STRANGE UMBRELLAS

Save the Date! Strange Umbrellas #21 is coming to V22 Louise House, London Saturday 4th August 6 to 8pm
Get your tickets 

Full line up includes:

A solo by Jack Goldstein
Soramimi, a film by Daisy Dickinson and Julia Laird
Daniel Spicer/ Paul Khimasia Morgan - electronics and DIY instruments
Steve Beresford/ Charlotte Keeffe/ - electronics, toys, trumplet and visual perofmrnace
Rodez, a film by Stefano Miraglia
Blanca Regina/ @AvanacA -voice, electronics and visual performance


BIOS
Solo: Jack Goldstein

Jack Goldstein makes Experimental Lo-fi Power Pop/Emo. His latest record, entitled ‘Sandwiches’, is a Brian Wilson-esque song-cycle set in an imagined interzone near the Oxford that Goldstein grew up in. His previous record, ‘Tonic Of Wilderness’, was described as “a quiet triumph; a….collage of sound taking in so many moods, emotions and samples that it’s hard to keep track”. He is also a musicologist and academic at Goldsmiths University and was awarded the Bob Gilmore Prize for Outstanding Work in Musicology for his dissertation on the influence of politics and brass bands.
He has also written on pop, experimental and improvised music.
https://jackgoldstein.bandcamp.com


Duo: Daniel Spicer/Paul Khimasia Morgan

Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster, improviser and poet based in Brighton, UK. He writes about music for The Wire and Jazzwise magazines. His book on Turkish psychedelic music, ‘The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych 1965 to 1980’, was published by Repeater Books in 2018. He is currently working on a book about Peter Brötzmann. He presents a weekly radio show of improvised music, 'The Mystery Lesson’, on Brighton’s Radio Reverb 97.2FM. He is founder and director of Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival. As an improviser, he has worked with artists as diverse as Adam Bohman, Dylan Nyoukis, Alan Wilkinson and Konstrukt. He has published three collections of poetry: 'Osshole Accidents’ in 2012, 'Notes For Colour’ in 2015 and 'From The Bottom Of The Tower’ in 2018.

Paul Khimasia Morgan is interested in detourning familiar musical instruments in improvised music settings. He currently uses amplified guitar body. He has performed in regular and ad-hoc groupings with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina, Richard Sanderson, Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Ryu Hankil and Charlotte Keeffe. His latest solo album, Peoplegrowold was released on Mark Wastell’s Confront label. In 2016, he collaborated with artists Joseph Young and Kay Aplin to produce a series of sound-art concerts and talks featuring Beresford and Regina, Cathy Lane, Felicity Ford, John Kannenberg and Brambling which resulted in his piece, slow kiln, being included on the Landscape : Islands cassette compilation. His previous work appears on labels including Linear Obsessional, Absence Of Wax, Crónica, engraved glass and Con-V. Paul curates Aural Detritus Concert Series, runs the Aural Detritus and TSOKL labels and writes for The Sound Projector.


Trio: Steve Beresford/Charlotte Keeffe/Max Hattler

Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over thirty years, working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Christian Marclay and Alterations.

His work with Marclay has included mixed media pieces like ‘Screen Play’, ‘Ephemera’, ‘Graffiti Composition’, ‘Shuffle’, ‘Pianorama’ and ‘Everyday’. He has also written songs, scored feature films, TV shows and commercials.

Steve has worked with hundreds of people, including The Slits, Stewart Lee, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Ray Davies, Mandhira De Saram, The Flying Lizards, Rachel Musson, The Portsmouth Sinfonia and John Zorn. He has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, composer and producer, and was was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.


Charlotte Keeffe performs regularly across the UK and internationally as part of several ensembles. She has played at numerous Music Festivals, including Glastonbury and accompanied the likes of Will Young, Charlotte Church, Kate Nash, Laura Mvulaand Liane Carroll.

Fascinated with improvised music, Charlotte helped guitarist John Russell establish the Mopomoso Workshop Group. She plays regularly in the London Improvisers Orchestra and has shared concert bills with the likes of John Edwards, Steve Noble, John Butcher, Steve Beresford and Mark Sanders.

