[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News 14 - 20 May 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 14 - 20 May 2007

EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. The 7 Lights, Paul Chan, Serpentine Gallery, May 15 - July 1

2. A special evening marking the launch of three projects led by  
David Curtis, BFI Southbank, Tuesday 15 May 6.20 pm NFT2

3. Retrospective- The Subjective Camera: Michael Maziere, Greenwich  
Picturehouse, Wed 16 May, 6.45 pm

4. CRACKERS by David Austen, Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 16  
May, 6.15pm

5. no.w.here Open Studios, 18 - 20 May

6. Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, Saturday 19 May & Sunday 20 May

7. Zineb Sedira: recent video work, Ciné lumière at the Institut  
français, Saturday 19 May

8. Artists’ Films, Camden Arts Centre, Sunday 20 May, 2 - 4 pm



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.
May 15 - July 1
The 7 Lights, Paul Chan
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London W2 3XA
http://www.serpentinegallery.org

American artist Paul Chan has achieved international acclaim for his  
drawings, videos and installations that blend a novel drawing  
aesthetic with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex  
and life today. The Serpentine Gallery is pleased to present the  
world premiere of the complete series of The 7 Lights, 2005–07,  
largescale digital projections and drawings that ‘hallucinate’ the  
seven days of creation from dawn to dusk. The series explores themes  
of the sacred and the profane, and temptation and renunciation, in  
relation to world. The projections are presented on floors, walls and  
corners, appearing like light and shadows emanating from nearby  
windows. The 7 Lights compress and animate moving images from the  
past and the present into the stark fleetingness of shadows as they  
float in and out of a picture frame that is neither televisual nor  
cinematic.

Chan’s early works include single-channel videos and digital  
animations projected onto panoramic screens that sample and reference  
a range of sources from art history to popular culture. The lo-fi  
digital style of drawing and the inclusion of cultural figures, such  
as rapper Biggie Smalls and Italian fi lmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini,  
belies more serious refl ections on suffering and survival examined  
in the dystopian narratives. A number of single-channel video works  
produced by Chan were initially made available for viewing through  
his website www.nationalphilistine.com.


2.

Tuesday 15 May 6.20pm NFT2
A special evening marking the launch of three projects led by David  
Curtis
BFI Southbank
A substantial programme of 'lost' and rare works curated and  
introduced by
David Curtis, running in 12 parts at BFI Southbank until September.
Opening programme:

Hepworth Manufacturing Company Burnham Beeches 1909
John Latham Talk Mr Bard c.1959-62
Conrad Atkinson X Film 1971
Morgan Fisher Screening Room 1973
Ian Breakwell Excerpts from the Diary 1975
Marilyn Halford Cobaea Scandens 1976

A reception will follow the screening at 7.50pm, and will include a new
installation by Guy Sherwin: Mobius Loops for Five Projectors 2007.

BOOK LAUNCH: A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain
The first comprehensive study of artist' film and video in Britain, this
major new book brings to light the range and diversity of British  
artists'
work in these mediums, as well as the artist-run organisations that have
supported the art form's development. In so doing it greatly enlarges  
the
scope of any understanding of 'British cinema' and demonstrates the  
crucial
importance of the moving image to British art history.
On sale for the special price of £20 (from £25)

15 May - 4 July
Artefacts: British Artists' Film and Video in Documents.
Mezzanine Gallery
BFI Southbank
www.bfi.org.uk
Free
This display of ephemera from one hundred years of British artists'  
film and video has been drawn from the collections of the BFI  
National Library, the BFI National Archive and the British Artists  
Film and Video Study Collection at Central Saint Martins, University  
of the Arts, London. It has been curated by David Curtis, Research  
Fellow at CSM. It marks the launch of Curtis's book A History of  
Artists Film and Video in Britain, and a 12-part season of screenings  
at BFI Southbank.

