[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 16 - 22 April 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 16 - 22 April 2007

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

  1. LUX Salon: What do we get out of it? Fully booked, Wednesday 18  
April 7pm for 7.30pm start

  2. A weekend with Alfred Leslie, Whitechapel Film Programme,  
Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 April

  3. For You: Peter Todd – Film Works 1990-2005, Saturday 21 April  
2pm at Greenwich Picturehouse Sunday 22 April 3pm at Riverside  
Studios Cinema

  4. Our Technicolour Dream, ICA, 21 April

  5. The East End On Film (part of the East End Film Festival) The  
Rio Cinema, Dalston, Sunday 22 April, 1pm

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.

Wednesday 18 April 7pm for 7.30pm start
LUX SALON: WHAT DO WE GET OUT OF IT?
LUX OFFICE, Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane,
London, E8 2EZ.
FULLY BOOKED
For directions to LUX see http://www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html

IS THAT IT?
Wilf Thust / Four Corners (UK 1985 16mm) Three selected episodes, 43 min

Three episodes from a rare film made by Wilf Thust for Four Corners  
Film Workshop, based in Bethnal Green. Four Corners was one of  
several workshops throughout the UK which benefited from funding by  
the nascent Channel 4, as well as a relaxation of broadcast union  
laws, to work with people and audiences outside of the normal context  
for film and video practices in the 1980s.

Produced from material gathered during a series of Monday workshops  
with young people in Tower Hamlets, Is That It frames the  
relationship between the film maker and the workshop participants as  
it develops over a two-year period. Photographs, plays, drawing and  
writing by the group are cut together with socio-economic statistics  
on the borough, and reflections on the workshop process. Open ended  
and at times problematic, the film can be seen as a treated document  
of an attempt to open up communication “in a group where different  
classes, races, ages meet”. (W.T.)

The screening will be accompanied by an audience discussion with the  
film maker and Richard Pierre-Davis of the contemporary Mongrel X  
collective. The discussion will centre on the implications of the  
historical model of ‘integrated practice’ for contemporary film and  
video institutions, and the recent shift toward top-down policy  
models for social inclusion.
Selected and chaired by Tom Roberts.
SCENE 4: IMAGES OF THE EAST END 12 mins
SCENE 5: IMAGES OF FEAR 10 mins
SCENE 6: IMAGES OF CONTROL 21min


A related Four Corners film 'Bred and Born' shows as part of The  
Secret Public exhibition on 15, 23, 28 April. see http:// 
www.ica.org.uk/Bred+and+Born+%2B+Close+Up+13349.twl for details.

2.

Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 April
A weekend with Alfred Leslie
Whitechapel Film Programme
Angel Alley
80-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX http://www.whitechapel.org
Single screening £5
Single day £15/12*
Weekend pass £25/16*
For a day or weekend ticket, please book each individual screening.
Alfred Leslie: irreverently radical artist since the late 1950s,  
friend and co-conspirator with the likes of Kerouac, Ginsberg, de  
Kooning and Pollock. From the beatnik sit-com Pull My Daisy (1959,  
with Robert Frank) to the formally concise The Last Clean Shirt  
(1964, with Frank O’Hara) and the recent video The Cedar Bar (2001)  
his films are of major significance. The Whitechapel Film Programme  
is presented in collaboration with LUX.

This weekend-long season is the first major presentation of Alfred  
Leslie’s films in the UK. It is introduced and discussed by Leslie  
who is an extraordinary orator and includes two exclusive screenings  
of works in progress.

Saturday 21 April
The Cedar Bar, Alfred Leslie, US 2001, video, 84mins
Originally written as a play in 1952 based on actual conversations  
between abstract expressionists Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler,  
Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, April Yabolonsky, gallerist John  
Myers and critic Clement Greenberg in their eponymous hangout, The  
Cedar Bar this video a work of such magnitude that it mocks  
description in its self-declared "WAR BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ART  
AND THOSE WHO WRITE ABOUT IT". Spectacularly elusive, The Cedar Bar,  
genuinely yokes the push-and-pull of a once 'new' painting style with  
the enormity of expressionist opera into an uncontainable psycho- 
tornado!

