Interregnum 2021 1m 23s CG Animation
Give Them PPE 2020 1m Animation with Poster protest But Does It Spark Joy, Mama? 2018 1m 13s Stop Motion Animation
Tuprutus, 2016, 5 min 20s Digital Animation
Interregnum 2021
1 min 23 sec. Mute 3D Animation
Made for the Waiting Place a postcard show at Art Station in Saxamundham & online virtual show that starts off in a normal gallery but evolves into a crazy fantasy VR show curated by artists Ann-Marie James & Emily Godden!
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Give Them PPE 2020 1 min Digital Stop Motion Animation Made in the UK during the 1st Covid lockdown with phone pictures taken during mydaily walk. The poster image was my hand drawn mini poster living room window protest for a hero family member who I wasn’t allowed to see because of restrictions who worked minimum wage in a care home and the rest of the NHS workers and were not provided with enough PPE protection by the British government who had sold their emergency supplies in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
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But Does It Spark Joy, Mama? 2018 1 min 15s Digital Stop Motion Animation
This animation is a visual documentation of each object discarded whilst decluttering my flat using the Marie Kondo method of only keeping what you love. When selling some of the rejected items, the monotony was interrupted by a TV producer request to sell my Amstrad computer on their show. I said 'Yes' assuming nobody would watch this programme not having been told the name of the show. It includes the multitude of reactions from family, friends and acquaintances who saw my reluctant cameo role when it was screened on primetime television.
Exhibitions & Screenings of But Does It Spark Joy, Mama?
6 May 2019 5th International Motion Festival Cyprus 18–23 Jan 2019 12th Lichtspielklub Short Film Festival, British Shorts Exhibition, Sputnik Kinobar, Berlin 16, 19, 21 June 2018 Wimbledon Shots, Wimbledon School of Art
23 Apr-3 May 2018 Leeds Digital Festival, Platform Gallery & Big Screen, Millennium Square, Leeds (curated by CuratorSpace) LCN Showcase, SPACE London Oct 2017 (1st draft version)
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Tuprutus 2016
5 min 20s Digital Animation
Tuprutus means ‘drifting’ in Finnish is a digitally drawn animation made whilst in residence on a Finnish island with the voiceover of Arctic Guide Timo Halonen as its soundtrack.
Truputus has screened at:
MONO4 (Courtyard Theatre, London) 2015
MONO4.1 (Ciné 13 Théâtre, Paris) 2016
Short Circuit (Presuming Ed, Brighton, 2016
Single Channel HD Video with Sound
17m 39s
The Morrow begins as an underwater lament to settlements lost to this ocean over the past millennia. Ten thousand years ago the east coast of Britain was attached to mainland Europe. It is now the fastest eroding coastline in Europe where roads and houses regularly fall into the sea. This coastal erosion is exacerbated by more frequent and higher magnitude storms and flooding caused by human caused climate change. The Morrow, filmed in the wake of the EU referendum, becomes an attempt to make sense of a crumbling, divided and isolated nation and other political shifts around the world.
This project was crowdfunded and some of the awards were these print editions which I loved making alongside the film.
Screenings: 7th Dec 2018 Peer Session, Creekside Artists Project Space, Deptford | 17th Nov 2017 Swiss Church London | 29th Sept 2017 as part of Rising Exhibition, St John on Bethnal Green, London |
6 colour screenprint on paper
37cm x 56cm
Edition of 12
1 colour screenprint with watercolour embellishment
Unique edition of 25
Digital drawing on fine art rag paper. Available as triptycn or individually. Edition of 25+3AP
Kaamos, the sister film to Lightness is also shot in 16mm (with digital intervention). It was shot in two locations over the winter of 2014-15 in the very south and very north of Finland.
The first part was filmed whilst Goodwin was artist in residence on the 17th century fortress island of Suomenlinna near Helsinki. The second part was filmed when the artist travelled to Lapland, to dwell in darkness and experience Kaamos (the polar night), where the sun does not rise for two months. As if in respite for the lack of sun, the Aurora Borealis appeared on the first night.
