[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 15th- 21st January 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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  LUX Weekly News 15th- 21st  January 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK


Artprojx + Gagosian Gallery present 1800 (2006) a film by Dexter  
Dalwood, Monday 15th to Sunday 21st January. Pre-screening  
introduction from Dexter Dalwood on Monday 15th January, 6.30pm
Indian Video Art: Between Myth And History, Greenwich Picturehouse,  
Wednesday, 17th Jan, 7.00pm
Norman McLaren: Cut-Outs, NFT2, Fri 19th Jan 6.20pm & Sat 27th Jan  
3.30pm
Sparky Chatroom’s Film Club: Dedicated to people making a difference,  
Studio Voltaire, 19th - 28th January, from 7pm
tank.tv: I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium,  
Saturday 20 January, 7pm
The gallery at Sketch presents PHILL NIBLOCK: The Movement of People  
Working, 20th January - 10th March.  A rare performance of Niblock's  
music featuring flautist/bassist Susan Stenger & Guitarist Robert  
Poss, Saturday 20 January, 12.30 to 2.30pm

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.
Monday 15th to Sunday 21st January 2007
Artprojx + Gagosian Gallery present
1800 (2006) a film by Dexter Dalwood
35mm film (4mins 15secs)
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, London WC2
Box Office 020 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
See cinema website for film listings and timings  
www.princecharlescinema.com

1800 will be screened before all main features

On Monday 15 January at 6.30pm Dexter Dalwood will give a brief  
introduction before the screening of 1800 and his selected feature  
film: A History of Violence, David Cronenberg (2005).

1800 is concerned with the process behind the making of an iconic  
image. It refers to the heroic gestures of 19th-century history  
painting, of which Jacques–Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the St  
Bernard Pass is perhaps the best-known example.

1800 depicts the production of a final shot. Its rapid-fire narrative  
is constructed from an eclectic collection of clips showing film  
crews at work, for example, footage of a film crew from the The Stunt  
Man (1980), which is itself a film about the making of a film.  
Dalwood links the film-making process to the process of making a  
painting, in which the film ultimately appears to recreate David’s  
painting. In doing so he portrays film-making as a military campaign  
on a grand scale, referencing the grandeur and ambition of both  
history painting and film.
Dexter Dalwood; Recent History runs until 2 February 2007
at Gagosian Gallery, 6-24 Britannia Street, London WC1

2.
Wednesday, 17th Jan, 7.00pm
Indian Video Art: Between Myth And History
Screening Room, Greenwich Picturehouse
180 Greenwich High Road,
Greenwich
London SE10 8NN
Tickets: £6 / £4 conc
Box Office: 08707 55 00 65
www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema
Starting out in the early nineties Indian video art has so far  
produced about thirty artists who have incorporated this ‘new’ medium  
in their means of expression. Their video works provide, in an  
original way, an account of the dramatic political history and the  
rapidly changing society of the Indian subcontinent. The programme  
will screen a wide range of single screen works from these  
experimental artists who all live and work in the big cities of  
India. Featured artists include Nalini Malani, Tushar Joag, Valay  
Shende (Mumbai), Anita Dube (New Delhi) and Pushpamala N (Bangalore).  
Curated by Johan Pijnappel.

3.
Fri 19 Jan 6.20pm & Sat 27 Jan 3.30pm
Norman McLaren: Cut-Outs
NFT2
National Film Theatre
Belvedere Rd, South Bank
London, SE1 8XT
Non members: £8.50, £6.25 conc
Book online at www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film or 020 7928 3232
The paper cut-out technique was favoured during the early days of the  
NFB because it was simple and inexpensive. McLaren was drawn to the  
technique's geometric style and graphic simplicity, and he used cut- 
outs for some of his most famous films, including Rythmetic (co- 
directed with Evelyn Lambart) and Le Merle. The clarity and  
simplicity of the cut-out technique is in perhaps most extensive  
evidence in the educational series Animated Motion (Le Mouvement  
image par image), directed by McLaren and Grant Munro. Programme  
includes: Animated Motion (1976-78; co-dir Grant Munro); Alouette  
(1944; co-dir René Jodoin); Rythmetic (1956; co-dir Evelyn Lambart);  
Le Merle (1958); Spheres (1969; co-dir René Jodoin).
Part of Norman McLaren at the NFT

4.
19th - 28th January 2007, from 7pm
Sparky Chatroom’s Film Club: Dedicated to people making a difference
Studio Voltaire
1a Nelson's Row
London
SW4 7JR
www.studiovoltaire.org 0207 622 1294
Nearest tube: Clapham Common
Nearest train: Clapham High Street
Nearest bus: 35, 88, 155, 345, 355

Sparky Chatroom’s Film Club, Dedicated people making a difference, is  
a film club organised by Spartacus Chetwynd and Studio Voltaire.  The  
club aims to showcase a variety of feature films and documentaries in  
social and discursive atmosphere.  The programme will include live  
MC’ing/ fan’s commentary throughout, fast-forwarding to the best bits  
and popcorn.
Including the screening of The Walk to Dover A film by Spartacus  
Chetwynd

19th January, from 7pm
MERCEDES’ NIGHT
Programme:
The Walk to Dover by Spartacus Chetwynd
All the King’s Men (1949/ Robert Rossen/ US)
Johnny Guitar (1954/ Nicholas Ray/ US)
Suddenly Last Summer (1959/ Joseph L. Mankiewicz/ US)
The Fear of God: The Making of ‘The Exorcist” (1998/ BBC/ UK)

26 January 2007, from 7pm
CHARLTON’S NIGHT
Programme:
The Walk to Dover by Spartacus Chetwynd
Ben Hur (1959/ William Wyler/ US)
Planet of the Apes (1968/ Franklin J. Schaffner/ US)
Soylent Green (1973/ Edward G. Robinson/ US)
Wayne’s World 2 (1993/ Penelope Spheeris/ US)
Bowling for Columbine (2002/ Michael Moore/ US)

Additional screenings of The Walk To Dover 20, 21, 27 and 28 January  
2007, 1 –6pm
The Walk to Dover was an off-site commission for Studio Voltaire by  
artist Spartacus Chetwynd in September 2005.  The project involved a  
seven-day walk from London to Dover by ‘Victorian Urchins’, as well  
as a send off event in London and a welcoming reception on the White  
Cliffs of Dover.

