Holly Antrum

Contact

Email: k1804220@kingston.ac.uk
Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
Faculty: Kingston School of Art
School: School of Art and Architecture
Department: Department of Film and Photography
Research groups/centres: Contemporary Art Research Centre (CARC), Visual and Material Culture Research Centre (VMCRC)
Personal website

Research project: The film document and its veracity

Abstract

The BFI's national film archive provides the primary context for The film document and its veracity. A practice-based and written analysis, this artist-filmmaking research project engages with and questions the existing language, grammar and truth-making of archival films.

See full project abstract (2018) at

http://www.techne.ac.uk/for-students/techne-students/techne-students/techne-students-2018-19/antrum

Full project abstract will be updated with the re-opening of the British Film Institute (Autumn 2020).

Research degree: Practice-based PhD
Title of project: The film document and its veracity
Research supervisor: Abbe Fletcher
Other research supervisor: Julian Rodriguez

Biography

Working as a an artist, filmmaker and now as a researcher has taught me to recognise my writing as a creative practice, putting words where pictures are sought, and achieving images which speak to writing. This close creative attention to writing as an act of captioning, embedding, mark-making and envisioning, enters my filmmaking at numerous levels, behind the screen, through collaboration, through documenting the act of reading on-screen and in other notions of creating writing through gesture, and through experimentation. This practice has evolved through a grounding in printmaking and drawing, and made most apparent in a film called ‘Catalogue' (2014) working with artist and concrete poet Jennifer Pike (1919-2016). Since then I have worked both alone on written and film projects and in consultation with poets, artists, filmmakers, archivists. My work has been shown widely in the UK as well as internationally. My films are distributed by LUX Artists' Moving Image.

Areas of research interest

Linguistic and cognitive functions of 'analogy' and 'ekphrasis'
Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution 1989, women's stories and feminist narratives
Translation in film and poetry: speech and mark-making, cursive mark, copy
Transnational archival practices
Film scanning - digital hybrid analogues
Camera movement and lens-led approaches to filmmaking
Inter-disciplinary fiction, close reading, reading group models, diegesis
Former Eastern-bloc graphic artist film posters and printmaking connected to filmmaking

Qualifications

MA Fine Art Printmaking (2011) Royal College of Art, London
BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting (2005) Wimbledon School of Art, University of Surrey (now UAL)

Funding or awards received

'Edges of a Close Reading' - Techne (AHRC) student-led event funding (2018-19)
TECHNE (AHRC) PhD scholarship (Kingston School of Art and British Film Institute, 2018-2022)
Elephant Trust - 'Beech Avenue' film installation seed funding (2018-)
British Council and Writer's Centre Norwich - 'Eidolon' film commission funding (2017)
ACME Firestation 5-year Work/Live studio residency (2015-2020)
Elephant Trust - 'Catalogue' film funding (2013-14)
Arts Council England (Awarded production contribution within Bob Jubile programme of Bob Cobbing events funding, 2013)

Publications

Recent selected publications:

2020 ' Swollen Feet, False Sun' (PhD practice-based research featured), in Art Licks magazine, Issue 25

2019 ‘Mapping Catalogue – A Film', in Verbi-Voco-Visual (Tinted Window magazine) Issue 02

2016 Outside Noise, Ed. Holly Antrum & Jonathan P Watts (second edition), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

2015 The London Open 2015, text by Daniel F. Herrmann, Whitechapel Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue)

2014 Outside Noise, Holly Antrum, Jonathan P Watts & George Vasey, Grand Union, Birmingham

2013 Flatness, curatorial project by Shama Khanna, editioned publication and website

Conference papers

2019 Contributor, co-presenter and co-researcher: '(Edges of) a close/d screening' - public reading group presentation in We Are Publication (CARC artist research-led exhibition), Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London

https://www.stanleypickergallery.org/events/main-events/we-are-publication-edges-of-a-close-d-screening/

2015 Presenter: 'Catalogue' (introduction and film screening): Symposium, 'Make Perhaps Sense Out of This Can You', Chelsea College of Arts, Univeristy of the Arts London, 2015. Organised by Cobbing, William and Cooper, Rosie and Grandal Montero, Gustavo and Toop, David.

http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/11868/