Bring a packed lunch and share in watching the RSA200 Moving Image Programme. No need to book, just come along to the museum and meet in the cafe.
This programme has been curated by painter and filmmaker Ronald Forbes RSA to showcase moving image work by Royal Scottish Academicians and RSA award winners. Reflecting artists’ moving image practice in Scotland from the past and present, it includes work from the RSA Collection and work being made today.
Week 1: 20 July - The Moving Sketchbook (Running time: 37 minutes) Films based on artists’ sketchbooks and artworks in progress. Film is not the means of expression primarily used by these RSA Academicians in their practice, but here they have explored their ideas and thinking with support from film and design practitioners. Featuring: Will Maclean RSA and Andy Rice, Casa Berti, 2012 (16:15) Victoria Crowe RSA, Inflorescence, 2007 (5:00) Joyce Cairns PPRSA and Andy Rice, Fragments, 2006 (8:06) Kate Downie RSA, Drawing the Pibroch, 2010 (6:29)
Week 2: 3 August - Florence New Reactions (Running time: 48 minutes) Each year, the RSA John Kinross Scholarship enables ten final year and postgraduate art and architecture students the opportunity to research and develop their practice in Florence for up to three months. After the completion of the scholarship, each artist deposits a work in the RSA Collection that resulted from their time in Florence. Over the years, most works were in the form of paintings, drawings, sketchbooks or photographs. However, in recent times an increasing number of artists have submitted moving image works. This is a selection of six of those from RSA Collections. Featuring: Abigail Dryburgh, The Bargello, 2015 (3:33) Sophie Lunts, Il Palimpsesto, 2020 (1:25) Harry Casey, Nuova Cronica, 2012-13 (18:07) John Kellock, Shall Not Lovers Weep, 2011 (7:00) Anna Hughes, Silk Scarves for a Tomboy, 2015 (4:43) Rachel McBrinn, Luigi Mecocci, via dei Velluti, Firenze, 2015 (12:36)
Week 3: 10 August - Language, Place and Understanding (Running time: 60 minutes) Films that contemplate our understanding of, and our relationship with language, time and place. We adopt different languages - verbal, literary and visual - to explore and describe our environment, whether it may be physical, cultural or ideological. This programme of six films presents us with an intriguing variety of ways of forming an understanding of these varied contexts. Featuring: Oana Stanciu, Stai in banca ta/ Behave, 2021 (7:24) Ronald Forbes RSA, Behaviour Patterns, 1977 (5:00) Tracy Mackenna RSA, Language, Listening and Belonging, 2017 (8:59) Rachel Maclean RSA (Elect), Dr Cute, 2019 (4:44) Alicia Bruce, Sim Scenario, 2015 (6:23) Katri Walker, Rapture, 2012 (5:20) Murray Grigor HRSA, Space and Light Revisited, 2009 (7:37)
Week 4: 17 August - Seeing and Believing (Running time: 47 minutes) Films that question our understanding of reality. It's particularly appropriate at this time, when there's wide concern about ideas of truth, fake news and the effects of artificial intelligence, that we contemplate and question our perceptions of reality. Here we have a programme of four films that deal with such questions. Featuring: Rachel Maclean RSA (Elect), DUCK, 2023 (16:00) Wendy McMurdo RSA, Olympia, 2011 (5:12) (Also in Academicians: Part One) Ronald Forbes RSA, Only Make Believe, 2014 (12:00) Ken Currie RSA, Stone Circle, 2025 (12:00) (Also in Academicians: Part Two)
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