Category: Past Events

Dialogues by Sopie Standford (UK) is one of the three sets of work that are selected from DIVFUSE Film Archive Open Call No.1 with a theme on domesticity.

Film Screenings:

Session One 6 June 2025 Friday 7pm
Session Two 7 June Saturday 3pm
Session Three 7 June Saturday 4:30pm
Session Four 7 June Saturday 6pm
Session Five 8 June Sunday 3pm
Session Six 8 June Sunday 4:30pm

£5 | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

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Running time: 32 minutes. The screenings will be presenting a collection of eight short moving image videos made by Sophie Standford, including:

Dialogue with my Father (2022-2025)
Duration: 7’20” Location: Suffolk

What if you can’t allow yourself to let go of something because it reminds you so profoundly of the person who has gone? What if this holding on to the past has become self destructive, to the point where objects are taking over?

Dialogue with my Father explores the inter-generational relationship between father and daughter; grief and loss; the piano that belonged to my father, on which he used to compose. I push the heavy bulk of this domestic, upright instrument around on the concrete floor trying and failing to find it space in the room. Frustration strips the piano of its dignity, tortured and destroyed. Braced, it fights back stoically, belligerent, vibrating a dance to its raucous rumbling, as its dainty wheels twist in agony under its defiant weight. In contrast, the video takes you on a mesmerising journey inside the piano accompanied by a composition that gives voice to its involuntary creeks and resonances.

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Home (2011)
Duration: 2’42” Location: London

Home is a performance to camera. It is transparent in its construction: born out of frustration; of playing the role of mother; of confined living space; trapped by domesticity, responsibility and a sense of duty.

***Thank you to everyone who made a submission to this Open Call. Selected work and dates of exhibitions are now up on this website***

With the success of DIVFUSE Sound Archive calling for sound-based work with field recordings elements, we are excited to be launching a new Open Call on short films.

Theme for this first edition : Domesticity

Deadline for submissions : 31 March 2025 [Extended]

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN THE SUBMISSION:

1) Text on the each piece/series (300 words maximum). This shall include the name, year and duration of the work.

2) Artists’ bio (200 words maximum)

3) A link to the work. It could be a link to Vimeo for example but please do not send us the file to download.

4) Send the submission through by email to divfuse@gmail.com on or before 31 March 2025.

OTHER CONDITIONS:

1) Only digital versions are acceptable. Work can be fully digital or video finished Standard 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm films.

2) Only one submission can be made by each artist (or group of artists who work together).

3) The work or series of work shall be between 30 and 45 minutes long and can be made up of different pieces/parts.

4) Selected work will EACH be shown in multiple screening sessions for a weekend (Friday to Sunday) for free between April and June 2025 at Project DIVFUSE micro digital and multi-media art gallery, London. There is no payment to the artists but we will offer the following:

* micro gallery space (4m x 2.8m) for screenings.

* basic equipments for use for the screenings inside the gallery, including 2 x small Genelec speakers on stands, a Genelec subwoofer, a projector and a laptop to play the file(s) from.

* management of the exhibition including invigilating the space and promotion on social media.

5) Artists whose work is selected will have to make sure that the files reach the gallery at least a week before the exhibition.  Additional information such as images from the work will also be required for social media posting.

6) If selected, digital files could be transferred over to Project DIVFUSE for use for the screening sessions for this Open Call only.

7) Artists who are based in London will be invited to do two or three sessions of artists talks. Both the screenings and the talk will be ticketed. ALL income from the screenings will go to the space to support the running of the project. Income from the artist’s talk will be split 60/40 between Project DIVFUSE and the artist. Again, this will help to cover some of the overhead costs for running and managing the events.