LUX Weekly News 7 August - 12 August 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 7 August - 12 August 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK


1. Pop Art and Sculptors’ Films: Turnbull to Pye - 50s, 60s & 70s,  
Bfi Southbank, Tue 7 August, £8.60

2. Damián Ortega, White Cube until 2 September

3. Warhol films: Bfi Southbank, Tuesday all tickets £5. Other  
screenings £8.60, £6.25

Elvis at Ferus + Tarzan and Jane Regained, Sort Of...Tue 7 August,  
6.40pm & Sat 11 August, 4pm

Kiss + Haircut #1 + Eat, Wed 8 Aug, 8.45pm & Sat 11 Aug, 5.50pm

Blow Job + Henry Geldzahler, Thu 9 Aug, 6.10pm (introduced by Callie  
Angell, followed by Q&A)
Sun 12 Aug, 8.30pm

Screen Tests: Programme One, Thu 9 Aug, 8.40pm

Screen Tests: Programme Two, Fri 10 Aug, 6.20pm

Soap Opera (excerpt) + Couch, Fri 10 Aug, 8.40pm (Introduced by  
Callie Angell, followed by Q&A)
Sun 12 Aug, 3.15pm

Empire, Silent, 485 min, Sat 11 Aug, 2.30pm

Sleep, Sun 12 Aug, 5pm

4. Warhol films: Lupe, The Wapping Project, Sunday 12 August, 1pm

5. Cosmópolis, Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, Sunday 12 August, 3pm

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1.

Tuesday 7 Aug 8.45pm
Pop Art and Sculptors’ Films: Turnbull to Pye - 50s, 60s & 70s
NFT2, Bfi Southbank
Southbank
London SE1
www.bfi.org.uk
Tickets £8.60, £6.25 (BFI Members pay £1 less).

Film was explored by many visual artists during the 1950s and 1960s;  
a period when British art was internationally associated with radical  
new sculpture and Pop Art. This programme contains rare film-works by  
some of the most celebrated artists of the period and by others who  
deserve to be better known. Many have their origins in the idea of  
documentation, but ambitiously explore different forms of collage,  
multiple viewpoint and space-time relationships.

William Turnbull and Alan Forbes 83B 1951 12 mins
Jeff Keen Wail 1960 5mins and Like The Time is Now 1961 6mins
Eduardo Paolozzi History of Nothing 1963 12mins
James Scott & Richard Hamilton Richard Hamilton 1969 25mins
Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce Heads, Bodies and Legs 196? 3mins
Derek Boshier Link 1970 10mins
Nicholas Munro Sailing Through 1971 6mins
William Pye Reflections 1972 17mins


2.

August - 8 September
Damián Ortega
White Cube
48 Hoxton Square
London N1 6PB
www.whitecube.com
Nine part film installation referencing the sixth century BC Chinese  
text 'The Art of War; plus a series of floor-to-ceiling sculptures by  
the Mexican born artist.


3.

Warhol films
Bfi Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/seasons/warhol/
Tuesday all tickets £5. Other screenings £8.60, £6.25 (BFI Members  
pay £1 less)

7 August, 6.40pm & 11 August, 4pm
Elvis at Ferus + Tarzan and Jane Regained, Sort Of...

Elvis at Ferus
USA 1963. With Irving Blum, John Coplans. 4min @ 18fps. Silent.
+
Tarzan and Jane Regained, Sort Of...
USA 1963. 81min.
Two very different films shot by Warhol during his 1963 trip to Los  
Angeles demonstrate the range of his early film-making.

Elvis at Ferus is a brief 'home movie' documenting Warhol's  
exhibition of silk-screened 'Elvis' paintings at Irving Blum's Ferus  
Gallery; as Warhol spins around with his camera, multiple Elvises  
seem to march across the screen.

Tarzan and Jane Regained is a feature-length B-movie spoof that  
follows Taylor Mead (Tarzan) and Naomi Levine (Jane) through a series  
of playful encounters with various artists (Claes Oldenburg), actors  
(Dennis Hopper), animals and other menacing characters. Inspired by  
Ron Rice's film The Flower Thief, Warhol's film wittily engages the  
cultures of both the movie industry and the art world.

Kiss + Haircut #1 + Eat
Wed 8 Aug, 8.45pm & Sat 11 Aug, 5.50pm

Kiss
USA 1964. With Naomi Levine, Gerard Malanga, Rufus Collins, Marisol.  
48min @ 18fps. Silent.
+
Haircut #1
USA 1963-64. With John Daley, Freddie Herko, Billy Name. 24min @ 18  
fps. Silent.
+
Eat
USA 1964. 35min @ 18fps. Silent.
Three films from 1963-64 trace the early development of Warhol's  
minimalist cinema. In Kiss, shots of different kissing couples, both  
straight and gay, were filmed over a number of months and eventually  
assembled into a larger, 'serial' work. In the homoerotic Haircut, a  
single haircutting scene is shot from various camera angles over  
multiple rolls; the painstaking cinematography, expressionistic  
lighting and carefully arranged poses deny the assumed 'simplicity'  
of Warhol's early films. In Eat, Warhol uses a single shot continued  
over multiple rolls to create a stunning close-up portrait of the  
painter Robert Indiana eating a single mushroom; the rolls are  
assembled out of order, so the mushroom appears magically to renew  
itself from time to time.


