LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK 12th - 18th November 2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. November 12th. Vertigo’s New Issue launch Screening, Curzon Soho,  
London

2. November 13th. The Road to Who Knows Where. THE WIRE 25: FILM, The  
Roxy Bar and Screen, London

3. November 16th. Locomotion: Artists' Film and the Railway, British  
Library, London

4. November 16th & 17th. ‘The World is Rich’:  FOUND FOOTAGE &  
LETTRIST FILM. 1950-2007 Toynbee Studios, London

5. November 18th. LUX EVENT: Hollis Frampton’s Magellan Cycle,  
National Maritime Museum, London

6. November 18th. Scolt Head Screenings (Series 2), The Scolt Head,  
London




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1.
Monday November 12th. 6pm
Vertigo’s New Issue launch Screening,
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 5DY
Tickets £5.50 to book call 0871 7033 988

To mark the new issue of Vertigo Magazine here is a screening to  
celebrate the enduring power of the moving image with Asif Kapadia's  
Cannes award winner The Sheep Thief and Eugene Green's utterly  
remarkable The Signs. The Sheep Thief is the film that won Asif the  
Cannes Short Film Prize and enabled him to make his debut feature The  
Warrior.  The Signs meanwhile is a typically enigmatic and noteworthy  
film from the French auteur Green. After the screenings there will be  
drinks at the bar with the writers and filmmakers from the magazine.  
For further details visit www.curzoncinemas.com.




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2.
Tuesday November 13th. 8pm
The Road to Who Knows Where. THE WIRE 25: FILM
The Roxy Bar and Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB  
www.roxybarandscreen.com
All screenings are free admission, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

THE ROAD TO WHO KNOWS WHERE
Two fragmented and dysfunctional road movies imagined as a series of  
episodic vignettes or misty memories. Jessie Stead’s “Foggy Mountains  
Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains”, a cryptic album of weird  
and wonderful versions of Flatt & Scrugg’s bluegrass standard won  
first prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. “The Secret Apocalyptic  
Love Diaries” of Enid Baxter Blader is a windswept folk-poem shot on  
a homemade video camera. Both cast a discreet nod of recognition to  
Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.
THE SECRET APOCALYPTIC LOVE DIARIES, Enid Baxter Blader, USA,  
2006-07, 12 minutes
FOGGY MOUNTAINS BREAKDOWN MORE THAN NON-FOGGY MOUNTAINS, Jessie  
Stead, USA, 2006, 59 minutes

THE WIRE 25: FILM presents three evenings of artists’ film and video  
at the Roxy Bar and Screen. The series begins with a programme of  
avant-garde classics, followed by UK premieres of four recent works  
by younger artists.

Part of THE WIRE 25, a month long season of music celebrating The  
Wire magazine’s 25th birthday.
Curated by Mark Webber.




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3.
Friday 16th November 6.30pm
Locomotion: Artists' Film and the Railway
The British Library, 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB www.bl.uk
Tickets £5 Please note that this event is unseated.

In 1895 the Lumiere brothers recorded the arrival of a train into La  
Ciotat station, bringing with it the beginnings of cinema - from here  
on, film and the railway have shared the same frame. Like trains,  
film gracefully mechanises space and time, carrying us simultaneously  
away from one place and towards another.

no.w.here present an evening of Avant Garde films and live  
performances that activate the Entrance Hall of the British Library  
with new and old experimental works about the railway. Connecting the  
artist run labs L'Abominable in Paris and no.w.here in London, the

Event will also feature new collaborations between sound artists from  
Touch and contemporary filmmakers from France and the UK including  
Pip Chodorov (FR) Nicolas Rey (FR) and Guy Sherwin (UK).
Commissioned by the British Library and Arrivals – celebrating the  
arrival of Eurostar to St Pancras

A LATE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY event.




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4.
Friday November 16th & Saturday 17th.
FOUND FOOTAGE & LETTRIST FILM. 1950-2007
Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, E1 6AB www.spoolpool.com
Friday Tickets: £7 / £5 concessions (Evening) Saturday Tickets: £12 /  
£10 concessions (Full Day)

Spool-Pool - Arclite In association with TOYNBEE STUDIOS Presents  
‘The World is Rich’:  Found Footage, Appropriation and Recycled  
Images. 1950-2007. Rare, classic and unseen works by; including Bruce  
Conner, Al Razutiz, Gustav Deutsch, Arthur Lipsett, John Smith and  
Julius Ziz and Martin Arnold.

