PORTLAND GREEN™ makes, curates, exhibits and distributes artists’ film and contemporary arts projects that are central to our thinking about the world at the present time. Our focus includes artists’ film, creative documentary, cinematic essay, docu-drama, dance and performance film and related hybrid forms. These projects are timely and make a tangible contribution to contemporary culture, discourse, ideas and thinking. Our works are designed to reach large audiences and often emerge from collaborations with artists, thinkers, designers and institutions. The organization is particularly known for its work with dance, performance and film.

PORTLAND GREEN™ has delivered strategic programmes of work for public cultural institutions in the UK for over a decade, including a programme of work in dance for Arts Council England through Portland Green Cultural Projects.

In the last two years over 1 million people around the world saw projects/works/films that were commissioned, produced or exhibited by PORTLAND GREEN™ and the artists, collaborators and partners that it works with.

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EXHIBITIONS

MOVING PICTURES

Portland Green Cultural Projects and Animate Projects are pleased to announce Moving Pictures, an exhibition and supporting panel discussion which explores the joined spaces between dance and animation. Movement and motion, gesture and action, the exhibition screens films of choreographic intent, in which articulate bodies navigate framed space. The online exhibition of dance animation launched in February 2012 with artists Paul Bush, Gina Czarnecki and Ulf Langenrich, Thomas Hicks and Mariano Ramis.

The panel discussion was held at Jerwood Space, London on 16 February, 2012 . The panel explored how choreographic intent can be captured in animated form and the discussion was prefaced by a screening of clips from many favourite dance animation works, including those from the online exhibition. Panelists included filmmaker Paul Bush; producer/director Portland Green; animation director, illustrator Filipe Alcada and writer/curator Helena Blaker; it was chaired by Ajay Hothi.

Funding for this project comes from Arts Council England, and the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional support for the Moving Pictures panel discussion from Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

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COMMISSIONS

The call for applications to ALFF, a major new production opportunity for artists working in the moving image has been re-opened.

ALFF, an abbreviation of Artists’ Long Format Film, is for exciting, ambitious, long format films that can be made with a development and production budget of between £120K and £400K.

The call for applications for innovative, long form, experimental works invites strong, original ideas for films of any genre, including creative documentary, drama, artists’ film, cinematic essay or animation, which use dance/performance as a driver. PORTLAND GREEN’s partners, Film London’s FLAMIN and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery are committed to facilitating a major new moving image work that explores this area of practice. This is not a production award, rather, it is a vehicle from which to finance, produce and distribute a long form film.

This unique commission, is inspired by the critical and crossover success of films such as Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, Gillian Wearing’s Self Made and Wim Wenders’ Pina, which clearly demonstrate the range of contemporary performance styles that can be used effectively in long format films and still attract a mainstream audience.

Further information is available on Film London’s website at http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/alff . The deadline for applications is now August 29.

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