Living in Brighton since 1985, Ian has produced and developed music, super-8 films, installations, electronic instruments, film and live music programmes and light-show projections for concerts and club nights. Self taught, operating alone and without funding, he has worked with second-hand and home-made equipment and produced over 40 short films since the early 1990s. Many of these have been screened at international festivals, and are distributed by LUX in London.

He has been teaching 2 courses at an arts centre in Brighton - Analogue Electronic Music and Super 8 for Beginners, and is currently selecting the international film programmes for this year`s Avanto Media Arts festival in Helsinki.

His double cd album retrospective of instrumental and electronic music has just been released. This will be available from the Festival Shop.

Ian will be based in the Triskel Arts Centre from Wednesday 12th to Sunday 16th of October. He will screen his own films as well as present two shows he has curated, Expo Worlds and Soundtracks for the City. These will be present-ed using tape, slides and super-8 projectors as well as audio tape.

Expo Worlds (2000-05) is an evolving collection of World`s Fair film, video, slides and experimental music, incorporating multi-projection and live performance of archive Expo music.

Soundtracks for the City (2000) - short, silent city trave-logues issued on super 8, with new experimental soundtracks from a variety of artists.

Ian has a 'roving brief' so there may be additional shows, workshops, events depending on time, space, resources and the interest of the audience.

Admission to Ian's programmes are free
www.ianhelliwell.co.uk
www.lux.org.uk

Since the early 1990s, Helliwell has completed a variety of short super 8 films using different techniques including hand painting, bleaching, scratching, paper cut-out animation and collage. He has explored a number of themes in depth, and continues to experiment with abstraction, colour, found footage and electronic sound.

PROGRAMME 1
Crystallization (1997-2000, 3`45)
Angel Recovered (2003, 3`15)
Headache (2002, 45sec)
Particle Acceleration (2002, 4`45)
Coloured Light District (2002, 2`10)
Origami (2003, 50sec)
Colour Stream (2002, 4`40)
Cycles Per Second (2003, 3`20)
Interpenetration (2004, 3`25)
Deflection Currents (2005, 3`15)
Into the Light (1998, 4`55)
Return to the Light (2001, 1`55, triple screen)
Beyond the Light (2003, 3`35) 37mins