LUX You and Me at Whitechapel, Thu 19 July, 7.30pm

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New Work UK: You and Me

Thursday 19 July, 7.30pm, £5
Whitechapel Gallery

The best of recent British film and video selected by independent  
curator Polly Staple.
Presented in association with LUX.

Pablo Bronstein, Bonnie Camplin, Keren Cytter, Haris Epaminonda, Jaki  
Irvine, Hilary Lloyd,
Lucy Skaer, Cathy Wilkes


  
The programme consists of a selection of works made between 1996 and  
2007 across a range of film media. A number of the artists are not  
primarily filmmakers and they bring a range of disparate influences  
to their exploration of film and video’s ability to play with space,  
time and sound. Three artists not based in the UK are included -  
Keren Cytter, Haris Epaminonda and Jaki Irvine - as evidence of a  
shared set of concerns that construct a dialogue beyond the terms  
‘new’ and ‘British’.

The intention with the programme is to create a specific atmosphere,  
a proposal for a cinematic experience. The works eschew easy  
categorisation revealing tensions between documentary and staged  
performance, fictitious narrative and enigmatic portraiture, aura and  
presence, memory and image. The domestic and a low-key approach to  
production characterises the selection. The use of varying linguistic  
registers and editing techniques creates a distinct rhythm and pace:  
a precise choreography focussing on the spaces between people and  
things, an abundance of melancholic posturing and charged silences.  
The programme explores how we construct and communicate personalities  
- both private and public, intimate and absurd - the power of  
iconography, subject-hood, the object-ness of objects, the  
materiality of film, something between the hand and the eye, the gap  
between you and me.

The programme lasts approximately 35 minutes and will be shown twice  
with an interval for discussion.

Whitechapel Gallery
Angel Alley
80-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
www.whitechapel.org

Booking essential, to reserve tickets:
email tickets at whitechapel.org
book online http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=3294
or call  020 7522 7888

Nearest tube: Aldgate East



  
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