“Waiting…"

On ThursdayFebruary 17^th the Lighthouse Cinema Wolverhampton is the venue for“Waiting” a screening of films produced by Graphic Communication students inresponse to the question “whatis waiting?”. The English Oxford Dictionary’s generic definition; “the delay in a mealwhile we await the arrival of someone" is an example we probably allrecognise and yet there are many others more mundane, more dramatic. The actof waiting can bring with it an auto-response vocabulary of words and gestureswe use to deal with routine delays, or it can initiate the unexpected bysuddenly relocating us to a unique moment in time with its own personal andintense narrative.

Approachesand ideas draw on occurrences of waiting in everyday life, popular culture andfilm, and were supported by visits to Birmingham’s Eastside District and theLiverpool Biennale; whilst the filmmaking process fully engaged many studentsfor the first time with the skills of writing, direction and editing.

The screeningschedule comprises fifty eight films, each approximately a minute in durationand initiated through individual interpretations of the theme. Sequences areinformed by diverse influences including amongst them; re presentations ofpersonal narratives, time motion audits of daily routines, deconstructions ofgame show fragments, references to contemporary art practice, the semiotics ofmedical drama, the intertextual language of film, the syntax of call queuingsystems, and manipulated rituals of celebration and performance.

The waitingscreening starts at 12.15 pm on Thursday February 17th