More than anything else, the posters, photographs and drawings in  
this display illustrate the spirit of autonomy and self-help that has  
characterised this movement from the beginning. They show artists  
inventing their own models of production, exhibition and  
distribution, both in response to the indifference of the commercial  
industry, and as a means of retaining control over the use and  
exploitation of their work.

The holdings of the BFI National Library can be searched via its  
website www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library ; the catalogue of the  
British Artists Film & Video Study Collection is online at  
www.studycollection.org.uk
These sites also give details of access arrangements.


3.

Wed 16 May, 6.45 pm
Retrospective- The Subjective Camera: Michael Maziere
Greenwich Picturehouse
180 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN
www.picturehouses.co.uk, 08707 550 065

Maziere is currently best known for films that distil fragments from  
classical narrative cinema from the 50s and 60s with autobiographic  
and personal footage. His early films were rooted in a Structuralist  
approach to the phenomenology of perception in film and this  
attention to formal structure and perception persists in his later  
work. Although his approach has changed significantly, a quality of  
restlessness pervades the breadth of his films, a tension in the  
dynamic between stasis and motion. Personal and collective memory,  
fiction and autobiography are literally fused as clips, dialogue,  
music, and subtitle explore something in-between. This mosaic of film  
fragments discovers new cinematic territory, where suspension and  
loss pervades and the binding effects of explanation and closure are  
absent. In Blackout and Delirium, a crisis of masculinity is hinted  
at; in the key films that are cited, Swimmer and The Lost Weekend,  
the Hollywood hero is undone. Maziere’s films challenge assumed  
separations between outer and inner worlds, personal and meta  
narratives, while offering a dislocated yet seductive cinematic space.

Michael Maziere will be taking part in a Q&A session after the  
screenings.

THE BATHERS (1986, 6 mins, 16mm)
Shot in Italy, the film captures fragments of a summer’s afternoon;  
recorded, degraded and fixed. A series of instances transformed.

SWIMMER (1987, 7 mins, 16mm)
Swimmer is a celebration of the body in motion within a synthesis of  
water, light, colour and sound – through the use of intense editing,  
printing and saturated images a tension is created touching on  
pleasure, pain and desire.

UNTITLED (1980, 18 mins, 16mm)
A highly experimental film which uses a kaleidoscopic array of  
techniques to question the representation of space in film. Untitled  
can be read as an existential journey through interior spaces or as a  
phenomenological inquiry into the relationship between what is seen  
and the act of seeing.

DELIRIUM (2001, 10 mins, digital)
Delirium is a psychopoetic study of elusive visions, which reveals a  
disturbing yet seductive world of beauty. The piece reworks archival  
film material combined with striking images of urban and desert  
landscapes.

BLACKOUT (2000, 10 mins, digital)
A love story. Set in the cinematic world of desire, memory and  
beauty, Blackout is a dialogue of loss between a man and a woman. The  
struggle for communication and intimacy is conveyed through re-edited  
voices from a classic Hollywood film combined with deeply poetic  
imagery.

ASSASSIN (2007, 10 mins, digital)
Jean-Luc Godard has asserted that in cinema “... all you need is a  
girl and a gun”. Assassin explores the seductive spectacle of crime  
as manifested in cinema and the reality of violence through the  
depiction of the archetypal character of the assassin.
London Premiere screening. Supported through Film London Artists’  
Moving Image Network

4.

16 May, 6.15pm
CRACKERS by David Austen
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BY
Tickets £7.50 Full, £5.00 Members/Students
http://www.princecharlescinema.com/
Film introduced by David Austen. Through the provocative and  
sometimes explicit nature of the language, the film resonates with  
many ideas that often resurface in Austen's work - love, sex, death  
and the ache of human impulse
Presented by Artprojx and Anthony Reynolds Gallery
in association with Milton Keynes Gallery

5.

