The Void in All-New Audio Extravaganza

The Void is getting a brand new soundtrack, to be performed in situ by the acclaimed combo Cabinet of Living Cinema. This juxtaposition of on-the-spot sounds and bygone imagery will take place at Making Tracks on Wednesday the 30th of May 2012 at Rich Mix in London's Shoreditch.

Film Fest guru Philip Ilson has this to say on the matter:

"Making Tracks is one of London’s most original and groundbreaking short film nights, as they bring together a love of short film and a strong musical element, as the excellent Cabinet of Living Cinema house-band re-interpret the films on show with new musical scores. It gives audiences a chance to see new work given an even newer slant with the live music element."

For more information please visit:

Making Tracks website: http://whirlygigcinema.com/makingtracks/

Cabinet of Living Cinema website: http://www.thecabinetoflivingcinema.org.uk/

The Void Revisited

Toby Tatum's 2003 film The Void is to be dusted off for a one-off screening at Close-Up Vallarta, Festival Internacional de Video Creación.

The festival takes place in Mexico between the 1st and the 5th of May 2012.

More details can be found here: http://www.closeupvallarta.com/

To mark the occasion Toby Tatum has recorded an all-new audio commentary for the film.

Arrow in the Eye

Toby Tatum's work is to be included in Arrow in the Eye, a survey of films made by film-makers with a Hastings connection. The show, curated by Mark French, will take place at the wonderful Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings on the 13th of May 2012.

The programme includes work by: Mark French, Nicola Bruce, Andrew Kotting, Nick Snelling, Kate Adams, Richard Heslop, Catherine Leathers, Maika Crampton, Toby Tatum, Katrin Magrowitz, Rebecca Marshall and Nicholas Pilton.

For more information about the Electric Palace Cinema visit: http://www.electricpalacecinema.com/

The Golden Age on DVblog

The film was posted by the artist, composer and writer Michael Szpakowski, who considers The Golden Age in relation to Toby Tatum's previous work and makes some interesting comparisons to works by other artists.

A short video of Toby Tatum talking about The Golden Age has also been featured on the site: http://dvblog.org/?p=9247

The Golden Age screens at the Alternative Film/Video Festival 2011

The festival takes place from the 7th to the 11th of December in Belgrade, Serbia.

For more information visit the festival website: http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/

The Golden Age screens at Cine-City, the Brighton Film Festival, in November 2011

The Golden Age has been selected to screen as part of a programme of experimental works at the 2011 Cine-City festival. Cine-City is the annual Brighton Film Festival, the South Coast's major celebration of cinema.

The screening will take place at 4.30pm on the 26th of November at the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton.

For more information visit:

Cine-City website: http://www.cine-city.co.uk/

Nightingale Theatre website: http://www.nightingaletheatre.co.uk/

The Golden Age screens at Vertical Cinema on the 26th of September 2011.

Vertical Cinema is a monthly evening devoted to the screening of artists' film and video, providing makers and lovers of the moving image with the opportunity to show and discuss work in an informal and intimate setting.

The screening takes place at Gwdihw Cafe Bar in Cardiff.

For more information visit: http://verticalcinema.wordpress.com/screenings/9-2/

Toby Tatum is very pleased to announce that The Golden Age has been selected for the Berwick Upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival 2011.

The film will be installed in a former prison cell in Berwick Upon Tweed's Town Hall, featuring as part of the Once Upon a Time programme.

The festival runs from the 23rd until the 25th of September 2011. The screenings will take place between 12pm and 5.30pm each day.

Toby Tatum will also participate in a brief artists' talk at 1.30pm on Sunday the 25th of September.

For more information about the Berwick Upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival 2011 please visit:

Festival Website: http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/

Festival Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105732004085&v=wall&ref=ts

Festival Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/berwickfilmfest

Underground Worlds

Toby Tatum presents an evening of short films at the Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings' Old Town. The event takes place on the 28th of September 2011, forming part of the Coastal Currents Festival.

Hastings abounds with tunnels and caves which lie beneath the town's imposing sandstone cliffs. This subterranean network sprawls under the chip shops and souvenir stands, accessible by some residents' basements, bunkers and cellars. These tunnels point to a secret history of covert contraband and clandestine meetings, as well as to erosion's patient progress. Artist and filmmaker Toby Tatum draws inspiration from this topography, curating and contributing to this programme of short films that illuminate other secret hidden places, be they real or imaginary. The programme, which unearths the unseen and the obscure, features artists' film and video, experimental film, documentary and short fiction film.

