Sublime
Sublime is a series of events and commissions for Inverness' Old Town Rose Street car park funded by Creative Scotland. The first installment took place on 22nd - 24th September 2011 when the multi-storey was transformed into a cinema with a difference by bringing a whole range of moving image works to the building from contemporary artist films, classic cinema, new documentaries, shorts along with live music. On each of the three evenings there was open air screenings of artists’ films on the car park’s roof top.
The programme profiled artists from the Highlands who have forged successful careers alongside high quality international artists like Francis Alÿs and Nicolas Provost.
Films from artists with Highland connections included: Trail of Tears - a world premiere of Roger & Reid's new work, filmed in and around the Highlands; October by Katy Dove, originally from the Black Isle she has just completed a prestigious six month Creative Scotland artist residency in New York; There is a Place by Highland based Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson won the Jury Prize Best Short at the 2011 San Francisco Dance Film Festival; Single Track Road - a car journey in the dark landscape of the Highlands, by Lisa O’ Brien; and Balnakiel by Shona Illingworth, working all over the world, but brought up near Durness, whose film was produced by Film and Video Umbrella, London.
Works by international artists included: When Faith Moves Mountains by Mexico based globally acclaimed Francis Alÿs; Plot Point by Dutch filmmaker Nicolas Provost; Low Growl by Icelandic artist Baldvin Ringsted; and Smuggling Lemons by Palestinian artist Jumana Emil Abboud.
Other highlights included: Life in a Day - the new film from director Kevin MacDonald, who in collaboration with producer Ridley Scott edited over 80,000 hours of footage people from all over the world sent in taken by them on one day last year, July 24th 2010, including Inverness; and a unique screening of The Philadelphia Story – the classic wedding comedy featuring James Stewart, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, screened in a ground floor room of the car park which used to be a Registry Office!
There was also live musical performances from two of the best Gaelic singers working today, Inverness based Brian O’ hEadhra and Fiona McKenzie, tying in with a screening of Eadar Chluich/ Interludes - a series of short wordless films from some of Scotland’s best emerging directors, each inspired by a Gaelic song; and local rock musician Toby Michaels after a screening of artist Baldvin Ringsted’s discussion with Sublime's guest curator Lorraine Wilson.
(photo: John Paul)
