[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 5th - 11th February 2007

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LUX Weekly News 5th – 11th February 2007

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Freud Museum Artists’ Talks in conjunction with the PARANOIA  
exhibition, Freud Museum, Tuesday 6th February, 7.00 pm

2. Ecart Group - Selected Video Performances from 1968-7, South  
London Gallery, Thursday 8th February 7.00 – 8.30pm

  3. Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, a film by Matthew Noel-Tod,  
Whitechapel Project Space - Polish cinema revisited - Wajda and  
Kieslowski reworked - London premiere, one weekend only.

Preview: Friday 9th February 19:00 - 21:00 (free Polish vodka  
courtesy of the Polish Cultural Institute)

Saturday 10th February 13:00 - 18:00, Sunday 11th February 13:00 - 18:00



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 6th February, 7.00 pm

Freud Museum Artists’ Talks

in conjunction with the PARANOIA exhibition (Jan 10th - March 11th 2007)

The Freud Museum

20 Maresfield Gardens

London NW3 5SX

Cost: £8 / £5 Friends and concs. All three talks £20/£12.

Seats are limited. Please contact the museum for tickets or book online.

Online booking: www.freud.org.uk

Tel: 020 7435 2002 Email: info at freud.org.uk.

Duncan Pickstock: The Believers

The Believers is a remarkable series of twelve ten-minute video  
interviews which explore notions of belief in western society.  
Researched and directed by Duncan Pickstock the films focus on the  
experiences of individuals such as peace campaigner Brian Haw that  
have led them to have such unflinching conviction in their beliefs. A  
selection of the videos will be shown, followed by a discussion with  
the filmmaker.


2.

Thursday 8th February 7.00 – 8.30pm

Ecart Group - Selected Video Performances from 1968 - 77

South London Gallery

£4 (£3 concs)

www.southlondongallery.org

Ecart was an influential group of artists, of which John Armleder was  
a founding and leading figure. Staging performances, exhibitions and  
events outside galleries and museums, they were pioneers in Europe of  
self-organisation within contemporary art, and included established  
individual artists such as Roman Signer, Jochen Gerz and Armleder  
himself. This compilation of performances to camera is a look back at  
early works by Armleder, and a fascinating glimpse of early  
experimentation with video and live art.

Doors open at 6.45PM – pay bar.


3.

Friday 9th February - Sunday 11th February 2007

Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, a film by Matthew Noel-Tod

Whitechapel Project Space

- Polish cinema revisited - Wajda and Kieslowski reworked -

London premiere, one weekend only

20 Fordham Street London E1 1HS

tel 07748235428 info at whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk

www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk

Free admission: screenings 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm & 5pm

Preview: Friday 9th February 19:00 - 21:00 (free Polish vodka  
courtesy of the Polish Cultural Institute)

Saturday 10th February 13:00 - 18:00

Sunday 11th February 13:00 - 18:00

Director Matthew Noel-Tod

46 minutes video Polish dialogue with English subtitles

Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors takes as its starting point Polish cinema.

Polish actors were invited to audition in Warsaw with dialogue from a  
favourite Polish film. The actors in Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors  
perform a series of moments from the films Ashes and Diamonds (1958),  
Man of Iron (1981) Dekalog 4 (1988) and Sequence of Feelings (1993).  
Famous Polish actress Ewa Kasprzyk was invited to join the cast and  
re-perform her dialogue from Sequence of Feelings. During a process  
of revision and rehearsals, the words and characters from the  
original films became recontextualised into a new narrative,  
including actors and characters inhabiting multiple fictions and  
dramatic spaces. Aesthetic, sexual, historical and dramatic senses  
are manipulated to create a video that is a dialogue between artist  
and actors, between language and image, between past and present.

CAST: Ewa Kasprzyk, Sandra Samos, Juliusz Dzienkiewicz, Robert  
Mazurkiewicz, Karazyna Maternowska, Malgorzata Kasprzycka

Produced at a-i-r laboratory CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw through an  
Arts Council England International Fellowship, 2005

An accompanying 128 pg publication with Polish and English texts, is  
available from Whitechapel Project Space, and from LUX www.lux.org.uk  
£10

Whitechapel Project Space screening supported by the Polish Cultural  
Institute, London



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