The film’s narrative, spoken in Finnish, explores the impact on the artist of living with minimal daylight and the changing nature of the northern hemisphere winter, due to global warming. As a direct result of the season, Kaamos is a much more insular film than Lightness, although using similar time-lapse filming techniques and with overlapping themes. Kaamos uses a mixture of horror film references along with humour. The minimalist soundtrack was made in collaboration with Lappi sound artist Janne Simila, who accompanied Goodwin for part of the filming of Kaamos.
Kaamos was created whilst in residence at HIAP, Suomenlinna Island, Finland and was generously funded by by the Australian Council for the Arts and British Council’s International Development Fund.
A brilliant text about Kaamos & Lightness films by artist Karen David can be read here
Exhibitions & Screenings:
Solo Screening, Gallery Augusta, Soumenlinna Island. Finland (Work in progress version) - 8 Feb 2015
Harmaus | Greyness, Solo show. Temporary-Arts-Project, Southend, UK - 13 June-4 July 2015
Last Friday Shorts, Horse Hospital, London - 26 June 2015
London Short Film Festival, ICA Cinema, London, 11 January 2016,
Scandinavia: A Celebration of the Nordic Province, Willesden Green Library Gallery, London - 23 April - 31 May 2016
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick 14-17 April 2016
Film Screening, Travelling Gallery, Platform, Glasgow - 28 Nov 2016
Video Screening, Swiss Church, London - 19 Dec 2016
Filming Kaamos. There was a whole process of making sure the camera survived coming inside from the -25 degree celsius outside.
30 min, HD Video (originally shot on 16mm with some digital intervention)
Lightness is artist Katie Goodwin’s first 16mm film exploring the wonders of the night sky and the challenges of seeking such wonders in Britain due to burgeoning light pollution.
The film is inspired by an unforgettable night camping under the stars in the Australian outback a decade ago and the artist’s frustration whilst in London at looking up at the night sky and seeing orange. A little bit of magic disappears from our grey world. Lightness is a quest to relive the outback experience and find the Milky Way. Lightness was shot on location at the end of summer 2014 in Greenwich, London, home to the Royal Observatory, and in the remote village of Glenelg, Scotland, a community trying to attain Dark Skies status.
Lightness portrays the struggle between our modern urban life of safety and compartmentalisation and our inherent need to connect with nature and experience magical moments that stay with us forever. An at times philosophical and often poetic view of the world told by the Royal Observatory astronomers, Tom Kerss and Dr Marek Kukula, is interwoven with stories and footage of the Glenachulish crew operating the community owned tourist ferry which runs between Glenelg and the Isle of Skye.
The film explores themes that recur in Goodwin’s practice: nature, labour, technology and time.
As part of the Lightness project there is an online research blog which has been contributed to by myself and other artists: Alex March, Jane Harris, Karen David, Ian Maslen, Holly Stevenson & Othello De Souza Hartley. Lightness will prelude a sister film project called Kaamos made whilst on a HIAP /Australian Arts Council residency in Finland over the winter of 2014-15.
Lightness was generously funded by an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts.
A brilliant text about Kaamos & Lightness films by artist Karen David can be read here
Exhibitions & Screenings:
Solo Screening, as part of HIAP residency, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki - 5th Feb 2015
Lightness (solo screening, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, followed by a Q&A with Astronomers - 16th Feb 2015
Harmaus | Greyness, (solo show) Temporary-Arts-Project, Southend, UK - June 2015
Micro Macro, (solo show) Qube gallery, Oswestry, UK - 8th July-3rd Aug 2015
Without Shores, ASC Gallery, London Sept 2015
A-E-T-H-E-R, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin 20 Feb - 2 Apr 2016
Gödöllő film festival, Budapest 18-22 May 2016
Martha (previously called Passing By) is a 3 minute silent animation of the last and now extinct North American Passenger Pigeon, Martha, who died in Cincinatti Zoo in 1914. The work was made for the Ghost of Gone Birds exhibition and projected onto the beach South Lookout tower in the evenings in Aldeburgh, Suffolk July-August 2014. The Passenger Pigeon was once the most abundant bird in the world with an estimated population of 3 to 5 billion but due to lost habitat and over hunting was extinct by the early 20th century.