Charlotte performs as a trumpet/ flügelhorn soloist and as part of her trio, Space Painters, with guitarists Joe Smith Sands and Diego Sampieri. Space Painters had their debut gig at The Vortex last May. Charlotte also has a new quartet project and will be releasing her debut album featuring some of her original compositions very soon…

Max Hattler is an artist and academic who works with abstract animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. He holds a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art and a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of East London. Max has lectured at CalArts, USC, Goldsmiths, KASK and many more. Max has performed live around the world including at Playgrounds Festival, Re-New Copenhagen, Expo Milan and many others. He lives in Hong Kong where he is an Assistant Professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Max’s current research focuses on synaesthetic experience and visual music, the narrative potential of abstract animation, and expanded artistic approaches to binocular vision.



Duo: Blanca Regina/Anavaca

Blanca Regina is an artist, teacher and curator based in London. Her research and practice is heterogeneous and encompasses expanded cinema, free improvisation, graphic and moving images, photography and performance art.

In 2014 she became a lecturer at the School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent. From 2011 to 2014 she was a visiting research fellow at the University of the Arts, London, Chelsea College of Art and Design. She has performed with various artists, including Terry Day, Leafcutter John, Steve Beresford and Matthias Kispert and has curated a number of events and installations in London and internationally. Her last solo exhibition: ‘Expanded and Ephemera Audiovisual’ was presented at MUPO, Oaxaca, México in November 2015.
www.whiteemotion.com

AnavacA is a multifaceted communicator who expresses herself through arts and therapy.
She has participated in various healing performances and psychomagic projects. She developed, with her hands and her voice, regression processes and has collaborated with artists and therapists for 20 years.
She currently lives between Malaga and London.


Films:
1 - Soramimi
2017 / 3’32 / 4:3 / Sound

Soramimi taps in to the rhythms of the forest, channelling the positive and negative energies through the red and blue masks and eventually creating an abstract piece of ritualistic occurrence. It was all shot on Super 8 in the mountains of Japan (Kanazawa, Nagano, and Yakushima Island) and features music by Grimm Grimm.

Julia Laird is a Scottish photographer and director based in London. She uses both digital and analogue photography and moving image to cover the areas and people around her, both in her home country and whilst travelling further afield.
http://julialaird.com/


Daisy Dickinson is a London-based director and visual artist whose work involves experimental short film, music video, projected installation and live visual performance. She is one half of the audio/visual collaboration ‘Adrena Adrena’, with ex-Boredom’s drummer E-da Kazuhisa, and is currently working as a visual addition to Seefeel, Grimm Grimm & Samuel Kerridge. Dickinson’s visuals have been described as ‘magmatic and sulphurous, cosmological and transcendental, drawing attention to the wonder of the earth and our sensuality on it’.
https://www.daisydickinson.co.uk/


2 - Rodez
2017 / 3'00’’ / 4:3 / silent

This is an exploration of the Rodez Cathedral and a study in colour, repetition and flickering, composed of 292 photographs.

Stefano Miraglia (b. 1988 in Málaga) is an Italian-Spanish visual artist based in France. Merging digital video, analogue photographs, archival documents and autobiographical elements, his moving image work stands at the intersection between abstract art, experimental animation and diaristic cinema.

His works have been screened at numerous international film festivals, including Transient Visions, Pesaro Film Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Syros International Film Festival and Fracto.

Since 2011 he has been collaborating with Argentinian artist Leandro Varela. Stefano Miraglia is the founder and main curator of The Moving Image Catalogue.
http://stefanomiraglia.eu/

Strange Umbrellas is coming back for its 20th event!! What a run. This event will feature be on Sunday 27th of May at IKLECTIK, Waterloo, London 

Performances:

Strange Umbrellas is coming back for its 20th event!! What a run. This event will feature: Performances:  

Alessandro Vangi

(audiovisual) with sound by

Pier Alfeo

Cleaver Boi

(electronics) +

Michael Zbyszyński

(saxophone, electronics )

Joe Namy

(Talk, darbuka, drum)

Orphy Robinson

(melodica, saxophone) +

Steve Beresford

(piano, electronics)  

Ivonne Kennedy

+ Julio García +

Blanca Regina

(live painting, music) Visuals in some sets by

Pierre Bouvier Patron

……………………………………………………. Films by:  

Noriko Okaku

 Marumorada

D-Fuse

and

Swayzak

Strange Umbrellas are unique events of experimental music, free improvisation, film and art in London and elsewhere. Full info and tickets 

The line-up for this unique event is as follow:

BLANCA REGINA & XNAME

This will be the first time xname and Blanca Regina will have performed together. The artists will play spontaneously, responding to each other and creating a unique atmosphere with lights, images and sounds from disparate sources. The space will be transformed and the audience transported by this ritual of sound and light.

