12/1/25 – Sheffield Community Land Trust screening
Out/Side/Film founder Ian Nesbitt has been invited to curate a screening around land and housing at Shefffield Communtiy Land Trust’s AGM on 1st February. The selected films are: Steven Ball & Rastko Novakovi?’s ‘Concrete Heartland’ which draws on archive materials to chart the struggles of the local community to keep their homes during the controversial […]
15/5/24 – Mount Bermo Timbo project
The Mount Bermo Timbo Project is a new Out/Side/Film affiliated collective – a sonic and visual experiment that sets out to unearth and reanimate the creative legacy of Timothy Evan Davies (1946-2022) a.k.a El Timbo a.k.a Mount Bermo Timbo. Timbo was an outsider savant, a restless seeker of the margins, and a font of boundless […]
25/4/23 – ‘Grief is a Shapeshifter’ at Flatpack Festival
Very pleased to announce that Ian Nesbitt’s new film ‘Grief is a Shapeshifter’ has been selected for Flatpack Festival, to be performed with a brand new live score: ‘Grief Is A Shapeshifter takes as its starting point a text of the same name, written by artist Priya Jay about her experiences of leading online grief […]
30/1/23 – ‘Mutual Effects’ re-launch
Ian Nesbitt’s cinematic sound work ‘Mutual Effects: Food, Care and the Commons in Sheffield’ is being re-launched on the new Radio Commons website, up now here. ‘Mutual Effects’ is art as social research, a tapestry of sound drawing on interests in deep mapping and the Mass Observation movement to connect spaces of care, co-operation and […]
15/07/21 – Star And Shadow
Very exciting that the great Star And Shadow Cinema in Newcastle want to show ‘Acts Of Quiet Resistance’ as part of their re-opening season. Link here: https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/event/acts-of-quiet-resistance,5530/
27/9/20 – Radio Commons
An infrequent foray outside the moving image, ‘Mutual Effects: Food, Care and the Commons in Sheffield’ will be aired by the Paris-based Radio Commons project – http://radio-commons.eu/en/homepage/ – at 4pm – 6pm CET (3pm – 5pm UK) this Sunday 27th September. “Mutual Effects is art as social research, a tapestry of sound drawing on […]
14-16/8/19 – Supernormal!!!
Yes! ‘Acts Of Quiet Resistance’ will be screened at this year’s Supernormal festival. We are happy. “SUPERNORMAL is a three-day, experimental arts and music festival taking place at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Independent and uncompromising, it champions multi-faceted, exploratory art and music from the underground, margins and fringes to impart inspiring and engaging encounters […]
31/07/19 – Old Tractor Shed, Cornwall
Thrilled to be heading back to the Old Tractor Shed in Cornwall, where our favourite screening of ‘Taking The Michael’ happened all those years ago (seven). Check out @outsidefilm on Facebook for details if you’re in the area.
4-5/4/2019 – micro-season of films @ Cube Microplex
We are absolutely thrilled to have been invited to screen ‘The Art Of Moving Slowly’, a micro-season of Ian Nesbitt’s films at the best cinema in the land, Cube Microplex in Bristol. The second night of the event is also a world premiere for Ian’s new film, made in collaboration with its’ subject Michael Ransley […]
01/11/18 Social Art Summit
We’ve been invited to curate the film strand of work for the forthcoming Social Art Summit in Sheffield, which is super exciting. Over two-days artists from around the country will come together to share practice, showcase work and explore what it means to be making art through social engagement right now. Artists, activists, community groups, […]
05/04/17 Screening Event
#2: Fight Absurdity With Absurdity And Lies With Truth The second event in a series of roughly quarterly Out/Side/Film screening events throughout 2017 showing submitted and selected short documentary, experimental film, artists’ moving image, found footage and oddities from all over the world. The films this time have been selected to respond indirectly and occasionally […]