Louise Curham

Film Maker, Aphids Committee member

The art world of Louise Curham is marked by an aesthetics of instability - flickering images and tough, fragile-looking shapes and machines that make plain their material impermanency.

Working predominantly with found and obsolete materials, Curham’s world is a space of taut, unwieldly surfaces and ephemeral images that disintegrate in the projection process.

Originally trained in the craft of narrative film making, in the last decade, Louise has moved towards the visual arts with an emphasis on material film, producing a body of direct films where the image area itself is scratched, bleached, painted, drawn upon and collaged to create moving images that celebrate the actuality of the medium.

Her film installation work focuses on fracturing the conventional elements of cinema – she brings the film image off the screen into public spaces. She lays the image down, projecting across and through predominantly horizontal surfaces. She employs multiple projections favouring old media, super 8, standard 8 and 16mm.

http://photonicsmedia.net/periodical/cat/moving/
www.teachingandlearningcinema.org