Xname is a solo project by Eleonora Oreggia, a London based conceptual electronic artist from Milan. She makes performances and interactive installations. Her live compositions transform light and other electromagnetic frequencies in sound waves through self-built synthesizers and complex, semi-chaotic machines. She is also the founder of Nebularosa, a record label promoting music that challenges the established modes of music production.

Blanca Regina is an artist, teacher and curator based in London. Her research and practice is heterogeneous and encompasses expanded cinema, free improvisation, graphic and moving image, photography and performance art. She has performed with various artists, including Terry Day, Leafcutter John, Steve Beresford and Matthias Kispert, and has curated a number of events and installations in London and internationally. Her last exhibition: ‘Expanded and Ephemera Audiovisual’ was presented at MUPO, Oaxaca, México in November 2015.

whiteemotion.com | http://xname.cc

EMMAALOUISE SMITH

Emmaalouise is a filmmaker and photographer living in Norwich. She has a background of working in a range of visual areas of the industry, lived in London for a number of years before moving to Norfolk. Previous work includes short films, music videos, portraiture, animation, curation and live projections.

“And yet, they still look to the sky…” is a short experimental film by British film-maker Emmaalouise Smith. Delving into the philosophy of personal memory and reminiscence, Emmaalouise projects her narrative through a mixed medium landscape made up from 16mm handmade animation and Super 8. The audio and visual projections collide, focussing on the leading lady (‘Princess Julia’, a renound London DJ and Fashion blogger) leaving a raw and otherworldy atmosphere reflecting the baron celluloid on-screen. Like looking into a long, lost photograph album, “And yet,” aims to explore the meaning of lonliness and personal belonging in society.

Shot on Super 8mm and 16mm Film. Starring Princess Julia, and shot with an all-female cast and crew Featuring an analogue soundtrack and hand-made animation sequences

Emmaalouise.wordpress.com

ANLA COURTIS / ADAM BOHMAN

Anla (or Alan) Courtis is a Buenos Aires-born experimental composer, musician and founder member of cult Argentinian group, Reynols. He has several hundred releases to his name as well as a dizzying array of collaborations with the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O’Rourke, Merzbow, and Otomo Yoshihide.

His music always has strong experimental sense and is usually based on high-skilled techniques of prepared sound, tape manipulations, processing of field recordings, live electronics, objects, cymbals, synthesizers, and computer tools.He plays traditional instruments as well as self-built, strange and unusual instruments, like the unstringed guitar.

Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades, working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings, found texts and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam’s music is unique and experimental, incorporating Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.

BEA HAUT

Bea Haut is an artist who works primarily with 16mm film in an expanded form. This manifests and behaves as sculpture, installations, projections and photography. Multi-dimensional in media as well as often being site responsive, these works allude to perceptions of inter-related moments, spaces, and actions in between. Regarding the mutating dialogue between the self and her surroundings, the artist also uses the stuff of the everyday as material and subject of these works.

‘Drag’ 2017- 16mm, B&W, Optical Sound, 5 mins - Poetic Theater of the Overlooked. Inspired by a dejected sofa left in the street, ‘Drag’ became a comic interruption of the rule of the road. A road test of materials, bylaws and nerve.

Beahaut.com

KAREL DOING / PIERRE BOUVIER PATRON / JACK GOLDSTEIN

The trio will perform for the first time together. They will involve 16mm projection, slide photography, sound and music.

Karel Doing has been working independently, creating experimental films, documentaries and performative pieces focusing on sensorial, semiotic, post-colonial and environmental topics. Doing’s work has been shown worldwide in cinemas, on festivals, in galleries, museums and on stage. He continues to make and show new work in a variety of contexts and has given workshops and lectures internationally at Willem de Kooning Academy, Piet Zwart Institute, KABK, Nordland Kunst og Filmfagskole, FAMU, University of East London, Ravensbourne College. Pierre Bouvier Patron is a visual artist based in London. He is currently working with different media such as digital video and film, exploring the boundaries between them and creating moving image works, performances and installations. He has developed skills in various areas such as experimental film, documentary films and music videos. Pierre has been involved in video screenings and video performances, in solo and in collaboration with musicians such as Syd Kemp, Neil’s Children and artist Blanca Regina. His work has been shown in France, Spain, the UK and Germany. Jack Goldstein makes Experimental Lo-fi Power Pop/Emo. His latest record, entitled 'Sandwiches’,is a Brian Wilson-esque song-cycle set in an imagined interzone near the Oxford that Goldstein grew up in. His previous record, 'Tonic Of Wilderness’, was described as “a quiet triumph; a….collage of sound taking in so many moods, emotions and samples that it’s hard to keep track”. He is also a musicologist and academic at Goldsmiths University and was awarded the Bob Gilmore Prize for Outstanding Work in Musicology for his dissertation on the influence of politics and brass bands. He has also written on pop, experimental and improvised music.

