[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 12th – 18th February 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

Mon Feb 12 15:38:56 CST 2007

LUX Weekly News 12th – 18th February 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Vertigo event: Pictures from the Floating World: Moving Image Japan
Curzon Soho, Tuesday 13th February, 6 - 7pm

2. Carol Morley: The Film-making Years, NFT 3, National Film Theatre,  
Tuesday 13 February, 6.30pm

3. Jonas Mekas: Home Videos (1987-2005), IBID Projects, 16th February  
- 18th March, Private view Thursday 15th February, 6-8pm

4. Live Screen, Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler’s Wells, Angel,  
Friday 16 February, 7.45pm

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 13th February, 6 - 7pm
Pictures from the Floating World: Moving Image Japan
Curzon Soho
Shaftesbury Avenue
London   W1
Ticket Office: 0870 756 4620
www.curzoncinemas.com
www.vertigomagazine.co.uk
Prog: 55 mins, cert 15
This special event will launch Vertigo's new issue - out now -  
dedicated to the independent and innovative film and video of Japan  
past and present, which has reports on the latest in Japanese visual  
culture and Cine-Manga, a 48 page full colour book of stunning  
photographs by world renowned film director Takeshi Kitano, free with  
the magazine.  To mark the occasion Vertigo is proud to present a  
programme by two imaginative Japanese makers of singular vision and  
technique. Takahiko Iimura (see www.lux.org.uk) is perhaps Japan's  
pre-eminent artist film-maker of the post-war period, creating an  
extensive body of work that references both Japanese and  
international avant-garde tendencies while remaining resolutely  
personal. Joji Koyama graduated from Goldsmiths and remains London- 
based. He has made a significant impact as a short film-maker and  
music promo director (as Woof Ban Bau). His latest film, 'From Nose  
to Mouth' was a commission for animate! TV (www.animateonline.org).  
As Vertigo is London-based, we are also very pleased to be showing  
the world premiere of Czech artist Tereza Stehlíková's new film  
'Kyoto Garden' (5 mins), a dazzlingly textured envisioning of the  
eponymous landscape in Holland Park, a film that captures the  
stillness at the heart of the seasonal cycle.

Takahiko Iimura , Love ("AI") , Japan, 1962, sound, B&W, 12 mins, 16mm.
"Iimura's 'Love' stands out in its beauty and originality, a film  
poem. The closest comparison would be Brakhage's 'Loving' or Jack  
Smith's 'Flaming Creatures'...a poetic and sensuous exploration of  
the body...fluid, direct, beautiful." -Jonas Mekas, 'Film Culture' 1966.

Ma: Space / Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji , Japan, 1989, sound,  
colour, 16 mins, video and 16mm.
  A Japanese concept of time/space is realised through the zen garden  
of Ryoan-ji. With text by Arata Isozaki and music by Takehisa Kosugi.

Joji Koyama , From Nose to Mouth, UK, 2006, 18 mins.
A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating  
dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries,  
structures and languages, the lessons are not going well. A portrayal  
of the unsuccessful efforts of a character trying to make sense of  
the demands and tasks of a strangely disjointed and fragmented world.
  Watermelon Love, UK, 2006, 3 mins.
'Watermelon Love' intimately guides the viewer through a series of  
bizarre erotic rituals and ceremonies, exploring the uneasy fusion of  
eroticism and systemisation.
Friday 16 February, 7.45pm
Live Screen
Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler’s Wells, Angel
£12 (£10 concs) 0870 737 7737
For full listings or watch video clips go to: www.sadlerswells.com/ 
livescreen
Live Screen returns for the New Year with a range of films, video and  
performance, each playing on a compulsive quality within contemporary  
art, performance and dance. You can catch international premieres,  
award winning shorts and vintage footage including previously unseen  
film of Ballets Russes.On screen and live artists will be showing and  
sharing work, from films of uncomfortably close body parts and  
animals dreaming to parkland Tai Chi and Japanese bath houses.

At the centre of Live Screen is the UK premiere of Light Music by  
renowned film maker and composer Thierry de Mey. Alex Reuben – London  
DJ, will also be sharing one of his shorts, Line Dance, before he  
returns to Sadler’s Wells in March with his feature length dance road  
movie of America’s deep.