5pm
USA Poetry: Frank O'Hara, US 1966, 35mins
Frank O'Hara discusses with Al Leslie, a filmmaker and artist, his  
work and the relationship between poets, playwrights, and artists.  
O'Hara also reads some of his poetry and talks about some of his  
friendships with other artists Filmed off-air by NET on March 5, 1966  
at the home and studio of Frank O'Hara in New York City.

The Last Clean Shirt, Alfred Leslie & Frank O’Hara, US 1964, 16mm,  
39mins
In a letter to his friend and collaborator, the poet Frank O'Hara,  
Leslie writes: "We will shoot for two SEPERATE LEVELS on the film.  
One is the VISUAL, the other the HEARD & the spectator will be in TWO  
places or more SIMULTANEOUSLY. NOT AS MEMORY BUT AT THE SAME MOMENT.  
PARALLELISM! MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW!" It is a blueprint for The Last  
Clean Shirt in which a man and a woman take a car ride through the  
streets of downtown Manhattan. A clock on the dashboard foregrounds  
the fact that the film is a single shot. The woman speaks in Finnish  
jibberish, interpreted by the beautiful and brilliant story told via  
O’Hara’s subtitles that run throughout.

7pm
Alfred Leslie introduces:
Birth of a Nation (work in progress), Alfred Leslie, c.40mins
Referring to – and revising - DW Griffith’s notorious film of the  
same name, this work is a reconstruction of a never-completed,  
mutating essay. Originally shown in a variety of unfinished states,  
this current version reworks the only remaining 11minute fragment to  
survive.
And other works

Sunday 22 April

3pm
Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn LeRoy, US 1933, 16mm, 96mins
Vituosic, geometry-defying choreography from Busby Berkeley combines  
with Depression-era slapstick wisecracks. This outstandingly  
delirious film reflects Leslie’s love of the musical – and the  
influence of a form that combines comedy, spectacle and song on his  
own practice.

5pm
Alfred Leslie in conversation and:
The Anatomy of Cindy Fink, Richard Leacock, Patricia Jaffe, Paul  
Leaf, US 1960, 16mm, 12mins
Cinema verité portrait of a teenage girl’s first jazz dance audition  
in a Greenwich Village studio. With Larry Rivers, Al Leslie, and  
Louise Lassier.

Pull My Daisy, Alfred Leslie, US 1959,16mm, 27mins
Based around Jack Kerouac's narration from the last section of his  
unproduced play 'The Beat Generation' (itself based on an incident  
between Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn), Pull My Daisy as much a  
document of its own unravelling as it is footage of some of the most  
acclaimed writers and painters of its generation at play. Caught  
between the socio-historical cult of itself and its Beatnik players,  
and the excitement of its discreet yet radical formalism, Pull My  
Daisy has been pawed over by the watchdogs and self-appointed  
guardians of avant-garde film since its first double-bill showings  
with John Cassavete's 'Shadows' in the late 1950's. With its bawdy  
gags and caustic, iconoclastic humour, the film is actually  
predicated on the delicacy of a subtly shifting interplay between  
modes of 'depiction', between record and fiction, self-awareness and  
dubious, wilfull naivete, debunking the ordinarily stable registers  
its surface (and our own viewing habits) would otherwise invoke.

7pm
Lost in the Fire (work in progress), Alfred Leslie, c.50mins
An intimate memoir based around the 1966 studio fire that had such a  
radical and lasting impact on Leslie’s practice.
And other works

3.

Saturday 21 April - Sunday 22 April
For You: Peter Todd – Film Works 1990-2005
Saturday 2pm at Greenwich Picturehouse
Sunday 3pm at Riverside Studios Cinema
Greenwich Picturehouse
Box office tel 08707 55 00 65 www.picturehouses.co.uk
Riverside Studios Cinema, Hammersmith
Box office 020 8237 1111 www.riversidestudios.co.uk

Introduced by Peter Todd - a screening of 16mm films in conjunction  
with his show
Outside Inside Inside Outside at The Surgery
123 Evelina Road, Nunhead, London SE15 3HB
Open Fri-Sun 12-6 or by appointment. www.surgery123.org tel. 07906  
206 166.