For further information, including advance ticket booking and venue details, please visit: http://www.electricpalacecinema.com/index.php?content=book&film=496

More information about the Coastal Currents Festival can be found at: http://www.coastalcurrents.org.uk/

The Sealed World screens at Optica Bolivia 2011, Festival Internacional Audiovisual

The Sealed World features as part of the Various Artists Programme 1, screening at 7pm on the 10th of August 2011 at:

ABNB
Calle Dalence, 4
C.P. 793 - Sucre - Bolivia

www.archivoybibliotecanacionales.org.bo

The programme will screen again at 7.30pm on the 27th of September 2011 at:

KIOSKO galería
Avda. Monseñor Santistevan, 347
Santa Cruz - Bolivia

www.kioskogaleria.com

For more information about the Optica Festival please visit: www.opticafestival.com

The Golden Age has been selected for the Optica Festival 2011

The festival will take place at La Casa Encendida in Madrid between the 16th and the 18th of September 2011.

For more information about the Optica Festival visit: http://www.opticafestival.com

For more information about La Casa Encendida visit: http://www.lacasaencendida.es/

The Sealed World will be presented at the Optica International Day of Video Art

The projection will take place at Cultural Center Antiguo Instituto in Gijón Spain on the 22nd of June 2011.

The selected works are:

Felip Prunyonosa "Ex Aequo"

Toby Tatum "The Sealed World"

Samuel Domingo "Rascarse la Barriga"

Ann Steuernagel "Charades"

Igor Blanco "Cristal"

Anders Weberg "Undisclosed Beauty"

Florence Babín "URA - L"

Sönke Held "Lightning Strikes"

For more information please visit:

http://www.asturias.es/portal/site/infoAsturias/menuitem.0ed979e07f9a39f4dd55370f88414ea0/?vgnextoid=707ecb3196f90210VgnVCM100000dc14e40aRCRD

http://opticafestival.com/new.php?id=26&lang=en

The Sealed World now on DVblog

The film was posted by the artist, composer and writer Michael Szpakowski, who also makes some interesting comments on the work.

Toby Tatum is very pleased to announce the world premiere of his new film The Golden Age at the London Short Film Festival 2011.

The film screens as part of the LEFTFIELD AND LUSCIOUS programme, which focuses on innovations from an abstract viewpoint, from stunning animation to surreal and groundbreaking drama.

The screening will take place at 3.30pm on Sunday 16 January 2011.

ICA Cinema 1
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
The Mall,
London,
SW1Y 5AH

Box Office Telephone: +44 (0)20 7930 3647

Booking information can be found on the ICA website: http://www.ica.org.uk/27387/Film/New-Shorts-Leftfield-and-Luscious.html

For more information about The London Short Film Festival visit: http://www.shortfilms.org.uk/

The full programme includes:

12 SKETCHES ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF BEING STILL (Magali Charrier, 8 min)
COLLIDE-O-SCOPE (Naren Wilks, 4 min)
DUET (Ellen Pillow / Anthony Askew, 3 min)
EQUILIBRIUM (Carl Stevenson, 7 min)
GALLOP (Dominique Bongers, 3 min)
THE GOLDEN AGE (Toby Tatum, 6 min)
LITTLE DEATHS (Ruth Lingford, 11 min)
MURMURATION (Sophie Windsor Clive / Liberty Smith, 8 min)
ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM (Let Me Feel Your Finger First, 2 min)
SEA SWALLOW'D (Andrew Kotting, 18 min)
SIMPLE SIMPLE SIMPLE (Stuart Pound, 2 min)
SLICK HORSING (Kiron Hussain, 2 min)
SPIN (Max Hattler, 4 min)
THIS CHAIR IS NOT ME (Andy Taylor Smith, 10 min)
UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED (Paul Wright, 28 min)

Toby Tatum is now on Facebook and Twitter – sign up for film updates and cultural commentary:

http://twitter.com/TobyTatumFilm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toby-Tatum/165982176767236

The screenings will take place between 2pm and 10pm on the 18th of November at:

Galeria Carla Magna,
3, Rue Charlemagne,
75004,
Paris,
France.

