[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 24 March – 1 April 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 24 March – 1 April 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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. Brown sierra & music for unknown material continuity and playback  
devices alone (for 4 performers), London Kingsgate Gallery, West  
Hampstead, Wednesday 28 March 2007, at 7pm

2. David Maljkovic, Whitechapel Laboratory, Angel Alley, 28 March - 6  
May

3. Richard Billingham, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, 30 March - 5 May

4. Image, Memory and Representation: The Work of Inge Blackman,  
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, NFT 3, BFI Southbank, 31 March,  
3.50pm

5. Jack Smith and the destruction of Atlantis, London Lesbian & Gay  
Film Festival, NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Saturday 31 March 2007, at 4pm

6. Flaming Creatures & Blonde Cobra, London Lesbian & Gay Film  
Festival, NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Saturday 31 March 2007, at 6.10pm

7. Colin Campbell Forever! London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, NFT 3,  
BFI Southbank, Sunday 1 April 2007 at 8.30pm,


1.
Wednesday 28 March 2007, at 7pm
BROWN SIERRA & MUSIC FOR UNKNOWN MATERIAL CONTINUITY AND PLAYBACK  
DEVICES ALONE (FOR 4 PERFORMERS)
London Kingsgate Gallery
Kingsgate Education Space
114-116 Kingsgate Road, West Hampstead, London NW6
Nearest Tube / Train: West Hampstead
Tickets: £4 door / £3 advance
Telephone: 020 7372 3925 Email: <courses at nowhere-lab.org> Booking is  
essential for this event, as places are limited

Light Reading Series 6

MUSIC FOR UNKNOWN MATERIAL CONTINUITY AND PLAYBACK DEVICES ALONE (FOR  
4 PERFORMERS) Music for unknown material continuity and playback  
devices alone is a conceptually multi-layered series of pieces that  
provide an equality amongst the roles of author and applier whilst  
extending to the role of receivership to all - employing a set of  
procedures that enable the fragmentation of material from the stage  
of gathering to the stage of presentation without the overall  
guidance of any single individual. This piece in particular features  
4 movements of 10 minutes each, a single for each material continuity  
(The individual keywords of which will remain un-announced) These 4  
pieces have been realized for the use of the CD player alone.  
Performed by Adam Asnan, Edward Kelly, J. Milo Taylor and James Holcombe

BROWN SIERRA Brown Sierra are Pia Gambardella and Paddy Collins. They  
are a performance and installation group based in London. Brown  
Sierra will show 3 films and perform live soundtracks.  
www.brownsierra.org.uk

APHASIA (10 mins) A lack of the faculty to transmit ideas using  
language (reading writing speaking and understanding speech). A  
continuous Letraset line, which begins thick, gradually gets thinner  
and then becomes dots which are big and then become small.

AVEIMORE / LAKE WINDEMERE 1977 (6 mins) Old home movies of holidays  
in Aveimore, from our collection of other peoples 8mm / super-8 film.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF PSYCHOLOGY (7 mins) The images in this film are  
abstract black and white worked onto the surface of the film using  
Letraset repetition of images, moving patterned and textured black  
dots. Light Reading is an on-going series of critical dialogues that  
engageartists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected  
artist's body of work. To be included on the mailing list please  
contact courses at nowhere-lab.org

2.
28 March - 6 May
David Maljkovic
Whitechapel Laboratory
Angel Alley
80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
http://www.whitechapel.org Admission free

The Whitechapel presents the first UK solo show of David Maljkovic  
premiering his new film trilogy Scene for New Heritage Trilogy. The  
three films travel through time to show the artist’s vision of the  
future and how the meanings of history and monuments change over  
time. Set in the futuristic world of 2045 the first film follows a  
group travelling to the memorial park at Petrova Gora, Croatia.

They visit communist monuments and debate over their long-forgotten  
meaning in traditional Croatian folk song that the artist recasts as  
a futuristic language. The second part is set twenty years later, as  
a young boy looks out from the monument’s tower to an empty  
landscape, as though the building has by then acquired a mystical  
dimension. The final film shows young teenagers talking, playing and  
walking around the derelict monument.
Artist's costs supported by The Elephant Trust.