Exhibitions:
20 Oct-3 Nov 2018 The Ghost Tide, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Woolwich May 2017 Spectral Paradigms, All Saints Church, Tooting, UK (part of Wandsworth Arts Festival) 2014 Ghost of Gone Birds, South Beach Tower, Aldeburgh, Suffolk,
14 min
3D HD Video with surround sound
Small Wonders is an abstract narrative short film by moving image artist Katie Goodwin. It follows microbiologist Terence Preston’s 50 year journey into discovering how single-celled organisms move. The film provides a charming and often funny insight into this hidden amoebae world juxtaposing their alien existence to our human experience. The film uses a hypnotic 16mm film of a ground breaking experiment shot through a microscope by Preston in 1972, combined with cine footage from the family archive of late filmmaker Ivor Beddoes.
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck University, was commissioned to write a text in response to Small Wonders. It can be read here.
Surround sound design by Wayne Urquhart.
With special thanks to Terence Preston and Julia Dunn (Ivor Beddoe’s daughter), without whose generosity this film wouldn't exist.
Film Production Blog : smallwondersfilm.tumblr.com
This project has been kindly supported by a Wellcome Trust Small Arts Award.
Exhibitions & Screenings
2015 Solo Show , Bohunk Institute, Nottingham
2015 Screening, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, Finland
2015 The Brain Eaters (Duo show with Rachel Lancaster, Tyneside Cinema Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2015 London Short Film Festival, ICA, London (Nominated for Best Documentary at LSFF)
2015 Solo Show, Qube Gallery Oswestry
2014 Last Friday Shorts, Temporary Art Projects, Southend, UK
2014 Duo Show, Onca Gallery Brighton (part of Brighton Science Festival in Brighton)
2014 SE23dotmov festival, London
2013 Swedenbeorg film festival, London
2013 The Amoebae Cinema Solo Screening with C Projects, London curated by Claire Craig
2013 Solo show, ArtLacuna London
Giclee print with 3D glasses
Edition of 25
20 min
6 part HD Animation with voiceover and live oboe soundtrack
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid is a recent collaborative commission, with oboist Adrian Wilson, for Benjamin Britten’s centenary celebrations, a joint venture with Sheffield’s Music in the Round & Showroom Cinema. I was selected to create a six part 20 minute film to Britten’s 1951 oboe solo Six Metamorphoses After Ovid and created it using celluloid snippets and backstage footage from Powell-Pressberger films such as The Tales of Hoffman & Red Shoes & The Elusive Pimpernel.
With thanks to Adrian Wilson (oboist & Ensemble 360), Laura Sillars (Site Gallery), Joan Parsons (Showroom Cinema) & Tracy Bryant (Music in the Round) and Steven Terry for their support on this project and their leap of faith in selecting me to make this film. An extra special thanks to Julia Dunn for being so generous with access to her talented father Ivor Beddoes film archive.
The film premiered at Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema as part of Transformations with a live oboe performance by Adrian Wilson on 11th May 2013 and toured around the UK to a classical music audience and schools throughout 2013 & 2014.
2019 Six Metamorphoses After Ovid with Music in the Round live, The Crucible Sheffield
2014 Hankering for Classification, Toast (Castlefield Gallery Project space) Manchester
The Transformations Tour with Music in the Round toured :
2014 Bridge House Theatre Warwick UK
2014 The Old Laundry Theatre Bowness on Windermere
2014 The Stables, Milton Keynes
2013 Penistone Paramount, Barnsley
2013 Transformations Premiere Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
3.5 min
HD Animation with unused soundtrack 2011/ 6 colour screenprint with varnish 2012
Dawn of the Rainbow is the culmination of a residency at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is made from the film leader from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" (one of the first technicolor films). The film starts with the drab real world in black and white and suddenly converts to colour as Dorothy finds herself in the land of Oz. This film is an attempt to celebrate and look back at that moment in cinematic history. It is also apt today at another juncture in cinematic technology as celluloid becomes obsolete to the pixel. It is animated to a rejected movie soundtrack by Wayne Urquhart, one of the first I have worked on with sound. It was first screened at Tyneside Cinema in December 2011 and is now showing in international film festivals.