Programme includes; Out, 1990. To Red, 1995. Diary, 1998. Day Out or  
100’ Of Film, 1998. For You, 2000. An Office Worker Thinks of Their  
Love, and Home, 2003. Where You Had Been, 2005. The programme  
concludes with works by two film makers who Peter Todd has included  
in particular in curated programmes, Aerial, Margaret Tait. 1974,  
Tree and Cloud (part of 'Animal Studies; including some of their  
habitats’), Guy Sherwin.1998-2003.
All works on 16mm film, rt approx 70 mins.

‘They stay long enough to reveal what you’d miss in passing, intimate  
enough to make you linger, thoughtful enough to make you, in turn,  
think.”Alan Alderson-Smith – Phoenix Arts.

“crafter of poetic ruminations about ordinary life...No special  
effects: just a camera trained on nondescript surroundings, made  
poignant by the soundtrack’s medley of voices and director’s  
sensitivity to the layers of emotions that shape the most ordinary of  
lives.” Geoff Brown - The Times.

“One’s own mundane circuit is often so internalised, that it takes  
the visualisation of another’s … to let us see our own afresh. To be  
benignly jolted, calmly encouraged to reconsider the possible  
immanence of awe, is one of the recurrent effects of Todd’s work in  
this vein.” Gareth Evans - Vertigo

A specially commissioned essay by Lucy Reynolds is published in  
conjunction with For You, supported by Arts Council England.
All work distributed by LUX


4.
21 April 2007
Our Technicolour Dream
ICA
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH
Box Office: 020 7930 3647 / Switchboard: 020 7930 0493
  www.ica.org.uk

2007 is a year of many anniversaries: twenty years since Acid House,  
thirty since the release of 'Never Mind The Bollocks', forty since  
Sgt. Pepper's and fifty since the publication of Jack Kerouac's On  
The Road.

One event that gets far less publicity, but that was at the heart of  
everything that came both before and after it also sees its 40th  
anniversary this year. The 14-Hour Technicolor Dream took place on  
April the 29th 1967 and was the UK's first mass-participational all- 
night psychedelic freakout!

Organised and in a matter of weeks, the event was held in the  
cavernous confines of Alexandra Palace. The vision of Hoppy Hopkins  
and Miles, the night saw a glorious mingling of freaks, beats, mods,  
squares, proto-punks, pop stars and heads come together to dance,  
trip, love and be.

To celebrate the anniversary, the ICA presents Our Technicolor Dream  
- a one-off multi-media event that features an array of cult 60s  
films and animation, full-on psychedelic lightshows, groovy DJs,  
avant-garde theatre, a Q&A session with the leading lights of the 60s  
underground and live music with The Amazing World of Arthur Brown,  
The Pretty Things, Circulus and Mick Farren!



Weird and Wonderful 60s Animation 2.30pm, 4.30pm
A dizzying array of multi-national cartoon craziness.
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members

In 1967, Dick Arnall launched the first British Animation Festival,  
and in tribute to his work, the current organiser of the London  
International Animation Festival, Nag Vladermersky presents a  
dizzying array of 60s and 70s multi-national cartoon craziness.
First up is Jan Lenica's Labyrinth, a Kafka-esque tale of a winged  
and lonely man devoured by totalitarian rule. Labyrinth is considered  
to be one of the finest political animations ever made.
Next come two 1969 Jan Svankmajer works, The Flat and A Quiet Week In  
The House: both are dark, disturbing domestic parables.
Les Astronautes by Walerian Borowczyk and Chris Marker is a co- 
directed short about an eager inventor and his homemade spaceship.  
Renowned Polish animator and erotic film director Borowczyk is a key  
influence on directors like Terry Gilliam and David Lynch.
This is followed by Ryan Larkin's Oscar-nominated Walking. Using a  
combination of line drawing and colour wash, Larkin observes the  
movements of a variety of urban characters.
Finally, Street Musique, another Larkin work, opens with live-action  
footage of street musicians, before changing into a staggeringly  
animated stream-of-consciousness piece.

Tell It Like It Was: The Round Table Speaks, 6pm SOLD OUT
60s underground luminaries offer their takes on the original 14-Hour  
Technicolor Dream, where it came from and where it ended up.

