View the classics of 80’s and 90’s Scratch video paired with Mashup videos made after the arrival of Youtube in 2005. Vote on which is the most subversive, the funniest or the most entertaining. It’s up to you.

In the 1980’s in the UK several artists and groups of video makers started using appropriated footage to make political, aesthetic or comedic statements. This art movement, which coincided with the arrival of VHS video and DJ culture, was dubbed Scratch Video. The launch of YouTube in 2005 along with the wide availability of editing software created another wave of videos, dubbed Mashups, made using existing footage.

The motives behind the creation of all these works were variously aesthetic experimentation, parody, deconstruction of power structures, exposing propaganda and often just for laughs. The night promises to be packed with witty, challenging and subversive short videos. It is hosted by maker of interactive narratives, Rik Lander, who was a member of the Scratch duo the Duvet Brother in the 1980’s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_video

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A short example of a scratch made in 1986 by the Rik Lander of the Duvet Brothers:

A nice inventive example of Mashup:

http://thru-you.com/#/videos/1/

Online tickets are available to purchase until 4 hours before the start of the film. There will always be an allocation of tickets to be sold from the box office when the doors open 30 mins before the film starts.