There is also a Dawn of the Rainbow 6 colour screenprint made later in 2012 inspired by this footage available here.
Dawn of the Rainbow has screened/exhibited in:
Juice Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Nov 2011
Couleur, Grey Area, Paris June 2012
There’s No Place Like Home, solo project as part of Deptford X, London Aug 2012
Euroshorts, Warsaw, Poland Nov 2012
Les Sommets Du Cinema D’Animation, Montreal & Quebec City, Canada Nov 2012
Alternative Film/Video, Serbia Dec 2012
"British Shorts" 6th Lichtspielklub Kurzfilmfestival, Berlin, Germany Jan 2013
Animated Exeter, UK Feb 2013
Chinese Open, Q Park, London UK - Feb 2013
Animac, Lleda, Spain Feb-Mar 2013
International Motion Festival Cyprus Mar 2013
Flatpack festival, Birmingham, UK Mar 2013
Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy April 2013
WRO 15th Media Art Biennale, Wro Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland - May 2013
MashRome Film Fest, Rome, Italy May 2013
Experimental Film Festival Portland, US May 2013
Strawberry Shorts, Cambridge, UK May 2013
Leiden Short Film Festival; Leiden, Netherlands June 2013
Animation Block Party, Brooklyn; US July 2013
Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria Aug 2013
C the Film, Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Aug 2013
Carousel Aspex Portsmouth, UK - Sept-Oct 2013
Blinc Digital Arts Festival, Outcasting Cinema Truck, Conwy, Wales Sept 2013
A Welsh Pavillion, Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London UK Sept 2013
The Art of Animation, Animae Caribe, National Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Nov 2013
Adventures in the Other Screen Trade, Spike Island, Bristol, UK Feb/May 2014 Inherent Process, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK 2017 Mimesis; Narrative; Against hegemony! APT Gallery, Deptford Jan-Feb 2019 Turn On The Light, Media Library, WRO Arts Center, Wroclaw Feb-Mar 2019
3 min
HD Animation with sound
A playful animation made for the first public unveiling of the beautiful screenprint of the same name, I made as part of Jealous Print Prize using 15 found animation frames used to depict a wand spell explosion in a well known wizarding film series. I wanted to use the language and tools of contemporary cinema to make something that was not there more than there.
See print here.
The Magic Spell print is part of the V&A Permanent Print Collection and the animation has been exhibited / screened at:
Jealous Print Prize exhibition Jealous Gallery - October 2011
PRISM 12 Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK July 2012
Filmscape, North Light, The Beach Hut, Dunbar, Scotland June 2012
Refraction. Show curated by Jotta at Pop up Kopparberg Un-Establishment, Shoreditch, London - October 2012
International Motion Festival Cyprus - March 2013
C the Film, Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Aug 2013
Carousel Aspex Portsmouth, UK Sept-Oct 2013
3 min
HD Animation
Mute
The 3 minute silent animation a space odyssey omit is made from a single celluloid frame gleaned from the 'cutting room floor' of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The frame was destined to be used as a special effects shot in the Stargate sequence but never made it into the final film. Kubrick usually destroyed all unused footage from his films but this one frame survived and so this rendition gives a glimpse to what was and could have been.
It was installed as a dual projector installation as my final piece at Wimbledon MA Show 2011. In conjunction with this animation, there is a limited edition giclee print.
It was first screened at Wimbledon’s HMV Curzon Cinema as part of the Moving Image South series with Emily Richardson in June 2011 & also at CCW Salon Chisenhale Gallery, London in September 2011 and in A New History at Grey Area in Paris in December 2011.
