SAT 26TH SEPTEMBER – FOR ONE DAY ONLY! as part of Bold Street Festival and AND Festival A SMALL CINEMA ON BOLD ST (in the old Rapid next to Christians Fruit and Veg shop) 3 fantastic screenings of great short [...]
Abandon Normal Devices this September! – It’s time for you to get involved Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, hits Liverpool and the region in full and for the first time this September. Based at [...]
Programme | and. With all this Biennial stuff going on in Liverpool I hope we can find some time to take in some of the many events at the AND Fest which is just about to start. You may recall [...]
Abandon Normal Devices » Blog Archive » Festival Trailer unleashed. The good folk at Uniform have got the festival images to come to life in this string of short animations. Expect to see it on screens across the city, including [...]
Abandon Normal Devices – Full festival programme announced Festival Dates: 23 – 27 September 2009 Opening Launch: 23 September 2009 Abandon Normal Devices (AND), a new Northwest festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, is excited to announce the full [...]
War veteran stories projected large scale on streets of Liverpool AND Festival 2009 In a timely statement, acclaimed Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko presents War Veteran Vehicle – where large scale slide projections documenting the experiences of returning veterans from Iraq [...]
Enjoyed the performance by DJ Spooky at St George’s Hall last night. He gave a brief introduction, explaining that the original Birth of a Nation film was essentially a KKK propoganda silent movie made in 1915. For the performance he [...]
The main focus of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival is film. It is, after all, the festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture. We don’t often go to the Cinema, even struggling to use up our free ticket allocation that [...]
Glowing Pathfinder Bugs from squidie on Vimeo. This video is from the PPP website and shows a previous event but it was just the same in the Arthouse Square behind FACT today. I think its really aimed at children but [...]
This is really cool, I could interact with this for ages. The lights somehow connect to the people on the ground then joins them all up to make patterns which change shape as the people move round. You really do [...]
The Abandon Normal Devices Festival finally launched today and I was tickled on the Big Screen – which was nice. Earlier we saw the Carolee Schneemann ‘Precarious‘ exhibition at Tate Liverpool which is a video installation – good job the [...]
Another of this evening’s events from the AND Festival. A lot more serious and unsettling, I hadn’t realised there would be audio and the sound of guns along with the projections – makes it a lot more dramatic. Look out [...]
Another piece from the AND Festival, this is delightful. Next to the entrance to FACT under a gazebo, it is not always easy to hear above the noise of traffic and people but it does sound really nice. It looks [...]
Not in Liverpool this year but not too far away in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria. I like the look of that Cloud Project. This spring join the AND festival on a digital journey across real and virtual worlds in [...]
OPEN CALL FILM SUBMISSIONS | and. Festival dates 29 September – 02 October 2011 Trailblazers across the region in September AND is currently seeking features, short films and artists moving image. There are no restrictions on budget, genre or [...]
There are two new fun interactive installations at the Big Screen Liverpool this week, both screen-specific commissions. Hand from Above is unique to Liverpool and will appear here before touring to 21 sites across the UK in the BBC/Olympic Big [...]
This was originally advertised as part of the Film on the Waterfront event but has now been moved to St George’s Hall PUBLIC SPACE: DJ Spooky – Rebirth of a Nation Friday 25 September 2009 Now presented in the historical [...]
CANCELLED: FILM EVENT: Ken Russell in Conversation Ken Russell Event Cancelled Due to unforeseen circumstances Ken Russell is no longer able to attend his planned ‘In Conversation with Don Boyd’ event today at 2.10pm, as part of the Abandon Normal [...]
We went to the launch of Abandon Normal Devices at FACT last Friday, its all very exciting though it doesn’t actually take place until late September. AND is presented by FACT (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and folly (Lancaster), great to see [...]
For those people interested in short film exhibition and independent cinema spaces, come and join in the discussion at FACT tomorrow. Thursday 16 April 2009. A Small Cinema will be one of 5 groups presenting their projects and will be [...]
Carolee Schneemann at Tate Liverpool As part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival 23-27 September 2009 Admission Free As part of the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival, Tate Liverpool will present an exhibition and performative lecture by the [...]
Just in case you needed reminding – again. Its tonight, Thursday 24 September 2009. Full details on the website
The Long Night of the AND Festival 30 Galleries, 11 Music venues, 10 guided tours, 24 hours and breakfast. THE LONG NIGHT RETURNS! Thursday 24th September 2009 18.00 to late. Following its success in 2008 the popular Long Night returns [...]