STEP ONE
Grip, Lucy Heyward (1’24’’, UK 1991)
Elyas, Katy Pendlebury (3’, UK 2006)
Line Dance, Alex Reuben (5’, UK 2004)
Corps Flottants, Robert Cahen (13’, France 1997)
IIe 2, Simona da Pozzo, Choreo. Fabrice Merlen & Damien Dreux (4 ’30,  
Italy 2005)
Les Ballets Russes (extract live performance), (8 mins, Australia,  
1937 – 40)

STEP TWO
Light Music, Thierry de Mey UK
Premiere Interactive performance composed by Thierry de Mey and  
interpreted by Jean Geoffroy, in which air is transformed into music  
and projected as dance on screen.
One Flat Thing, Reproduced UK Premiere,Thierry de Mey, Choreo:  
William Forsythe (17’ Belgium 2006)

STEP THREE
Silver Screen, Lucy Heyward (3’10”, UK 2001)
The Revolution will not be televised, Stuart Baker  (3’, USA 1987)
Fountain, Patty Chang (USA 1999)
7am, Imogen Stidworthy (4' 30, UK 2005)
Stanley Dog of War, Elizabeth Lee (2’, UK 2005)
Animal Studies, Guy Sherwin (2‘, UK, 1998)  Canon Dir. Guy Sherwin  
(2’, UK 2000)  Angel Blue Sweet Wings, Chick Strand (USA 1967)

KAHN LECTURE THEATRE
Interactive Shadow Monster, Philip Worthington
This installation gives life to magical monster characters that  
appear on- screen from shadows cast by the hands of participants. The  
Shadow Monster reacts to gestures with sound and animation - wolf- 
like creatures, birds, a Rastafarian, and madly scribbly shapes are  
in the mix, along with anything else you can make it create.

GARDEN COURT Handrail Zurich Dir. Christoph Ruttiman (42’,  
Switzerland, 2000)

POLYVISION SCREEN Light Walking Dir. James Medcalf Chor. Rosemary Lee  
(7’, UK, 2007)

2.
Tuesday 13 February, 6.30pm
Carol Morley: The Film-making Years
NFT 3
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/7185
presents a selection of rarely seen early works alongside the
London Premiere of The Madness of the Dance.
Internationally acclaimed artist Carol Morley makes provocative films  
that cross boundaries between fact and fiction, exploring  
extraordinary things that happen to ordinary people. Morley earned  
widespread notoriety for the raucous prize-winner The Alcohol Years,  
which charts her alcohol-soaked life on the Manchester scene from the  
perspective of those she encountered in her sorties round the city.

Morley’s latest film The Madness of the Dance (2006) was supported  
through a London Artists' Film and Video Award and shot by leading  
contemporary cinematographer Chris Doyle (In The Mood for Love, Hero).

The Madness of the Dance is a celebration of mass manias and  
individual obsessions, which journeys through an array of bizarre  
incidents. Including the 'biting mania' which started in a convent in  
Germany in the 15th Century and spread through Europe, the 'dancing  
mania' which lasted three hundred years from the 13th Century, and  
the 'laughing mania' which broke out in a village in Tanzania in the  
20th Century.

Following the screening Morley will be in discussion with Helen de  
Witt, Festival Producer at the BFI.

3.
16th February - 18th March
Jonas Mekas: Home Videos (1987-2005)
IBID Projects
21 Vyner Street
London E2 9DG
0208 983 4355
www.ibidprojects.com
Private view Thursday 15th February, 6-8pm

4.
Friday 16 February, 7.45pm
Live Screen
Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler’s Wells, Angel
£12 (£10 concs) 0870 737 7737
For full listings or watch video clips go to: www.sadlerswells.com/ 
livescreen
Live Screen returns for the New Year with a range of films, video and  
performance, each playing on a compulsive quality within contemporary  
art, performance and dance. You can catch international premieres,  
award winning shorts and vintage footage including previously unseen  
film of Ballets Russes.On screen and live artists will be showing and  
sharing work, from films of uncomfortably close body parts and  
animals dreaming to parkland Tai Chi and Japanese bath houses.