3min 45
HD Animation
B&W
Mute
“Your advertising’s just dandy… folks would never guess you don’t have a thing to sell” (1967/2012) 5 metre long wallpaper window installation at Vitrine Gallery, Bermonsey.
7 Moment Paintings. White Oil on Black Ground on Canvas & Indian Ink on White Chalk Ground on Board. Various sizes.
5 Muzzle Paintings. Photographic Emulsion on Rag paper.
“The gun is perhaps the most iconic image in the media, a constant presence in everything from newscasts about faraway wars and local crimes to its persistent role as a narrative device in movies. While guns always foreshadow violence, they also offer a false promise of safety from an outside threat.”
Christian Marclay’s Crossfire White Cube catalogue, 2007
Guns evoke a paradoxical sense of dread and fascination in people. Bang Bang is a black & white silent animation created from 7 single frames of found film footage of muzzle flashes - the device used to portray gun fire in films. Like a fingerprint every muzzle flash differs. I wanted to make an animation capturing the subtlety & seductiveness of this ‘light’ used so ubiquitously to depict violence.
It also has a series of Moment paintings & Muzzle Flash photo paintings made in conjunction with this piece. It has been screened at Wimbledon Short Film festival 2011 and at Vitrine Gallery’s Lewton Bus: A Double Feature exhibition with the “Your advertising’s just dandy… folks would never guess you don’t have a thing to sell” (2012) installation.
Bang Bang has exhibited & screened at:
Abstracta, Casa Del Cinema, Rome, Italy Oct 2013 (Grand Prix Award)
C the Film, Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland Aug 2013
Animasivo, Festival de Mexico, Mexico May 2013
Chinese Open, Q Park, London Feb 2013
PRISM 12 Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK July 2012
The Lewton Bus ‘Coming Soon’, Vitrine Gallery & Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey. Feb 2012
Wimbledon Short film festival Sept 2011
Photosensitive, One Church Street Gallery. Great Missenden, UK June 2011
Futura Oblique, The nunnery, March 2011
CCW Salon New Gallery, London March 2011
Moving Image South with Patrick Keiller, HMV Curzon Cinema, Wimbledon Feb 2011
2 min 47 sec
HD Animation with unused soundtrack
In Between Inception I & In Between Inception II is a two part animation made from waste found footage from the 'cutting room floor' of Christopher Nolan's 2010 film Inception. The music is a reject soundtrack composed by Wayne Urquhart created for a film but this section was never used. It is a kind of ode to the unseen and the unheard. They are meant to be screened one after the other. One crazy fast, the other delicately slow.
The animations have been screened as part of the 971 Horses & 4 Zebras exhibition touring UK & internationally 2012-2013 including Tate Modern, London, CAST, Hobart & MADA Gallery, Melbourne.
In Between Inception I & II has shown at:
Moving Image South (with Sarah Pucill), HMV Curzon Wimbledon Sept 2011 (draft version); 971 Horses & 4 Zebras, Wimbledon Space, London Sept 2012 971 Horses & 4 Zebras, Tate Modern, London Nov 2012; 971 Horses & 4 Zebras, Contemporary Arts Spaces Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Feb 2013; 971 Horses & 4 Zebras, MADA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia April 2013; C the Film, Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh Scotland Aug 2013; Carousel Aspex Portsmouth, UK Sept-Oct 2013; Totally Devoted, Temporary Art Projects, Southend, UK Nov 2013; Celluloid Tracks, London Short Film Festival, Aubin Cinema, London Jan 2014.
132 min HD Animation mute
Dustbust is a durational feature length silent animation (132 min) which simultaneously reveals the marks used to erase dust. Digitially cleaning the dust off of film “to dustbust” before software took most of the pain away was a mundane job done by junior visual effects artists. I have spent weeks removing dust and if done well the labour is invisible in the final film. This cyclical drawing takes this process to its never-ending extreme.