Blow Job + Henry Geldzahler
Thu 9 Aug, 6.10pm (introduced by Callie Angell, followed by Q&A)
Sun 12 Aug, 8.30pm

Blow Job
USA 1964. With DeVerne Bookwalter. 36min @ 18fps. Silent.
+
Henry Geldzahler
USA 1964. 88min @ 18fps. Silent.
Two more silent films from 1964 continue the progression of Warhol's  
minimalist cinema. In Blow Job, Warhol's unmoving camera remains  
focused in close-up on the head of a young man, never descending to  
reveal the sex act explicitly advertised in the film's title, an  
event that is nevertheless legible in the changing expressions on the  
actor's face. Conceived as an irreverent slap in the face of 60s film  
censorship, this hypnotic portrait film has become an essential work  
in the history of queer cinema. Shot the day after Empire, Henry  
Geldzahler is basically an extended Screen Test and also a real test  
of psychological endurance for its star, a well-known curator of  
contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Screen Tests: Programme One
Silent, 80 mins
Thu 9 Aug, 8.40pm

Charles Aberg, 1966; Roderick Clayton, 1966; Imu, 1964; Peter Hujar,  
1964; Amy Taubin, 1964; Alicia Purchon Clark, 1965; Hal, 1964;  
Susanne De Maria, 1964; Danny Foster, 1966; Virginia Tusi, 1965; Amy  
Taubin, 1964; Bibbe Hansen, 1965; Nancy Fish, 1964; Jim Rosenquist,  
1964; Donyale Luna, 1965; Steve Balkin, 1964; Marilynn Karp, 1964;  
Cathy James, 1965; Tina, 1965; Kellie, 1965


Screen Tests: Programme Two
Silent, 80 mins
Fri 10 Aug, 6.20pm

Henry Geldzahler, 1965; Twist Jim Rosenquist, 1964; Beverly Grant,  
1964; Pat Hartley, 1965; Roderick Clayton, 1966; Tony Towle, 1964;  
Kyoko Kishida, 1964; Charles Aberg, 1966; Paul Thek, 1964; Gerard  
Malanga, 1964; Buffy Phelps, 1965; John Giorno, 1964; Paul  
Wittenborn, 1965; Kenneth King, 1964; Dennis Hopper, 1964; Kipp  
Stagg, 1965; Richard Markowitz, 1964; Dennis Hopper, 1964; Richard  
Schmidt, 1965; Gregory Battcock, 1964

Soap Opera (excerpt) + Couch
Fri 10 Aug, 8.40pm (Introduced by Callie Angell, followed by Q&A)
Sun 12 Aug, 3.15pm
Soap Opera (excerpt)
USA 1964. Co-dir Jerry Benjamin. 47min.
+
Couch
USA 1964. With Ondine, Naomi Levine. 52min @ 18fps. Silent.
In two films from the summer of 1964, Warhol can be seen  
experimenting with different kinds of Pop imagery. In Soap Opera, an  
ambitious but unfinished project, Warhol explores the conventions of  
daytime television by intercutting his own silent footage of  
enigmatic domestic dramas with 16mm sound commercials produced by  
Lester Persky for television - ads that include Pillsbury Cake Mix,  
Easter Seals, an electric rotisserie, and a hilarious 'info-mercial'  
for Beauty Set Shampoo. In Couch, Warhol's notoriously pornographic  
silent film, combinations of Factory personalities engage in various  
activities on or around the studio's central couch - eating bananas,  
snoozing, repairing a motorcycle, having sex. One roll shows a  
historic gathering of Beat writers including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory  
Corso, and Jack Kerouac.


Empire
Silent, 485 min
Sat 11 Aug, 2.30pm
The culmination of Warhol's early minimalist films can be found in  
Empire, a single shot of the Empire State Building that attains the  
eight-hour length that he had failed to reach with Sleep the year  
before. Filmed (by Jonas Mekas) with a rented Auricon camera from  
evening into the early morning on July 25-26, 1964 and then projected  
in slow motion, this nighttime study of a skyscraper is a cinematic  
meditation on the nature of duration.

Unallocated seating - ticket-holders can drop in to the screening at  
any time.

Sleep
Silent, 321 mins
Sun 12 Aug, 5pm
Warhol's first minimalist epic was originally conceived as an eight- 
hour film of a man sleeping. To overcome the limitations of a camera  
that could only shoot four minutes of film at a time, Warhol  
developed a monumental solution: assembling multiple copies made from  
a small amount of original footage into a complex, repetitive montage  
that focuses hypnotically on the sleeping form of John Giorno.

Unallocated seating - ticket-holders can drop in to the screening at  
any time.


4.

12 August, 1pm
Andy Warhol, Lupe, 1965, colour, 72 mins
The Wapping Project
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
Wapping Wall, E1W 3ST
Tube: Wapping
All £7.50, call 0207 680 2080 for information and bookings
www.thewappingproject.com



5.

Sunday 12 August, 3pm
Cosmópolis
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888
Camilo Tavares, Otavio Cury, Cói Belluzzo, Cosmópolis, 2005
Cosmópolis tells the story of São Paulo’s rapid growth during the  
twentieth century and charts the emergence of its hybrid cultures.  
The film draws parallels between the history of the city and the  
private worlds of the immigrants interviewed, giving a unique  
perspective on one of the most complex cities in the world.
Camilo Tavares, Otavio Cury and Cói Belluzzo, Brazil 2005, 55 min



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