What's a Happening? 12.30pm, 2.30pm
An hour and a half of rare, lost and unseen psychedelic masterpieces.
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members

In conjunction with the BFI, we bring you 90 minutes of rare, lost  
and unseen psychedelic masterpieces. We kick off with the 1967 BBC  
documentary about the original Alexandra Palace event Man Alive:  
What's a Happening? This splendid period-piece documentary includes  
interviews with such legendary characters as Suzy Creamcheese as well  
as cameos from bemused Ally Pally security staff and assorted  
underground hipsters.

Anthony Stern's 1968 San Francisco follows, featuring a startling  
flash and freeze frame technique edited to a unique demo version of  
Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive". Stern's rapid, closely cut  
sequences form a colorful montage of bizarre images, creating a  
portrait of the city in all its photogenic glamour and kooky excess.  
Next up is the Jeff Keen trilogy of Cineblatz, Marvo Movies 1 and 2  
and White Lite, which all epitomise the director's weird, wonderful  
and most surreally British take on Pop Art. Keen's 10-minute short,  
Meatdaze is next up - six segments containing a wild and pleasurably  
eccentric mix of cartoon, newsreel and featurettes.

Finally, we have the deranged Pythonesque comedy of John Beech's  
Postal Delivery and Arthur Johns' extraordinary essay on colour  
effects, Solar Flares Burn For You, set to a hypnotic Robert Wyatt  
soundtrack.

Boyle Family Films With Music by Soft Machine, 4.30pm
Mark Boyle and Joan Hills' legendary lightshow films, remixed live to  
a recording of Soft Machine.
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members

Mark Boyle and Joan Hills were pioneers of British projections with  
events such as Son et Lumiere for Insects, Reptiles and Water  
Creatures and the infamous Bodily Fluids and Functions, which  
included blood, vomit, tears and semen. Their liquid light show of  
exploding colours and foaming bubbles became a major feature of the  
psychedelic scene through their residency at the UFO club and their  
work with Soft Machine, who played what Boyle described as 'acetylene  
music'.
Their farewell 'lightshow' films Beyond Image and Son of Beyond Image  
were shot for a circular screen environment as part of their 1969 ICA  
exhibition 'Journey to the Surface of the Earth' and will be remixed  
live by Joan Hills and Sebastian Boyle to a live recording of Soft  
Machine from the technicolor era.


5.

Sunday 22 April, 1pm
The East End On Film
The Rio Cinema, Dalston
107 Kingsland High Street
London, E8 2PB
Box Office: 020 7241 9410
www.riocinema.org.uk
Part of the East End Film Festival. For full listings visit http:// 
www.eastendfilmfestival.com
A selection of films by local artist filmmakers, curated by Carol  
Morley and introduced by Bev Zalcock.

“The following films are all set in the East End of London. I’ve  
lived in Whitechapel for seven years now, and was a student at Tower  
Hamlets College fifteen years ago. It was there I became really  
interested in the area historically, socially and visually. I am  
always excited to see the East End on film and this selection of  
artist film and video offers diverse filmmaking approaches to  
representing such a fascinating area.” – Carol Morely

Black Tower Dir: John Smith / 24 mins / 1987: Enter the world of a  
man haunted by a tower which, he believes, is following him around  
Leytonstone.

East End Underground Movement Dir: Bev Zalcock / 4 mins 30 / 1985: A  
woman daydreams on the underground train to East Ham.

Stalin My Neighbour Dir: Carol Morely / 15 mins / 2004: Annie walks  
the streets of the East End of London, in the footsteps of Josef  
Stalin and Mahatma Ghandi.

A13 Dir: William Raban / 12 mins / 1994: A13 investigates the social  
and architectural structures of London's East End.

Fisticuffs Dir: Miranda Pennell / 11mins / 2004: Six actors punch,  
kick and wrestle their way through an East London working men's club.

Carol Morley is an award winning filmmaker whose films include The  
Alcohol Years which was BAFTA nominated. Her films have screened  
worldwide and have been broadcast internationally including  
screenings on the Sundance Channel. Three of her films were released  
on DVD in 2005 to critical acclaim. She is currently in development  
with Warp X with her first feature film Dreams of a Life.


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