18 - 20 May 2007
no.w.here Open Studios
no.where
14 Kingsgate Place
London, NW6 4TA
no.w.here is delighted to be taking part in Arts Unwrapped: Europe’s  
largest programme of Open Studio events.
Friday 18 May 7pm-11pm Preview
Film projection performance starts at dusk
Saturday 19 May 12-6pm Open studio
Sunday 20th May  4-5pm  Screening of new Film and Video work at  
Kingsgate Gallery

6.

Saturday 19 May & Sunday 20 May
Visions in the Nunnery
Bow Arts
Private View: Friday 18 May 6.30 pm -9.00 pm
Open: Saturday and Sunday 12.00-6.00pm
Special Event: A critical forum will take place on Sunday 20th May at  
3.00 pm. All welcome
183 Bow Road
London E3 2SJ
020 8980 7774
info at bowarts.com
www.bowarts.org

Visions in the Nunnery is the tenth annual open submission event for  
artists working with the moving image in a contemporary context. This  
year’s exhibition includes recent work by established and emerging  
artists worldwide. The variety of conceptual approaches and aesthetic  
choices shows a medium alive with enthusiasm and questions. The three  
organisers, Tessa Garland, Darshana Vora and Cinzia Cremona, have  
selected from more then 300 submissions to orchestrate a reflective  
and unforgettable event.

The Critical Forum will be an opportunity to discuss the work with  
the artists and reflect on the different uses and frameworks for the  
moving image.

Artists
Wilfried Agricola Cologne, Alex Hetherington, Alex Gene Morrison,  
Allsopp & Weir, Anders Weberg, Andrew Conio, Anthea Kennedy & Daniel  
Passes & David Saldanha, Christopher Stevens, Cinzia Cremona, Clement  
Cooper, Dallas Seitz, Darshana Vora, David Kasdorf & Joanna Goodman,  
Debbie Howard, Gordon Culshaw, Guli Silberstein, Gunter Puller, Guy  
Schofield, Hannah Guy, Ian Nesbitt, Jeremy Laffon, Jimmy Owenns, Miho  
Matsuda, Paul Bratt, Paulina Egle Pukyte & Minna Haukka, Peter Forde,  
Philip Clyde-Smith, Robert Luzar, Ruben Pariente, Sally Pearce,  
Surekha, Tessa Garland, Theresa Krause, Tim Davies, Uriel Orlow,  
Vince Briffa, Laurent Vicente, William Duke, Jonathon Franco and  
Yonatan Vinitsky.

7.

Saturday 19 May 2007
Zineb Sedira: recent video work
Part of the Mosaïques Festival at the Institut Français
Ciné lumière at the Institut français
17 Queensberry Place, SW7
book now 020 7073 1350
full: £7, conc. £5
mosaiques festival of world culture: 10 - 20 May 07
www.institut-francais.org.uk/mosaiques

Born to Algerian parents in a Paris suburb in 1963, artist Zineb Sedira
has been based in London since the 1990s. Her work, underpinned by this
cross-cultural identity, is highly autobiographical and examines themes
such as cultural identity, memory, translation, language, and diaspora.

Mosaïques presents a series of her recent video work, screening here in
conjunction with two feature films by acclaimed Algerian director Rabah
Ameur-Zaïmeche (Wesh Wesh, What's Up?, Bled Number One):

6.00 pm + intro by Zineb Sedira
Don't Do To Her What You Did To Me (1998-2001, 8.43 mins) + Retelling
Histories: Mother Tongue Told Me... (2003, 10 mins)

8.30 pm + Q&A with Zineb Sedira
Saphir (2006, 18 mins) + And The Road Goes On (2005, 8 mins).

8.

Sunday 20 May, 2 - 4 pm
Artists’ Films
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road NW3 6DG
Finchley Road/Hampstead Tube
www.camdenartscentre.org
A series of artists’ films including the elegant classic ‘People on  
Sunday’ (dir. Robert and Curt Siodmak, Edgar Ulmer, Fred Zimmerman,  
1930) and works by John Smith and Ken Jacobs. Specially selected by  
Matthew Buckingham.
http://www.princecharlescinema.com


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