Artists' Shorts

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This special screening will include a number of short artists' films that respond to aspects of the city of Leeds and its environs. 

Films include Liz Stirling and Joanna Leah's collage film Watery Bodies, Aidan Winterburn's essay film Siz, Pap, Brick and Riggs Moor by Anna Turner.

MORE ABOUT THE FILMS: 

Riggs Moor' is a short film about Riggs Moor in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire and England’s remotest location. It is an area of moorland 2.4 miles from the nearest public access road and considered Englands remotest spot. It explores themes of presence, slowness and place through landscape and walking.

Watery Bodies is an experimental film exploring the relationship between mature women and water in a wild swimming context, celebrating their pursuit of liberation outside of the media, domestic settings and institutional rules through embodied watery life. The film uses embodied film techniques to communicate through playful methods the physical experience of being in different bodies of water and how the swimmers connect to their surroundings. From an only underwater perspective the film celebrates the magic of bodies and their more-than- human environments.