http://kareldoing.net
https://pierrebouvierpatron.tumblr.com
https://jackgoldstein.bandcamp.com

STEVE BERESFORD / SATOKO FUKUDA

Violinist Satoko Fukuda and piano player Steve Beresford have been playing duos for quite a while now, but usually their performances happen three or four times in a year. Despite that, they seem to have developed a way to play which 'mesmerised’ a well-known music writer.
Steve has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over forty years, working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Christian Marclay and Alterations. Among many other recordings, Steve played with Rachel Musson and drummer Mike Caratti on a recent CD called 'Hesitantly Pleasant’ and with David Toop’s group on the LP ‘Dirty Songs’. Satoko has performed worldwide as a classical violinist and also a free improviser. She’s on a beautiful CD by The Trio of Uncertainty, with Hannah Marshall and Veryan Weston, and regularly plays in another trio with Henry Lowther and John Russell. Moving fluidly beyond classical music, she is a regular guest performer at events such as the London Fashion Show, and the London Jazz Festival.

New Years new Logo! Strange Umbrellas is coming back for a 19th show on the 20th of March at Cafe Oto. Full lineup to be announced soon! Design by @jack.goldstein #cafeoto#unpredictableseries #strangeumbrellas#dada #music #film #performance#improvisation #expandedcinema #light#london #dalston #east #19

Bound by a love of strange umbrellas, we organize special evenings of improvised music, films and art.
Curated by Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina, Jack Goldstein and Pierre Bouvier Patron

Doors at 7.30 pm
Performances at 8 pm

Performances:

Mandhira de Saram/ Jack Goldstein/ Arthur Sajas/ Pierre Bouvier Patron:
Music and 16mm film

Blanca Regina, Tania Chen and Karel Doing:
Voice, piano, electronics, objects, 16mm

Steve Beresford, Clive Thomas, Tomi Osuna
Cello, piano, electronics, visuals

Elaine Mitchener
Voice

Klaus Bru,
Saxophone and electronics

Films:

Alex Reuben,
Film: Mistakes
6min, UK, 2000

Leandro Taub,
Film: ‘Universal Story of the Swimming Pool’
6min

Matthias Kispert,
Film: Dark Pool,
5min

Laureana Toledo,
Film: Mexicali Boogie Woogie, 2001
2min

Tickets ‎£7

The next Strange Umbrellas is here! Everybody keep August 19th clear for an evening of experimental and exciting music and film! More details to come - Jack, Blanca, Steve and Pierre x

STRANGE UMBRELLAS #17
IKLECTIK
SATURDAY 8th APRIL 2017
Doors: 7.30pm
Performances: 8:00pm
Tickets: £8/£6cons

Join us at the second Strange Umbrellas of 2017 in London. It is on Saturday, April 8th, at Iklectik - Old Paradise Yard, Royal Street corner, SE1 7LG. The Nearest stations are either Lambeth North or Waterloo. Our seventeenth Strange Umbrellas features:

Music:

Charlotte Keeffe & Paul Khimasia Morgan - trumpet & acoustic guitar body
(Maybe here you can join and play electronics and piano?)

John Butcher and Steve Beresford - saxophones & electronics

Ingrid Plum, Blanca Regina and Ian McGowan - voices, objects, visuals & electric guitar

A’Bear - experimental vocal poetry

Syd Kemp, Jack Goldstein & Cedric Monzali - bass guitar, piano & percussion, visuals by Pierre Bouvier Patron  


Films

Jodie Mack - Curses

Ralitsa Doncheva - Baba Dana Talks With The Wolves

Steph Horak - IFuCANTuSHOULD

Join us at the first Strange Umbrellas of 2017 in London. It is this Saturday, February 18, at Lewisham Arthouse - 140 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6PD.- The Nearest station is New Cross, 5 minute walk to the venue. This fascinating mixed media show features:

Charles Hayward & Karel Doing
Charles Hayward and Karel Doing both work at Lewisham Arthouse and will perform together: a palindromic composition of manual labour both in sight and sound.

