[LuxWeeklyNews] Upcoming events and openings in London this week

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LUX weekly news 25th September – 1st October 2006
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON


Zidane: a 21st Century portrait special preview and Q&A, Curzon  
Mayfair, Monday 25th September, 6.30pm
Light Reading Series 5: Vision Machine, Kingsgate Gallery, Wednesday  
27th September, 7pm
John Baldessari: Color Films, SKETCH, 30th September - 28th October
Personal and particular, recent works by Malcolm Le Grice and Diana  
Ford, Candid Arts Trust, Sunday 1st October 2006, 4pm


1.
ZIDANE: A 21ST – CENTURY PORTRAIT SPECIAL PREVIEW AND Q&A
Monday 25th September 2006, 6.30pm

Curzon Mayfair
38 Curzon Street, London
08707 564 621
www.curzoncinemas.com
On Monday 25 September, a day after the London premiere, Curzon  
Mayfair hosts a preview and Q&A with (Turner prize-winner) Douglas  
Gordon and Philippe Parreno.
One of the most acclaimed films in the Cannes Film Festival, ZIDANE:  
A 21ST – CENTURY PORTRAIT is Douglas Gordon’s and Philippe Parreno’s  
sensational cinematic portrait of the world famous French football  
hero Zinédine Zidane. Score by Mogwai.

2.

VISION MACHINE

Wednesday 27th September 2006, at 7pm

Kingsgate Gallery

110-116 Kingsgate Road

West Hampstead

London NW6

Nearest Tube / Train: West Hampstead

Admission £4 door / £3 advance

BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL FOR THIS EVENT AS PLACES ARE LIMITED

Telephone 020 7372 3925

or email <courses at nowhere-lab.org>

www.nowhere-lab.org
www.visionmachine.org



Light Reading Series 5: Vision Machine

Vision Machine is a non-profit filmmakers collective started in 2000 to

experiment with filmmaking as reality intervention, simultaneously  
creating

and documenting via the camera lens. A current work-in-progress is  
part of a

film series that explores the legacy of a politically motivated (and  
UK/US

endorsed) genocide in Indonesia begun in 1965 and carried out by  
civilian

death squads. This project challenges the boundaries between cinema,  
reality

and History by weaving layers of footage created by a production  
method that

progresses from interviews to increasingly fantastic dramatisations of

extreme political violence: the routine extra-legal arrest, torture and

execution of persons deemed dangerous to the security of the nation  
(in this

case: Communists, trade unionists, peasants, intellectuals, and  
feminists).


The footage takes the viewer on a journey with a gangster who  
controlled a

movie ticket scalping racket and exploited the murderous political  
climate

to become a widely feared paramilitary executioner. He casts himself  
as the

man who did the dirty work for the good of his country and rehearses  
a role

he claims to have learnt from the Hollywood movies that were his  
livelihood.

These films were the inspiration not only for his method of killing  
but also

his very persona while torturing the “garbage”. He longs to be  
glorified as

an unsung hero and, indeed, is happy to sing about his lethal  
exploits in a

musical version of the massacres.  The film provokes and documents a

perpetual fluctuation between intimate direct experience and the  
stylisation

of popular cinema genres “noir, Western, musical, shock horror, and  
verite”

in a movement that is at times humorous, at times terrifying.


Vision Machine will present footage from their current work-in-progress

followed by a conversation between members of the collective: Christine

Cynn, Josh Oppenheimer, Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Michael Uwemedimo.



3.

John Baldessari: Color Films
30th September - 28th October 2006
Tue - Sat 10am- 5pm

SKETCH
9 Conduit Street W1S 2XG
0870 777 4488 gallery at sketch.uk.com

4.
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR
Recent Works by Malcolm Le Grice and Diana Ford
Sunday 1st October 2006, 4pm

CANDID ARTS TRUST
Basement, 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ
www.cogcollective.co.uk
info at cogcollective.co.uk
For this screening we bring together recent works by two artists who  
might be considered to occupy diametrically opposite positions in  
their careers and in the world, but whose work shares an formal  
materialist aesthetic ground, a personal and particular exploratory  
approach.
Malcolm Le Grice has enjoyed a long career as one of the UK's most  
influential and prolific experimental filmmakers. His influence as an  
artist, writer and academic has had a far-reaching and long-lasting  
effect in the world of artists' moving image. He continues to take an  
open and playful approach to his experimental work in digital video  
media. Diana Ford is a young artist from Perth, Australia, one of the  
most isolated cities on the planet. Her work derives its impetus from  
subjective influences and situations close to home, while her  
aesthetic sensibility is driven by curiosity about the potential for  
moving image manipulation.
Programme
Malcolm Le Grice
Digital Aberration (4 min, video, 2004); Portraits and Particulars:  
Critical Moments (for Jean Piaget) (1 min, video, 2004); Autumn  
Horizon Number 3 (6 min, video, 2005); Unforgettable (that's what you  
are) (5 min, video, 2002-2005); Lecture to an Academy (10 min, video,  
2005); Anthony Dundee (2 min, video, 2006); Waiting for Ian (3 min,  
video, 2006); H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N (3  
min, video, 2006); Denisined - Sinedenis (3 min, video, 2006);  
Finnegan Again (3 min, video, 2006); Of Keys and Beauty (2 min,  
video, 2006)
Diana Ford
Desertus (1 min, 16mm/video); Doco (1 min, 16mm/video); Edit (2 min, 
16mm/video); WW5 (2 min, 16mm/video); Iris (1 min, 16mm/video); Face  
(1 min, 16mm/video); Mouse (3 min, 16mm/video); NT3D (1 min, video);  
Objective (4 min, 16mm/video); Planet Cancer (1 min, video); Routine  
(1 min, 16mm/video); Something Bush (4 min, video); Something People  
(8 min, video)







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