[LuxWeeklyNews] Upcoming Events and Openings in London

[luxweekly at lux.org.uk]

LUX weekly news 18th – 24th September 2006
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON

1. Cinema of Prayoga - Experimental Ethnography, Tate Modern Starr  
Auditorium, Tuesday 19th September 2006, 18.30

2. Touching Politics, A film series by the Freunde der Deutschen  
Kinemathek e.V. - curated by Florian Wüst, Goethe-Institut London, 50  
Princes Gate, Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH.
20th – 26th September 2006

3. Destricted, Cinema 3, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London E2Y 8DS.
Wednesday 20th September 2006, 20:45 - 21:05 Intro: Stuart Comer  
Curator: Film (Tate Modern)
21:05 - 23:00 Screening: Destricted

4. Destricted, ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. Thursday 21st  
September 2006
20:30pm - Introduction by the producers of DESTRICTED Andrew Hale &  
Mel Agace
20:45pm - Destricted
22:45pm - The producers Andrew Hale and Mel Agace will be in the ICA  
bar to answer all your questions.

5. OMSK PLOTS ITS COLLISION COURSE, Area 10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham  
Hill Street, London SE15, Entry Fee - £3.00 on Thursday & £5.00 on  
Saturday. Thursday 21st - Saturday 23rd September 2006

6. Julian Rosefeldt, Max Wigram Gallery, 99 New Bond Street London  
W1. 22nd September – 11th November 2006, Mon - Fri 10 -6pm, Sat 12 - 5pm

7. MOVING FRAME, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU

10am – 6pm daily 24th – 27th September





1.
Cinema of Prayoga - Experimental Ethnography
Tuesday 19 September 2006, 18.30
Programme duration 90 min
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
www.tate.org.uk/modern
The Indian artists in this programme interrogate the conventions of  
ethnographic and narrative filmmaking to explore questions of filmic  
representation.
The films invoke music, poetry, myth and performance to examine the  
relationship between their status as filmic texts and the fictions-in- 
progress of their subjects. Also included are an encounter with the  
transsexual ritual of Kali worship in Kalighat Fetish, India's first  
gay film BOMgAY, and the storybook of young boy (who is also an old  
man) in Kshya Tra Gya.

2.
Touching Politics
20 - 26 September 2006
A film series by the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V. - curated  
by Florian Wüst
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
Tickets: £ 3 (all 4 programmes £ 10)
Booking: 020 7596 4000
www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/kue/flm/enindex.htm
One of Germany’s most important film institutions, the Freunde der  
Deutschen Kinemathek in Berlin maintain an archive and run a  
distribution branch that share an extensive international collection  
of historical and contemporary feature, documentary and experimental  
films that stand out for their formal experimentation as well as  
their engagement with social and political issues. It is this double  
focus of the collection that provides the context for Touching Politics.
Questioning the conventions of narrative commercial cinema and the  
viewing practices associated with it, experimental films have always  
focused on the experience of the materiality of film and the physical  
basics of audiovisual perception. They have also targeted taboos,  
above all those related to the representation of sexuality. The  
question of how reality can be represented outside existing power  
relations and imaging conventions has sustained an ongoing inquiry  
into the structures of the medium.
Apart from serving these more self-reflexive investigations, short  
films have also been employed for political and educational purposes.  
In the 1960’s the portable 16mm camera and synch sound facilitated  
the quick and direct dissemination of oppositional views. Collective  
production processes posed alternatives to the idea of individual  
authorship.
With these currents and concerns in mind, Florian Wüst has curated  
five programmes along thematic lines, of which we will show four. Set  
against the backdrop of outstanding moments in 20th century history,  
they combine avant-garde classics and rarely screened documentary and  
experimental films. Made between 1926 – 1994, the twenty-two films of  
these programmes present an exemplary synthesis of artistic vision  
and political engagement, of autobiographical approaches and social  
contexts, sensuousness and conceptual rigour.
Florian Wüst, born 1970 in Munich, is a visual artist and independent  
film curator, currently living in Berlin and Rotterdam. His  
curatorial projects and film programmes have been shown at festivals  
and venues such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen,  
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Austrian Filmmuseum, Vienna, Kino  
Arsenal, Berlin, or the Werkleitz Biennale, Halle

