Edge of Frame: Signal to Noise

A selection of extraordinary experiments exploring sound and music in various interesting ways.

Edge of Frame started life as a blog on experimental animation written by artist and curator Edwin Rostron, and last year grew into a boundary-hopping weekender at the Whitechapel Gallery and Close-Up Cinema. We asked Rostron to put together a special Optical Sound-inspired programme of shorts, and he’s delivered the goods with a selection of extraordinary experiments exploring sound and music in various interesting ways. Includes animators making music, abstraction and noise, songs sung badly and beautifully, and a rare 16mm screening of Barry Spinello’s 1969 Soundtrack made with hand-painted image and hand-painted sound.

Afterimage Selves

Dir: Sabrina Ratté, Canada 2014, 4 mins

Nightclub

Dir: Jonathan Hodgson, UK 1982, 6 mins

Ode to Lumpy

Dir: Lilli Carré, US 2014, 4 mins

Siniestro del Jefe

Dir: Anibal Bley, Chile 2015, 5 mins

Jessica

Dir: Amy Lockhart, US 2014 5 mins

Information Suite

Dir: Jonathan Gillie, UK 2017, 3 mins

Jukebox

Dir: Run Wrake, UK 1994, 5 mins

Soundtrack (16mm)

Dir: Barry Spinello, US 1969, 10 mins

Enough

Dir: Emily Hubley, US 1993, 5 mins

Noisy Licking, Dribbling and Spitting (16mm)

Dir: Vicky Smith, UK 2014, 3 mins

GREEN | RED

Dir: Peter Burr, US 2014, 10 mins

Let Your Light Shine

Dir: Jodie Mack, US 2013, 3 mins

Please note this event contains flashing imagery.