KINETIC Screenings + post screening discussions
3 October
5.30 - 9pm
The Deep End, Govanhill Baths
£8 / £6 / £4 (for TWR members and workshop participants)
Booking required via Outsavvy
SCREENING ONE - Potluck + post screening discussion with Invited artists
5.30-7pm
Potluck is a shared screening where artists were invited to bring a screendance film of their own choice. Like a potluck meal, each artist brings something different to the table, creating a varied collection of films, styles, approaches and ways of working with movement and screen. Together, the films reflect the richness and diversity of screendance and the breadth of creativity across Scotland — from different dance practices and artistic perspectives to experimental approaches to film. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists, offering an opportunity to hear more about their work, processes and ideas, and to open up a conversation around screendance. Curated by Lewis Landini.
Programme
Abby Warrilow — Everyone Left
Natalia Barua — Slumbering Deep
Tao-Anas Le Thanh — Every Map – On Tour – Week 1
Bridie Gane — Bernat
Lucas Chih-Peng Kao — KIN/MEN (WIP)
Eve McConnachie / Beth Allan— Shadowash
SCREENING TWO - SHIFTING LOOP + post screening discussion with Katrina McPherson
7.30-9pm
Katrina presents a selection of films that she has directed between 1992 and 2022. The selection offers a perspective of the evolution of Katrina’s practice and includes seldom-screened films alongside award-winning works.
The focus of Katrina’s curation is her curiosity in how the accumulation of images might alter our perception of space and time, propelling us toward the future of the work and offering reflection on place and position. Each work is situated in a various rural and urban landscape, mostly in Scotland, and arises from collaboration with many different dancers, choreographers, artists and technicians. This new juxtaposition of films, selected by Katrina especially for the Kinetic Festival, speaks to the idea that the meaning of art is altered though its repeated and ever shifting connection with and reception by audiences and perhaps this is a perspective that can be offered as a new way of seeing the works today.
KINETIC
KINETIC is a new screendance platform rooted in Glasgow, founded by dance artists and filmmakers Monika Smekot and Lewis Landini. It brings together artists working across movement and screen, creating a space to experience, share and discuss screendance on its own terms. KINETIC celebrates screendance from Scotland and beyond, exploring the space between dance, film and live performance, and creating opportunities for artists and audiences to connect, exchange ideas and experience new work.
About
Katrina McPherson is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance and moving image. Her practice spans artist film, installation, documentary, and live contexts. Through embodied cinematography, improvisation and rigorous structural processes, she has developed an innovative artistic language that expands how movement, time and place are experienced. Over more than 35 years, from her home in Scotland, Katrina has directed a wide range of works created in collaboration with performers, choreographers, composers, and companies. The resulting works have been presented at festivals, galleries and venues worldwide and are held collections including LUX Artists’ Moving Image and Routledge’s Online Performance.
Over a period of 15 years, Katrina was a director of arts programmes for UK television, making films for the BBC, Scottish Television, ITV and Channel Four. Katrina received a Career Achievement Award at Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles in 2020; an Honorary Award at the Choreoscope Dance Film Festival in Barcelona (2022) and the Creative Scotland Award (2002). Her films have been the subject of several international retrospectives, including most recently at the Jumping Frames- Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival, November 2025.
Katrina has written widely about screendance and is the author of “Making Video Dance, a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen” (Routledge, 2019), the 3rd edition which will be released in early 2027. A much sought-after lecturer and mentor, Katrina teaches extensively and has initiated and facilitated numerous workshops, courses and symposia worldwide. Katrina was awarded a PhD by Published Works from Edinburgh Napier University in 2023. She is currently the Course Leader of the MA Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School and is a PhD supervisor at LCDS and University of the Arts London.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, awarding funding on behalf of Screen Scotland and the BFI National Lottery.
