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ESTRELLA SONORA – TOM SKIPP – FILM WORKS
LATEST NEWS:Spring / Summer 2013
• "Stormwater" installation is shown at La Casa Tomada, San Salvador, El Salvador.
• Screening of "Stormwater" installation at L'École Supérieure d'Art et Design, Grenoble on May 24th.
• Special screening of films by Tom Skipp at the Cinémathèque of Grenoble on May 24th.
• Editing on "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" is nearly finished.
• Filming "Kosher", a fashion film for Antonio Posadas new collection.
• Filming a trumpet spot with trumpet player Vicente Gasca.Autumn / Winter 2012
• Special projection of Stormwater installation with an introduction by architect Fernando Porras and a talk by the director at La Sede COAM, Calle Hortaleza, 63, on Wed 31st October at 19.30. Entrance free. The show has been reviewed by Salon Kritic. See review here, in Spanish.
• Tom Skipp has recorded a radio show about "Tears" for El Estado Mental. More news about this project soon.
• Tom Skipp will give a talk to Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble Magasin. See more here: amisdumagasin.org
• Filming the performance Barroco Sarao at the Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid. October 14th.
• Tom Skipp will screen a selection of his Caravan films at Función Lenguaje on 30th November.Winter / Spring 2012
• Filming at Valencia Fashion Week ("Campo Santo" Collection) on 12th February
• Tom Skipp will participate and talk about his film Stormwater at the symposium 'Water Issues Relating to Environmental Landscape Sustainability’ on 22/23 March 2012. Artists, scientists and professionals from 5 continents will share their work 'live' on Waterwheel. Part of the programme will be projected at the Torun Museum of Contemporary Arts in Poland as part of the '4th State of Water' exhibition, and the session just before WaterCheers will be in conjunction with a symposium organised by UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
• Tom Skipp will screen a selection of his films and talk about his work at the Ateneo de Bidasoa in San Sebastián on 11th May.Spring / Summer 2011
• Screening of a selection of his Caravan films at "INTERCONEXIONES CONTEMPORÁNEAS: encuentros de video-danza / charlas - debates - proyecciones" on Friday 1st of July (20.00) at Espacio Menosuno.
• "Something Old" will be shown in the Proyector 2011. 4º Festival Internacional de Videoarte on Friday 15th of July.
• Spanish newspaper El País has recommended "Estanques Interiores", Tom Skipp's solo exhibition in Espacio Menosuno.
• Special projection of Stormwater installation will be shown to inaugurate Bonaparte's Tunnel. This space forms part of the 7 kilometre Río Madrid project and will be presented by the architects Fernando Porras and Pedro Iglesias.
• Upcoming solo exhibition in Madrid at Espacio Menosuno - April 28th - May 6th.
• One of Tom Skipp's Caravan films is shown in Urban Research 2011, Berlin. The show was curated by Klaus Eisenlohr.
• Tom Skipp's film "Stormwater" to be shown in May in Cannes at the Art Vidéo International Film Festival 2011, curated by Camilo Racana. Link
• Tom Skipp will direct Spanish theatre company Caín Teatro in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" - April 26th - May 1st.
• Curated a video show "A solas - Women Alone" for Director's Lounge, Berlin.Winter/Spring 2011
• Tom Skipp will direct Spanish theatre company Caín Teatro in Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
• Added a vimeo page http://www.vimeo.com/tomskippAutumn/Winter 2010/2011
• Added a page about curatorial work for the Tadeusz Kantor exhibition.
• The Escuela de Letras in Madrid will screen some films by Tom Skipp in January.
• Tom Skipp will give 2 theatre workshops in November at the Faculty of Architecture in Madrid.
• The 3-screen installation"Stormwater" is to be exhibited in the catacombs of Mannheim Castle on 12 November.
• Films from Tom Skipp's new "Caravan Project" will be screened at the opening of the French Institute's new building in Ankara, TurkeySummer 2010
• Tom Skipp will film a new project "Caravan" in Turkey and Syria.
• "Stormwater" is to be screened at PAM Festival, Italy, 2010.
• "Something Old" will be screened at Optica Festival.Spring 2010
• Tom Skipp will show some of his works at:
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, March 2010.
ESCA Galerie, Nîmes, April 2010.
OFF LOOP, Club Maumau, Barcelona, May 2010.Winter 2009/2010
"Stormwater" is to be screened at the Director's Lounge Urban Research Festival 2010 in Berlin. Friday, 19th of February at 18.00. Link: http://berlinlounge.tumblr.com/tagged/19th%20Feb%202010
• "Something Old" was screened and awarded a "palmares" in Catania, Italy at the Festival d'Images Artistiques Vidéo, 2009. Link: http://www.galerie-esca.com/video_fiav09.html
Autumn/fall 2009
• Tom Skipp will show some of his video works in a solo exhibition called "Emergent Occasions" at Demolden Video Project, Calle Sol, 12, Santander (Until 10th December).June 2009
Shooting with singers has just wrapped at the underground Stormwater Deposit at Arroyofresno in Madrid. Now begins the job of editing and postproduction: StormwaterMay 2009
New page for "Krapp's Last Tape" on IMDB. link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424354/maindetails
February-June 2009
Tom Skipp will present some of his recent filmworks in the group exhibition "SIXTEEN", curated by Berta Jayo. The touring exhibition will be on at Edge Zones (Miami) and the City Arts Centre in Salamanca City (Mexico), other venues to be announced.
STORMWATER, Filmed inside the biggest underground storm water deposit in Europe. Awarded a prize by Matadero Madrid Art Centre. The film features 3 singers and La Trova Choir.
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, New screen version of 'Krapp's Last Tape' approved by the Samuel Beckett Estate. 'The actor is perfect' according to Beckett's Literary executor. This film was selected to be shown at the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, in the Beckett exhibition (2007).
DOGS, Filmed inside the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
TOM SKIPP, British videoartist lives in Madrid, Spain. Began working as a theatre actor and director before switching to film in 2000. He has also organized a number of art exhibitions including "The Theatre of Memory" at Telefonica. His work has been shown at film festivals and art institutions around the world.
DOWNLOADING, A detective investigates the disappearance of a twelve year-old boy. Following traces left on the boy's computer, he embarks upon an unexpected journey to the places of the mind.
SOMETHING OLD, A mysterious woman sits waiting. Machinery grinds into movement. She performs a kind of trick... her long hair seems to have a life of its own. The action moves inexorably forward to the strange rhythm of an accordion playing a slow tango..
DEVOTIONS, "Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man! this minute I was well, and am ill, this minute. I am surprised with a sudden change, and alteration to worse, and can impute it to no cause, nor call it by any name".
John Donne "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions".
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