Artists

Artists

Artists

The musicians who score this year’s films live, and the artists, restorers and curators behind the festival.

Ivory and ebony keys of an antique pump organ

Voice and harmonium trio

Hollow Choir

A trio who sing in close harmony over a pump harmonium and field recordings of the sea. Their score for The Salt Harvest was written on the island where the film was shot.

A cello photographed against a plain background

Tape loops and cello duo

Kite Archive

Kite Archive build slow pieces from cut tape loops and bowed cello. Their new score for Seven Studies of a River gives each movement its own loop.

Close-up of piano keys

Piano and electronics

Ama Owusu

Composer and pianist working between prepared piano and modular synthesis. She scores the closing film, The Projectionist Sleeps.

Radio towers with dish antennas lit red under a starry sky

DJ

Static Rose

Selector of film scores, library music and lost tape experiments. Hosts Sound Night in The Upper Room.

Morning light through sheer curtains

Photographer

Lene Fjell

Photographer working with coastlines and empty interiors. Her images are the starting point for the Second Colour exhibition.

Light and reflections on rippling water

Riso printer

Juno Arai

Runs a small riso studio and reprints photographs in two inks. Printed every work in Second Colour.

A strip of black film leader with a handwritten label

Film restorer

Marta Kowal

Restorer at Northlight Film Archive. Led four of this year’s restorations.

Two empty tape reels, one green and one clear

Festival curator

Theo Brandt

Programmes Misregister and chairs the restoration talk.

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