtmeß, Gaußstraße 25, Hamburg, Germany, 2015.
Peter, Q&A sessions, The Producers Club, The 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York, USA, 2017.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner, An Introduction and discussion, Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle, 2018.
PY - 2014/3/19
Y1 - 2014/3/19
N2 - 'Peter' (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) re-frames a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text and so implying that such radical gestures are not only warranted and necessary, but also implicit in the contemporary viewer’s experience of watching film. Peter manipulates found footage and narrative voice in order to reveal difficulties of viewer identification when watching Blade Runner. Peter makes use of wholesale appropriation of ‘facts’, both visual and textual, personal and public, in order to create a new reality around the film. The use of personal biography and the trope of the unreliable narrator are key elements in the discussion of the illusive nature of truth at the core of Peter. Winner: Best PKD Short Film, 2017 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York. French premier at The 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, September 15-21, Studio des Ursulines & Institut Finlandais, Paris 2014. Screened in the No Budget Competition, 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2015. Running time 29 minutes 55 seconds. You can watch 'Peter' here: https://rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com/peter/
AB - 'Peter' (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) re-frames a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text and so implying that such radical gestures are not only warranted and necessary, but also implicit in the contemporary viewer’s experience of watching film. Peter manipulates found footage and narrative voice in order to reveal difficulties of viewer identification when watching Blade Runner. Peter makes use of wholesale appropriation of ‘facts’, both visual and textual, personal and public, in order to create a new reality around the film. The use of personal biography and the trope of the unreliable narrator are key elements in the discussion of the illusive nature of truth at the core of Peter. Winner: Best PKD Short Film, 2017 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York. French premier at The 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, September 15-21, Studio des Ursulines & Institut Finlandais, Paris 2014. Screened in the No Budget Competition, 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2015. Running time 29 minutes 55 seconds. You can watch 'Peter' here: https://rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com/peter/
KW - science fiction
UR - https://vimeo.com/118989354
M3 - Artefact
ER -