Jack Goldstein & Mandhira de Saram
Jack Goldstein is a musicologist at Goldsmiths, a keen free-improviser and the founding member of the experimental pop quintet, Fixers. He curates a regular night of experimental music and performance, Strange Umbrellas, with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina. For this event he will play in a duo with the violinist Mandhira de Saram. This is a the first time they will play together!

Richard Sanderson (amplified melodeon)
Richard Sanderson will be improvising on a melodeon (diatonic button accordion) and effect pedals. His music plays with expectations of such a melodic instrument, mainly used in traditional folk music- forcing it to do things it was never intended to do, using sustain, wah, distortion and pitch change, whilst also respecting the tradition it, and where he comes from.

James Malone (guitar) & Steve Beresford (electronics and objects)
Longtime free improviser on objects and electronics Beresford meets relative newcomer Malone, playing acoustic guitar beautifully.

COMEDY
‘Bürger from the Hell’ by Norbert Bürger
Who is Bürger from the hell?
Bürger from the hell lives in a flat in the Lerchenfeld part of Freising, a small town close to Munich. He has inherited this flat from his grandmother, and considers himself the toughest rock guitarist of his generation. After his studies in classical zither at the Richard Strauss Conservatory, he switched to rock guitar in order to meet more girls. With the help of YouTube, he has carefully collected all sorts of tricks, attitudes and poses from the great rock legends.
Bürger from the hell can completely concentrate on the development of his career as a rockstar, thanks to an unusual coincidence: the rocker from the ‘burbs is (thanks to an administrative error) sponsored by mistake by a foundation for hygiene products. Alongside building model aeroplanes and looking after his allotment, he therefore has plenty of time to prepare his big step into the limelight…
And now, the moment has arrived. Bürger from the hell is ready to present his public with a grand rock show, that will exercise your ears and your sides, from laughing so hard! Accompany the bourgeois devil on his way to the pinnacle of rock, and experience live how Bürger from the hell turns the stage into a whirling cauldron, with the help of a guitar, a loop machine and his beatbox. Wordplay and razor-sharp banter will also lead you alone the previously undiscovered path between cabaret and rock concert.

FILMS
‘Sleepers‘ by Adam Chodzko (2016)
’ Seeing someone sleep always provokes a level of uncertainty; perhaps this is more than sleep? Are they dead?
Seeing a still image always provokes a level of uncertainty; ('Perhaps, I see movement?’)
The sleepers’ ‘withdrawal’ into another world, of dreams, also activates and destabilises our ability to empathise, despite our attempts to observe their slumbering state.
The stillness and silence of a sleeping person, and a still photograph, creates a vacuum for the viewer, provoking a consciousness of sound. Sound here fragments outwards from the image and is drawn towards it, trying to connect with it, to “bring it to life” but never fully adhering to the image.
Holes pierce the thin flat membrane of 35mm film, pouring in light ( -’ time to wake up’? - ) allowing a journey through one image and into another.
Equally, as digital imagery is increasingly in motion our expectation from our screens is of activity and not stillness, as restless as we are’

'Citizen of despair’ by Blanca Regina (2017) video-performance

’ We enter the creation and the performance from listening and dialogue. Blurring, erasing any border.
In the suitcase the skein of crossed threads of the disciplines are what we work with. Where there are borders, the physical, real and virtual themselves blur and spread. The artist without limits, the sound, the light, the senses, the full and empty glass. From this multidimensionality, we approach the search for expression in several languages. The exchanges are infinite. Knowledge has no limits, it is infinite …. The limits are transferred to the stage space, where the fourth wall is broken and proscenium arch disappears; where the artist is both technical and performer. Duality, disappearance, mask, projection. We unfold in space, sounds, images, data. Contemporary issues infect and contain us. The borders have to disappear, they do not make sense, they only make us limit ourselves in categories, labels, formats that do not define us and that separate us from the whole…’

'W.I.P.‘( 16mm film ) by Pierre Bouvier Patron (2017)
W.I.P (2017) is a visual experimentation on 16mm film. Hand painted, the film explores shapes, colours and the possibilities of perception. Strange Umbrellas #16 will give this film, still a work in progress, its first screening.