Emulating the narrative from Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical  
novel, David Copperfield, Chetwynd led a small group of walkers from  
London to Dover. Starting at the oberlisk, at St Georges Circus, the  
walk retraced Copperfield’s journey from a Blacking Warehouse in  
London to Dover where he found sanctuary with his Aunt, Betsy  
Trotwood.  As David Copperfield foraged for food on his journey, the  
group also attempted to live off the land, looking for food for  
free.  Copperfield’s journey also tracked his shifting social status,  
exploring class structures in Victorian England.

The new film documents the journey, using stills photography and  
sound recordings made by the group into a collaged narrative.  The  
film has been made by filmmaker and fellow urchin, Zoe Brown with  
Spartacus Chetwynd.  The Walk to Dover draws comparisons between  
Victorian “Debt Prisons” and our current credit card culture.  This  
builds on recent investigations into concepts of debt and a specific  
interest in the advice of Alvin Hall, the television financial guru.

5.
Saturday 20 January, 7pm
tank.tv: I Am Future Melancholic
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Bankside, London SE1
£5, booking recommended
Curated by Anne-Sophie Dinant and Laure Prouvost for tank.tv.
www.tank.tv/
www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/7362.htm

This show presents moving images by artists whose practice reflects a  
vision of tomorrow. The structures and systems of reality are  
examined to reveal glimpses into what we call 'the future'. Among the  
artists included are Carsten Höller, Susanne Burner, Jonas Mekas,  
Vito Acconci, John Latham and Xavier Veilhan.This ineffable and  
intangible concept, that constantly haunts the present, here provokes  
a wealth of musings and imaginings.

In 'Bruxelles 4023', Mathieu Delvaux & Xavier van Huffel perform  
street interviews to ask the public what they think Brussels might be  
like in 4023. The answers, as varied as the people themselves, reveal  
the concept of the future as a screen for hopes, fears and fantasy. A  
starting point into an exploration of tomorrow… Challenging, doubt- 
inducing and transformative aspects of 'the future' can be perceived  
in Vito Acconci's repetitive acts, recorded in a super8 film 'Break- 
Through' or in Philippe Meste's detonative video 'LHRB'. Rachel  
Reupke's 'Infrastructure' is born of a fascination with movie special  
effects and narrative devices. And Carsten Höller's 'One minute of  
doubt' and 'Punktefilm' induct a representation of our 'timeless  
everyday', and magically echo the playful nature of his present  
turbine hall installation.
Laurent Montaron shows us a fictive exploration of time and travel  
through his `Readings', while Matthieu Laurette's impressive cocktail  
of celebrity lookalikes brings us into confusion at a blured vision  
of the limits between performance and observation. Mai Yamashita and  
Naoto Kobayashi's star, in 'When I wish Upon a Star' gives us time we  
need to wish upon…

Programme:
Erwin Wurm : I like my time, I don't like my time, 2003, 2.40 min
Haris Epaminonda: Nemesis 52 (excerpt), 2003, 4 min
Xavier Veilhan: Drumball, 2003, 7.50 min
Carsten Höller: One minute of Doubt, 1999, 1 min
Carsten Höller: Punktefilm, 1998, 45 sec
Philippe Meste: WWXX, 2004, 3 min
Susanne Bürner: Finister, 2005, 5.40 min
Laurent Montaron: Readings, 2005, 14 min
Chris Cornish: Tate Modern, 2002, 3 min
Matthieu Delvaux and Xavier Van Huffel: 4023, 2003, 10.30 min
Bernard Gigounon: Starship, 2002, 6 min
Matthieu Laurette, 2001–2, 2 min Déjà Vu: The 2nd International Look- 
alike Convention at Castello di Rivoli (The Making of)
Matthieu Laurette, 1998, 2.30 min The Spectacle is not Over
Rachel Reupke: Infrastructure, 2002, 10 min
John Latham: Speak, 1962, 10 min
Vito Acconci: Break-Through, 1970, 3 min
Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi: When I Wish Upon a Star, 2004, 3 min
Programme duration 90 min
GUESTS: Artist Mathieu Delvaux, Matthieu Laurette and Susanne Bürner  
with musician Steve Trafford (ex member of the Fall / member of  
Tycoons Follies), will be present at the Tate Modern screening to  
introduce their work.

This event is related to the The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller  
exhibition

6.
20th January to 10th March 2007
the gallery at Sketch
Presents PHILL NIBLOCK: The Movement of People Working
Curated by Mathieu Copeland
9 Conduit Street, London, W1S 2XG
Tube: Oxford Street/Piccadilly Circus
0870 777 4488, gallery at sketch.uk.com
Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Free admission
www.sketch.uk.com

Saturday 20 January, 12.30 to 2.30pm
A rare performance of Niblock's music featuring flautist/bassist  
Susan Stenger & Guitarist Robert Poss





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