[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 3 April – 10 April 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 3 April – 10 April 2007

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Ken Jacobs’ TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, London Roxy Bar and Screen,  
Tuesday 3 April, 8pm

2. FourDocs at the Roxy, Roxy Bar and Screen, Wednesday 4 April, 8-10pm

3. Curators' Talk: The Secret Public, ICA, Thursday 5 April



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 3 April 2007, at 8pm

Ken Jacobs’ TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES

London Roxy Bar and Screen

128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB

Admission Free

www.roxybarandscreen.com www.secretcinema.co.uk

Secret Cinema presents a FREE screening of a major new work by Ken  
Jacobs.

UK Premiere !!!

Two Wrenching Departures, featuring the legendary Jack Smith (both  
clownish and devilishly handsome circa 1957), extends five minutes of  
material into a ninety-minute opus of eight movements. In and out of  
junk heap costume, Smith cavorts through the streets of New York  
(much consternation from the normals) and performs an impossible,  
traffic island ballet.His improvised actions are transformed into  
perceptual games as Jacobs’ interrogates his footage, using  
repetition and pulsating flicker to open up new dimensions and  
temporal twists: The infinite ecstasy of little things. In  
commemorating two dear departed friends, with whom he collaborated on  
Blonde Cobra and other works, he propels their image into everlasting  
motion. These mindbending visions are juxtaposed with the soundtrack  
of The Barbarian, a 1933 Arabian fantasy starring Ramon Navarro and  
Myrna Loy, and music by Carl Orff.Two Wrenching Departures, Ken  
Jacobs, USA, 2006, video, b/w, sound, 90 mins



2.

Wednesday April 4th, 8-10pm

FourDocs at the Roxy

Roxy Bar and Screen

128 - 132 Borough High Street

FREE ENTRY

FourDocs, the broadband channel for documentary from Channel 4, comes  
to the Roxy to showcase and celebrate the very best in international  
short documentary.

Come and see the best four minute docs from the site on the big  
screen, meet the filmmakers, plus a chance to see some surprise  
longer short docs past and present.

Subjects being explored in the docs include Nu-Rave, meditation,  
folklore, Palestinian hip-hop and much much more. All for zero pence!



Screening includes the UK premiere of a new documentary about  
acclaimed film and video artist Stephen Dwoskin



For full information, see http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/articles/ 
fourdocs_roxy.html

and http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/



FourDocs to be screened include:



Dom Phillips - Rave Dog  -  Everybody's talking about new rave, but  
does anybody know what it is? Enter the world of Trash Fashion

Katy Reid - The Honey Haven - Buzzzzz. A troubled man who acquired a  
taste for beekeeping explains passion for his honey and his bees.

World Write - Carry on up the NGO - NGOs are seen as the good guys in  
developing countries yet their programmes eschew growth and exemplify  
low horizons. Ghanaians are sick of them. They want material progress  
not behavioural therapy.

Federico Forlini - Six years - Right now in Nepal, a boy is  
meditating for six years without food or drink. Amazing. But what do  
his family think?

Dan Edelstyn - Climbing Club -  A ragtag group meet once a month to  
scale buildings in the City of London.

Film Fantastic - Balloon Ballistic  - Could you burst 1000 balloons  
in 27.1 seconds? Some kids are gonna try.

Abhi Arumbakkam - Dum Dum Dum - In a small shop in Chennai in  
Southern India, drums are being mended, tuned and repaired. Just like  
they have been for several decades.

Raj Yagnik - Flour on Skin -  People get up to some very strange  
things in the mountains of Northern Spain. Like throwing angry ants  
at one another.

Zeina Aboul Hosn - I Remember Lebanon - A journey through memories of  
Beirut, filmed by Zeina who was visiting Lebanon just before the  
bombs started falling





Longer docs to be screened include:



Eliot Manches - Dam:London (15 mins) - A fresh take on both rap and  
the Middle East, this hip-hop film de-polarizes the debate and brings  
a clear human message to a frequently disenchanted audience. DAM are  
three Israeli-born Palestinian rappers. Their single Min Eirhabe  
("Who's The Terrorist?") has been downloaded more than a million  
times. The film, featuring exclusive live performances and interviews  
with the group, was made during their visit  to London  in October,  
during which time they played at The Barbican's and a special event  
run by the avant-garde Jewish group: Jewdas.



Claire Fowler - Portait As (6 mins) - A visual portrait of the  
disabled avant garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, as represented by his  
environment.  The film is a very personal movement through Steve's  
past and present, as seen through the house he has lived in for the  
last 30 years and the objects within it that both surround and  
represent him - as an individual living with a disability, and as an  
artist-filmmaker who has enjoyed a long and successful career.



Emie - Trail of Pictures (14 mins) - Following Ben Wilson as he makes  
his, and our, community more special by drawing pictures on the  
chewing gum in the street. A true folk hero taking on the man.



Emma Stoner - Alignments (21 mins) - A trip across ancient lines,  
jaunting quizzically through the English landscape. All stills and  
sculpted grabbed sound, covering a moulding seaside town, maps, A- 
roads, men with beards, dowsing rods. Cornish pub music, caves and a  
lot of rain. You don't have to be a pagan or a druid to understand  
that there's summat glorious in this filthy earth.



3.

Thursday 5 April, 7 pm

Curators' Talk: The Secret Public

ICA

The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Box Office: 020 7930 3647 / Switchboard: 020 7930 0493 www.ica.org.uk

£4 / £3 Concessions / £2 ICA Members

The Secret Public, the ICA's current exhibition will be under  
discussion by the curators responsible for its conception and  
realisation: the writer and critic Michael Bracewell; Stefan Kálmar,  
Director, Kunstverein München; and Ian White, Adjunct Film Curator,  
Whitechapel Art Gallery.



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