For this screening event, organised by Cinenova at LUX Artists Moving Image London, the artists Kimberley O'Neill, Cara Tolmie & France-lise McGurn screened their collaboratively made video 'Nos Algaes' (2015), alongside contextual works by Ruth Novaczek (1996) and Judith Barry (1982), selected by Tolmie, McGurn & O’Neill.
Cinenova is a non-profit organisation dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women, their archive resides in the Showroom gallery, London. 'Cinenova: Now Showing' is a monthly screening programme where the organisation invite an artist or collective to screen their work alongside works from the Cinenova archive. The screening series intends to materialise relationships between contemporary artist moving image practice and the feminist and organising legacies present in the Cinenova collection.
'Nos Algaes’, 2015, is a collaborative video merging documentation of a live performance (of the same name which took place at Tramway, Glasgow 2014) with fictional scenes and pre-recoded material (soundtrack and video). ‘Nos Algaes’ takes place in an invented space; the artists’ own private club-come-bedroom-stage. The content is derived from the three friends’ correspondence, where personal reflections on performance, feminism and music are exchanged alongside fictional scripts. This depiction of intimacy is complicated by the fragmentary structure of the video and its disjunctive soundtrack, as personal reflections collide with fictional scenes that juxtapose 'acted' and 'naturalistic' modes of performance.