The Great North Run Moving Image Commission
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bupa Great North Run and to create a legacy from the first Cultural Programme film by Jane and Louise Wilson, an annual Moving Image Commission was launched, awarding an artist of film-maker £30,000 to create a new piece of work based on the Great North Run.
The films are premiered in North East England in September as part of the Great North Run Cultural Programme, with an extract screened on the BBC as part of their live coverage of the BUPA Great North Run. There are plans to tour all of the works nationally and internationally from the end of 2008.
Previous Moving Image Commission Awards
2006: Runner by Michael Baig-Clifford and Ravi Deepres
Selected by: artist Louise Wilson; Steven Bode, Director of Film and Video Umbrella ;Brendan Foster, Chairman of the BUPA Great North Run; Beth Rowson, Curator and Manager of the Cultural Programme; Rebecca Shatwell, Visual Arts Officer at Arts Council England.
2007: About Running by Suky Best
Selected by: artist Mark Wallinger, Dave Gordon, Head of Special Events at BBC Sport; Brendan Foster; Beth Rowson; Rebecca Shatwell
2008: Run for me by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Selected by: artist Beat Streuli; Dave Gordon; Brendan Foster; Beth Rowson; Rebecca Shatwell
2009: Parade by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
Selected by: Amanda Ritson, Visual Arts Officer at Arts Council England; Paul Bonaventura, Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Studies at the University of Oxford; Beth Rowson, Manager of the Cultural Programme
2010: Girl Blue Running Shoe by Claire Leona Apps
Selected by: Caroline Smith, arts consultant; Soraya Rodriguez, Director of Zoo Art Fair, Amanda Ritson and Beth Bate, Director of Great North Run Culture.
2011: Run a Mile In My Shoes by David Blandy
Selected by: Godfrey Worsdale, Director of Baltic; Alison Clark-Jenkins, Director of Arts Council England North East; artist Simon Pope and Beth Bate.
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