For further information please visit:

http://www.carlamagna.fr/

http://www.opticafestival.com/index_2.htm

Toby Tatum's film The Sealed World was awarded the prize for BEST SOUND at the Swedenborg International Short Film Festival, 2010.

The award was presented by Stephen McNeilly, curator of the festival, on behalf of the jury. The festival ran from the 29th until the 30th of October 2010, with the screenings taking place within the splendid confines of the Swedenborg Society's Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, London.

The Sealed World features an original score by British Sea Power's Abi Fry. Abi Fry recorded her atmospheric score in a windswept crofter's cottage on the Isle of Skye.

Aside from her work in British Sea Power Abi Fry has collaborated with numerous international recording artists, including: Bat For Lashes, The Flowers of Hell, Euchrid Eucrow and Jacob's Stories.

Abi Fry also appears in the film, alongside co-star Jo Israel.

For more information about Abi Fry and British Sea Power please visit:

http://britishseapower.co.uk/

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

The Sealed World will be screened as part of the Swedenborg International Short Film Festival, 2010.

The festival takes place at the Swedenborg Society's grade 2 listed building in Bloomsbury, London. The theme of the festival is Heaven and/or Hell.

The programme featuring The Sealed World will take place on:

Saturday the 30th of October 2010, 12.00pm - 4.00pm.

Swedenborg Hall,
The Swedenborg Society,
20 Bloomsbury Way,
London,
WC1A 2TH

For further information please visit:

http://www.swedenborg.org.uk/

http://www.swedenborg.org.uk/swedenborg-short-film-festival

The Sealed World will be presented at the Optica Festival Gijon.

The festival takes place at the Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto in Gijon, Spain. The festival runs from the 21st through to the 23rd of October 2010.

For further information visit:

http://www.opticafestival.com/index_2.htm

http://www.gijon.es/Contenido.aspx?id=1716&leng=es

The Sealed World screens at the Optica Festival in Buenos Aires.

Following the successful presentation of The Sealed World in Madrid, the Optica festival has selected the film to be screened again as part of its independent video art programme taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The festival runs from the 28th of October until the 30th, at various venues in Buenos Aires.

For further information visit:

http://opticaenbuenosaires.blogspot.com/

http://www.opticafestival.com/index_2.htm

Toby Tatum is very pleased to report that The Sealed World will be screened at the 9th Pantheon International Xperimental Film & Animation Festival.

The festival takes place in Nicosia in Cyprus during November 2010.

Full details can be found on the Pantheon website:

http://www.pantheonculture.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87:about-pantheon-xperimental&catid=36:festivals&Itemid=149

Toby Tatum is very pleased to announce that The Sealed World has been selected for the Optica Festival 2010

The festival, which takes place at several venues in Madrid, runs from the 23rd until the 26th of September 2010.

The programme featuring The Sealed World will be presented at 6pm on Saturday the 25th of September at La Casa Encendida.

La Casa Encendida,
Ronda de Valencia, 2
28012
Madrid

For full details visit the Optica website: http://www.opticafestival.com/index_2.htm

Information regarding La Casa Encendida can also be found at: http://www.lacasaencendida.es/en

Toby Tatum is very pleased to report that The Sealed World will be screened at the 7th Naoussa International Film Festival.

The festival, which takes place at Naoussa in Greece, runs from the 30th of September to the 3rd of October 2010.

Full details, including programme information, can be found on The Naoussa International Film Festival website: http://www.niff.gr/en/

The Sealed World film still, 2009

The 7th London Short Film Festival has been reviewed in the February 2010 edition of Electric Sheep magazine.

The review, which mentions Toby Tatum's film The Sealed World, focuses in particular on the Leftfield & Luscious Experimental Programme.

The review, which appears in the 37th edition, is online at: http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2010/02/01/short-cuts-7th-london-short-film-festival/

Toby Tatum is very pleased to announce the world premiere of his new film The Sealed World

The film has been selected for the 7th London Short Film Festival. The Sealed World will feature as part of the Leftfield & Luscious experimental programme, which takes place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) cinema on Sunday 10th January 2010 at 1.30pm.

ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH

Tickets can be purchased from the ICA website: http://www.ica.org.uk/
or by calling the ICA Box Office: +44 (0)20 7930 3647

For more information about the 7th London Short Film Festival please visit:

http://www.shortfilms.org.uk/

http://www.myspace.com/halloweenshortfilmfestival3