Doors 7.30 pm
Performances start at 8.30 pm
Entry 6/4 pounds concessions

First Strange Umbrellas of 2017. Whoop x

Excited to annouce the final line-up for Strange Umbrellas #15 at Rays Jazz @ Foyles!

FILM

Karen Yasinsky - Audition

Thosten Fleisch - Energie!

Karel Doing - A/V Improvisation

Pierre Bouvier Patron - Untitled

MUSIC

Mandhira De Saram, Steve Beresford & Blanca Regina - Violin, Piano and Visuals

Blanca Regina & Tania Chen - Voice, Electronics and Piano

Jack Goldstein - Piano, Toys

MORE INFORMATION

SHORT FILMS 

- Karen Yasinsky,  Audition, Color and Black and White, 4 minutes. Bio: Karen Yasinsky is an artist working primarily with animation and drawing. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum, L.A. and Kunst Werke, Berlin. Her animations have been screened worldwide at various venues and film festivals including Museum of Modern Art, NY Film Festival’s Views from the Avant Garde and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Film and Media Studies. She is a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the American Academy in Rome.
Website: http://karenyasinsky.tumblr.com/index

- Thorsten Fleisch,  Energie! Black and White, 5 minutes.Bio: Born in Koblenz, Germany in 1972 he began experimenting with super 8 film while still at highschool where he also exhibited his first film, a super 8 loop. Shortly after his studies at the Städelschule he made ‘Blutrausch / Bloodlust’ which not only got him a lot of attention but also the Ann Arbor Filmcoop Award.His film ‘Energie!’ was screened at more than 150 festivals and received numerous awards.  His films have been screened at film festivals worldwide including New York Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Milano Film Festival, Int. Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Melbourne Int. Film Festival and many more.  He worked for Gaspar Noé’s film ‘Enter The Void‘ and made visuals for Basement Jaxx‘s live tour in 2009. He has also worked for the TV series ‘Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman‘ on the Science Channel in 2011. For the Samsung Smartfilm Award in 2014 he was the mentor for the experimental film category.  Recently he released his first video game ‘Teslapunk’ for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The game is due to come out for the Nintendo Wii-U in spring/summer 2014.  He lives and works in Berlin.
Website: http://fleischfilm.com/

- Karel Doing: Audiovisual Improvisation with ensemble ( Douglas Benford, Steve Beresford, Jack Goldstein et all)Bio: Karel Doing is an artist and filmmaker who is working across analogue and digital formats, inquiring the medium and its perception. His work includes experimental films, expanded cinema, installations and documentaries. He has screened widely in a variety of venues ranging from established institutions like Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and Cinémathèque Française (Paris) to numerous DIY artist run spaces in Europe, Asia and America. After being based in Arnhem and Rotterdam (the Netherlands) he is currently living and working in London (UK), finalizing his practiced based research project and thesis ‘Ambient Poetics and Critical Posthumanism in Expanded Cinema’ at the London College of Communication.
Website: http://www.doingfilm.nl/

- Pierre Bouvier Patron: A digitised painted super8 film. Untiled 2minutes30, Color. Bio: Born in Lyon, France, Pierre Bouvier Patron is a visual artist based in London. He is currently working in different media such as digital video and film, exploring the boundaries between them and creating moving image works, performances and installations. He has developed many practices and skills are wide in the arena of experimental film, documentary films, music videos. He studied cinema at the Université Lyon II Lumiere of Lyon. He is currently involved with No.W.Here, a film laboratory based in London, . He has been involved in video screenings and video performances internationally, solo or in collaboration with musicians such as Syd Kemp or the artist Blanca Regina. His work has been shown in Lyon, Kike Keller, Madrid (Spain), at Strange Umbrellas and The Yard (London).
Website: http://pierrebouvierpatron.tumblr.com/about

MUSIC

Mandhira de Saram (violin) & Steve Beresford (piano and electronics) - Live visuals by whiteemotion

https://mandhiradesaram.com
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/steve-beresford/
http://whiteemotion.com

Tania Chen (piano and voice) & Blanca Regina ( electronics, voice and visuals)
http://taniachen.com
http://www.whiteemotion.com

Jack Goldstein - (piano)
http://jackgoldstein.bandcamp.com/

Curated by Unpredictable Series http://unpredictable.info

We are coming back from an amazing time in Berlin, for Strange Umbrellas #14, to host the fifteenth Strange Umbrellas at Rays Jazz @ Foyles Bookshop in London on November 4th 2016. Save the date, line-up to be announce soon!