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1. 20 July, Marcel Odenbach at Whitechapel Gallery, London
2. 21 July, The New Flesh at Hayward Gallery, London
3. 22 July, Painting with Light, Cafe Galley Projects, London
4. 23 July, Olsen, Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
5. RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY IN INDIA DEADLINE: 5 September

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1.
WHITECHAPEL FILM PROGRAMME

Thu 20 Jul, 7pm
Marcel Odenbach
Widely regarded as one of Germany’s most important artists in the  
medium, Marcel Odenbach’s videos have rarely been shown in the UK.  
Positioning himself, and thus the spectator, in the role of observer,  
witness, or voyeur, his work is a stunning and highly charged inquiry  
into subjectivity - personal and cultural memory, individual and  
collective history, past and present - through developed formal  
strategies and a disorientating juxtaposition of images and registers.

The distance between myself and my losses (1983) locates the  
construction of self and identity in the realm of vision, creating an  
enigmatic memory theatre of popular and historical representation.  
The Romantic opera of Schubert's Erl King alternates with Burundi  
funeral songs while the screen is masked by horizontal and vertical  
bands of black, partially blocking the image. The visible slivers -  
archival footage that suggests a Leni Riefenstahl film, pornography,  
playing cards, manipulated objects - are rendered even more  
provocative by their seeming censorship. The self is only partially  
visible and partially knowable.

This stunning work is shown alongside companion pieces such as As if  
memories could deceive me (1986) in which a piano keyboard, symbol of  
German bourgeois tradition, is the metaphorical ground upon which  
Odenbach devises a dynamic associative discourse that, from ornate,  
19th-century Baroque architecture to a contemporary menswear  
emporium, traces an historical trajectory of cultural excess. Ständig  
auf dem Sprung sein (1995) marks the 50th anniversary of the UN,  
fusing contemporary and archival footage into a charged visual  
metaphor of political tension. The programme ends with the recent  
work, Malestory 2 (2005).

The dialogue between east and west, 1978, 4mins / The distance  
between myself and my losses, 1983, 11mins / As if memories could  
deceive me, 1986, 17mins / Ständig auf dem Sprung sein, 1995, 6mins /  
Too beautiful to be true, 1999, 10mins / Hitzefrei, 2000, 5mins /  
Malestory 2, 2005, 10mins

MARCEL ODENBACH WILL BE JOINING US LIVE BY TELEPHONE AFTER THE  
SCREENING!

Whitechapel Art Gallery
Whitechapel High Street
London E1

nearest tube: Aldgate East

Tickets £5.50/£3.50

020 7522 7888
www.whitechapel.org

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2.
animate! and Halloween presents
THE NEW FLESH
A multi-media response to Undercover Surrealism
Friday 21 July 2006 9pm – 1am

Hayward Gallery [Belvedere Road entrance]
South Bank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XZ
nearest tube: Waterloo
admission: £10, booking essential, last entry 11pm

BUCK 65 vs. Eraserhead
"Basically, I'm going to use turntables a sampler, some junk, a  
hammer, a bucket of water and a custom pump organ to provide a new  
score for David Lynch's ERASERHEAD. I'm looking to match the darkness  
and weirdness of the film with the ‘music’ and add my own stamp to  
it. There will be dust and drums and tortured steel. I hope to make  
it a nightmare that people will not want to awaken from..." (Buck 65)
Canadian-born, Paris-based leftfield hip hop genius meets David  
Lynch's surrealist masterpiece head on in this battle of wits to out- 
weird each other! Buck 65's love of hip hop is coupled with his love  
of Tom Waits and hard rock anthems, and his collaborative work  
includes The Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Seasame Street, and Biz Markie.  
Fans include Aphex Twin and Vincent Gallo, both similarly  
uncompromising, and Buck's own heroes range from MixMaster Mike to  
Spiderman to the aforementioned David Lynch.
ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1976, US)
This film needs no introduction, other than to say it took five years  
to make and broke up the director’s marriage. On it's 1976 release  
it's weird logic and surrealist take on nuclear families, parenthood,  
sexuality and urban life caused shockwaves in punk strewn Britain,  
and the film remains today a cult and inspiring debut for new  
generations of artistes in both film and music.

Buck 65 will also separately perform spoken word as part of the event.

Andrew Kotting: IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD
Andrew Kotting’s idiosyncratic and wayward style has long been a  
strong presence in British independent filmmaking, especially since  
his acclaimed 1996 feature GALLIVANT. Since 2003 he has been AHRC  
research fellow at the University College for the Creative Arts. IN  
THE WAKE OF A DEADAD is the first presentation of a new body of work  
made during his fellowship.
IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD is Kotting’s powerful, often uncomfortable  
reflection on the recent death of his father – his ‘Deadad’. It’s a  
journey through the psychogeography of personal memories, hidden  
histories, loss and reconciliation, including two large inflatable  
sculptures bearing the images of Kotting’s father and grandfather.  
These tombstone shaped portable monuments toured the world with  
Kotting to locations significant in their and his lives, the giant  
inflations will be brought to the Hayward to create both a comic and  
melancholic performance.