3.
Destricted
Wednesday 20th September 2006
Cinema 3
Barbican Centre,
Silk Street, London E2Y 8DS
020 7382 7071
www.barbican.org.uk
20:45 - c.21:05 Intro: Stuart Corner Curator: Film (Tate Modern)
21:05 - 23:00 Screening: Destricted
Destricted is the first short film collection of its kind, bringing  
together sex and art in a series of films created by some of the  
world's most visual and provocative artists and directors. They  
reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves  
sexually. Formed in 2004, Destricted is a platform for all forms of  
uncensored artistic expression, manipulating and embracing the  
expression of sex through art. Short films such as…DEATH VALLEY (dir.  
Sam Taylor-Wood) 7 mins 58 secs, HOIST (dir. Matthew Barney) 14 mins  
36 secs

4.
Destricted
Thursday 21st September 2006
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
0207 930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
8:30pm - Introduction by the producers of DESTRICTED Andrew Hale &  
Mel Agace
8:45pm - Destricted
10:45pm - The producers Andrew Hale and Mel Agace will be in the ICA  
bar to answer all your questions.
Destricted is the first short film collection of its kind, bringing  
together sex and art in a series of films created by some of the  
world's most visual and provocative artists and directors. They  
reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves  
sexually. Formed in 2004, Destricted is a platform for all forms of  
uncensored artistic expression, manipulating and embracing the  
expression of sex through art. Short films such as…DEATH VALLEY (dir.  
Sam Taylor-Wood) 7 mins 58 secs, HOIST (dir. Matthew Barney) 14 mins  
36 secs


5.
OMSK PLOTS ITS COLLISION COURSE
Thursday 21st - Saturday 23rd September 2006
Area 10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London SE15
Entry Fee - £3.00 on Thursday & £5.00 on Saturday.
For further information on the whole Collision programme and travel  
directions etc. please go to www.collision.org.uk or email  
info at collision.org.uk
Come find us in the shop space - we will be waiting for you...
OMSK - nothing goes to plan and everybody has a good time.
www.OMSK.org.uk
www.myspace.com/OMSK
OMSK returns to Area10 to collide and collude with MAVRYX, The Glue  
Rooms, and The Light Surgeons in a programme of film, live art, sound  
and other mischief in COLLISION, a three day art event curated by  
Area10.
On Thursday 21st September from 8pm will be showing The Best Of OMSK  
Film, please forgive us for this nostalgia, we have been over 10  
years in existence and are feeling sentimental...Plus delightful  
noise provided by MissintheMix.
On Saturday 23 September from 9pm-1:30am we will be back firmly in  
the present to present a rich cocoction of experimental short film,  
mighty sounds and thought provoking performance including:
Audio Visual Wizardry from Devotcha's Connudrum; Kim eating her own  
stomach in a final act of consumerism; Bill Aitchinson attempting the  
impossible; Paddy Kernohan undergoing a rite of passage plus sounds  
from DJ OMSK, DJ Scragend all rounded off beautifully by OMOMusik.
"OMSK is a melting pot of performance art, low-budget fliks,
installation and sonic play. Possibly the weirdest evening out in the
capital ..." Metro

6.
Julian Rosefeldt
Max Wigram Gallery
99 New Bond Street, London W1S 1SW
http://www.maxwigram.com
22 September – 11 November 2006, Mon - Fri 10 -6pm, Sat 12 - 5pm

7.
MOVING FRAME at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7  
2EU

10am – 6pm daily 24th – 27th September
The moving frame presents new film, video and digital installations  
by staff and students in the Department of Communication Art & Design  
at the RCA. The exhibition culminates a research project (2004 -06)  
in the changing concept of the frame as it migrates from film into  
digital technologies.
Contact 0207 590 4526 or al.rees at rca.ac.uk





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.lux.org.uk/pipermail/luxweekly/attachments/20060919/c49b4bd3/attachment-0001.htm