Friday 16 November 2007, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
THE WORLD IS RICH: Found Footage, Appropriation and Recycled Images
Through critical re-editing of documentaries, newscast¹s, training,  
educational films, discarded material from cutting room floors,  
archives, or maybe some one else¹s home movie, the cine detritus  
found in flea markets, let alone appropriations from the Golden age  
of Hollywood. The found footage filmmaker scrutinizes all moving  
images - banal or otherwise-, and compulsively¹ or pathologically¹  
performs a critical work, an engaging intervention right in and on  
the film material itself. Through formal¹ exercises¹ such as  
structural reworking, flickering, repetition, inversion, or frame by  
frame, the film material, and footage becomes expansive, critical,  
personal, political, metaphysical and at times amusing or satirical.

Saturday 17 November 2007, from 2:30pm to 9:30pm
LETTRIST FILM - CINEMA OF NEGATION: Jean Isidore Isou & Maurice Lemaitre
UK Premiere of new English subtitled prints.
'Venom and Eternity is a portal through which every film artist is  
going to have to pass' (Stan Brakhage)

The Lettrists, which began with Jean Isidore Isou arriving in Paris  
from Romania in 1945. In 1950 along with his lieutenant Maurice  
Lemetrie he began making films, by the 1960s Lettrism had gone  
through the inevitable avant-garde condition² the core group exploded  
and reconstituted its-self as Situationist. Nevertheless, whether  
consciously or not, Lettrist films anticipated besides other textual  
considerations - detournement¹, the re-contextualisation of pre- 
existing material, subverting the original intent, creating the  
possibility of new and radical meanings, - a method that would later  
become synonymous with the visual, intellectual and plagiarist Π 
strategies of Guy Debord.

A limited edition pamphlet will be available covering both  
screenings. Texts
by Frederique Devaux, Guy Debord, Gil J Wolman, Spool-Pool plus  
interviews
with Al Razutis and Bruce Conner.




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5.
Sunday November 18th Noon & 3pm
LUX EVENT: Hollis Frampton’s Magellan Cycle.National Maritime Museum,  
London, SE10 9NF
Tickets £5 per day. Box Office 020 8312 8560

The first ever UK screening of Hollis Frampton’s monumental film  
sequence. Hollis Frampton (1936-84) uses Ferdinand Magellan’s epic  
circumnavigation of the globe as a metaphor for a meditation on the  
history and language of cinema, and the phenomena of perception.
Originally intended as a 36-hour sequence in which individual titles  
would be shown on specific days in a calendar of one year and four  
days, it was left unfinished when Frampton died in 1984. The  
surviving 8 hours of material, comprising almost 30 films, will be  
screened over two consecutive weekends, as it was presented by the  
artist at the Whitney Museum, New York in 1980. Hollis Frampton, one  
of the key filmmakers of his generation, was also a noted  
photographer and theorist, whose remarkable writing is published  
frequently in Artforum and October.

Curated by Mark Webber, Senior Research Fellow, London College of  
Communication.  Programme 1 (11 November)

Programme 1 (11 November)
12.00–14.00: The Birth of Magellan
15.00–17.00: The Straits of Magellan I

Programme 2 (18 November)
12.00–14.00: The Straits of Magellan II
15.00–17.00: The Death of Magellan




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6.
November 18th. 7pm
Scolt Head Screenings (Series 2),
The Scolt Head,107a Culford Road, London N1 4HT
Screenings are free. Seats are allocated on a first come, first  
served basis.

SCOLT HEAD SCREENINGS (Series 2) invites artists to present a  
selection of their works on film or video alongside a feature film of  
their choice, irrespective of its influence upon their practice.  
These Sunday evening screenings at The Scolt Head aim to encourage an  
open dialogue about artists' works on film and  
video.www.thescolthead.com

Sunday 18th November
Nooshin Farhid presents "Mrs Hodges frequent use of Air  
Freshener" (2005), "Zone end"  (2007) followed by "Close Up" (1990)  
directed by Abbas Kiarostami.








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