BUZZARD & SASSOON'S AUDIO-VISUAL SWAP SHOP present SURREALISM REMIXED
VJ Buzzard Buzzard and laptop maestro Gadi Sassoon are a duo who  
create high-energy AV improvised mash-ups. Tonight they’ll be  
attacking the classic surrealist canon to immerse you in an eye- 
popping visual extravaganza to arouse the flesh.

animate! presents THE NEW FLESH INCARNATE!
animate! tv has commissioned 78 risk-taking films since 1990, funded  
by Arts Council England and Channel 4 Television, refreshing,  
expanding and redefining animation. This special programme from the  
animate! catalogue ventures into flesh narrative territories and  
visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional  
animation, chosen to reflect Battaile’s obsessions with sex and death  
– from the outrageous bestialities of COWBOYS through the menstrual  
visions of CAGE OF FLAME and the sexualised cityscapes of WHAT SHE  
WANTS to the darkly erotic fetishes of 'exotic' cultures in the  
Brothers Quay's THE PHANTOM MUSEUM. Also includes the visceral  
EXPELLING THE DEMON premiered at Nick Cave's Meltdown.

Films screening:
15TH FEBRUARY (Tim Webb)
CAGE OF FLAME (Kayla Parker)
COWBOYS (Phil Mulloy)
EXPELLING THE DEMON (Devlin Crow)
KINGDOM PROTISTA (Andrew Kotting)
PERPETUAL MOTION IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY (Al + Al)
ROTTING ARTIST (Ann Course / Paul Clark)
THE PHANTOM MUSEUM (Brothers Quay)
WHAT SHE WANTS (Ruth Lingford)

PAUL BUCK
Paul Buck is the English voice of cult Belgium avant-garde  
experimental outfit 48 Cameras. Acclaimed for his Artaudian, Sadean -  
style vocalisations often compared to Diamanda Galas, his  
performances are packed with sexuality and the exploding power of  
language, which he makes fight for its life. Paul has an amazing  
treasure-trove of work, from performance art, film, media, to writing  
and translations. He has worked with Marc Almond, made two albums  
with Melinda Miel, written over 50 books, including The Honeymoon  
Killers, Lust, Violations and Walking with Myself. Most of these are  
heavy sexual novels, plus he has translated Bataille and created the  
Bataille Festival in London, titled Violent Silence.

STORY OF I (Jo Ann Kaplan)
This rarely-seen free improvisation on Georges Bataille's infamous  
Histoire de l’Oeil is a gender twisting meditation on the erotic  
extremities of human desire. A highly explicit journey through the  
sexual foundations of Western visual culture and the intimate  
terrains of male and female bodies.

VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Cronenberg's seductively sinister early eighties cult classic stars  
James Woods and Debbie Harry in a viscerally visionary tale of snuff  
movie extremity, delirious priesthoods of the new media age and the  
terminal possibilities of the human body. Way ahead of it's time, it  
remains deeply unsettling viewing, a perverse parable of the  
unsettling limits of power's encounter with flesh.

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3.
CAFEGALLERYPROJECTS Southwark Park London SE16
Nearest tube stations Canada Water and Surrey Quays
Painting with L I G H T  4
contemporary experimental and animated short films, selected by Jane  
Colling. One of a series of events programmed by Bermondsey Artists  
Group members
Saturday  6:30 til 9  22nd July 2006

Programme 1 - Selected from the British Animation Awards DVD’s

The Awards happen every 2 years, thanks to the enthusiasm and  
dedication of Jayne Pilling. Tonights films are from Best of BAA 6  
published earlier this year.
All the BAA DVD's are available for sale at the Tate and the I.C.A.  
and they can also be bought online from www.britishanimationawards.com
We have a few copies here tonight so please contact me after the  
screening if you are interested in checking them  
out                               Jane Colling

Play by Matt Abbiss 3:50 2004
Synopsis: A father and son pass the time
Technique: 2 computer – After Effects, Photoshop

Kamiya's Correspondence by Sumito Sakakibara 7:06 2004
Synopsis: A sets out to write a letter to her mother about her  
family, the Kamiya’s
Technique: 2D computer, after effects, photoshop

Rabbit by Run Wrake 8:30 2005
Synopsis: A modern mystery film of lost innocence, greed and nature.  
When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its  
magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?
Technique: Mixed media including ‘found’ educational stickers and  
hand-drawn abstract animation, compiled in After Effects

Vodaphone May Fly Dir. Animation: Darren Walsh at Passion Pictures &  
Dir. Live action: Peter Thwaites at Georgeous :1:00 2005
Synopsis: In just one day an animated mayfly makes the most of every  
minute of his short life – he swoops and soars through the jungle,  
plays tennis and even meets the love of his short life.
Technique: A spectacular mix of live action and character animation