3 min
HD Video
Mute
Silent Landscape uses found film footage gleaned from the feature film production process, revealing a view that is usually hidden from the cinema audience. The still landscape is interrupted with a familiar cinematic device creating an unexpected reaction in the viewer.
It was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 which toured the UK in September 2011 to January 2012.
There are some screenprints created in conjunction with this film at the bottom of the page. Contact the artist directly for sales.
Silent Landscape has screened/ exhibited at:
Landfall, Husk Gallery & Project Space, Limehouse, London. May 2013
Dark Hours / Fixed Spaces Aid & Abet, Cambridge Nov 2012
Filmscape, North Light, The Beach Hut, Dunbar, Scotland July 2012
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London. Nov 2011-Jan 2012
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace /Site Gallery, Sheffield Sep 2011
Clash & Converge, Camberwell Space, London Dec 2010-Jan 2011
Moving Image South (with Ben Rivers), HMV Curzon Wimbledon. Dec 2010
Although I consider most of my video work to be collaborative in some way even in the conversations I have with people around whilst making the work, these are artist collaborations where we’ve combined our interests to create a new piece. Often very different from what we may have produced alone.
Deptford Jack
Collaborative 16mm film project with animator Susan Young. Shot on 1st May 2014 the tradition of Jack in the Green.
http://www.susanyounganimation.com/
Green In Between
Video with Christina Bryant
Christina Bryant & Katie Goodwin made this film for Orbital London, a short film festival, about a journey through the peripheries of London. Our route was North East and the rules were we had to start at Turnpike Lane and finish at QE2 Bridge, Purfleet and it had to be under 3 minutes. We decided to just film the parks in between the grey that you don't normally experience whilst travelling through the city. It was a fun challenge and was screened at The Silver Cloud Gallery in London in July 2011.
To coincide with ASC Gallery's Without Shores 2014 exhibition and ArtLicks Weekend, Katie Goodwin & Karen David collated a multi-sensory journey to the moon through found film footage: An eclectic tour of over a century of lunar trips on screen from the trippy to the funny to the scary to the super-slick. karendavid.co.uk
12min live foley performance with video projection.
Inspired whilst making the Small Wonders with retired microbiologist Terence Preston, Goodwin discovered there is a rare form of deadly meningitis caused by inhaling parasitic brain eating amoebae often caused by swimming in infected lakes or pools. The Brain Eaters, a collaborative project with Rachel Lancaster, is a live foley performance to found footage from sci-fi b-grade horror films and underwater footage.
It was first performed at C Projects in December 2013 in a domestic setting a testing ground for new experimental work and then at Small Wonders, a solo show at Bohunk Institute, and in Goodwin & Lancaster’s duo show at Tyneside Cinema Gallery, both in summer 2015.
https://www.rachellancaster.co.uk
8 minHD Video with audio
Film Fan (1963-1983) 2012 is a collaborative film project with Alex March made using donated and found domestic 8mm film footage. The medium was popular during the 1960s to early 1980s and was superceded by video. The film provides an insight into family life in that era.
Our tumblr site shows the background of the creative process : super8filmfan.tumblr.com/
The film was first exhibited at Bearspace in the Odds Against Tomorrow series in 2012 in an installation alongside some C-type prints. The video has also screened at at the Edinburgh Fringe Film Festival 2013 and as part of the London Short Film Festival, ICA & Stratford Picturehouse in 2014.
Film Fan C-Type photograph
This totally cool and 4 more editions are available for sale by artists Alex March & Katie Goodwin.
Collaborative 16mm film project with animator Susan Young. Shot on 1st May 2014 the tradition of Jack in the Green.
Christina Bryant & Katie Goodwin made this film for Orbital London, a short film festival, about a journey through the peripheries of London. Our route was North East and the rules were we had to start at Turnpike Lane and finish at QE2 Bridge, Purfleet and it had to be under 3 minutes. We decided to just film the parks in this grey metropolis that you don't normally experience whilst travelling through the city. It was a fun challenge and was screened at The Silver Cloud Gallery in London in July 2011.
https://www.a-n.co.uk/person/christina-bryant/