3.
30 March - 5 May
Richard Billingham
Anthony Reynolds Gallery
60 Great Marlborough street, London W1F 7BG
http://www.anthonyreynolds.com

4.
31 March, 3.50pm
Image, Memory and Representation: The Work of Inge Blackman
NFT 3, BFI Southbank
  Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
www.llgff.org.uk
Inge Blackman is a lone voice in British filmmaking - a self-styled  
Black Lesbian and Caribbean storyteller. Moving and graceful, her  
compositions seek to evoke the imagination in response to a desire to  
represent sexuality and identity. Inge is also aware of her place  
within film and gallery traditions. These films add a Black queer  
perspective.
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker

5.
Saturday 31 March 2007, at 4pm
JACK SMITH AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT  
Tickets: £8.50 / £6.25 concessions. Box Office: 020 7928 3232
Jack Smith - self-made creature of fantasy, documenter of real magic  
- is best known for his baroque orgiastic celebration Flaming  
Creatures, a film banned in 22 states and four countries. Adopted as  
a cause celebré, Smith was so disgusted with the commercial art  
machine, that he never again made another 'finished product'. An  
anarchist, Smith declared art his only authority as he constructed  
fantastical utopias populated with bejewelled animals, a coterie of  
costumed 'creatures', and magical debris gathered from downtown New  
York. Although increasingly bitter as others cannibalised his work,  
he never stopped his manic quest for glamorous liberation. An  
assemblage of archival photographs, rare film and audio clips,  
Jordan's film offers a sumptuous portrait of this mystic and madman  
who irrevocably altered the fields of experimental theatre,  
photography, performance and avant-garde film. (Kyle Stephan)

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, Mary Jordan, USA, 2006,  
96 mins

6.
Saturday 31 March 2007, at 6.10pm
FLAMING CREATURES & BLONDE COBRA
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
NFT 3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.50 / £6.25 concessions. Box Office: 020 7928 3232  
www.llgff.org.uk

  A double bill of two gloriously primitive flicks that define and  
transcend the idea of 'underground' film. Flaming Creatures, Jack  
Smith's impoverished, epic fantasy of Babylonian proportions, is a  
decadent celebration of the joy and torment of existence. This  
bleached-out orgiastic rite, all limp penises and shaking breasts is  
populated by a blonde vampire, exotic Spanish dancers and androgynous  
bohemian poseurs. Blonde Cobra, as close to an authentic portrait of  
Smith that we have, is propelled by a delirious monologue (witness  
the scurrilous tale of Madame Nescience and Mother Superior) and was  
shot amongst the rubble of his apartment. The two films were  
premiered together in April 1963, and remain fresh, provocative and  
startlingly original over 40 years later. (Mark Webber)
Blonde Cobra, Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner, USA, 1959-63, 33 mins
Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, USA, 1963, 45 mins

7.
Sunday 1 April 2007 at 8.30pm
COLIN CAMPBELL FOREVER !
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
NFT 3, BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Tickets: £8.50 / £6.25 concessions.
Box Office: 020 7928 3232 www.llgff.org.uk
Three Colin Campbell video works preceded by a taped introduction by  
guest curator Mike Hoolboom
Sackville I'm Yours, Colin Campbell, Canada, 1972, 15 mins
In Campbell's first tape, he plays the first of his many personas  
'Art Star', a legend in his own mind, in the midst of (sigh) yet  
another media interview.

Conundrum Clinique, Colin Campbell, Canada, 1981, 14 mins
Playing a NASA scientist, Campbell involves militarists in a  
melodrama of sex and violence. He has two lovers in Clinique, his  
boss (played by Ann McFarland) and the gorgeous Alex Wilson.

Disheveled Destiny, Colin Campbell, Canada, 2000, 29 mins 'Art Star',  
Campbell's very first Frankenstein, returns to Sackville on his  
silver anniversary. He interweaves documentary moments with camped up  
recollections that embody new winds of change.


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