[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News - EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

[luxweekly at lux.org.uk]

LUX Weekly News 6th – 12th November 2006

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1.   Gillian Wearing: Family History National Film Theatre, Tuesday  
7th November, 6.20pm



2.   We make our own television, New video work by Paul Tarrago +  
Jennet Thomas, Alma Enterprises, 10 November – 17 December


3.   LUX EVENT: Shoot Shoot Shoot: British Avant-Garde Film of the  
1960s and 1970s, Programme One, Tate Modern Starr auditorium, Friday  
10 November, 7pm



4.   LUX EVENT: Shoot Shoot Shoot: British Avant-Garde Film of the  
1960s and 1970s, Programme Two, Tate Modern Starr auditorium,  
Saturday 11th November, 7pm



5.   Chantal Akerman, Jewish Film festival double bill of Tomorrow We  
Move & Down There, ICA, Cinema 1, Sunday 12th November, 1.30 pm


6.   AMONG THE MODERNS: CINÉMATHÈQUE DE TANGER, Curzon Soho, Sunday  
12th November, 12 noon

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm

1.

Tuesday 7th November, 6.20pm
Gillian Wearing: Family History
NFT 1
Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
Gillian Wearing's recent video installation 'Family History' is a  
landmark work that looks back at the seminal BBC series The Family.  
Assessing both the personal and cultural influence of the programme,  
and how the ambitions of fly-on-the-wall documentary have been  
overtaken by 'reality TV' and its cultivation of celebrity, it also  
evokes life in the 70s, as experienced by both Heather Wilkins (the  
youngest daughter of the Reading-based family who were the subject of  
the series) and by the young Gillian Wearing (who watched it avidly  
at home in Birmingham). The screening ends with an informal panel  
discussion, including contributions from TV presenter Trisha Goddard  
(one of the protagonists of the piece) and critic Paul Morley. The  
event coincides with the launch of a publication on the project.  
Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Artists in the City,  
Reading Borough Council. Funded by Arts Council England and Film  
London Artists' Moving Image Network. In association with Ikon Gallery.

2.

10 November – 17 December
WE MAKE OUR OWN TELEVISION
New video work by Paul Tarrago + Jennet Thomas
Alma Enterprises
1 Vyner Street
London
www.thisisland.net
www.wemakeourowntv.com
Opening Times 12.00 - 6.00pm
Friday - Sunday

3.

Friday 10 November, 7pm
Shoot Shoot Shoot: British Avant-Garde Film of the 1960s and 1970s
Programme One
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888.
The materialist tendency characterised the hardcore of British  
filmmaking in the early 1970s. Distinguished from structural film,  
these works were primarily concerned with duration and the raw  
physicality of the celluloid strip.
The films screened include Slides (Annabel Nicolson), At the Academy  
(Guy Sherwin), Shepherd’s Bush (Mike Leggett), Film No. 1 (David  
Crosswaite), Dresden Dynamo (Lis Rhodes), Versailles I & II (Chris  
Garratt), Silver Surfer (Mike Dunford) and Footsteps (Marilyn Halford).

4.

Saturday 11th November 2006, 7pm
Shoot Shoot Shoot: British Avant-Garde Film of the 1960s and 1970s
Programme Two
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888.
Despite the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative workshop’s central role  
in production, not all of the films produced were derived from  
experimentation with printing and processing. Filmmakers also used  
language, landscape and the body to create works that explore the  
essential properties of the medium.
The films screened include Threshold (Malcolm Le Grice), Seven Days  
(Chris Welsby), Key (Peter Gidal), Moment (Stephen Dwoskin), Deck  
(Gill Eatherley), Colours of this Time (William Raban) and  
Associations (John Smith).

5.

Sunday 12th November, 1.30 pm
Chantal Akerman
Jewish Film festival double bill of Tomorrow We Move & Down There
ICA, Cinema 1
£12/£11 Concessions/£10 ICA Members
www.ica.org.uk
www.ukjewishfilmfestival.org.uk

Tomorrow We Move (Demain on Déménage)
Dir Chantal Ackerman, France 2004, 110 minutes, French with English  
subtitles
With Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clement and Elsa Zylberstein
"A comedy that borders on parody, and underscores the tragicomic  
dimension of Akerman's work." Edna Moshenson
Charlotte is trying to write an erotic novel whilst living with her  
widowed mother in a cramped and chaotic apartment. Whilst her mother  
earns her living giving piano lessons from their home, Charlotte is  
desperately trying to find eroticism in everyday situations and  
objects. It soon becomes a nightmare of cluttered rooms and  
conflicting needs and the two women have to struggle to negotiate  
their own space and to try to forge a relationship that enables them  
to live together.

Down There (La-bàs)
Dir Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium 2006, 79 minutes.
"When Jews in France say to each other 'Tu vas la-bàs' they usually  
mean: 'are you going to Israel? We have the place where we live and  
we have 'la-bàs'."
Akerman didn't intend to make a film about Israel. But then, while  
staying in a rented Tel Aviv apartment by the sea, she started  
filming. She continues to ask are images possible there? Is normal  
life possible there? A candid cinematic journey about Exile as an  
existential mode, in Europe or at the heart of Tel Aviv.
Filmmaker Chantal Akerman will present the films and attend a post  
screening discussion with the audience.

6.

Sunday 12th November, 12 noon
AMONG THE MODERNS: CINÉMATHÈQUE DE TANGER
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1
£6.50
www.curzoncinemas.com
In collaboration with the Photographers' Gallery Curzon Soho has  
teamed up with The Photographers' Gallery to present AMONG THE  
MODERNS, a series of video and documentary films programmed to tie in  
with the exhibition Cinémathèque de Tanger: Explorations in Film &  
Video at The Photographers' Gallery



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.lux.org.uk/pipermail/luxweekly/attachments/20061106/e17f2a5b/attachment-0001.htm