Who I Am And What I Want by Chris Shepherd & David Shrigley 7:23 2005
Synopsis: A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling  
examination of the human condition. The story of a man who bares his  
emotions, history, hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional  
absurdity then leaves us to assemble not only his identity but to  
question our own. (animate! synopsis)
Technique: Pen & ink, 2D computer

Approximately   30mins

INTERVAL

CAFEGALLERYPROJECTS Southwark Park London SE16
Nearest tube stations Canada Water and Surrey Quays
Painting with L I G H T  4
contemporary experimental and animated short films, selected by Jane  
Colling. One of a series of events programmed by Bermondsey Artists  
Group members
Saturday  6:30 til 9  22nd July 2006
Programme 2 – Filmic gems – with music, sounds (+ a few words)
A big thank you to all the film makers for their generosity and to  
Mute Records for the Residents DVD. The Residents Commercial Album  
DVD with 52 x 1-minute movies is now available from www.mute.com

Sea Change – Joe King & Rosie Pedlow 5:10 2006 (UK)
Synopsis: Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, Sea  
Change reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and  
time, and resonating with the transience of human presence.
Technique: Filmed on 35mm. 2 versions exist of Sea Change there is  
also a 3 screen installation piece.

Night Club by Jonathan Hodgson 5:00 1983 (UK)
Synopsis: Based on sketches made in Liverpool nightclubs
Technique: hand drawn

Polski Buty , Matt Hulse 4:00 2002 (UK).
Synopsis: God, it is said, can be found in the details. Human  
character, I suspect, can be found in choice of footwear. Here, the  
Poles of Wroclaw are revealed - feet first - through their shoes.   
Featuring music by Klaus Mittfoch, A.Dudek-Durer, Ensemble Zawsze.
Technique: Treated Live Action

Hi for Psapp – TRUNK Steve Smith, Siri Melchior & Layla Atkinson 3:55  
(UK)
Synopsis: A menagerie of bizarre stop-motion creatures are summoned  
to life, made from bits of musical instruments, old keyboards and  
electronica.
Technique: Stop motion video. Animators worked on a real set of the  
room and a blue-screen set. After the shoot more creatures were  
composited in to each shot to achieve the Busby Berkley style  
formations…

Picnic – Paul Vester 5:00 1987 (UK) with music by Anthony More
Synopsis: A walk on the dark side through a world splintering under  
human and atomic attack
Technique: An experimental mixed media piece pioneering the use of  
found images on photographic backgrounds. Shot on 35mm film

Thoughts Of A Falling Glass Man –Adam Aiken & Shelley Revill for  
Birdengine 3:13 2005
Synopsis: Clockwork creatures living in harmony in an organic world,  
survive attack to mend their ailing master
Technique: Computer animation After Effects, Photoshop

Garbanzo – Richard Reeves 2:00mins 1992 (Canada)
Synopsis: A motion painting with original jazz music
Technique: Using the film as a long, narrow canvas, inks and paints  
were applied directly. Music was created while watching the film in  
motion, using a clarinet, drum, a guitar with one string and a multi  
track recorder.

Icky Flix - one minute films – The Residents  6:00 (Cryptic Corporation)
Synopsis: One minute films to original music by the Residents from  
the Commercial Album + Icky Flix
Technique: Mixed Media

Fast Film – Virgil Widrich 14:00  2002 (Austria)
Synopsis:"Fast Film" is an animated homage to motion pictures.
Technique: Hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into  
three dimensional objects
END                                                                      
                   Approximately  50mins
CAFEGALLERYPROJECTS Southwark Park London SE16
Nearest tube stations Canada Water and Surrey Quays

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4.
OLSEN
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Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
Sunday 23 July, 12–2pm, £4/£3, tea and cake will be served (vegan too)
Films start promptly at 12pm

Eat homemade cakes and drink tea under the flickering light of avant- 
garde films. Two hours of underground, abstract and experimental  
cinema in Leeds 6's beautiful Hyde Park Picture House.

http://www.olsenorsen.org

Fims:
Piece Mandala/End War (Paul Sharits,1966)
Charlemagne 2 Piltzer (Pip Chodorov, 2002)
Fil(m) (Frédérique Devaux, 2001)
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2002)
Rex (Karl Klomp/Tom Verburggen, 2005)
Untitled (Mark Fell, 2006)
Komposition in Blau (Oskar Fischinger, 1935)
Bohor (Liubo Borissov, 2005)
Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1997)
Blutrausch/Bloodlust (Thorsten Fleisch, 1999)

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5.
An international 3 month residency for a UK based artist to go to  
India supported by Arts Council England, Filter [www.filterindia.com]  
and artist film and video lab: no.w.here [www.nowhere-lab.org]

no.w.here are pleased to announce a residency scheme for a Uk artist  
to develop a moving image project in India and to engage with the  
artist community in Mumbai. The residency includes: Flights, Visa,  
Accomodation, Stipend, Studio and Infrastructural support in India.  
Application Deadline is September 5th, full details on how to apply  
and an application form can be found on the no.w.here
website: www.nowhere-lab.org.

This opportunity is funded by Arts Council England



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